Problem-Solving Contracts in Knutsford

Problem Solving
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 21 14
Rank change year-on-year +17 -7 -8
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 46 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 24.34% 5.43% 11.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 25.00% 5.88% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 7 13
10th Percentile £343 £307 £400
25th Percentile £402 £338 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.25% -27.27% -12.70%
75th Percentile £514 £524 £620
90th Percentile £596 £633 £668
Cheshire median daily rate £505 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +12.22% -6.25% -8.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Problem-Solving falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 184 119 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.35% 92.25% 90.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 109 93
10th Percentile £334 £355 £408
25th Percentile £358 £390 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £475 £565
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% -15.93% +22.23%
75th Percentile £492 £606 £611
90th Percentile £537 £689 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £446 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -6.60% -4.50% +11.11%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Knutsford

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Knutsford.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Knutsford

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Knutsford over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Knutsford

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.70%) CICS
2 3 (6.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.17%) Appian
3 1 (2.17%) Confluence
3 1 (2.17%) JBoss
3 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (10.87%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.35%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.57%) AWS
2 5 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (10.87%) Azure
2 5 (10.87%) Serverless
3 4 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (8.70%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (8.70%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (6.52%) OneDrive
5 2 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.35%) GCP
5 2 (4.35%) SaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.17%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.35%) DB2
2 2 (4.35%) Easytrieve
3 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.17%) MySQL
3 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.17%) Power BI
3 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.87%) JIRA
3 3 (6.52%) Selenium
4 2 (4.35%) Git
5 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.17%) Gradle
5 1 (2.17%) JUnit
5 1 (2.17%) Maven
5 1 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (43.48%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
3 13 (28.26%) Banking
4 12 (26.09%) Finance
5 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
6 4 (8.70%) Financial Institution
6 4 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (4.35%) Billing
8 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) Architect
2 8 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (15.22%) Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Business Analyst
5 5 (10.87%) Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Senior
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (10.87%) Senior Business Analyst
5 5 (10.87%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
6 4 (8.70%) Test Architect
7 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (4.35%) AWS Architect
8 2 (4.35%) AWS Solution Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Designer
8 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Java Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Java Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.35%) Mainframe Designer
8 2 (4.35%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) RESTful
2 5 (10.87%) REST
3 4 (8.70%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (8.70%) Kafka
4 2 (4.35%) HTML
4 2 (4.35%) Spring
4 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.35%) Web Services
5 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.17%) CSS
5 1 (2.17%) CSS3
5 1 (2.17%) DOM
5 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.17%) Node.js
5 1 (2.17%) RAML
5 1 (2.17%) React
5 1 (2.17%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.17%) SOAP
5 1 (2.17%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) CMDB
2 4 (8.70%) Mainframe
2 4 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.52%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.52%) VSAM
4 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Android
1 5 (10.87%) Apple iOS
2 4 (8.70%) Linux
3 2 (4.35%) Windows
3 2 (4.35%) zOS
4 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.96%) Agile
2 11 (23.91%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (23.91%) Risk Management
2 11 (23.91%) Test Automation
3 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
3 10 (21.74%) Decision-Making
3 10 (21.74%) SDLC
3 10 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (17.39%) ITSM
5 7 (15.22%) End-to-End Testing
5 7 (15.22%) Microservices
5 7 (15.22%) Service Delivery
5 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (15.22%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (13.04%) Business Analysis
6 6 (13.04%) Focus Group
6 6 (13.04%) Service Catalogue
6 6 (13.04%) Service Management
6 6 (13.04%) Test Strategy
7 5 (10.87%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.57%) Java
2 3 (6.52%) COBOL
2 3 (6.52%) JCL
2 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.35%) SQL
4 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.17%) Python
4 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Degree
2 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) QA
1 4 (8.70%) SEPA
2 2 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
2 2 (4.35%) PMO
3 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) ServiceNow
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.35%) HP
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle
3 2 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (2.17%) Ping Identity