Problem-Solving Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Problem Solving
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 2 15
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 +10
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 47 79 55
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 10.71% 21.94% 8.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.02% 25.00% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 39 36
10th Percentile £204 £153 £200
25th Percentile £209 £388 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £575
90th Percentile £651 £651 £595
South East median daily rate £478 £500 £430
% change year-on-year -4.50% +16.28% -18.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £21.50 -
25th Percentile - £23.75 £27.50
Median hourly rate £17.60 £26.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.58% -11.67% -3.69%
75th Percentile - £29.44 £50.00
90th Percentile - £32.03 £60.50
South East median hourly rate £20.36 £27.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -24.61% +28.57% -46.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 361 316 541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 82.23% 87.78% 84.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 197 414
10th Percentile £204 £195 £200
25th Percentile £350 £260 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.81% -3.69%
75th Percentile £582 £550 £575
90th Percentile £688 £663 £679
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £505
% change year-on-year -0.10% -0.89% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 15 42
10th Percentile £25.15 £15.95 £13.25
25th Percentile £33.10 £22.24 £16.31
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -51.64% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.50 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £31.95 £77.40
South East median hourly rate £25.08 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.28% -5.26% +5.56%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Problem-Solving relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Surrey

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Surrey over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Surrey

Problem-Solving
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Problem-Solving.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 9 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Staines -2 11 £500 +177.78% 5
Redhill -5 6 £600 +20.00% 8
Leatherhead +3 3 £500 -11.11% 5
Egham 0 2 - - 4
Woking -2 2 £223 -68.77% 7
Weybridge -7 1 £475 +11.76% 4
Camberley -9 1 £550 +252.56% 4
Addlestone - 1 £525 -
Horley - 1 - -
Oxted - 1 £250 -
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (27.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.15%) Azure
2 7 (14.89%) AWS
2 7 (14.89%) Power Platform
2 7 (14.89%) Tricentis Tosca
3 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (4.26%) GCP
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (4.26%) OCI
3 2 (4.26%) SaaS
3 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.13%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) HTTP
2 5 (10.64%) FTP
2 5 (10.64%) Wireshark
3 2 (4.26%) WebEx
4 1 (2.13%) Symposium
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) Power BI
2 2 (4.26%) Metadata
2 2 (4.26%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.13%) MySQL
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (27.66%) JIRA
2 8 (17.02%) GitLab
3 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.13%) Postman
4 1 (2.13%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (48.94%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (42.55%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.15%) Finance
4 4 (8.51%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.13%) Local Government
6 1 (2.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (23.40%) Analyst
2 7 (14.89%) Lead
2 7 (14.89%) QA Engineer
2 7 (14.89%) Technical Support
3 6 (12.77%) PMO Analyst
3 6 (12.77%) Support Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Technical Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Technical Support Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) IT Support
4 4 (8.51%) Senior
5 3 (6.38%) Coordinator
5 3 (6.38%) QA Leader
5 3 (6.38%) Resource Coordinator
5 3 (6.38%) Senior QA Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Applications Support
6 2 (4.26%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.89%) Oracle Fusion
1 7 (14.89%) REST
2 6 (12.77%) SOAP
3 4 (8.51%) CSS
3 4 (8.51%) Web Services
4 2 (4.26%) ADO
4 2 (4.26%) PySpark
5 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.13%) HTML
5 1 (2.13%) Jest
5 1 (2.13%) JSON
5 1 (2.13%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (2.13%) React
5 1 (2.13%) Sass
5 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Synthetic Data
2 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.13%) CMDB
3 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Windows
2 7 (14.89%) Unix
3 3 (6.38%) Linux
4 1 (2.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (29.79%) DevOps
2 12 (25.53%) Agile
2 12 (25.53%) Project Management
3 11 (23.40%) ERP
4 10 (21.28%) CI/CD
5 9 (19.15%) Data Analysis
5 9 (19.15%) User Experience
6 8 (17.02%) Analytics
6 8 (17.02%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (17.02%) Test Planning
6 8 (17.02%) Time Management
7 7 (14.89%) Acceptance Criteria
7 7 (14.89%) Data Management
7 7 (14.89%) Data Privacy
7 7 (14.89%) Data Strategy
7 7 (14.89%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 7 (14.89%) QA Automation
7 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
7 7 (14.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 7 (14.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.53%) SQL
2 9 (19.15%) PL/SQL
3 7 (14.89%) Java
4 5 (10.64%) Python
5 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.13%) Go
6 1 (2.13%) Perl
6 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) OCA
1 7 (14.89%) Oracle Certification
2 6 (12.77%) Degree
3 5 (10.64%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.51%) PMI Certification
4 4 (8.51%) PMP
4 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.13%) A+ Certification
7 1 (2.13%) ACCA
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.13%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) GDPR
1 7 (14.89%) QA
2 6 (12.77%) PMO
3 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.13%) Foglight
2 1 (2.13%) Kibana
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Microsoft
2 10 (21.28%) Oracle
3 5 (10.64%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.51%) SAP
5 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.13%) Ab Initio
6 1 (2.13%) Databricks
6 1 (2.13%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) Informatica
6 1 (2.13%) Okta
6 1 (2.13%) RedGate
6 1 (2.13%) Sage
6 1 (2.13%) Splunk