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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 3 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 52 79 55
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 12.24% 19.51% 8.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.25% 21.76% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 41 39
10th Percentile £204 £154 £200
25th Percentile £294 £425 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.09%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £575
90th Percentile £660 £650 £600
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £21.50 -
25th Percentile - £23.75 £62.50
Median hourly rate £17.60 £26.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.58% -59.23% +108.67%
75th Percentile - £29.44 £67.50
90th Percentile - £32.03 -
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £26.00 £42.45
% change year-on-year -20.35% -38.75% +33.03%

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 365 363 558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 85.88% 89.63% 87.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 237 429
10th Percentile £204 £203 £195
25th Percentile £256 £275 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -7.32% -0.49%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £595
90th Percentile £678 £650 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.06% +1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 16 32
10th Percentile £25.15 £16.63 £24.04
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.21 £49.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £62.32
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -61.20% +38.48%
75th Percentile £57.50 £28.31 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £52.82 £78.27
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -52.38% -14.10% +37.50%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +6 11 £500 +177.78% 5
Redhill -1 7 £600 +20.00% 4
Guildford -4 5 £550 +150.00% 19
Woking +3 3 £318 -55.44% 13
Camberley -5 3 £500 +220.51% 1
Egham 0 2 - - 9
Leatherhead +1 1 - - 3
Weybridge -4 1 £475 -5.00% 2
Oxted - 1 £250 -
Addlestone - 1 £525 -
Horley - 1 - - 2
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 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (21.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (7.69%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.92%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (21.15%) Azure
2 10 (19.23%) AWS
3 7 (13.46%) Power Platform
3 7 (13.46%) Tricentis Tosca
4 3 (5.77%) GCP
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.85%) OCI
5 2 (3.85%) SaaS
5 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.92%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) HTTP
2 4 (7.69%) FTP
2 4 (7.69%) Wireshark
3 2 (3.85%) BGP
3 2 (3.85%) Firewall
3 2 (3.85%) IPsec
3 2 (3.85%) Network Security
3 2 (3.85%) OSPF
3 2 (3.85%) SSL
3 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.85%) VLAN
3 2 (3.85%) VPN
3 2 (3.85%) WebEx
4 1 (1.92%) Symposium
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) Power BI
2 2 (3.85%) Metadata
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (3.85%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.92%) MySQL
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (23.08%) JIRA
2 8 (15.38%) GitLab
3 3 (5.77%) Git
4 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.85%) Vite
4 2 (3.85%) webpack
5 1 (1.92%) Postman
5 1 (1.92%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (55.77%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (53.85%) Social Skills
3 9 (17.31%) Finance
4 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Advertising
7 1 (1.92%) Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.92%) Local Government
7 1 (1.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (19.23%) Analyst
2 7 (13.46%) Lead
2 7 (13.46%) QA Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Developer
3 6 (11.54%) Support Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Technical Support
4 5 (9.62%) IT Support
4 5 (9.62%) PMO Analyst
4 5 (9.62%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Technical Support Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Senior
6 3 (5.77%) Android Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Data Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) Principal Developer
6 3 (5.77%) QA Leader
6 3 (5.77%) Senior QA Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Applications Support
7 2 (3.85%) Integration Analyst
7 2 (3.85%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.46%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (11.54%) REST
3 5 (9.62%) RESTful
3 5 (9.62%) SOAP
4 4 (7.69%) Web Services
5 3 (5.77%) Material Design
5 3 (5.77%) React
6 2 (3.85%) ADO
6 2 (3.85%) Node.js
6 2 (3.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 2 (3.85%) PySpark
6 2 (3.85%) Redux
7 1 (1.92%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.92%) CSS
7 1 (1.92%) HTML
7 1 (1.92%) Jest
7 1 (1.92%) JSON
7 1 (1.92%) Sass
7 1 (1.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Synthetic Data
2 3 (5.77%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.92%) CMDB
4 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.92%) Replication
4 1 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.38%) Windows
2 6 (11.54%) Unix
3 4 (7.69%) Linux
4 3 (5.77%) Android
4 3 (5.77%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 13 (25.00%) DevOps
3 12 (23.08%) Agile
4 11 (21.15%) ERP
4 11 (21.15%) User Experience
5 9 (17.31%) Validation
6 8 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (15.38%) Test Planning
7 7 (13.46%) Acceptance Criteria
7 7 (13.46%) Data Management
7 7 (13.46%) Data Privacy
7 7 (13.46%) Data Strategy
7 7 (13.46%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 7 (13.46%) QA Automation
7 7 (13.46%) Test Automation
7 7 (13.46%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 6 (11.54%) Analytics
8 6 (11.54%) Computer Science
8 6 (11.54%) Data Analysis
8 6 (11.54%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.00%) SQL
2 10 (19.23%) Java
2 10 (19.23%) PL/SQL
3 8 (15.38%) Python
4 4 (7.69%) Go
5 3 (5.77%) Kotlin
5 3 (5.77%) Objective-C
5 3 (5.77%) Swift
6 2 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.85%) Ruby
7 1 (1.92%) Perl
7 1 (1.92%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Degree
2 7 (13.46%) OCA
2 7 (13.46%) Oracle Certification
3 6 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (11.54%) Security Cleared
4 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.85%) A+ Certification
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.92%) ACCA
7 1 (1.92%) CIMA
7 1 (1.92%) CISSP
7 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) GDPR
1 7 (13.46%) QA
2 5 (9.62%) PMO
3 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.92%) ITGC
3 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.85%) Data Guard
2 2 (3.85%) FortiGate
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.92%) Foglight
3 1 (1.92%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Oracle
2 10 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.69%) SAP
4 3 (5.77%) Apple
5 2 (3.85%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.92%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.92%) Databricks
6 1 (1.92%) Google
6 1 (1.92%) Informatica
6 1 (1.92%) Okta
6 1 (1.92%) RedGate
6 1 (1.92%) Sage
6 1 (1.92%) Splunk