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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 3 22
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 0
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 49 85 53
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 11.72% 19.81% 8.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.35% 21.91% 9.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 47 38
10th Percentile £204 £153 £200
25th Percentile £229 £409 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £575
90th Percentile £678 £620 £600
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.09%
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 and 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 367 388 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 87.80% 90.44% 87.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 259 433
10th Percentile £204 £203 £195
25th Percentile £250 £261 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -7.77% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £678 £640 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £518
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.62% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 16 33
10th Percentile £25.15 £16.63 £24.84
25th Percentile £28.63 £23.21 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £61.63
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -60.77% +36.96%
75th Percentile £57.50 £28.31 £76.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £52.82 £78.19
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £46.12 £55.00
% change year-on-year -51.22% -16.14% +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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 +8 11 £500 +127.27% 4
Guildford -2 6 £550 +279.31% 50
Woking +3 3 £318 -55.44% 40
Redhill -5 3 - - 5
Camberley -6 3 £500 +220.51% 1
Egham 0 2 - - 10
Leatherhead +1 1 - - 1
Weybridge -4 1 £475 -5.00% 2
Oxted - 1 £250 -
Addlestone - 1 £525 - 1
Horley - 1 - - 1
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 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (8.16%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.04%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.49%) Azure
2 10 (20.41%) AWS
3 7 (14.29%) Tricentis Tosca
4 3 (6.12%) GCP
4 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.12%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.08%) OCI
5 2 (4.08%) SaaS
5 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.04%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) HTTP
2 4 (8.16%) FTP
2 4 (8.16%) Wireshark
3 2 (4.08%) BGP
3 2 (4.08%) Firewall
3 2 (4.08%) IPsec
3 2 (4.08%) Network Security
3 2 (4.08%) OSPF
3 2 (4.08%) SSL
3 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.08%) VLAN
3 2 (4.08%) VPN
3 2 (4.08%) WebEx
4 1 (2.04%) Symposium
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) Power BI
2 2 (4.08%) Metadata
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (4.08%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.04%) MySQL
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (16.33%) GitLab
1 8 (16.33%) JIRA
2 3 (6.12%) Git
3 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.08%) Vite
3 2 (4.08%) webpack
4 1 (2.04%) Postman
4 1 (2.04%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 25 (51.02%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Finance
4 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Advertising
7 1 (2.04%) Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.04%) Local Government
7 1 (2.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (14.29%) Developer
1 7 (14.29%) Lead
1 7 (14.29%) QA Engineer
2 6 (12.24%) Analyst
2 6 (12.24%) Support Engineer
2 6 (12.24%) Technical Support
3 5 (10.20%) IT Support
3 5 (10.20%) Technical Engineer
3 5 (10.20%) Technical Support Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Senior
5 3 (6.12%) Android Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Data Analyst
5 3 (6.12%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Principal Developer
5 3 (6.12%) QA Leader
5 3 (6.12%) Senior QA Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Applications Support
6 2 (4.08%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (4.08%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (12.24%) REST
2 6 (12.24%) RESTful
3 5 (10.20%) SOAP
4 4 (8.16%) Web Services
5 3 (6.12%) Material Design
5 3 (6.12%) React
6 2 (4.08%) ADO
6 2 (4.08%) Node.js
6 2 (4.08%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 2 (4.08%) PySpark
6 2 (4.08%) Redux
7 1 (2.04%) .NET
7 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.04%) CSS
7 1 (2.04%) HTML
7 1 (2.04%) JSON
7 1 (2.04%) Middleware
7 1 (2.04%) Sass
7 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Synthetic Data
2 3 (6.12%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.04%) CMDB
4 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) Replication
4 1 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Windows
2 6 (12.24%) Unix
3 4 (8.16%) Linux
4 3 (6.12%) Android
4 3 (6.12%) Apple iOS
5 2 (4.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.69%) CI/CD
2 14 (28.57%) DevOps
3 12 (24.49%) Agile
4 11 (22.45%) ERP
4 11 (22.45%) User Experience
5 9 (18.37%) Validation
6 8 (16.33%) Test Planning
7 7 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
7 7 (14.29%) Data Management
7 7 (14.29%) Data Privacy
7 7 (14.29%) Data Strategy
7 7 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 7 (14.29%) QA Automation
7 7 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 7 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 6 (12.24%) Analytics
8 6 (12.24%) Computer Science
9 5 (10.20%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (10.20%) CRM
9 5 (10.20%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.53%) SQL
2 10 (20.41%) Java
2 10 (20.41%) PL/SQL
3 8 (16.33%) Python
4 4 (8.16%) Go
5 3 (6.12%) Kotlin
5 3 (6.12%) Objective-C
5 3 (6.12%) Swift
6 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.08%) Ruby
7 1 (2.04%) C#
7 1 (2.04%) Korn
7 1 (2.04%) Perl
7 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) Degree
2 7 (14.29%) OCA
2 7 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
3 6 (12.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
4 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.08%) A+ Certification
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.04%) ACCA
7 1 (2.04%) CIMA
7 1 (2.04%) CISSP
7 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.33%) QA
2 7 (14.29%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) ITGC
3 1 (2.04%) PMO
3 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (6.12%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.08%) Data Guard
2 2 (4.08%) FortiGate
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.04%) Foglight
3 1 (2.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) Oracle
2 10 (20.41%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.20%) SAP
4 3 (6.12%) Apple
4 3 (6.12%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.08%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.04%) Ab Initio
6 1 (2.04%) Databricks
6 1 (2.04%) Google
6 1 (2.04%) Informatica
6 1 (2.04%) Okta
6 1 (2.04%) RedGate
6 1 (2.04%) Sage
6 1 (2.04%) Splunk