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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 78 41 79
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 13.31% 14.19% 12.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.38% 15.47% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 21 65
10th Percentile £204 £200 £163
25th Percentile £263 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +17.65% -19.05%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £619 £675 £640
South East median daily rate £481 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -1.84% +3.16% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £26.00 £27.04
25th Percentile £19.00 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -6.67% -50.00%
75th Percentile £21.00 - £32.50
90th Percentile - £29.00 £61.00
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £22.50
% change year-on-year +72.69% -16.36% -61.24%

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 507 265 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 86.52% 91.70% 82.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 191 384
10th Percentile £204 £200 £206
25th Percentile £363 £304 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £563 £545 £575
90th Percentile £650 £594 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 21 64
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.50 £11.71
25th Percentile £50.00 £24.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% -6.67% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.99 £62.50 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £24.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +129.17% -52.00% -

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 July 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 July 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 0 21 £418 - 4
Leatherhead -3 7 £500 -23.08%
Egham - 4 - - 3
Woking +2 3 £598 - 7
Redhill -2 3 £550 +10.00% 10
Weybridge -7 2 - - 1
Guildford -22 1 - - 10
Oxted - 1 - -
Reigate - 1 £475 - 1
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 £300 - 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 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.56%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.28%) CMS
4 1 (1.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (21.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (17.95%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (10.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (6.41%) SAP S/4HANA
1 5 (6.41%) Siebel CRM
2 2 (2.56%) SAP Business One
2 2 (2.56%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.28%) Primavera
3 1 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.28%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.28%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.95%) Azure
2 8 (10.26%) AWS
3 6 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (6.41%) OCI
5 4 (5.13%) GCP
5 4 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.85%) SaaS
7 2 (2.56%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.28%) Dialogflow
8 1 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.28%) Google Docs
8 1 (1.28%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.28%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.28%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.28%) Route 53
8 1 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) Network Security
2 2 (2.56%) DHCP
2 2 (2.56%) DNS
2 2 (2.56%) Firewall
2 2 (2.56%) FTP
2 2 (2.56%) HTTP
2 2 (2.56%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.56%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.28%) DNSSEC
3 1 (1.28%) Intranet
3 1 (1.28%) VPN
3 1 (1.28%) WebEx
3 1 (1.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.41%) MySQL
2 5 (6.41%) Power BI
3 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.85%) Siebel EIM
4 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.56%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.28%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.28%) Db2
6 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.41%) JIRA
2 2 (2.56%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (2.56%) Firebug
2 2 (2.56%) Git
General
1 46 (58.97%) Social Skills
2 31 (39.74%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (20.51%) Public Sector
4 13 (16.67%) Finance
4 13 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (8.97%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.41%) Arabic Language
6 5 (6.41%) French Language
6 5 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (15.38%) Analyst
2 8 (10.26%) Consultant
2 8 (10.26%) Senior
2 8 (10.26%) Support Engineer
3 7 (8.97%) Technical Support
4 6 (7.69%) Developer
4 6 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
4 6 (7.69%) Technical Support Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Senior Manager
5 5 (6.41%) Siebel Developer
6 4 (5.13%) Account Manager
6 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (5.13%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.13%) Escalation Manager
6 4 (5.13%) Senior Account Manager
7 3 (3.85%) IT Graduate
7 3 (3.85%) Lead
7 3 (3.85%) PMO Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.97%) CSS
2 4 (5.13%) ARM Templates
2 4 (5.13%) HTML
2 4 (5.13%) REST
3 3 (3.85%) .NET
3 3 (3.85%) SOAP
4 2 (2.56%) React
4 2 (2.56%) XML
5 1 (1.28%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.28%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.28%) CSS3
5 1 (1.28%) Django
5 1 (1.28%) HTML5
5 1 (1.28%) JSON
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.28%) Middleware
5 1 (1.28%) OAuth
5 1 (1.28%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.28%) OpenID
5 1 (1.28%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.28%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.28%) iPad
4 1 (1.28%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.28%) Robotics
4 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.54%) Windows
2 4 (5.13%) Unix
3 2 (2.56%) Linux
4 1 (1.28%) Android
4 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.28%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.36%) Agile
2 16 (20.51%) Decision-Making
3 15 (19.23%) Project Management
4 14 (17.95%) Computer Science
5 13 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (15.38%) AI
7 11 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (14.10%) DevOps
7 11 (14.10%) ITIL
8 10 (12.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 9 (11.54%) CI/CD
9 9 (11.54%) Data Analysis
10 8 (10.26%) Customer-Centricity
11 7 (8.97%) Analytical Thinking
11 7 (8.97%) Customer Service
11 7 (8.97%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 7 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (8.97%) Matrix Organization
11 7 (8.97%) Mentoring
11 7 (8.97%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.67%) SQL
2 9 (11.54%) JavaScript
3 8 (10.26%) Java
3 8 (10.26%) Python
4 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.56%) Bash
5 2 (2.56%) C#
5 2 (2.56%) Perl
5 2 (2.56%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.28%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (26.92%) Degree
2 10 (12.82%) Security Cleared
3 8 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.41%) Azure Certification
4 5 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.85%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.85%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.85%) PMP
6 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.28%) CISSP
6 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) QA
2 3 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 3 (3.85%) PMO
3 2 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.28%) IFRS
4 1 (1.28%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.28%) NIST
4 1 (1.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (8.97%) Docker
2 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (8.97%) Terraform
2 6 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.28%) Grafana
Vendors
1 25 (32.05%) Microsoft
2 16 (20.51%) ServiceNow
3 9 (11.54%) Oracle
4 6 (7.69%) SAP
5 5 (6.41%) Siebel
6 2 (2.56%) Blue Prism
6 2 (2.56%) Google
7 1 (1.28%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.28%) Apple
7 1 (1.28%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.28%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.28%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.28%) Remedy
7 1 (1.28%) UiPath
7 1 (1.28%) VMware