Problem-Solving Contracts in Surrey

Problem Solving
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 5 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 +3
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 40 80 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 14.29% 12.64% 9.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.50% 15.33% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 66 47
10th Percentile £200 £164 £304
25th Percentile £350 £363 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £431 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.94% -17.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £638
90th Percentile £675 £638 £693
South East median daily rate £490 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +1.45% -3.40% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 3
10th Percentile £26.00 £27.04 £35.60
25th Percentile - £27.50 £44.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -50.00% +26.32%
75th Percentile - £32.50 £61.88
90th Percentile £29.00 £61.00 £63.00
South East median hourly rate £18.41 £22.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -16.32% -61.74% +21.05%

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 258 522 654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 92.14% 82.46% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 381 516
10th Percentile £200 £213 £206
25th Percentile £313 £350 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -11.90% +2.44%
75th Percentile £546 £588 £638
90th Percentile £597 £688 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 64 30
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.71 £18.23
25th Percentile £24.00 £15.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £61.90
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.88
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £49.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -51.02% -2.00% +122.22%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Surrey

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Surrey

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Surrey over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Surrey

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Surrey

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 4 July 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
Guildford +8 14 £540 +369.57% 132
Redhill +5 5 £500 -4.76% 32
Leatherhead +3 3 £650 +6.12% 16
Staines +2 2 - - 19
Weybridge +7 1 £350 -33.33% 10
Epsom +3 1 £500 +11.11% 8
Woking +2 1 - - 102
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) IIS
1 2 (5.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (17.50%) AWS
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.50%) Azure AKS
3 3 (7.50%) Azure Machine Learning
3 3 (7.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (7.50%) Google Workspace
4 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.50%) Asana
5 1 (2.50%) CloudFront
5 1 (2.50%) GCP
5 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Firewall
1 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
1 3 (7.50%) WAN
2 2 (5.00%) LAN
2 2 (5.00%) Softphone
2 2 (5.00%) VPN
2 2 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.50%) DHCP
3 1 (2.50%) DNS
3 1 (2.50%) FTP
3 1 (2.50%) MPLS
3 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) MySQL
2 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
3 1 (2.50%) QlikView
3 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.50%) Tableau
3 1 (2.50%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (15.00%) JIRA
2 4 (10.00%) Git
3 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
3 3 (7.50%) GoogleTest
3 3 (7.50%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (7.50%) TestRail
4 1 (2.50%) GitLab
4 1 (2.50%) Toad
4 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Korean Language
5 1 (2.50%) Automotive
5 1 (2.50%) Local Government
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) IT Support
1 10 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) 2nd Line Support
2 7 (17.50%) IT Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Senior
4 4 (10.00%) Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Data Centre Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Embedded Linux Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) .NET
1 3 (7.50%) RESTful
2 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.00%) LAMP
2 2 (5.00%) React
3 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.50%) Blazor
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.50%) Java EE
3 1 (2.50%) Java SE
3 1 (2.50%) Jest
3 1 (2.50%) JSON
3 1 (2.50%) OAuth
3 1 (2.50%) Sass
3 1 (2.50%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (2.50%) Spring
3 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.50%) Struts
3 1 (2.50%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.50%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (32.50%) Windows
2 8 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 6 (15.00%) Linux
4 3 (7.50%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (5.00%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.50%) Unix
6 1 (2.50%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.50%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.00%) ITIL
2 9 (22.50%) Agile
3 7 (17.50%) Scrum
4 6 (15.00%) Customer Service
5 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 5 (12.50%) DevOps
6 4 (10.00%) Clean Code
6 4 (10.00%) Project Management
6 4 (10.00%) Service Delivery
6 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (10.00%) Time Management
7 3 (7.50%) Design Patterns
7 3 (7.50%) Machine Learning
7 3 (7.50%) Multithreaded Programming
7 3 (7.50%) OO
7 3 (7.50%) OOD
7 3 (7.50%) Risk Management
7 3 (7.50%) SOLID
7 3 (7.50%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) SQL
2 3 (7.50%) C++
2 3 (7.50%) Korn
3 2 (5.00%) Java
3 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.00%) PHP
4 1 (2.50%) C#
4 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) Degree
2 6 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 4 (10.00%) DBS Check
5 3 (7.50%) A+ Certification
6 2 (5.00%) PMI Certification
6 2 (5.00%) PMP
7 1 (2.50%) CCNA
7 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.50%) MCP
7 1 (2.50%) MCSE
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.50%) OCP
7 1 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (2.50%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) SLA
3 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.50%) Docker
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) XenApp
3 1 (2.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.50%) Terraform
3 1 (2.50%) CSIRT
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Google
3 3 (7.50%) Databricks
4 2 (5.00%) Cisco
4 2 (5.00%) Citrix
4 2 (5.00%) Dell
4 2 (5.00%) HP
4 2 (5.00%) IBM
4 2 (5.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) Splunk
5 1 (2.50%) VMware