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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +16
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 99 51 83
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 15.07% 14.70% 16.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.03% 15.64% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 29 61
10th Percentile £190 £203 £213
25th Percentile £303 £204 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £413 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £525 £560 £575
90th Percentile £596 £644 £625
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile - £19.52 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £22.40 -
Median hourly rate £16.43 £26.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.81% -67.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £20.38 £28.50 -
90th Percentile £20.63 £29.40 -
South East median hourly rate £20.25 £18.41 £37.08
% change year-on-year +9.99% -50.35% -32.58%

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 549 326 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 83.56% 93.95% 85.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 215 296
10th Percentile £200 £201 £203
25th Percentile £363 £233 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £539
90th Percentile £639 £623 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 35 25
10th Percentile £14.08 £20.16 £19.95
25th Percentile £23.44 £25.15 £30.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £71.90
90th Percentile - - £76.12
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £22.19 £60.00
% change year-on-year +114.06% -63.02% +12.15%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +3 34 £425 +66.67% 20
Leatherhead -1 9 £500 -23.08% 12
Weybridge - 5 £140 - 4
Woking -3 4 £200 -37.01% 36
Redhill -2 3 £525 - 23
Guildford -14 3 £475 -13.64% 40
Reigate - 3 £475 - 7
Egham -4 2 - - 1
Oxted +1 1 - -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 £300 - 6
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 10 (10.10%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.03%) Confluence
2 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.02%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.01%) CMS
Applications
1 19 (19.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (17.17%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (8.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.01%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Siebel CRM
2 3 (3.03%) Primavera
2 3 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.02%) SAP HCM
3 2 (2.02%) Workday HCM
4 1 (1.01%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.24%) Azure
2 15 (15.15%) AWS
3 12 (12.12%) GCP
3 12 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.05%) OCI
5 5 (5.05%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.02%) SaaS
6 2 (2.02%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.01%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.01%) Datadog
7 1 (1.01%) Dialogflow
7 1 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.01%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.01%) Route 53
7 1 (1.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.02%) DHCP
1 2 (2.02%) DNS
1 2 (2.02%) Firewall
1 2 (2.02%) Intranet
1 2 (2.02%) Network Security
1 2 (2.02%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.01%) DNSSEC
2 1 (1.01%) VPN
2 1 (1.01%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.12%) Relational Database
2 10 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.05%) MySQL
4 4 (4.04%) Power BI
4 4 (4.04%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.03%) Siebel EIM
6 2 (2.02%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.01%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.01%) Db2
7 1 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (9.09%) Git
2 5 (5.05%) JIRA
3 2 (2.02%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (2.02%) Firebug
3 2 (2.02%) Gatling
3 2 (2.02%) JMeter
3 2 (2.02%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.01%) Cucumber
General
1 71 (71.72%) Social Skills
2 35 (35.35%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (29.29%) Public Sector
4 26 (26.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (11.11%) Finance
6 10 (10.10%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (7.07%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (6.06%) Manufacturing
9 5 (5.05%) Arabic Language
9 5 (5.05%) French Language
10 3 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.03%) Local Government
11 1 (1.01%) Automotive
11 1 (1.01%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (1.01%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (13.13%) Analyst
2 12 (12.12%) Lead
2 12 (12.12%) Support Engineer
3 11 (11.11%) Senior
4 7 (7.07%) Administrator
4 7 (7.07%) Consultant
4 7 (7.07%) IT Support
4 7 (7.07%) Technical Leader
5 6 (6.06%) Developer
6 5 (5.05%) Account Manager
6 5 (5.05%) Business Analyst
6 5 (5.05%) IT Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (5.05%) Siebel Developer
6 5 (5.05%) Technical Support
7 4 (4.04%) Senior Account Manager
7 4 (4.04%) Senior Business Analyst
7 4 (4.04%) Technical Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.10%) CSS
1 10 (10.10%) HTML
2 8 (8.08%) React
3 7 (7.07%) Django
3 7 (7.07%) OAuth
3 7 (7.07%) OAuth2
3 7 (7.07%) OpenID
3 7 (7.07%) RESTful
4 6 (6.06%) Terraform
5 4 (4.04%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.02%) .NET
6 2 (2.02%) REST
6 2 (2.02%) XML
7 1 (1.01%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.01%) CSS3
7 1 (1.01%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.01%) HTML5
7 1 (1.01%) JSON
7 1 (1.01%) Middleware
7 1 (1.01%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.13%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (10.10%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.07%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.07%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.05%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.02%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.02%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (2.02%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.01%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.01%) iPad
6 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.12%) Windows
2 2 (2.02%) Linux
2 2 (2.02%) Unix
3 1 (1.01%) Android
3 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.01%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.01%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (28.28%) Agile
2 22 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (21.21%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 19 (19.19%) Computer Science
5 18 (18.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 18 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 17 (17.17%) CI/CD
7 16 (16.16%) Decision-Making
7 16 (16.16%) DevOps
8 14 (14.14%) Customer Service
9 13 (13.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (12.12%) Analytics
10 12 (12.12%) Containerisation
11 11 (11.11%) AI
12 10 (10.10%) Project Management
13 9 (9.09%) ITIL
13 9 (9.09%) Microservices
13 9 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
14 8 (8.08%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.14%) SQL
2 13 (13.13%) JavaScript
2 13 (13.13%) Python
3 4 (4.04%) Java
4 2 (2.02%) Bash
4 2 (2.02%) Perl
4 2 (2.02%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.01%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (29.29%) Degree
2 17 (17.17%) Security Cleared
3 14 (14.14%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (8.08%) Master's Degree
6 6 (6.06%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (2.02%) ACCA
8 2 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.02%) CIMA
8 2 (2.02%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.01%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.17%) QA
2 8 (8.08%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.05%) GDPR
4 4 (4.04%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.01%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (13.13%) Docker
2 3 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.01%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.01%) Grafana
Vendors
1 40 (40.40%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.12%) ServiceNow
3 9 (9.09%) Oracle
4 5 (5.05%) Siebel
5 3 (3.03%) Google
5 3 (3.03%) SAP
6 2 (2.02%) Adaptive Insights
6 2 (2.02%) Workday
7 1 (1.01%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.01%) Apple
7 1 (1.01%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.01%) Foundry
7 1 (1.01%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.01%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.01%) Informatica
7 1 (1.01%) VMware