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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 3 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +10
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 71 43 62
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 12.82% 15.99% 10.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.17% 17.77% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 21 47
10th Percentile £204 £168 £181
25th Percentile £219 £338 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £619
90th Percentile £613 £588 £635
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £492
% change year-on-year -2.50% +1.63% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 5
10th Percentile - £24.00 £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 - £30.75 £61.00
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £21.50
% change year-on-year +72.69% -12.47% -62.61%

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 468 242 496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 84.48% 89.96% 80.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 173 353
10th Percentile £204 £200 £250
25th Percentile £363 £303 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% -1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £595
90th Percentile £650 £581 £700
South East median daily rate £520 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.96% +0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 21 63
10th Percentile £20.40 £13.50 £11.71
25th Percentile £51.25 £24.66 £14.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +123.21% -6.67% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £65.25
90th Percentile £71.99 £62.50 £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +108.75% -47.05% -9.52%

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 June 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 June 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 -4 16 £425 - 5
Redhill -3 8 £600 +20.00% 4
Leatherhead -2 6 £500 -9.09% 6
Egham - 5 - - 4
Woking +3 2 £598 - 4
Weybridge -7 2 - - 1
Guildford -21 1 - - 7
Oxted - 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 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.41%) CMS
3 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (26.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (16.90%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (9.86%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (8.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (7.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.82%) SAP Business One
2 2 (2.82%) SAP HCM
2 2 (2.82%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.41%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.41%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.90%) Azure
2 9 (12.68%) Power Platform
3 7 (9.86%) AWS
4 6 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.23%) GCP
5 3 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.82%) OCI
6 2 (2.82%) SaaS
6 2 (2.82%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.41%) Datadog
7 1 (1.41%) Dialogflow
7 1 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.41%) Google Docs
7 1 (1.41%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.41%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.41%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) Network Security
2 2 (2.82%) FTP
2 2 (2.82%) HTTP
2 2 (2.82%) WebEx
2 2 (2.82%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.41%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.27%) Power BI
2 6 (8.45%) Relational Database
3 5 (7.04%) MySQL
4 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.82%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.82%) Siebel EIM
5 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.41%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.41%) Metadata
6 1 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (12.68%) JIRA
2 2 (2.82%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (2.82%) Firebug
3 1 (1.41%) Git
General
1 41 (57.75%) Social Skills
2 33 (46.48%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (22.54%) Finance
4 13 (18.31%) Public Sector
5 10 (14.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (8.45%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (5.63%) Arabic Language
7 4 (5.63%) French Language
7 4 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (19.72%) Analyst
2 8 (11.27%) Consultant
2 8 (11.27%) Senior
3 7 (9.86%) PMO Analyst
3 7 (9.86%) Support Engineer
3 7 (9.86%) Technical Support
4 6 (8.45%) Technical Engineer
4 6 (8.45%) Technical Support Engineer
5 5 (7.04%) Senior Manager
6 4 (5.63%) Account Manager
6 4 (5.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Escalation Manager
6 4 (5.63%) Senior Account Manager
7 3 (4.23%) Integration Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) IT Graduate
7 3 (4.23%) IT Manager
7 3 (4.23%) Resource Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.86%) CSS
2 4 (5.63%) ARM Templates
2 4 (5.63%) HTML
2 4 (5.63%) REST
3 3 (4.23%) .NET
3 3 (4.23%) SOAP
4 2 (2.82%) React
4 2 (2.82%) XML
5 1 (1.41%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.41%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.41%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.41%) CSS3
5 1 (1.41%) Django
5 1 (1.41%) JSON
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.41%) Middleware
5 1 (1.41%) OAuth
5 1 (1.41%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.41%) PySpark
5 1 (1.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.41%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.41%) iPad
3 1 (1.41%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.41%) Robotics
3 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.86%) Windows
2 4 (5.63%) Unix
3 2 (2.82%) Linux
4 1 (1.41%) Android
4 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (25.35%) Project Management
2 17 (23.94%) Agile
3 14 (19.72%) Decision-Making
4 12 (16.90%) Data Analysis
4 12 (16.90%) DevOps
5 11 (15.49%) AI
5 11 (15.49%) Analytical Thinking
5 11 (15.49%) Computer Science
5 11 (15.49%) ITIL
5 11 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (14.08%) CI/CD
7 9 (12.68%) Budget Management
7 9 (12.68%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 8 (11.27%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (11.27%) Time Management
9 7 (9.86%) Analytics
9 7 (9.86%) Capacity Management
9 7 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (9.86%) Incident Management
9 7 (9.86%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.68%) JavaScript
2 8 (11.27%) Java
2 8 (11.27%) Python
2 8 (11.27%) SQL
3 2 (2.82%) C#
3 2 (2.82%) Perl
3 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.82%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.41%) Bash
4 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.41%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (25.35%) Degree
2 6 (8.45%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) Azure Certification
3 5 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.23%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.23%) PMI Certification
5 3 (4.23%) PMP
6 1 (1.41%) CISSP
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) PMO
2 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 3 (4.23%) QA
3 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.41%) IFRS
3 1 (1.41%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.41%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (9.86%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (8.45%) Kubernetes
1 6 (8.45%) Terraform
2 1 (1.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (29.58%) Microsoft
2 14 (19.72%) ServiceNow
3 6 (8.45%) Oracle
3 6 (8.45%) SAP
4 2 (2.82%) Blue Prism
4 2 (2.82%) Siebel
5 1 (1.41%) Ab Initio
5 1 (1.41%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.41%) Apple
5 1 (1.41%) Automation Anywhere
5 1 (1.41%) Databricks
5 1 (1.41%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.41%) Google
5 1 (1.41%) Informatica
5 1 (1.41%) Remedy
5 1 (1.41%) UiPath