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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 9 5
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 91 48 81
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 14.87% 14.12% 14.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.30% 15.00% 17.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 26 66
10th Percentile £190 £204 £229
25th Percentile £303 £225 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £494
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -8.86% -5.95%
75th Percentile £525 £584 £575
90th Percentile £619 £681 £625
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 1
10th Percentile - £26.00 -
25th Percentile £13.25 - -
Median hourly rate £16.75 £28.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.18% -65.00% +28.00%
75th Percentile £20.38 - -
90th Percentile £20.69 £29.00 -
South East median hourly rate £21.35 £17.17 £42.89
% change year-on-year +24.36% -59.97% -23.75%

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 526 320 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 85.95% 94.12% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 210 344
10th Percentile £204 £204 £203
25th Percentile £363 £261 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £484 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% +4.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £556
90th Percentile £630 £600 £663
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.72% -0.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 38 36
10th Percentile £16.15 £21.41 £14.76
25th Percentile £33.00 £28.00 £35.63
Median hourly rate £63.75 £55.00 £63.63
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -13.57% +30.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £75.00
90th Percentile - - £76.86
South East median hourly rate £52.46 £22.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +133.17% -60.77% +9.24%

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 September 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 September 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 33 £425 +214.81% 19
Leatherhead -5 7 £500 -23.08% 11
Woking -3 4 £200 -37.01% 18
Weybridge - 4 - - 2
Egham - 3 - - 1
Redhill -2 2 £538 - 19
Guildford -23 2 - - 39
Oxted +1 1 - -
Reigate - 1 £475 - 9
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 £300 - 9
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 7 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.20%) Confluence
3 2 (2.20%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.10%) CMS
Applications
1 18 (19.78%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (8.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Siebel CRM
2 4 (4.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (3.30%) Primavera
4 2 (2.20%) SAP Business One
4 2 (2.20%) SAP HCM
4 2 (2.20%) Workday HCM
5 1 (1.10%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.27%) Azure
2 14 (15.38%) AWS
3 11 (12.09%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (10.99%) GCP
5 5 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.49%) OCI
6 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.20%) SaaS
7 2 (2.20%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.10%) Azure AI
8 1 (1.10%) Dialogflow
8 1 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.10%) Google Docs
8 1 (1.10%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.10%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.10%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.30%) Network Security
2 2 (2.20%) DHCP
2 2 (2.20%) DNS
2 2 (2.20%) Firewall
2 2 (2.20%) Intranet
2 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.10%) DNSSEC
3 1 (1.10%) VPN
3 1 (1.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.19%) Relational Database
2 10 (10.99%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.49%) MySQL
4 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.30%) Power BI
5 3 (3.30%) Siebel EIM
6 2 (2.20%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.10%) Db2
Development Applications
1 9 (9.89%) Git
2 2 (2.20%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (2.20%) Firebug
2 2 (2.20%) JIRA
3 1 (1.10%) Cucumber
General
1 60 (65.93%) Social Skills
2 34 (37.36%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (30.77%) Public Sector
4 24 (26.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (12.09%) Finance
6 7 (7.69%) Manufacturing
7 6 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (6.59%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (5.49%) Arabic Language
8 5 (5.49%) French Language
9 3 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (13.19%) Analyst
2 11 (12.09%) Support Engineer
3 10 (10.99%) Consultant
3 10 (10.99%) Lead
4 9 (9.89%) Senior
5 7 (7.69%) Technical Leader
6 6 (6.59%) Developer
7 5 (5.49%) IT Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) IT Support
7 5 (5.49%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Siebel Developer
7 5 (5.49%) Technical Support
8 4 (4.40%) Administrator
8 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Escalation Manager
8 4 (4.40%) Senior Account Manager
8 4 (4.40%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.99%) CSS
1 10 (10.99%) HTML
2 8 (8.79%) React
3 7 (7.69%) Django
3 7 (7.69%) OAuth
3 7 (7.69%) OAuth2
3 7 (7.69%) OpenID
3 7 (7.69%) RESTful
4 6 (6.59%) Terraform
5 4 (4.40%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.30%) .NET
7 2 (2.20%) REST
7 2 (2.20%) XML
8 1 (1.10%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.10%) CrewAI
8 1 (1.10%) CSS3
8 1 (1.10%) Gherkin
8 1 (1.10%) HTML5
8 1 (1.10%) LangGraph
8 1 (1.10%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.09%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (8.79%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.49%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.20%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.20%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.10%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.10%) iPad
5 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.10%) Robotics
5 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.19%) Windows
2 2 (2.20%) Linux
2 2 (2.20%) Unix
3 1 (1.10%) Android
3 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.10%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.47%) Agile
2 21 (23.08%) Computer Science
3 20 (21.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (20.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (20.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 18 (19.78%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 18 (19.78%) Mentoring
6 16 (17.58%) CI/CD
7 15 (16.48%) Decision-Making
7 15 (16.48%) DevOps
8 12 (13.19%) Containerisation
8 12 (13.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 11 (12.09%) AI
9 11 (12.09%) Analytics
10 10 (10.99%) Test Automation
11 9 (9.89%) Customer Service
11 9 (9.89%) ERP
11 9 (9.89%) ITIL
11 9 (9.89%) Microservices
11 9 (9.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.48%) SQL
2 14 (15.38%) JavaScript
2 14 (15.38%) Python
3 6 (6.59%) Java
4 3 (3.30%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.20%) Bash
5 2 (2.20%) C#
5 2 (2.20%) Perl
5 2 (2.20%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.10%) Ruby
6 1 (1.10%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (34.07%) Degree
2 15 (16.48%) Security Cleared
3 12 (13.19%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (8.79%) Master's Degree
6 6 (6.59%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (2.20%) ACCA
8 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.20%) CIMA
8 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.10%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.48%) QA
2 8 (8.79%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.20%) GDPR
5 1 (1.10%) IFRS
5 1 (1.10%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (14.29%) Docker
2 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (13.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.10%) Grafana
Vendors
1 34 (37.36%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.19%) ServiceNow
3 9 (9.89%) Oracle
4 5 (5.49%) SAP
4 5 (5.49%) Siebel
5 3 (3.30%) Google
6 2 (2.20%) Adaptive Insights
6 2 (2.20%) Blue Prism
6 2 (2.20%) Workday
7 1 (1.10%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.10%) Apple
7 1 (1.10%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.10%) Foundry
7 1 (1.10%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.10%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.10%) UiPath
7 1 (1.10%) VMware