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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 2 7
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 60 50 57
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 11.45% 18.45% 9.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.79% 20.49% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 27 42
10th Percentile £204 £161 £187
25th Percentile £209 £235 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £575 £543 £619
90th Percentile £619 £615 £648
South East median daily rate £493 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -1.40% +2.56% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 5
10th Percentile - £24.00 £27.04
25th Percentile - - £27.50
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -50.00%
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - £30.75 £61.00
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £18.82 £19.81
% change year-on-year +72.69% -4.97% -65.56%

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 435 244 476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 83.02% 90.04% 81.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 172 340
10th Percentile £204 £195 £250
25th Percentile £355 £279 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £619
90th Percentile £653 £581 £700
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +3.00% -0.20% -1.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 25 59
10th Percentile £22.81 £16.10 £11.71
25th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £13.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% -6.67% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £57.50
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% -5.00%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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
Redhill -3 8 £600 +20.00%
Staines -6 8 £500 - 5
Leatherhead -4 6 £500 -16.67% 5
Egham - 5 - - 6
Woking +3 2 £598 - 4
Weybridge -8 2 - - 1
Camberley +2 1 £550 +252.56% 2
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 £300 -
Horley - 1 - -
Oxted - 1 - - 2
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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.67%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (23.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.33%) SAP Business One
2 2 (3.33%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.67%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.67%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.00%) Power Platform
2 8 (13.33%) Azure
3 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.67%) AWS
4 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.00%) OCI
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.67%) Datadog
6 1 (1.67%) Google Docs
6 1 (1.67%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.67%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.67%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.67%) SaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Serverless
6 1 (1.67%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) Network Security
2 2 (3.33%) FTP
2 2 (3.33%) HTTP
2 2 (3.33%) WebEx
2 2 (3.33%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) Power BI
2 4 (6.67%) MySQL
2 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.33%) MariaDB
3 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.33%) Siebel EIM
4 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.67%) Metadata
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Browser DevTools
2 2 (3.33%) Firebug
3 1 (1.67%) GitLab
3 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (48.33%) Social Skills
2 28 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (25.00%) Finance
4 8 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 7 (11.67%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.67%) Arabic Language
9 1 (1.67%) French Language
Job Titles
1 12 (20.00%) Analyst
2 7 (11.67%) PMO Analyst
2 7 (11.67%) Support Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Technical Support
3 6 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Consultant
4 5 (8.33%) Senior
5 4 (6.67%) Senior Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Account Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Coordinator
6 3 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Escalation Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Graduate
6 3 (5.00%) Integration Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) IT Graduate
6 3 (5.00%) IT Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Senior Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) CSS
2 3 (5.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.33%) HTML
3 2 (3.33%) REST
3 2 (3.33%) SOAP
3 2 (3.33%) XML
4 1 (1.67%) .NET
4 1 (1.67%) ADO
4 1 (1.67%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.67%) JSON
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (1.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.67%) iPad
3 1 (1.67%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.67%) Robotics
3 1 (1.67%) Synthetic Data
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Windows
2 4 (6.67%) Unix
3 3 (5.00%) Linux
4 1 (1.67%) Android
4 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.33%) Project Management
2 12 (20.00%) Agile
2 12 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 12 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 11 (18.33%) Analytical Thinking
4 10 (16.67%) AI
5 9 (15.00%) Budget Management
5 9 (15.00%) DevOps
5 9 (15.00%) ITIL
6 8 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (13.33%) Computer Science
7 7 (11.67%) Capacity Management
7 7 (11.67%) CI/CD
7 7 (11.67%) Incident Management
7 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (11.67%) User Experience
8 6 (10.00%) Customer Service
8 6 (10.00%) ERP
8 6 (10.00%) Project Delivery
8 6 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.67%) SQL
2 7 (11.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (10.00%) Java
3 6 (10.00%) Python
4 3 (5.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.33%) C#
5 2 (3.33%) Perl
5 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.67%) Bash
6 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (18.33%) Degree
2 5 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 3 (5.00%) PMP
4 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.67%) CISSP
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.67%) OCA
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) PMO
2 3 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) IFRS
3 1 (1.67%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.67%) NIST
3 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Terraform
2 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.67%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.67%) Foglight
3 1 (1.67%) Grafana
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 16 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 8 (13.33%) Oracle
4 4 (6.67%) SAP
5 2 (3.33%) Blue Prism
5 2 (3.33%) Siebel
6 1 (1.67%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.67%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.67%) Apple
6 1 (1.67%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (1.67%) Databricks
6 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.67%) Google
6 1 (1.67%) Informatica
6 1 (1.67%) Remedy
6 1 (1.67%) UiPath