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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 2 14
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 +7
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 43 65 51
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 9.58% 21.59% 8.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.85% 23.72% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 33 29
10th Percentile £209 £152 £182
25th Percentile £399 £220 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £585
90th Percentile £678 £585 £610
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.00% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - £22.00 £26.96
25th Percentile - £25.00 £27.31
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -3.69%
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - £31.45 -
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £20.00 £19.38
% change year-on-year +3.55% +3.23% -63.10%

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 363 274 487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 80.85% 91.03% 81.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 178 356
10th Percentile £209 £179 £200
25th Percentile £401 £250 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £583 £538 £575
90th Percentile £688 £657 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 20 44
10th Percentile £24.76 £20.27 £11.95
25th Percentile £27.50 £24.18 £13.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £24.42 £19.43
Median % change year-on-year +166.18% +25.71% -56.83%
75th Percentile £71.99 £30.38 £58.53
90th Percentile £77.74 £64.09 £76.53
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -29.41% +13.33% -16.67%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 8 £500 +177.78% 3
Redhill -7 8 £600 +20.00% 4
Leatherhead +2 4 £475 -15.56% 5
Egham 0 2 - - 1
Woking -1 2 £598 -17.59% 6
Camberley -4 1 £550 +252.56% 5
Weybridge -7 1 £475 +11.76% 1
Horley - 1 - - 2
Addlestone - 1 £525 -
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 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (32.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (11.63%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) Power Platform
2 7 (16.28%) Azure
2 7 (16.28%) Tricentis Tosca
3 6 (13.95%) AWS
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (4.65%) OCI
4 2 (4.65%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.33%) CloudFront
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.33%) SaaS
5 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) HTTP
2 2 (4.65%) FTP
2 2 (4.65%) WebEx
2 2 (4.65%) Wireshark
3 1 (2.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) Power BI
2 2 (4.65%) Metadata
2 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (37.21%) JIRA
2 8 (18.60%) GitLab
3 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) Postman
4 1 (2.33%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (53.49%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (39.53%) Social Skills
3 11 (25.58%) Finance
4 4 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Analyst
2 7 (16.28%) Lead
2 7 (16.28%) PMO Analyst
2 7 (16.28%) QA Engineer
3 4 (9.30%) Senior
4 3 (6.98%) Business Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) Coordinator
4 3 (6.98%) Integration Analyst
4 3 (6.98%) QA Leader
4 3 (6.98%) Resource Coordinator
4 3 (6.98%) Senior QA Engineer
4 3 (6.98%) Support Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Architect
5 2 (4.65%) Data Analyst
5 2 (4.65%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.65%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Technical Support
5 2 (4.65%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (9.30%) CSS
2 4 (9.30%) REST
2 4 (9.30%) Web Services
3 3 (6.98%) SOAP
4 2 (4.65%) ADO
4 2 (4.65%) PySpark
5 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.33%) HTML
5 1 (2.33%) Jest
5 1 (2.33%) JSON
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (2.33%) React
5 1 (2.33%) Sass
5 1 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Synthetic Data
2 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Windows
2 2 (4.65%) Unix
3 1 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) DevOps
2 14 (32.56%) Agile
2 14 (32.56%) Project Management
3 12 (27.91%) ERP
4 11 (25.58%) Data Analysis
4 11 (25.58%) User Experience
5 10 (23.26%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (20.93%) CI/CD
7 8 (18.60%) Budget Management
7 8 (18.60%) Data Management
7 8 (18.60%) Test Planning
8 7 (16.28%) Analytics
8 7 (16.28%) Capacity Management
8 7 (16.28%) Data Privacy
8 7 (16.28%) Data Strategy
8 7 (16.28%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 7 (16.28%) QA Automation
8 7 (16.28%) Test Automation
8 7 (16.28%) Time Management
8 7 (16.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.58%) SQL
2 9 (20.93%) PL/SQL
3 3 (6.98%) Python
4 2 (4.65%) Java
4 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (16.28%) OCA
1 7 (16.28%) Oracle Certification
2 5 (11.63%) Degree
3 4 (9.30%) PMI Certification
3 4 (9.30%) PMP
3 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.33%) CISSP
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) GDPR
1 7 (16.28%) PMO
1 7 (16.28%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.33%) ISO 22301
2 1 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) Data Guard
1 1 (2.33%) Foglight
1 1 (2.33%) Kibana
1 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Oracle
2 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.95%) ServiceNow
4 5 (11.63%) SAP
5 2 (4.65%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.33%) Ab Initio
6 1 (2.33%) Databricks
6 1 (2.33%) Informatica
6 1 (2.33%) RedGate
6 1 (2.33%) Remedy
6 1 (2.33%) Splunk