Problem-Solving Contracts in Surrey

Problem Solving
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 10 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 -4
Contract jobs citing Problem-Solving 46 59 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 17.29% 9.74% 8.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.25% 11.99% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 44 41
10th Percentile £168 £190 £313
25th Percentile £235 £395 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -2.38% +9.95%
75th Percentile £525 £619 £650
90th Percentile £585 £643 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 3
10th Percentile £24.00 £27.04 £35.60
25th Percentile - £27.50 £44.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -50.00% +26.32%
75th Percentile - £32.50 £61.88
90th Percentile £30.75 £61.00 £63.00
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £19.81 £57.50
% change year-on-year -4.97% -65.56% +21.05%

All Process and 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 239 492 623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 89.85% 81.19% 86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 348 488
10th Percentile £195 £250 £200
25th Percentile £295 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £638
90th Percentile £581 £700 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £505
% change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 62 28
10th Percentile £14.15 £11.71 £38.60
25th Percentile £24.75 £14.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £51.16 £66.63 £62.13
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £64.13
South East median hourly rate £27.88 £47.50 £52.30
% change year-on-year -41.31% -9.18% +138.27%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Surrey

Problem-Solving
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for Problem-Solving in Surrey

Problem-Solving
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Surrey over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Problem-Solving in Surrey

Problem-Solving
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for Problem-Solving in Surrey

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 31 May 2025. 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
Guildford +12 17 £495 +209.38% 32
Redhill +10 6 £500 - 10
Staines +2 4 - - 3
Leatherhead +5 3 £550 -10.20% 26
Camberley -7 2 £156 +20.00% 4
Weybridge +6 1 £350 -33.33% 6
Reigate +2 1 - - 2
Woking +1 1 - - 18
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.52%) IIS
2 2 (4.35%) Apache
2 2 (4.35%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.17%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.57%) Azure
2 6 (13.04%) AWS
2 6 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.70%) Entra ID
4 3 (6.52%) Azure AKS
4 3 (6.52%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.35%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.17%) Asana
6 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.17%) CloudFront
6 1 (2.17%) GCP
6 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.17%) SaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.52%) Firewall
1 3 (6.52%) Softphone
1 3 (6.52%) TCP/IP
1 3 (6.52%) WAN
2 2 (4.35%) LAN
2 2 (4.35%) VPN
2 2 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.17%) DHCP
3 1 (2.17%) DNS
3 1 (2.17%) FTP
3 1 (2.17%) Internet
3 1 (2.17%) MPLS
3 1 (2.17%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) MySQL
2 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.17%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.17%) Power BI
3 1 (2.17%) QlikView
3 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.17%) Tableau
3 1 (2.17%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) JIRA
2 7 (15.22%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.87%) Git
3 5 (10.87%) TestRail
4 4 (8.70%) Bitbucket
4 4 (8.70%) GoogleTest
4 4 (8.70%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.17%) GitLab
5 1 (2.17%) JMeter
5 1 (2.17%) JUnit
5 1 (2.17%) Selenium
5 1 (2.17%) Toad
5 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 15 (32.61%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Finance
3 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Korean Language
4 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Local Government
4 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Support Engineer
2 11 (23.91%) IT Support
3 10 (21.74%) 2nd Line Support
4 9 (19.57%) IT Engineer
5 8 (17.39%) IT Support Engineer
6 7 (15.22%) Senior
7 5 (10.87%) Analyst
8 4 (8.70%) C++ Software Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Embedded C++ Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Server Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Server Support
8 4 (8.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) .NET
2 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.35%) LAMP
2 2 (4.35%) React
2 2 (4.35%) RESTful
3 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.17%) CSS
3 1 (2.17%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.17%) HTML
3 1 (2.17%) Java EE
3 1 (2.17%) Java SE
3 1 (2.17%) Jest
3 1 (2.17%) JSON
3 1 (2.17%) Sass
3 1 (2.17%) Spring
3 1 (2.17%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.17%) Struts
3 1 (2.17%) Web Services
3 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.96%) Windows
2 10 (21.74%) Windows 10
3 7 (15.22%) Linux
4 4 (8.70%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (4.35%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.17%) Unix
6 1 (2.17%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.17%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) ITIL
2 11 (23.91%) Agile
2 11 (23.91%) Customer Service
3 8 (17.39%) Computer Science
3 8 (17.39%) Scrum
3 8 (17.39%) Service Delivery
4 7 (15.22%) Test Automation
5 6 (13.04%) Time Management
6 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
6 5 (10.87%) Clean Code
6 5 (10.87%) DevOps
7 4 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (8.70%) Design Patterns
7 4 (8.70%) Kanban
7 4 (8.70%) Multithreaded Programming
7 4 (8.70%) Multithreading
7 4 (8.70%) Software Engineering
7 4 (8.70%) SOLID
7 4 (8.70%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.22%) SQL
2 4 (8.70%) C++
3 2 (4.35%) Java
3 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.35%) Korn
3 2 (4.35%) PHP
4 1 (2.17%) C#
4 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.17%) Python
4 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Degree
2 9 (19.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (13.04%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) DBS Check
5 3 (6.52%) A+ Certification
6 2 (4.35%) PMI Certification
6 2 (4.35%) PMP
7 1 (2.17%) CCNA
7 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.17%) ISTQB
7 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.17%) MCP
7 1 (2.17%) MCSE
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.17%) OCP
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (2.17%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) QA
2 5 (10.87%) SLA
3 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.52%) Docker
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.17%) XenApp
3 1 (2.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.52%) Terraform
3 1 (2.17%) CSIRT
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.04%) Google
3 5 (10.87%) Dell
4 4 (8.70%) HP
4 4 (8.70%) IBM
5 3 (6.52%) Databricks
6 2 (4.35%) Cisco
6 2 (4.35%) Citrix
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle
7 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.17%) Splunk
7 1 (2.17%) VMware