Decision-Making Job Trends in Surrey

Decision-Making
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Decision-Making skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 33 22
Rank change year-on-year -9 -11 +31
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 88 65 171
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 3.63% 5.58% 9.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.80% 6.26% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 60 45 29
10th Percentile £36,425 £36,000 £30,950
25th Percentile £41,585 £40,000 £31,345
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +33.33% -35.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £85,000 £64,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £53,813
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.44% +2.40%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

Decision-Making falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,833 1,039 1,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 75.68% 89.18% 86.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,365 693 818
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -13.04% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Decision-Making
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Decision-Making relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Decision-Making job vacancy trend in Surrey

Decision-Making
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Decision-Making.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Decision-Making

Decision-Making
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Decision-Making in Surrey over the 6 months to 17 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Decision-Making in Surrey

Decision-Making
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Decision-Making within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reigate +1 19 £41,585 - 11
Guildford -19 15 £61,134 +1.89% 20
Staines - 10 £63,500 - 27
Leatherhead -9 7 £130,000 +188.89% 17
Farnham - 5 £54,808 - 2
Woking -26 4 £66,500 +47.78% 22
Epsom - 3 £45,000 -
Egham -6 2 £84,500 +2.42% 1
Chertsey - 1 - - 6
Esher - 1 £62,500 - 1
Decision-Making
South East

Decision-Making
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 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.41%) Shopify
3 2 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.23%) Azure
2 8 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 7 (7.95%) AWS
4 6 (6.82%) Anthropic Claude
4 6 (6.82%) ChatGPT
4 6 (6.82%) GCP
5 3 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (3.41%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 3 (3.41%) GitHub
5 3 (3.41%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (3.41%) Google Gemini
5 3 (3.41%) Prefect
6 2 (2.27%) dbt
6 2 (2.27%) Miro
6 2 (2.27%) SaaS
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.09%) Power BI
2 6 (6.82%) MongoDB
2 6 (6.82%) MySQL
2 6 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.82%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.41%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (3.41%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.14%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Git
General
1 34 (38.64%) Finance
2 28 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 19 (21.59%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (17.05%) Local Government
6 9 (10.23%) Advertising
6 9 (10.23%) Aerospace
7 8 (9.09%) Italian Language
7 8 (9.09%) Japanese Language
7 8 (9.09%) Marketing
7 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
8 7 (7.95%) Retail
9 6 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (3.41%) Legal
12 2 (2.27%) Billing
12 2 (2.27%) Games
12 2 (2.27%) Telecoms
13 1 (1.14%) Front Office
13 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (12.50%) Consultant
1 11 (12.50%) Management Consultant
1 11 (12.50%) Programme Management Office Consultant
1 11 (12.50%) Programme Office Consultant
2 9 (10.23%) Lead
3 8 (9.09%) Analyst
3 8 (9.09%) Operations Manager
4 6 (6.82%) Facilities Manager
4 6 (6.82%) IT Manager
4 6 (6.82%) IT Operations Manager
4 6 (6.82%) Sales Executive
5 5 (5.68%) Senior
6 4 (4.55%) Data Analyst
6 4 (4.55%) Product Owner
7 3 (3.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (3.41%) Backend Developer
7 3 (3.41%) Data Insight Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Insight Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Insight Data Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Integration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.68%) REST
2 3 (3.41%) Hibernate
2 3 (3.41%) JPA
2 3 (3.41%) Kafka
2 3 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (3.41%) RESTful
2 3 (3.41%) Spring
2 3 (3.41%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.41%) Terraform
3 2 (2.27%) .NET
3 2 (2.27%) SOAP
4 1 (1.14%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.77%) Management Information System
2 8 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.68%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.55%) Digital Media
4 4 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.41%) Social Media
6 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.27%) Culture of Ownership
6 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.14%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.14%) FMCG
7 1 (1.14%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (38.64%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (19.32%) Collaborative Working
2 17 (19.32%) Project Management
3 16 (18.18%) AI
4 15 (17.05%) Agile
5 13 (14.77%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (14.77%) CRM
6 12 (13.64%) Programme Management
6 12 (13.64%) Release Management
6 12 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (12.50%) Analytics
7 11 (12.50%) Asset Management
7 11 (12.50%) Configuration Management
8 10 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (11.36%) Software Engineering
9 9 (10.23%) Budgeting
9 9 (10.23%) Computer Science
9 9 (10.23%) Contract Negotiation
10 8 (9.09%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.91%) Python
2 8 (9.09%) SQL
3 7 (7.95%) C#
4 6 (6.82%) Java
5 5 (5.68%) C++
5 5 (5.68%) Julia
6 3 (3.41%) Scala
7 2 (2.27%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.27%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.14%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 13 (14.77%) Degree
2 12 (13.64%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (9.09%) DBS Check
3 8 (9.09%) Master's Degree
4 5 (5.68%) PhD
5 3 (3.41%) ACCA
5 3 (3.41%) CIMA
5 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.41%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.41%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.41%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.14%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.91%) QA
2 11 (12.50%) PMO
3 3 (3.41%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.41%) GDPR
4 2 (2.27%) GRC
4 2 (2.27%) IFRS
5 1 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.68%) SAP
3 4 (4.55%) Google
4 3 (3.41%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.27%) BMC
5 2 (2.27%) Databricks
5 2 (2.27%) Progress
5 2 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.14%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.14%) Okta
6 1 (1.14%) Salesforce