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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 52 56
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 57 41 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 3.06% 3.86% 4.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 4.12% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 39 21 24
10th Percentile £27,500 £50,600 -
25th Percentile £46,250 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% -2.34%
75th Percentile £69,375 £83,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,500 £100,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -14.29% +33.21% -15.92%

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 1,495 994 1,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 80.16% 93.69% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 894 459 1,027
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £78,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 25 February 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 25 February 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
Guildford 0 19 £59,250 -33.05% 6
Woking - 7 £65,000 - 6
Camberley - 2 £53,000 - 2
Leatherhead - 1 - - 4
Weybridge - 1 £72,500 - 2
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 5 (8.77%) IIS
2 1 (1.75%) Apache
2 1 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.75%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (17.54%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (12.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (8.77%) SAP Business One
1 5 (8.77%) Shopify
2 4 (7.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (3.51%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (3.51%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (1.75%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.28%) AWS
2 6 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.77%) Azure
3 5 (8.77%) Snowflake
4 3 (5.26%) GCP
4 3 (5.26%) SaaS
5 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.75%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.75%) Prefect
6 1 (1.75%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.75%) Broadband
2 1 (1.75%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) Tableau
2 7 (12.28%) NoSQL
3 6 (10.53%) Power BI
4 5 (8.77%) Big Data
4 5 (8.77%) Data Mining
4 5 (8.77%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.75%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 1 (1.75%) MySQL
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) GitLab
2 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.75%) JUnit
2 1 (1.75%) Selenium
General
1 27 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 20 (35.09%) Marketing
3 15 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (17.54%) Finance
4 10 (17.54%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (14.04%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
8 3 (5.26%) Banking
9 2 (3.51%) Health Technology
9 2 (3.51%) Local Government
10 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (19.30%) Senior
2 10 (17.54%) Senior Manager
3 6 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Data Science Manager
4 5 (8.77%) E-Commerce Manager
4 5 (8.77%) Sales Executive
5 4 (7.02%) Account Manager
5 4 (7.02%) Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) C# Developer
6 3 (5.26%) IT Manager
6 3 (5.26%) Senior Account Manager
7 2 (3.51%) .NET Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Business Development Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Business Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Data Administrator
7 2 (3.51%) IT Development Manager
7 2 (3.51%) IT Services Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Sales Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) REST
2 7 (12.28%) .NET
2 7 (12.28%) Blazor
2 7 (12.28%) WinForms
2 7 (12.28%) WPF
3 5 (8.77%) Play Framework
4 3 (5.26%) React
5 2 (3.51%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.51%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.51%) Vue
6 1 (1.75%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.75%) Jest
6 1 (1.75%) JSON
6 1 (1.75%) Kafka
6 1 (1.75%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.75%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.75%) RESTful
6 1 (1.75%) SOAP
6 1 (1.75%) Swagger
6 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.07%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.77%) Algorithms
3 5 (8.77%) Social Media
4 3 (5.26%) NHS
4 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) IoT
6 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.11%) Analytics
2 17 (29.82%) AI
3 15 (26.32%) Machine Learning
3 15 (26.32%) Mathematics
3 15 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (24.56%) Computer Science
4 14 (24.56%) Visualisation
5 13 (22.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 12 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (17.54%) Agile
7 10 (17.54%) Digital Transformation Strategy
7 10 (17.54%) Roadmaps
7 10 (17.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
8 9 (15.79%) CI/CD
8 9 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
9 8 (14.04%) Microservices
9 8 (14.04%) Software Engineering
10 7 (12.28%) DevOps
10 7 (12.28%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.56%) SQL
2 11 (19.30%) Java
3 10 (17.54%) Python
4 6 (10.53%) R
4 6 (10.53%) Scala
5 5 (8.77%) C#
6 1 (1.75%) ABAP
6 1 (1.75%) Groovy
6 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (33.33%) Degree
2 9 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
4 6 (10.53%) Master's Degree
5 5 (8.77%) MBA
6 1 (1.75%) CISA
6 1 (1.75%) CISSP
6 1 (1.75%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (7.02%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.26%) GDPR
4 2 (3.51%) QA
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.28%) Terraform
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.04%) BT
3 7 (12.28%) SAP
4 5 (8.77%) Databricks
5 3 (5.26%) Fortinet
5 3 (5.26%) Mitel
6 2 (3.51%) Oracle
7 1 (1.75%) Foundry
7 1 (1.75%) Google
7 1 (1.75%) SOTI
7 1 (1.75%) Workday