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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 42 20
Rank change year-on-year -6 -22 +43
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 75 58 189
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 3.32% 5.03% 9.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 5.64% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 51 37 44
10th Percentile - £36,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,585 £40,000 £31,321
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £41,450
Median % change year-on-year - +32.69% -40.79%
75th Percentile £69,375 £75,000 £60,625
90th Percentile £115,000 £85,000 £63,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -4.85%

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 1,665 1,028 1,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 73.67% 89.24% 86.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,239 672 1,078
10th Percentile £31,850 £28,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £41,375 £35,000 £35,044
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.56% -3.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,852
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.57% -5.72%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 17 £41,585 - 4
Guildford -14 12 £63,067 - 10
Woking -20 7 £65,000 +44.44% 10
Leatherhead -5 6 £130,000 +188.89% 8
Staines -3 5 £67,500 +28.05% 8
Farnham - 4 £54,808 - 3
Epsom +1 3 £45,000 -14.29% 1
Egham -3 2 £84,500 +2.42%
Redhill +5 1 - - 4
Camberley -10 1 £41,000 +2.50% 4
Esher - 1 £62,500 -
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 4 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (18.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (5.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.33%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (1.33%) Infor LN
3 1 (1.33%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.00%) Azure
2 9 (12.00%) Power Platform
3 8 (10.67%) AWS
3 8 (10.67%) GCP
4 4 (5.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 4 (5.33%) Prefect
5 2 (2.67%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.67%) ChatGPT
5 2 (2.67%) dbt
5 2 (2.67%) GitHub
5 2 (2.67%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (2.67%) Google Gemini
5 2 (2.67%) Miro
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.33%) Serverless
6 1 (1.33%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.00%) Broadband
2 1 (1.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.00%) Power BI
2 6 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (8.00%) MySQL
2 6 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (5.33%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.33%) Tableau
4 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Git
General
1 27 (36.00%) Finance
2 25 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 24 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (18.67%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (17.33%) Local Government
6 9 (12.00%) Aerospace
6 9 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (10.67%) Italian Language
7 8 (10.67%) Japanese Language
8 5 (6.67%) Advertising
8 5 (6.67%) Public Sector
9 4 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (4.00%) Legal
10 3 (4.00%) Marketing
11 2 (2.67%) Billing
11 2 (2.67%) Health Technology
11 2 (2.67%) Retail
11 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
12 1 (1.33%) Front Office
12 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (14.67%) Consultant
1 11 (14.67%) Management Consultant
1 11 (14.67%) Programme Management Office Consultant
1 11 (14.67%) Programme Office Consultant
2 8 (10.67%) Lead
3 7 (9.33%) Senior
4 6 (8.00%) Data Engineer
4 6 (8.00%) IT Manager
5 5 (6.67%) Analyst
5 5 (6.67%) Facilities Manager
5 5 (6.67%) IT Operations Manager
5 5 (6.67%) Operations Manager
6 4 (5.33%) Administrator
6 4 (5.33%) Product Owner
7 3 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Data Administrator
7 3 (4.00%) Engineering Manager
7 3 (4.00%) Integration Specialist
8 2 (2.67%) Service Delivery Manager
8 2 (2.67%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.00%) REST
2 2 (2.67%) Hibernate
2 2 (2.67%) JPA
2 2 (2.67%) Kafka
2 2 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (2.67%) RESTful
2 2 (2.67%) Spring
2 2 (2.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.33%) LangChain
3 1 (1.33%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.33%) Management Information System
2 6 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.67%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.67%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.33%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.33%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.33%) FMCG
6 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.33%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.33%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (22.67%) Project Management
3 15 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 13 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (16.00%) Agile
5 12 (16.00%) Analytics
5 12 (16.00%) CRM
5 12 (16.00%) Programme Management
5 12 (16.00%) Release Management
6 11 (14.67%) AI
6 11 (14.67%) Asset Management
6 11 (14.67%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (14.67%) Configuration Management
7 9 (12.00%) Computer Science
7 9 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (10.67%) CI/CD
8 8 (10.67%) Service Delivery
9 7 (9.33%) Data Modelling
9 7 (9.33%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.00%) Python
2 10 (13.33%) Java
2 10 (13.33%) SQL
3 4 (5.33%) Scala
4 3 (4.00%) C#
4 3 (4.00%) C++
4 3 (4.00%) Julia
5 1 (1.33%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 14 (18.67%) Degree
2 12 (16.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (9.33%) Master's Degree
4 6 (8.00%) DBS Check
5 5 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.67%) Security Cleared
6 3 (4.00%) PhD
7 2 (2.67%) ACCA
7 2 (2.67%) CIMA
7 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.33%) CISA
8 1 (1.33%) CISSP
8 1 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.67%) QA
2 11 (14.67%) PMO
3 7 (9.33%) Data Quality
4 5 (6.67%) GDPR
5 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.33%) GAAP
5 1 (1.33%) GRC
5 1 (1.33%) IFRS
5 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 2 (2.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.67%) Google
2 5 (6.67%) SAP
3 2 (2.67%) BMC
3 2 (2.67%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.67%) Progress
3 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.33%) Adobe
4 1 (1.33%) Cognos
4 1 (1.33%) Databricks
4 1 (1.33%) Foundry
4 1 (1.33%) Infor
4 1 (1.33%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.33%) Okta
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle
4 1 (1.33%) Salesforce