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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 46 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 -25 +39
Permanent jobs citing Decision-Making 71 52 205
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 3.26% 4.67% 8.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 5.20% 9.83%
Number of salaries quoted 53 32 51
10th Percentile - £37,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,585 £40,000 £31,345
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,606 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +16.90% -35.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,375 £63,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £84,875 £65,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,550 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.80% +1.10% -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 1,611 1,000 2,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 73.90% 89.85% 87.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,202 652 1,314
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,450 £25,500
25th Percentile £41,585 £35,375 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £73,438 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +5 17 £41,585 - 4
Guildford -8 14 £57,971 - 7
Woking -22 9 £65,000 +44.44% 9
Leatherhead -4 5 £130,000 +188.89% 3
Epsom +5 3 £45,000 -14.29% 2
Staines -3 3 £63,500 +20.46% 3
Farnham - 3 £54,808 - 2
Egham -4 2 £84,500 +2.42%
Redhill +8 1 - - 1
Camberley -8 1 £41,000 +2.50%
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 (5.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (16.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (15.49%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.82%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.41%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (1.41%) Infor LN
3 1 (1.41%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.41%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.90%) Azure
2 9 (12.68%) Power Platform
3 8 (11.27%) AWS
3 8 (11.27%) GCP
4 4 (5.63%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 4 (5.63%) Prefect
5 2 (2.82%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.82%) ChatGPT
5 2 (2.82%) dbt
5 2 (2.82%) GitHub
5 2 (2.82%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (2.82%) Google Gemini
5 2 (2.82%) Miro
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.41%) Serverless
6 1 (1.41%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) Broadband
2 2 (2.82%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.68%) Power BI
2 6 (8.45%) MongoDB
2 6 (8.45%) MySQL
2 6 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.45%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.63%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (5.63%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.63%) Tableau
4 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.41%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (9.86%) Git
General
1 26 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 23 (32.39%) Finance
3 22 (30.99%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (19.72%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (15.49%) Local Government
6 8 (11.27%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (7.04%) Aerospace
7 5 (7.04%) Italian Language
7 5 (7.04%) Japanese Language
7 5 (7.04%) Public Sector
8 4 (5.63%) Advertising
9 3 (4.23%) Legal
9 3 (4.23%) Marketing
10 2 (2.82%) Billing
10 2 (2.82%) Health Technology
10 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.82%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.41%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 11 (15.49%) Consultant
1 11 (15.49%) Management Consultant
1 11 (15.49%) Programme Management Office Consultant
1 11 (15.49%) Programme Office Consultant
2 9 (12.68%) Senior
3 8 (11.27%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.04%) Analyst
4 5 (7.04%) IT Manager
4 5 (7.04%) Lead
5 4 (5.63%) Facilities Manager
5 4 (5.63%) IT Operations Manager
5 4 (5.63%) Operations Manager
5 4 (5.63%) Senior Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Administrator
6 3 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Data Administrator
6 3 (4.23%) Engineering Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Integration Specialist
7 2 (2.82%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.23%) REST
2 2 (2.82%) Hibernate
2 2 (2.82%) JPA
2 2 (2.82%) Kafka
2 2 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (2.82%) RESTful
2 2 (2.82%) Spring
2 2 (2.82%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.41%) LangChain
3 1 (1.41%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.13%) Management Information System
2 6 (8.45%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.82%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.82%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.41%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.41%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.41%) FMCG
5 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.41%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.41%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (43.66%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (23.94%) Project Management
3 15 (21.13%) Collaborative Working
4 14 (19.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (18.31%) AI
5 13 (18.31%) Analytics
6 12 (16.90%) Programme Management
6 12 (16.90%) Release Management
6 12 (16.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (15.49%) Agile
7 11 (15.49%) Asset Management
7 11 (15.49%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (15.49%) Configuration Management
7 11 (15.49%) CRM
7 11 (15.49%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (12.68%) Computer Science
9 8 (11.27%) CI/CD
9 8 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (9.86%) Data Science
10 7 (9.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.90%) Python
2 10 (14.08%) Java
2 10 (14.08%) SQL
3 4 (5.63%) Scala
4 3 (4.23%) C#
4 3 (4.23%) C++
4 3 (4.23%) Julia
5 1 (1.41%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 14 (19.72%) Degree
2 7 (9.86%) Master's Degree
3 6 (8.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.04%) Security Cleared
5 4 (5.63%) DBS Check
6 3 (4.23%) PhD
7 2 (2.82%) ACCA
7 2 (2.82%) CIMA
8 1 (1.41%) CISA
8 1 (1.41%) CISSP
8 1 (1.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (21.13%) QA
2 11 (15.49%) PMO
3 7 (9.86%) Data Quality
4 4 (5.63%) GDPR
5 1 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.41%) GAAP
5 1 (1.41%) GRC
5 1 (1.41%) IFRS
5 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 2 (2.82%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.82%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (26.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.63%) Google
2 4 (5.63%) SAP
3 2 (2.82%) BMC
3 2 (2.82%) BT
3 2 (2.82%) Fortinet
3 2 (2.82%) Mitel
3 2 (2.82%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle
3 2 (2.82%) Progress
3 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.41%) Adobe
4 1 (1.41%) Cognos
4 1 (1.41%) Databricks
4 1 (1.41%) Foundry
4 1 (1.41%) Infor
4 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.41%) Okta
4 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.41%) Workday