Operations Research Job Trends in Surrey

Operations Research (or Operational Research)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Operations Research skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 - 106
Rank change year-on-year - - +54
Permanent jobs citing Operations Research 9 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.52% - 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% - 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £37,500 - -
25th Percentile £39,375 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
75th Percentile £47,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £45,000 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

Operations Research 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 1,390 1,086 1,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 80.67% 93.14% 88.50%
Number of salaries quoted 810 483 870
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,670 £52,293
% change year-on-year -13.30% +10.28% -4.92%

Operations Research
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Operations Research relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Operations Research job vacancy trend in Surrey

Operations Research
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Operations Research.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Operations Research

Operations Research
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 (55.56%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Snowflake
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Big Data
1 5 (55.56%) Data Mining
1 5 (55.56%) Hadoop
1 5 (55.56%) NoSQL
1 5 (55.56%) Tableau
General
1 8 (88.89%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (66.67%) Marketing
2 6 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (44.44%) Finance
4 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Data Science Manager
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
1 5 (55.56%) Senior Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Pricing Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Science Director
3 1 (11.11%) Data Science Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Play Framework
2 3 (33.33%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Algorithms
1 5 (55.56%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Mathematics
2 8 (88.89%) Visualisation
3 6 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
3 6 (66.67%) Analytics
3 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 6 (66.67%) Data Science
3 6 (66.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 6 (66.67%) Decision-Making
3 6 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 6 (66.67%) Economics
3 6 (66.67%) Machine Learning
3 6 (66.67%) Market Research
3 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 6 (66.67%) Statistics
4 5 (55.56%) AI Transformation
4 5 (55.56%) Analytical Modelling
4 5 (55.56%) LLM
4 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (55.56%) Thought Leadership
4 5 (55.56%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) R
3 5 (55.56%) Java
3 5 (55.56%) Scala
4 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (33.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Degree
2 5 (55.56%) Master's Degree
2 5 (55.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) BT
1 5 (55.56%) Databricks
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft