Problem-Solving Job Trends in Surrey

Problem Solving
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Problem-Solving skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 195 193 354
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 10.41% 18.35% 20.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.07% 19.61% 22.82%
Number of salaries quoted 153 114 209
10th Percentile £30,050 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -25.00%
75th Percentile £58,522 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £76,250
South East median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

Problem-Solving 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 1,492 984 1,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 79.62% 93.54% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 888 463 1,086
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £24,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,375 £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%

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Problem-Solving job vacancy trend in Surrey

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Problem-Solving.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Problem-Solving

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Surrey over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Problem-Solving in Surrey

Problem-Solving
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem-Solving within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 1 March 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
Redhill +11 32 £35,000 -30.00% 5
Staines +2 20 £50,000 +53.85% 4
Guildford -8 14 £40,000 -30.43% 23
Horley +2 13 £60,000 +144.90% 1
Weybridge +6 11 £40,000 -11.11% 5
Woking -8 9 £60,000 -25.00% 23
Reigate -5 8 £37,500 -34.78% 4
Godstone -2 6 £36,000 -
Caterham -2 5 £51,250 +57.69% 1
Addlestone - 5 £35,000 -
Warlingham - 5 £51,250 -
Camberley +1 4 £27,300 -22.00% 5
Farnham - 3 £28,750 - 1
Godalming 0 2 £30,000 -45.45% 1
Walton-on-Thames - 2 - - 2
Epsom +9 1 £57,500 -4.17% 5
Chertsey 0 1 - - 1
Thames Ditton -3 1 - -
Leatherhead -9 1 £50,000 -13.04% 5
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
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 13 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.56%) CMS
2 5 (2.56%) IIS
3 3 (1.54%) govService
3 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.03%) WordPress
5 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (10.26%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (5.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.54%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (1.03%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.51%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.51%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 4 (2.05%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.03%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.03%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (1.03%) Q-Pulse
3 2 (1.03%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.51%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 28 (14.36%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (6.67%) Mimecast
3 11 (5.64%) Power Platform
4 9 (4.62%) Azure
4 9 (4.62%) SaaS
5 8 (4.10%) AWS
5 8 (4.10%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.08%) Entra ID
6 6 (3.08%) Google Workspace
7 5 (2.56%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.54%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 3 (1.54%) Figma
9 2 (1.03%) Canva
9 2 (1.03%) GCP
9 2 (1.03%) npm
10 1 (0.51%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.51%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.51%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.51%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.18%) DNS
2 13 (6.67%) TCP/IP
3 12 (6.15%) Firewall
4 9 (4.62%) Wireless
5 7 (3.59%) DHCP
6 6 (3.08%) HTTP
7 5 (2.56%) Broadband
8 2 (1.03%) LAN
8 2 (1.03%) VPN
8 2 (1.03%) WAN
9 1 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.64%) Power BI
2 8 (4.10%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.10%) Tableau
3 5 (2.56%) Big Data
3 5 (2.56%) Data Mining
3 5 (2.56%) Hadoop
3 5 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.54%) MySQL
5 1 (0.51%) FileMaker
5 1 (0.51%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (3.59%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (1.54%) Git
3 1 (0.51%) JIRA
3 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (44.10%) Social Skills
2 53 (27.18%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (21.03%) Finance
4 40 (20.51%) Retail
5 21 (10.77%) Marketing
6 15 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (6.15%) Telecoms
9 10 (5.13%) Law
9 10 (5.13%) Pharmaceutical
10 6 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (3.08%) Electronics
11 5 (2.56%) Legal
11 5 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.05%) General Ledger
12 4 (2.05%) Local Government
13 3 (1.54%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.54%) Multimedia
14 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (19.49%) IT Support
2 36 (18.46%) Support Engineer
3 14 (7.18%) 2nd Line Support
3 14 (7.18%) IT Engineer
3 14 (7.18%) IT Support Engineer
4 13 (6.67%) Help Desk Technician
5 12 (6.15%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 12 (6.15%) Analyst
5 12 (6.15%) Senior
5 12 (6.15%) Technical Support
6 11 (5.64%) Linux Engineer
6 11 (5.64%) Linux Support
6 11 (5.64%) Linux Support Engineer
7 10 (5.13%) Account Manager
7 10 (5.13%) Project Engineer
8 9 (4.62%) Lead
9 8 (4.10%) Developer
9 8 (4.10%) Senior Manager
9 8 (4.10%) Systems Engineer
9 8 (4.10%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.67%) HTML
2 10 (5.13%) CSS
3 7 (3.59%) OLE
4 5 (2.56%) Play Framework
5 4 (2.05%) .NET
6 3 (1.54%) CSS3
6 3 (1.54%) HTML5
7 2 (1.03%) EDI
7 2 (1.03%) Jest
7 2 (1.03%) React
7 2 (1.03%) RESTful
8 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.51%) gRPC
8 1 (0.51%) LangChain
8 1 (0.51%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.51%) Lightning Web Components
8 1 (0.51%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.74%) Driving Licence
1 19 (9.74%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (7.18%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.13%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.08%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.05%) Digital Media
5 4 (2.05%) Digital Signage
5 4 (2.05%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.54%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.03%) Blog
7 2 (1.03%) IoT
7 2 (1.03%) NHS
7 2 (1.03%) Podcast
7 2 (1.03%) Social Media
8 1 (0.51%) Animation
8 1 (0.51%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.51%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 35 (17.95%) Windows
2 15 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 12 (6.15%) Linux
4 9 (4.62%) Windows 10
5 6 (3.08%) CentOS
5 6 (3.08%) Mac OS
5 6 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (14.87%) Continuous Improvement
2 25 (12.82%) Service Delivery
3 20 (10.26%) Process Improvement
4 17 (8.72%) Customer Service
5 16 (8.21%) Agile
5 16 (8.21%) Mentoring
5 16 (8.21%) Project Management
6 15 (7.69%) Change Management
6 15 (7.69%) Decision-Making
6 15 (7.69%) Project Delivery
7 14 (7.18%) ITIL
7 14 (7.18%) Software Engineering
7 14 (7.18%) Time Management
8 13 (6.67%) Data Protection
9 12 (6.15%) AI
9 12 (6.15%) Analytics
9 12 (6.15%) Collaborative Working
9 12 (6.15%) Computer Science
9 12 (6.15%) Roadmaps
9 12 (6.15%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 33 (16.92%) Python
2 23 (11.79%) PowerShell
3 12 (6.15%) SQL
4 9 (4.62%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.08%) Java
5 6 (3.08%) Perl
5 6 (3.08%) PHP
5 6 (3.08%) Scala
6 5 (2.56%) R
7 4 (2.05%) C#
8 3 (1.54%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 44 (22.56%) Degree
2 8 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (3.59%) Chartered Engineer
4 5 (2.56%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.56%) MBA
4 5 (2.56%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.05%) A+ Certification
5 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 4 (2.05%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (1.54%) ACCA
6 3 (1.54%) CIMA
6 3 (1.54%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.03%) APMP
7 2 (1.03%) CISA
7 2 (1.03%) CISSP
7 2 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.03%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (19.49%) GDPR
2 11 (5.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.13%) SLA
4 5 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (2.56%) QA
5 4 (2.05%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.05%) ITGC
6 2 (1.03%) WCAG
7 1 (0.51%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (18.46%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.64%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.51%) Docker
5 1 (0.51%) Firmware
5 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.03%) Ansible
2 2 (1.03%) Terraform
3 1 (0.51%) SCCM
3 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 43 (22.05%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.77%) Veeam
3 12 (6.15%) NEC
3 12 (6.15%) Sage
3 12 (6.15%) VMware
4 8 (4.10%) Citrix
5 7 (3.59%) Adobe
5 7 (3.59%) Google
6 6 (3.08%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.56%) BT
7 5 (2.56%) Databricks
8 4 (2.05%) HubSpot
9 3 (1.54%) Granicus
10 2 (1.03%) IBM
10 2 (1.03%) OpenText
11 1 (0.51%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.51%) Cisco
11 1 (0.51%) Foundry
11 1 (0.51%) Oracle
11 1 (0.51%) PeopleSoft