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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 181 148 483
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 8.96% 14.60% 20.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.37% 15.97% 22.33%
Number of salaries quoted 129 109 274
10th Percentile £28,896 £31,250 £26,575
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £33,119
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% - -20.83%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,750 £75,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £47,125 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.75% +11.11% -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 1,463 927 2,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 72.46% 91.42% 89.83%
Number of salaries quoted 983 517 1,379
10th Percentile £31,510 £30,750 £24,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,303 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £81,550 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -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 13 May 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 13 May 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
Staines +5 27 £50,000 -16.67% 4
Redhill +10 19 £35,000 -33.33% 2
Guildford -26 13 £47,500 +18.75% 16
Weybridge - 10 £40,000 - 1
Horley -1 9 £55,000 +124.49%
Camberley -2 6 £28,896 -17.44% 3
Godalming 0 5 £29,000 -47.27%
Reigate -6 5 £55,040 +29.50% 4
Woking -21 5 £60,000 +20.00% 6
Caterham +4 3 - -
Leatherhead -11 3 £50,000 -11.11% 7
Addlestone - 3 £35,000 - 1
Farnham - 3 - - 3
Warlingham - 3 - -
Walton-on-Thames - 2 - -
Chertsey - 2 £75,000 - 3
Cobham - 2 - -
Epsom +11 1 £57,500 +17.95% 3
Lightwater - 1 £47,500 -
Thames Ditton - 1 - -
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 6 (3.31%) CMS
1 6 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.76%) IIS
3 4 (2.21%) WordPress
4 3 (1.66%) Anypoint
4 3 (1.66%) govService
4 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 25 (13.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (6.63%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.21%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (2.21%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.21%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.10%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.10%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (1.10%) Q-Pulse
3 2 (1.10%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.55%) HFM
4 1 (0.55%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 17 (9.39%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (8.84%) SaaS
3 13 (7.18%) AWS
4 12 (6.63%) Azure
4 12 (6.63%) Power Platform
5 11 (6.08%) Mimecast
6 8 (4.42%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.31%) Google Workspace
8 5 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.76%) GCP
8 5 (2.76%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.21%) Canva
10 3 (1.66%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 3 (1.66%) Figma
11 1 (0.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.55%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.55%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.55%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.55%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.08%) DNS
2 8 (4.42%) Broadband
2 8 (4.42%) HTTP
3 3 (1.66%) DHCP
3 3 (1.66%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.66%) Wireless
4 2 (1.10%) Firewall
4 2 (1.10%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.55%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.55%) Internet
5 1 (0.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.08%) Power BI
2 8 (4.42%) Tableau
3 5 (2.76%) Big Data
3 5 (2.76%) Data Mining
3 5 (2.76%) Hadoop
3 5 (2.76%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.76%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.21%) MySQL
5 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.55%) Metadata
5 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (4.97%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.10%) GitLab
3 1 (0.55%) Git
3 1 (0.55%) JIRA
3 1 (0.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 80 (44.20%) Social Skills
2 56 (30.94%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (28.73%) Finance
4 21 (11.60%) Marketing
5 16 (8.84%) Telecoms
6 15 (8.29%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (7.18%) Retail
8 10 (5.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (3.87%) Aerospace
11 5 (2.76%) Law
11 5 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.21%) General Ledger
12 4 (2.21%) Multimedia
12 4 (2.21%) Publishing
13 3 (1.66%) Electronics
13 3 (1.66%) Legal
13 3 (1.66%) Local Government
14 2 (1.10%) Advertising
14 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 29 (16.02%) Support Engineer
2 19 (10.50%) IT Support
3 13 (7.18%) Senior
3 13 (7.18%) Systems Engineer
4 12 (6.63%) Account Manager
4 12 (6.63%) Linux Engineer
4 12 (6.63%) Linux Support
4 12 (6.63%) Linux Support Engineer
5 11 (6.08%) Developer
5 11 (6.08%) Help Desk Technician
6 10 (5.52%) Coordinator
6 10 (5.52%) IT Engineer
6 10 (5.52%) IT Support Engineer
6 10 (5.52%) Lead
7 9 (4.97%) Analyst
7 9 (4.97%) Principal Engineer
7 9 (4.97%) Principal Systems Engineer
8 8 (4.42%) Client Account Manager
8 8 (4.42%) Financial Controller
8 8 (4.42%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.08%) HTML
2 8 (4.42%) CSS
3 5 (2.76%) .NET
3 5 (2.76%) Play Framework
4 4 (2.21%) REST
4 4 (2.21%) SOAP
5 3 (1.66%) JWT
5 3 (1.66%) MUnit
5 3 (1.66%) OAuth
5 3 (1.66%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.66%) OLE
6 2 (1.10%) EDI
6 2 (1.10%) gRPC
6 2 (1.10%) React
7 1 (0.55%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (0.55%) Node.js
7 1 (0.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.63%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (5.52%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.97%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.97%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.42%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.31%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.76%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.21%) Blog
7 4 (2.21%) IoT
7 4 (2.21%) Podcast
7 4 (2.21%) Social Media
8 3 (1.66%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.66%) Digital Signage
8 3 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.10%) NHS
9 2 (1.10%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.10%) PropTech
9 2 (1.10%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.39%) Windows
2 14 (7.73%) Linux
3 8 (4.42%) CentOS
3 8 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.31%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (15.47%) Continuous Improvement
2 21 (11.60%) Service Delivery
3 19 (10.50%) Agile
3 19 (10.50%) Software Engineering
4 18 (9.94%) Decision-Making
4 18 (9.94%) Validation
5 16 (8.84%) Change Management
6 15 (8.29%) AI
6 15 (8.29%) Collaborative Working
7 14 (7.73%) Project Management
8 13 (7.18%) Computer Science
8 13 (7.18%) Data Protection
8 13 (7.18%) Mentoring
8 13 (7.18%) Process Improvement
9 12 (6.63%) Coaching
9 12 (6.63%) Project Delivery
9 12 (6.63%) Technical Leadership
9 12 (6.63%) Visualisation
10 11 (6.08%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (6.08%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 34 (18.78%) Python
2 14 (7.73%) SQL
3 13 (7.18%) PowerShell
4 11 (6.08%) JavaScript
4 11 (6.08%) PHP
5 10 (5.52%) Perl
6 8 (4.42%) Java
7 7 (3.87%) Scala
8 6 (3.31%) C#
9 5 (2.76%) R
10 3 (1.66%) DataWeave
11 2 (1.10%) Bash
11 2 (1.10%) Go
11 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (20.44%) Degree
2 10 (5.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (4.97%) Chartered Engineer
4 8 (4.42%) ACCA
4 8 (4.42%) CIMA
5 7 (3.87%) A+ Certification
6 6 (3.31%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.76%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.76%) MBA
8 4 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (2.21%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (2.21%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.10%) CISA
9 2 (1.10%) CISSP
10 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.55%) CISM
10 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.94%) GDPR
2 13 (7.18%) SLA
3 11 (6.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.31%) QA
5 5 (2.76%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (2.21%) Data Quality
6 4 (2.21%) ITGC
7 3 (1.66%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (8.84%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.66%) Docker
3 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.21%) Terraform
2 3 (1.66%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.10%) Ansible
3 2 (1.10%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (20.99%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.63%) Sage
3 11 (6.08%) Veeam
4 9 (4.97%) Google
5 6 (3.31%) Adobe
6 5 (2.76%) BT
6 5 (2.76%) Databricks
6 5 (2.76%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.66%) Granicus
7 3 (1.66%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.10%) IBM
8 2 (1.10%) NEC
8 2 (1.10%) OpenText
8 2 (1.10%) Typelevel
9 1 (0.55%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.55%) Cisco
9 1 (0.55%) Foundry
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle
9 1 (0.55%) PeopleSoft
9 1 (0.55%) VMware