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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 6 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 254 170 440
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 11.34% 14.93% 20.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.32% 16.68% 23.13%
Number of salaries quoted 188 135 231
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,043 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.11% -20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -7.50%

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 1,658 1,019 1,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 74.02% 89.46% 86.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,237 666 1,144
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,303 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.61% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,375 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,047
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.09% -9.01%

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 31 July 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 31 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
Guildford 0 31 £42,500 +6.25% 11
Redhill +3 27 £32,000 -54.29% 11
Staines +9 24 £50,000 -16.67% 7
Camberley +3 23 £28,896 -17.44% 5
Reigate -3 19 £41,585 +3.96%
Godalming +1 11 £30,000 -42.86% 4
Leatherhead -3 11 £42,500 -22.73% 2
Woking -25 9 £60,000 +20.00% 11
Epsom -3 8 £66,250 +76.67% 1
Farnham - 5 £42,500 - 4
Egham - 5 £45,000 - 2
Weybridge -1 4 £40,000 -15.79% 2
Caterham +2 3 - -
Horley 0 3 £55,000 +111.54%
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Warlingham - 3 - -
Dorking +6 2 £26,000 - 1
Chertsey - 2 £75,000 - 1
Cobham - 2 - -
Haslemere - 2 £32,500 -
Tadworth - 2 - -
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 9 (3.54%) CMS
2 4 (1.57%) WordPress
3 3 (1.18%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 30 (11.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.12%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.97%) Photoshop
4 4 (1.57%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.79%) Academy Housing
3 1 (0.39%) HFM
3 1 (0.39%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (14.17%) Azure
2 28 (11.02%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (9.84%) AWS
4 18 (7.09%) SaaS
5 12 (4.72%) Entra ID
6 10 (3.94%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.15%) GCP
8 7 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.36%) Google Workspace
10 5 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.57%) Canva
11 4 (1.57%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (0.79%) Anthropic Claude
13 2 (0.79%) ChatGPT
13 2 (0.79%) dbt
13 2 (0.79%) GitHub Copilot
13 2 (0.79%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.45%) Firewall
2 21 (8.27%) TCP/IP
3 13 (5.12%) Wireless
4 11 (4.33%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (3.94%) LAN
5 10 (3.94%) WAN
6 8 (3.15%) DNS
6 8 (3.15%) LTE
7 7 (2.76%) Internet
8 5 (1.97%) Broadband
8 5 (1.97%) VSAT
9 4 (1.57%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (1.57%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (1.57%) DHCP
9 4 (1.57%) HTTP
9 4 (1.57%) VoIP
10 3 (1.18%) Hyperconnected
11 2 (0.79%) Network Security
11 2 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
11 2 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.51%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.54%) MySQL
3 8 (3.15%) Power BI
4 4 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.57%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (1.18%) Tableau
6 2 (0.79%) Metadata
6 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.39%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 11 (4.33%) Git
1 11 (4.33%) JIRA
2 7 (2.76%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.18%) Selenium
3 3 (1.18%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.79%) GitLab
4 2 (0.79%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.39%) Postman
General
1 108 (42.52%) Social Skills
2 68 (26.77%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (21.26%) Finance
4 19 (7.48%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (6.30%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (5.91%) Retail
7 14 (5.51%) Telecoms
8 12 (4.72%) Local Government
8 12 (4.72%) Marketing
9 11 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (3.94%) Aerospace
10 10 (3.94%) Electronics
11 9 (3.54%) Law
12 8 (3.15%) Public Sector
13 7 (2.76%) Publishing
14 5 (1.97%) Advertising
14 5 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.57%) General Ledger
15 4 (1.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (11.81%) Analyst
1 30 (11.81%) Developer
2 29 (11.42%) Support Engineer
3 28 (11.02%) IT Support
4 27 (10.63%) Senior
5 19 (7.48%) IT Engineer
6 17 (6.69%) Consultant
6 17 (6.69%) IT Support Engineer
7 13 (5.12%) Systems Engineer
8 12 (4.72%) IT Technician
9 11 (4.33%) Management Consultant
9 11 (4.33%) Programme Management Office Consultant
9 11 (4.33%) Programme Office Consultant
10 10 (3.94%) Security Analyst
11 9 (3.54%) 1st Line Support
11 9 (3.54%) Coordinator
11 9 (3.54%) Senior Developer
12 8 (3.15%) .NET Developer
12 8 (3.15%) Support Analyst
12 8 (3.15%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.12%) .NET
2 12 (4.72%) CSS
2 12 (4.72%) HTML
2 12 (4.72%) React
3 9 (3.54%) .NET Core
3 9 (3.54%) REST
4 7 (2.76%) ASP.NET
5 6 (2.36%) .NET Framework
5 6 (2.36%) AngularJS
5 6 (2.36%) Entity Framework
6 5 (1.97%) Laravel
6 5 (1.97%) SOAP
7 4 (1.57%) FastAPI
7 4 (1.57%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (1.57%) Vue
7 4 (1.57%) WPF
8 3 (1.18%) Blazor
8 3 (1.18%) Electron
8 3 (1.18%) JWT
8 3 (1.18%) MUnit
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.48%) Driving Licence
1 19 (7.48%) Onboarding
2 17 (6.69%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.36%) Security Posture
5 5 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.57%) Blog
6 4 (1.57%) IoT
6 4 (1.57%) Podcast
6 4 (1.57%) Social Media
7 3 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.18%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.18%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (0.79%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.79%) Culture of Ownership
8 2 (0.79%) Housing Association
8 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.79%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.79%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.20%) Windows
2 16 (6.30%) Linux
3 14 (5.51%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.54%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.57%) CentOS
5 4 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
2 32 (12.60%) Decision-Making
3 31 (12.20%) Agile
4 29 (11.42%) AI
4 29 (11.42%) Collaborative Working
5 28 (11.02%) Mentoring
6 25 (9.84%) Customer Service
7 24 (9.45%) Validation
8 22 (8.66%) Cybersecurity
9 21 (8.27%) CI/CD
10 19 (7.48%) Project Delivery
10 19 (7.48%) Project Management
10 19 (7.48%) Software Engineering
11 18 (7.09%) Business Continuity
11 18 (7.09%) Service Delivery
12 17 (6.69%) Customer Experience
13 16 (6.30%) DevOps
13 16 (6.30%) ITIL
13 16 (6.30%) Vulnerability Management
14 15 (5.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (12.60%) Python
2 22 (8.66%) SQL
3 21 (8.27%) JavaScript
4 14 (5.51%) C#
4 14 (5.51%) TypeScript
5 11 (4.33%) PHP
6 10 (3.94%) Perl
7 9 (3.54%) Java
7 9 (3.54%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.36%) Bash
9 4 (1.57%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.18%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.39%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.39%) C++
11 1 (0.39%) Go
11 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.39%) Scala
11 1 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 44 (17.32%) Degree
2 20 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.48%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.54%) ACCA
4 9 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (3.54%) CIMA
5 7 (2.76%) Chartered Engineer
5 7 (2.76%) CISSP
5 7 (2.76%) HNC
6 6 (2.36%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.36%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.97%) HND
7 5 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.18%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.18%) CCNA
9 3 (1.18%) CEH
9 3 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.18%) CISM
9 3 (1.18%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.45%) QA
2 13 (5.12%) GDPR
3 12 (4.72%) SLA
4 11 (4.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.33%) PMO
5 8 (3.15%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.57%) ITGC
7 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.18%) NIST
7 3 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (1.18%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.79%) FATCA
9 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 28 (11.02%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.57%) Docker
3 2 (0.79%) Firmware
3 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (6.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.54%) Terraform
3 8 (3.15%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.79%) Ansible
4 2 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 58 (22.83%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.12%) Google
3 10 (3.94%) Sage
4 9 (3.54%) Cisco
4 9 (3.54%) Qualys
5 7 (2.76%) Palo Alto
6 6 (2.36%) Meraki
6 6 (2.36%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.36%) Ubiquiti
6 6 (2.36%) Veeam
7 4 (1.57%) Aruba
8 3 (1.18%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.18%) New Relic
8 3 (1.18%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.18%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.18%) Splunk
8 3 (1.18%) Zerto
9 2 (0.79%) Citrix
9 2 (0.79%) Oracle
9 2 (0.79%) VMware