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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 5 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 300 168 363
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 11.86% 14.89% 22.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.24% 16.54% 25.47%
Number of salaries quoted 210 138 162
10th Percentile £27,950 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,500 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £40,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £53,438 £60,000 £68,438
90th Percentile £68,875 £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £41,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.75% -20.00% -

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 1,969 1,016 1,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 77.86% 90.07% 86.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,436 684 703
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £72,813 £64,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,375 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +3 44 £32,000 -59.75% 5
Guildford -4 32 £42,500 +6.25% 15
Camberley +4 26 £28,686 -28.29% 1
Reigate -4 21 £41,585 +10.89% 2
Staines - 19 £40,000 - 2
Godalming +1 18 £33,500 -36.19% 1
Leatherhead -5 17 £35,000 -36.36% 2
Epsom +7 13 £65,000 +73.33% 2
Woking -17 13 £64,000 +11.30% 3
Egham - 6 £45,000 -
Lingfield - 4 £27,000 -
Farnham - 3 £42,500 -
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Shepperton - 3 £52,500 -
Dorking - 2 £26,000 - 1
Haslemere - 2 £32,500 -
Windlesham - 2 - -
Tadworth - 2 - - 2
Weybridge -7 1 £27,500 -42.11% 2
Chertsey - 1 - - 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 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.00%) CMS
2 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.67%) Confluence
3 2 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 25 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.67%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.67%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.33%) CATIA
5 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.67%) Academy Housing
2 2 (0.67%) SAP SD
2 2 (0.67%) Siebel CRM
2 2 (0.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 48 (16.00%) Azure
2 46 (15.33%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (10.67%) AWS
4 16 (5.33%) Entra ID
5 15 (5.00%) SaaS
6 7 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (2.00%) GCP
7 6 (2.00%) GitHub
8 5 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.67%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.33%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.33%) ChatGPT
9 4 (1.33%) Google Gemini
10 3 (1.00%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.00%) dbt
10 3 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.00%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 32 (10.67%) Firewall
2 23 (7.67%) TCP/IP
3 13 (4.33%) LAN
4 12 (4.00%) Wireless
5 11 (3.67%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (3.33%) WAN
7 9 (3.00%) DNS
8 8 (2.67%) LTE
8 8 (2.67%) VPN
9 7 (2.33%) Internet
10 5 (1.67%) VSAT
11 4 (1.33%) Asterisk PBX
11 4 (1.33%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (1.33%) VoIP
12 3 (1.00%) Hyperconnected
13 2 (0.67%) Broadband
13 2 (0.67%) DHCP
13 2 (0.67%) Network Security
14 1 (0.33%) 4G
14 1 (0.33%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.67%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.33%) MySQL
3 9 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.00%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.00%) Power BI
5 3 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.67%) Metadata
6 2 (0.67%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 16 (5.33%) Git
2 12 (4.00%) JIRA
3 5 (1.67%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (1.00%) Selenium
4 3 (1.00%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.67%) GitLab
5 2 (0.67%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.33%) MLflow
6 1 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 135 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 89 (29.67%) Analytical Skills
3 54 (18.00%) Finance
4 38 (12.67%) Organisational Skills
5 25 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 21 (7.00%) Retail
7 20 (6.67%) Public Sector
8 17 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (5.33%) Electronics
9 16 (5.33%) Manufacturing
10 12 (4.00%) Aerospace
10 12 (4.00%) Local Government
11 10 (3.33%) Law
12 9 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (3.00%) Marketing
13 8 (2.67%) Telecoms
14 7 (2.33%) Advertising
14 7 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (2.00%) Automotive
16 4 (1.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 43 (14.33%) Analyst
2 33 (11.00%) Senior
3 32 (10.67%) Developer
4 25 (8.33%) 1st Line Support
5 23 (7.67%) IT Support
6 19 (6.33%) Consultant
6 19 (6.33%) Support Analyst
7 16 (5.33%) Applications Support
7 16 (5.33%) Support Engineer
8 14 (4.67%) 2nd Line Support
8 14 (4.67%) Senior Developer
9 13 (4.33%) IT Engineer
10 12 (4.00%) Security Analyst
10 12 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
11 11 (3.67%) Applications Support Analyst
11 11 (3.67%) IT Support Engineer
11 11 (3.67%) IT Technician
11 11 (3.67%) Management Consultant
11 11 (3.67%) Programme Management Office Consultant
11 11 (3.67%) Programme Office Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.33%) React
2 15 (5.00%) .NET
2 15 (5.00%) REST
3 14 (4.67%) Terraform
4 13 (4.33%) .NET Core
5 12 (4.00%) CSS
5 12 (4.00%) HTML
6 10 (3.33%) .NET Framework
6 10 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 10 (3.33%) Entity Framework
6 10 (3.33%) SOAP
7 7 (2.33%) ASP.NET
8 5 (1.67%) Laravel
9 4 (1.33%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.33%) Gherkin
9 4 (1.33%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (1.33%) Vue
9 4 (1.33%) WPF
10 3 (1.00%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (1.00%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.67%) Management Information System
2 23 (7.67%) Onboarding
3 21 (7.00%) Driving Licence
4 12 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.00%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.00%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.00%) Robotics
9 3 (1.00%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.67%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (0.67%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.67%) Culture of Ownership
10 2 (0.67%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 46 (15.33%) Windows
2 23 (7.67%) Windows Server
3 12 (4.00%) Linux
4 5 (1.67%) macOS
5 3 (1.00%) Android
5 3 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 50 (16.67%) Agile
3 49 (16.33%) Customer Service
4 39 (13.00%) Decision-Making
5 35 (11.67%) Collaborative Working
6 32 (10.67%) AI
7 29 (9.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 28 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
9 27 (9.00%) CI/CD
10 26 (8.67%) CRM
10 26 (8.67%) Validation
11 25 (8.33%) Customer Experience
12 24 (8.00%) Mentoring
13 23 (7.67%) Software Engineering
14 21 (7.00%) DevOps
14 21 (7.00%) Project Management
15 20 (6.67%) ERP
15 20 (6.67%) Information Security
16 19 (6.33%) ITIL
17 18 (6.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 26 (8.67%) SQL
2 23 (7.67%) JavaScript
2 23 (7.67%) Python
3 16 (5.33%) C#
3 16 (5.33%) TypeScript
4 8 (2.67%) Java
4 8 (2.67%) Ruby
5 7 (2.33%) PHP
6 6 (2.00%) Bash
6 6 (2.00%) Perl
7 5 (1.67%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.33%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.67%) Assembly Language
9 2 (0.67%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.67%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 45 (15.00%) Degree
2 28 (9.33%) Security Cleared
3 27 (9.00%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.67%) DBS Check
5 9 (3.00%) HNC
6 8 (2.67%) CSPO
7 7 (2.33%) HND
8 6 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.00%) CISSP
8 6 (2.00%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.67%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (1.33%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.00%) CCNA
11 3 (1.00%) CEH
11 3 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.00%) CISM
11 3 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.67%) GDPR
2 27 (9.00%) QA
3 17 (5.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.67%) PMO
5 6 (2.00%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.67%) SLA
6 5 (1.67%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.33%) NIST
8 3 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.67%) FATCA
9 2 (0.67%) HAZOP
9 2 (0.67%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.33%) GRC
10 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 28 (9.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.67%) Docker
2 5 (1.67%) Hyper-V
2 5 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (8.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.67%) Ansible
4 3 (1.00%) Grafana
4 3 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.67%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.33%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 88 (29.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.33%) Google
3 9 (3.00%) Cisco
3 9 (3.00%) Qualys
4 7 (2.33%) Palo Alto
5 6 (2.00%) Meraki
5 6 (2.00%) SAP
5 6 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.00%) Ubiquiti
6 5 (1.67%) Citrix
6 5 (1.67%) Veeam
6 5 (1.67%) VMware
7 4 (1.33%) Aruba
7 4 (1.33%) Workday
8 3 (1.00%) EMC
8 3 (1.00%) New Relic
8 3 (1.00%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.00%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.00%) Splunk
8 3 (1.00%) Zerto