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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -13 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 174 240 184
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 10.36% 19.48% 18.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.58% 21.30% 20.29%
Number of salaries quoted 140 132 102
10th Percentile £27,225 £30,125 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% -21.74%
75th Percentile £60,000 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,375 £85,000 £73,250
South East median annual salary £41,000 £51,484 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.36% +2.97% -5.06%

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 1,383 1,127 907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 82.37% 91.48% 90.43%
Number of salaries quoted 797 520 599
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £40,000
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 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £73,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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 +9 38 £60,000 +71.43% 4
Horley +3 20 £60,000 +144.90% 1
Staines -7 7 £50,000 +53.85% 4
Guildford -11 7 £40,000 -27.27% 102
Godstone -2 6 £36,000 -
Reigate -6 6 £37,500 -28.57% 6
Camberley +4 5 £27,300 -65.88% 1
Woking -2 5 £57,500 -28.13% 89
Addlestone - 5 £35,000 - 1
Godalming - 5 £52,500 -
Leatherhead - 3 £55,000 - 4
Weybridge -3 2 £37,500 -16.67% 2
Walton-on-Thames -4 2 - -
Warlingham - 2 £51,250 -
Farnham - 2 £28,750 - 1
Caterham - 2 £51,250 -
Chertsey -1 1 - - 8
Thames Ditton -3 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 11 (6.32%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.87%) IIS
3 3 (1.72%) CMS
4 2 (1.15%) Confluence
4 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.57%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.57%) govService
5 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (13.22%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.72%) Adobe After Effects
4 3 (1.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (1.72%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (1.72%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (5.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.15%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (1.15%) Q-Pulse
2 2 (1.15%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.57%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 34 (19.54%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (9.20%) Azure
3 7 (4.02%) AWS
3 7 (4.02%) Entra ID
3 7 (4.02%) Power Platform
4 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Copilot
4 5 (2.87%) Mimecast
4 5 (2.87%) Snowflake
5 3 (1.72%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 3 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (1.72%) SaaS
6 2 (1.15%) npm
7 1 (0.57%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.57%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.57%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.57%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.57%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.34%) Firewall
2 12 (6.90%) TCP/IP
3 9 (5.17%) DNS
3 9 (5.17%) Wireless
4 7 (4.02%) DHCP
5 5 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.15%) Internet
6 2 (1.15%) LAN
6 2 (1.15%) LTE
6 2 (1.15%) Network Security
6 2 (1.15%) VPN
6 2 (1.15%) VSAT
6 2 (1.15%) WAN
7 1 (0.57%) HTTP
7 1 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.17%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.02%) Power BI
3 6 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.45%) Tableau
4 5 (2.87%) Big Data
4 5 (2.87%) Data Mining
4 5 (2.87%) Hadoop
4 5 (2.87%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.57%) FileMaker
6 1 (0.57%) Power Query
6 1 (0.57%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (4.02%) JIRA
2 5 (2.87%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (1.72%) Git
4 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 81 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 34 (19.54%) Retail
3 30 (17.24%) Finance
4 29 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (13.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.75%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (5.75%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (4.60%) Marketing
8 7 (4.02%) Electronics
8 7 (4.02%) Law
8 7 (4.02%) Legal
9 6 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.30%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.72%) Multimedia
13 2 (1.15%) Local Government
13 2 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.15%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.57%) Police
Job Titles
1 34 (19.54%) IT Support
2 23 (13.22%) Support Engineer
3 18 (10.34%) Analyst
4 16 (9.20%) Project Engineer
5 14 (8.05%) 2nd Line Support
5 14 (8.05%) Senior
5 14 (8.05%) Technical Support
6 12 (6.90%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 11 (6.32%) Senior Manager
8 10 (5.75%) Technical Engineer
8 10 (5.75%) Technical Support Engineer
9 9 (5.17%) IT Engineer
9 9 (5.17%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (4.60%) Lead
10 8 (4.60%) Project Manager
10 8 (4.60%) Technical Manager
11 7 (4.02%) Business Analyst
11 7 (4.02%) IT Manager
11 7 (4.02%) Service Manager
11 7 (4.02%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.75%) HTML
2 7 (4.02%) CSS
3 5 (2.87%) OLE
3 5 (2.87%) Play Framework
4 4 (2.30%) .NET
5 3 (1.72%) CSS3
5 3 (1.72%) HTML5
5 3 (1.72%) JSON
5 3 (1.72%) XML
6 2 (1.15%) EDI
6 2 (1.15%) Jest
6 2 (1.15%) ModSecurity
6 2 (1.15%) React
6 2 (1.15%) RESTful
7 1 (0.57%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.57%) Blazor
7 1 (0.57%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.57%) REST
7 1 (0.57%) Sass
7 1 (0.57%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.22%) Driving Licence
2 22 (12.64%) Onboarding
3 19 (10.92%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.45%) Digital Media
4 6 (3.45%) Digital Signage
5 5 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.72%) Animation
6 3 (1.72%) Motion Graphics
6 3 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.15%) Analogue Electronics
7 2 (1.15%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.15%) NHS
8 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.57%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.57%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.82%) Windows
2 16 (9.20%) Windows Server
3 9 (5.17%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.87%) Linux
5 1 (0.57%) CentOS
5 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 24 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (10.34%) ITIL
4 15 (8.62%) Mentoring
5 14 (8.05%) AI
5 14 (8.05%) Decision-Making
6 13 (7.47%) Analytics
6 13 (7.47%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (7.47%) Process Improvement
6 13 (7.47%) Service Delivery
6 13 (7.47%) Software Engineering
6 13 (7.47%) Visualisation
7 11 (6.32%) Agile
7 11 (6.32%) Coaching
7 11 (6.32%) CRM
7 11 (6.32%) Project Delivery
7 11 (6.32%) Project Management
7 11 (6.32%) Roadmaps
7 11 (6.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (6.32%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.92%) Python
2 15 (8.62%) PowerShell
3 14 (8.05%) SQL
4 6 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.87%) Java
5 5 (2.87%) R
5 5 (2.87%) Scala
6 3 (1.72%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.72%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.15%) C#
8 1 (0.57%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.57%) Perl
8 1 (0.57%) PHP
8 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (27.01%) Degree
2 13 (7.47%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.02%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.45%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.87%) Chartered Engineer
5 5 (2.87%) MBA
6 4 (2.30%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.15%) APMP
7 2 (1.15%) CCNA
7 2 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.15%) JNCIA
7 2 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.57%) HNC
8 1 (0.57%) HND
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.37%) GDPR
2 11 (6.32%) SLA
3 5 (2.87%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (2.87%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.72%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.15%) QA
6 2 (1.15%) WCAG
7 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (15.52%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.32%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.30%) Firmware
5 2 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.57%) Docker
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (6.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.72%) Terraform
3 2 (1.15%) Ansible
4 1 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 50 (28.74%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.34%) NEC
3 13 (7.47%) Veeam
4 12 (6.90%) VMware
5 9 (5.17%) Sage
6 8 (4.60%) Citrix
7 6 (3.45%) Adobe
7 6 (3.45%) Guidewire
8 5 (2.87%) BT
8 5 (2.87%) Databricks
9 4 (2.30%) HubSpot
10 3 (1.72%) Cisco
10 3 (1.72%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.72%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.15%) Anaplan
11 2 (1.15%) Freshdesk
11 2 (1.15%) IBM
11 2 (1.15%) OpenText
12 1 (0.57%) Granicus
12 1 (0.57%) Oracle