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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 6 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 257 173 409
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 11.31% 14.95% 19.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.34% 16.76% 23.00%
Number of salaries quoted 185 139 217
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £39,573
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% -4.76%
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% -7.77%

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 1,675 1,032 1,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 73.72% 89.20% 86.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,238 677 1,061
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £35,000 £35,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 0 29 £32,000 -54.29% 9
Guildford -5 29 £55,000 +37.50% 14
Staines +8 25 £50,000 -11.28% 12
Camberley +3 23 £28,896 -17.44% 5
Reigate -6 19 £41,585 +3.96% 3
Godalming +2 14 £30,000 -42.86% 4
Leatherhead -3 12 £42,500 -22.73% 5
Epsom -1 8 £66,250 +76.67% 1
Woking -22 8 £61,500 +40.57% 11
Farnham - 5 £42,500 - 4
Egham - 5 £45,000 - 2
Horley -1 3 £55,000 +111.54% 1
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Dorking +6 2 £26,000 -
Caterham +1 2 - -
Chertsey - 2 £75,000 - 2
Cobham - 2 - -
Haslemere - 2 £32,500 -
Tadworth - 2 - - 1
Warlingham - 2 - -
Weybridge -4 1 £40,000 -15.79% 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 (3.50%) CMS
2 4 (1.56%) WordPress
3 3 (1.17%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.39%) Confluence
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 31 (12.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.95%) Photoshop
4 4 (1.56%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.39%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Academy Housing
2 2 (0.78%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.39%) HFM
3 1 (0.39%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (14.40%) Azure
2 28 (10.89%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (10.12%) AWS
4 18 (7.00%) SaaS
5 12 (4.67%) Entra ID
6 10 (3.89%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.11%) GCP
8 5 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.56%) Canva
9 4 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.17%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.78%) ChatGPT
11 2 (0.78%) dbt
11 2 (0.78%) GitHub
11 2 (0.78%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (0.78%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.73%) Firewall
2 21 (8.17%) TCP/IP
3 13 (5.06%) Wireless
4 11 (4.28%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (3.89%) LAN
5 10 (3.89%) WAN
6 8 (3.11%) DNS
6 8 (3.11%) LTE
7 7 (2.72%) Internet
8 5 (1.95%) Broadband
8 5 (1.95%) VSAT
9 4 (1.56%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (1.56%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (1.56%) DHCP
9 4 (1.56%) HTTP
9 4 (1.56%) VoIP
10 3 (1.17%) Hyperconnected
11 2 (0.78%) Network Security
11 2 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
11 2 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.23%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.28%) MySQL
3 8 (3.11%) Power BI
4 7 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.72%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.17%) Tableau
7 2 (0.78%) Metadata
7 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.39%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 14 (5.45%) Git
2 11 (4.28%) JIRA
3 7 (2.72%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (1.17%) Selenium
4 3 (1.17%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.78%) GitLab
5 2 (0.78%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.39%) Postman
General
1 111 (43.19%) Social Skills
2 71 (27.63%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (20.23%) Finance
4 20 (7.78%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (7.39%) Influencing Skills
6 16 (6.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (5.45%) Retail
8 12 (4.67%) Local Government
8 12 (4.67%) Public Sector
9 11 (4.28%) Electronics
9 11 (4.28%) Law
9 11 (4.28%) Telecoms
10 10 (3.89%) Aerospace
11 9 (3.50%) Marketing
12 7 (2.72%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.72%) Publishing
13 6 (2.33%) Advertising
14 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.56%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 33 (12.84%) Developer
2 30 (11.67%) Analyst
2 30 (11.67%) Senior
3 26 (10.12%) IT Support
3 26 (10.12%) Support Engineer
4 18 (7.00%) Consultant
5 17 (6.61%) IT Engineer
6 15 (5.84%) IT Support Engineer
7 13 (5.06%) Systems Engineer
8 12 (4.67%) IT Technician
8 12 (4.67%) Senior Developer
9 11 (4.28%) Management Consultant
9 11 (4.28%) Programme Management Office Consultant
9 11 (4.28%) Programme Office Consultant
10 10 (3.89%) .NET Developer
10 10 (3.89%) 1st Line Support
10 10 (3.89%) Security Analyst
11 9 (3.50%) Coordinator
12 8 (3.11%) Support Analyst
12 8 (3.11%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.84%) .NET
1 15 (5.84%) React
2 14 (5.45%) CSS
2 14 (5.45%) HTML
3 12 (4.67%) .NET Core
3 12 (4.67%) REST
4 9 (3.50%) .NET Framework
4 9 (3.50%) AngularJS
4 9 (3.50%) Entity Framework
5 8 (3.11%) SOAP
6 7 (2.72%) ASP.NET
7 5 (1.95%) Laravel
8 4 (1.56%) FastAPI
8 4 (1.56%) Tailwind CSS
8 4 (1.56%) Vue
8 4 (1.56%) WPF
9 3 (1.17%) Blazor
9 3 (1.17%) Electron
9 3 (1.17%) JWT
9 3 (1.17%) MUnit
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.17%) Onboarding
2 20 (7.78%) Driving Licence
3 17 (6.61%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.33%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.56%) Blog
7 4 (1.56%) IoT
7 4 (1.56%) Podcast
7 4 (1.56%) Social Media
8 3 (1.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.17%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.17%) Web Conferencing
9 2 (0.78%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.78%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.78%) Culture of Ownership
9 2 (0.78%) Housing Association
9 2 (0.78%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.67%) Windows
2 16 (6.23%) Linux
3 15 (5.84%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.33%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.56%) CentOS
5 4 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (15.95%) Continuous Improvement
2 38 (14.79%) Agile
3 34 (13.23%) Decision-Making
4 29 (11.28%) AI
5 27 (10.51%) Collaborative Working
5 27 (10.51%) Customer Service
6 25 (9.73%) Mentoring
6 25 (9.73%) Validation
7 23 (8.95%) Cybersecurity
8 22 (8.56%) CI/CD
8 22 (8.56%) Software Engineering
9 19 (7.39%) Project Management
9 19 (7.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (7.00%) Business Continuity
11 17 (6.61%) Customer Experience
12 16 (6.23%) DevOps
12 16 (6.23%) ITIL
12 16 (6.23%) Project Delivery
12 16 (6.23%) Service Delivery
12 16 (6.23%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.67%) Python
2 23 (8.95%) JavaScript
3 21 (8.17%) SQL
4 16 (6.23%) C#
5 14 (5.45%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.28%) PHP
7 10 (3.89%) Perl
8 9 (3.50%) Java
9 7 (2.72%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.33%) Bash
11 4 (1.56%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.17%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.78%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.39%) C++
14 1 (0.39%) Go
14 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.39%) Ruby
14 1 (0.39%) Scala
14 1 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 44 (17.12%) Degree
2 25 (9.73%) Security Cleared
3 24 (9.34%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.89%) ACCA
4 10 (3.89%) CIMA
5 9 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.72%) Chartered Engineer
6 7 (2.72%) CISSP
6 7 (2.72%) DBS Check
6 7 (2.72%) HNC
7 5 (1.95%) HND
7 5 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.95%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.17%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.17%) CISM
9 3 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.17%) CSPO
9 3 (1.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.12%) QA
2 14 (5.45%) GDPR
3 11 (4.28%) PMO
3 11 (4.28%) SLA
4 10 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (3.11%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.17%) ITGC
6 3 (1.17%) NIST
6 3 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.17%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.78%) FATCA
8 1 (0.39%) GRC
8 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 25 (9.73%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.56%) Docker
3 3 (1.17%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (6.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.50%) Terraform
3 8 (3.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.78%) Ansible
4 2 (0.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 63 (24.51%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.89%) Google
2 10 (3.89%) Sage
3 9 (3.50%) Cisco
3 9 (3.50%) Qualys
4 7 (2.72%) Palo Alto
5 6 (2.33%) Meraki
5 6 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.33%) Ubiquiti
6 5 (1.95%) Veeam
7 4 (1.56%) Aruba
8 3 (1.17%) Citrix
8 3 (1.17%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.17%) New Relic
8 3 (1.17%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.17%) Splunk
8 3 (1.17%) VMware
8 3 (1.17%) Zerto
9 2 (0.78%) Oracle
9 2 (0.78%) Salesforce