Problem-Solving Jobs in Surrey

Problem Solving
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 3 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 0
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 261 573 299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 21.46% 21.24% 16.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.14% 24.20% 17.83%
Number of salaries quoted 128 290 168
10th Percentile £29,700 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,474 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,374 £49,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -10.91% +6.80%
75th Percentile £64,063 £62,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £84,875 £85,000 £91,500
South East median annual salary £42,799 £45,000 £51,350
% change year-on-year -4.89% -12.37% +2.70%

All Process and 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 1,128 2,368 1,677
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 92.76% 87.77% 93.69%
Number of salaries quoted 594 1,488 1,041
10th Percentile £29,825 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,214 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +8.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,875 £82,500 £90,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Surrey

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Surrey.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Surrey

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Surrey over the 6 months to 30 June 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 30 June 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 -6 25 £70,000 +55.56% 26
Camberley 0 18 £35,000 +18.64% 14
Woking +11 15 £50,000 -37.50% 90
Epsom -13 15 £37,500 -6.25% 6
Reigate +12 11 £40,000 -8.93% 13
Staines +7 10 £60,000 +34.83% 14
Guildford -12 9 £40,000 -11.11% 121
Sunbury-on-Thames +11 6 - - 1
Weybridge +10 6 £47,500 +43.94% 7
Esher +3 6 £65,000 - 7
Horley 0 6 £26,000 +13.04% 1
Leatherhead -4 6 £55,000 -8.33% 20
Caterham -4 6 £32,500 -4.41% 1
Cobham - 6 - - 2
East Molesey - 6 - - 1
Addlestone +10 4 - -
Egham +3 4 - - 11
Walton-on-Thames +3 4 - -
Banstead - 4 - -
Dorking -3 3 £70,000 +12.00% 2
Whyteleafe +2 2 - -
Warlingham - 2 - -
Thames Ditton - 2 - -
Godalming +2 1 £55,000 - 8
Windlesham -1 1 £77,500 +171.93%
Tadworth -3 1 - - 4
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (4.60%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 31 (11.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.77%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (0.77%) InDesign
3 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.77%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.38%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 45 (17.24%) Azure
2 28 (10.73%) Power Platform
3 24 (9.20%) AWS
4 20 (7.66%) GCP
5 19 (7.28%) Serverless
6 17 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (3.45%) SaaS
9 6 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.15%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (0.77%) Azure Event Grid
12 2 (0.77%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.77%) Figma
12 2 (0.77%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.77%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.77%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 95 (36.40%) Broadband
2 12 (4.60%) Firewall
3 6 (2.30%) NAS
3 6 (2.30%) SAN
3 6 (2.30%) VPN
4 5 (1.92%) VLAN
5 2 (0.77%) DNS
5 2 (0.77%) LTE
5 2 (0.77%) Network Security
6 1 (0.38%) 3G
6 1 (0.38%) DHCP
6 1 (0.38%) GPRS
6 1 (0.38%) Internet
6 1 (0.38%) Intranet
6 1 (0.38%) LAN
6 1 (0.38%) Modbus
6 1 (0.38%) VSAT
6 1 (0.38%) WAN
6 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.96%) Power BI
2 17 (6.51%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (1.92%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.53%) Metadata
5 4 (1.53%) Metadata Repository
5 4 (1.53%) MySQL
6 2 (0.77%) Big Data
6 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.77%) Pentaho
6 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.77%) Redis
6 2 (0.77%) Spark SQL
6 2 (0.77%) Tableau
6 2 (0.77%) Triplestore
7 1 (0.38%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.38%) Parquet
7 1 (0.38%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 14 (5.36%) JIRA
2 6 (2.30%) Git
3 3 (1.15%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.77%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.38%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.38%) ESLint
5 1 (0.38%) Gatling
5 1 (0.38%) JMeter
5 1 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 174 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 51 (19.54%) Finance
3 45 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.51%) Games
5 13 (4.98%) Retail
6 12 (4.60%) Billing
7 11 (4.21%) Electronics
8 9 (3.45%) Multimedia
8 9 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.07%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.68%) Front Office
11 6 (2.30%) Marketing
12 5 (1.92%) Law
12 5 (1.92%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.15%) Local Government
15 2 (0.77%) Automotive
15 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 57 (21.84%) Senior
2 44 (16.86%) Analyst
3 41 (15.71%) Lead
4 23 (8.81%) Support Engineer
5 22 (8.43%) Systems Engineer
6 21 (8.05%) IT Engineer
7 20 (7.66%) IT Support
7 20 (7.66%) IT Support Engineer
8 18 (6.90%) Financial Analyst
9 17 (6.51%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 15 (5.75%) Business Analyst
10 15 (5.75%) Support Analyst
11 13 (4.98%) Finance Business Analyst
12 12 (4.60%) Engineering Manager
12 12 (4.60%) Software Engineer
13 9 (3.45%) Electronics Engineer
13 9 (3.45%) Senior Electronics Engineer
13 9 (3.45%) Team Leader
13 9 (3.45%) Technical Support
14 7 (2.68%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.51%) GraphQL
1 17 (6.51%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 17 (6.51%) WebGL
2 6 (2.30%) .NET
3 5 (1.92%) XML
4 3 (1.15%) JSON
4 3 (1.15%) Kafka
4 3 (1.15%) Pandas
4 3 (1.15%) React
5 2 (0.77%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.77%) Apache Jena
5 2 (0.77%) HTML
5 2 (0.77%) MSMQ
5 2 (0.77%) PySpark
5 2 (0.77%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (0.77%) REST
6 1 (0.38%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.38%) ADO.NET
6 1 (0.38%) Jest
6 1 (0.38%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.26%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (7.28%) Animation
3 16 (6.13%) Driving Licence
4 10 (3.83%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.45%) VHDL
6 6 (2.30%) Clustering
7 2 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.77%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.77%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.77%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.77%) Video Editing
8 1 (0.38%) Blog
8 1 (0.38%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.38%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.38%) IoT
8 1 (0.38%) NB-IoT
8 1 (0.38%) Podcast
8 1 (0.38%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.34%) Windows
2 13 (4.98%) Unix
3 8 (3.07%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.07%) Mac OS
4 7 (2.68%) Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (34.48%) Mentoring
2 84 (32.18%) Computer Science
3 77 (29.50%) Roadmaps
4 66 (25.29%) High Availability
5 62 (23.75%) Product Management
6 60 (22.99%) Broadcast Engineering
7 37 (14.18%) Agile
8 32 (12.26%) Customer Service
9 30 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (10.73%) Storytelling
12 25 (9.58%) CI/CD
13 21 (8.05%) Data Science
13 21 (8.05%) Machine Learning
14 20 (7.66%) Artificial Intelligence
14 20 (7.66%) Performance Metrics
15 19 (7.28%) Creative Thinking
15 19 (7.28%) Decision-Making
15 19 (7.28%) Prototyping
16 18 (6.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (14.56%) SQL
2 32 (12.26%) Python
3 20 (7.66%) TypeScript
4 17 (6.51%) HLSL
5 14 (5.36%) C#
6 9 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.30%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.30%) Perl
8 5 (1.92%) Java
9 4 (1.53%) Bash
9 4 (1.53%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.77%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.77%) Scala
11 2 (0.77%) SPARQL
11 2 (0.77%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.38%) C++
12 1 (0.38%) Fortran
12 1 (0.38%) Go
12 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 109 (41.76%) Degree
2 64 (24.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (6.90%) PhD
4 11 (4.21%) Security Cleared
5 9 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.68%) ACCA
6 7 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.68%) CIMA
7 6 (2.30%) DBS Check
7 6 (2.30%) HND
8 4 (1.53%) HNC
9 2 (0.77%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.77%) CCNA
9 2 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.77%) JNCIA
9 2 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.77%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.38%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.98%) GDPR
2 6 (2.30%) QA
3 4 (1.53%) SLA
4 2 (0.77%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.77%) Dublin Core
5 1 (0.38%) COBIT
5 1 (0.38%) GRC
5 1 (0.38%) NCSC
5 1 (0.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (3.83%) Active Directory
1 10 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (3.45%) Firmware
3 4 (1.53%) Docker
3 4 (1.53%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (2.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 53 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.21%) Anaplan
2 11 (4.21%) VMware
3 9 (3.45%) Oracle
4 7 (2.68%) Guidewire
5 6 (2.30%) Google
6 5 (1.92%) CheckPoint
6 5 (1.92%) HubSpot
6 5 (1.92%) Sage
7 4 (1.53%) Citrix
7 4 (1.53%) Dell
7 4 (1.53%) Veeam
8 2 (0.77%) Adobe
8 2 (0.77%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.77%) Informatica
8 2 (0.77%) SAP
8 2 (0.77%) Talend
9 1 (0.38%) Cisco
9 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow