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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 4 4
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 198 184 388
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 10.23% 18.38% 20.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.98% 19.85% 22.80%
Number of salaries quoted 154 119 231
10th Percentile £30,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -25.00%
75th Percentile £58,266 £69,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £66,750 £84,000 £76,250
South East median annual salary £43,500 £50,967 £45,000
% change year-on-year -14.65% +13.26% -14.29%

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 1,525 927 1,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 78.77% 92.61% 88.92%
Number of salaries quoted 907 476 1,200
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,875 £78,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +6 28 £35,000 -30.00% 4
Staines +1 24 £50,000 +53.85% 3
Guildford -12 14 £40,000 -30.43% 12
Horley +2 13 £55,000 +124.49% 2
Weybridge - 10 £40,000 - 1
Woking -10 9 £60,000 +2.56% 6
Reigate -5 8 £37,500 -34.78% 2
Caterham 0 5 £51,250 +57.69% 1
Addlestone - 5 £35,000 -
Godstone - 5 £36,000 -
Warlingham - 5 £51,250 -
Camberley -3 4 £27,300 -22.00% 5
Farnham - 3 £28,750 -
Godalming 0 2 £30,000 -45.45% 2
Chertsey -1 2 £55,000 +69.23%
Cobham - 2 - - 1
Walton-on-Thames - 2 - -
Epsom +6 1 £57,500 -4.17% 4
Thames Ditton -3 1 - -
Leatherhead -6 1 £50,000 -13.04% 5
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 13 (6.57%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.03%) CMS
3 5 (2.53%) IIS
4 4 (2.02%) WordPress
5 3 (1.52%) govService
5 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.51%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (10.61%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (3.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.02%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (2.02%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.02%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.01%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.01%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (1.01%) Q-Pulse
3 2 (1.01%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.51%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 27 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (6.57%) Mimecast
3 12 (6.06%) SaaS
4 11 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.05%) Azure
6 8 (4.04%) AWS
6 8 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.03%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.03%) Google Workspace
8 5 (2.53%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.02%) Canva
10 3 (1.52%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 3 (1.52%) Figma
11 2 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.01%) GCP
11 2 (1.01%) npm
12 1 (0.51%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.51%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.51%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.51%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.58%) DNS
2 12 (6.06%) Firewall
2 12 (6.06%) TCP/IP
3 8 (4.04%) Wireless
4 7 (3.54%) DHCP
4 7 (3.54%) HTTP
5 5 (2.53%) Broadband
6 2 (1.01%) LAN
6 2 (1.01%) VPN
6 2 (1.01%) WAN
7 1 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.51%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.56%) Power BI
2 8 (4.04%) Tableau
3 7 (3.54%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.03%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.53%) Big Data
5 5 (2.53%) Data Mining
5 5 (2.53%) Hadoop
5 5 (2.53%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.02%) MySQL
7 1 (0.51%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (3.54%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (1.52%) Git
3 1 (0.51%) JIRA
3 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 91 (45.96%) Social Skills
2 54 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (21.21%) Finance
4 36 (18.18%) Retail
5 23 (11.62%) Marketing
6 14 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (7.07%) Telecoms
7 13 (6.57%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (5.05%) Law
8 10 (5.05%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (3.03%) Electronics
10 5 (2.53%) Legal
10 5 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.02%) General Ledger
11 4 (2.02%) Local Government
11 4 (2.02%) Multimedia
12 3 (1.52%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.52%) Publishing
13 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (19.19%) Support Engineer
2 34 (17.17%) IT Support
3 14 (7.07%) IT Engineer
3 14 (7.07%) IT Support Engineer
4 13 (6.57%) Help Desk Technician
5 12 (6.06%) Account Manager
5 12 (6.06%) Analyst
5 12 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
5 12 (6.06%) Linux Support
5 12 (6.06%) Linux Support Engineer
5 12 (6.06%) Senior
5 12 (6.06%) Technical Support
6 11 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
7 9 (4.55%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 9 (4.55%) Developer
7 9 (4.55%) Lead
8 8 (4.04%) Client Account Manager
8 8 (4.04%) Senior Manager
8 8 (4.04%) Systems Engineer
8 8 (4.04%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.57%) HTML
2 10 (5.05%) CSS
3 7 (3.54%) OLE
4 5 (2.53%) .NET
4 5 (2.53%) Play Framework
5 3 (1.52%) CSS3
5 3 (1.52%) HTML5
6 2 (1.01%) EDI
6 2 (1.01%) Jest
6 2 (1.01%) React
6 2 (1.01%) RESTful
7 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.51%) gRPC
7 1 (0.51%) JWT
7 1 (0.51%) LangChain
7 1 (0.51%) LangGraph
7 1 (0.51%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.51%) MUnit
7 1 (0.51%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.51%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.60%) Driving Licence
1 19 (9.60%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (7.58%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.05%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.02%) Blog
5 4 (2.02%) IoT
5 4 (2.02%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.02%) Podcast
5 4 (2.02%) Social Media
6 3 (1.52%) Digital Media
6 3 (1.52%) Digital Signage
6 3 (1.52%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.01%) NHS
8 1 (0.51%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.67%) Windows
2 13 (6.57%) Linux
2 13 (6.57%) Windows Server
3 9 (4.55%) Windows 10
4 7 (3.54%) CentOS
4 7 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.03%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
2 23 (11.62%) Service Delivery
3 19 (9.60%) Customer Service
4 18 (9.09%) Process Improvement
4 18 (9.09%) Project Management
5 16 (8.08%) Agile
6 15 (7.58%) Change Management
6 15 (7.58%) Decision-Making
6 15 (7.58%) Mentoring
6 15 (7.58%) Project Delivery
7 14 (7.07%) AI
7 14 (7.07%) Software Engineering
7 14 (7.07%) Time Management
8 13 (6.57%) Computer Science
8 13 (6.57%) Data Protection
8 13 (6.57%) ITIL
9 12 (6.06%) Analytics
9 12 (6.06%) Collaborative Working
9 12 (6.06%) Roadmaps
9 12 (6.06%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 33 (16.67%) Python
2 22 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 13 (6.57%) SQL
4 10 (5.05%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.54%) Perl
5 7 (3.54%) PHP
6 6 (3.03%) Java
6 6 (3.03%) Scala
7 5 (2.53%) C#
7 5 (2.53%) R
8 3 (1.52%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.51%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.51%) Go
Qualifications
1 44 (22.22%) Degree
2 8 (4.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (3.54%) Chartered Engineer
4 5 (2.53%) ACCA
4 5 (2.53%) CIMA
4 5 (2.53%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.53%) MBA
5 4 (2.02%) A+ Certification
5 4 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 4 (2.02%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (1.52%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.01%) APMP
7 2 (1.01%) CISA
7 2 (1.01%) CISSP
7 2 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.01%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) CISM
8 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (17.68%) GDPR
2 11 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (5.56%) SLA
3 5 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.53%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (2.53%) QA
4 4 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.02%) ITGC
5 2 (1.01%) WCAG
6 1 (0.51%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (17.17%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.05%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.51%) Docker
5 1 (0.51%) Firmware
5 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.01%) Ansible
2 2 (1.01%) Terraform
3 1 (0.51%) SCCM
3 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (23.74%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.10%) Veeam
3 16 (8.08%) Sage
4 11 (5.56%) VMware
5 10 (5.05%) NEC
6 7 (3.54%) Citrix
6 7 (3.54%) Google
7 6 (3.03%) Adobe
7 6 (3.03%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.53%) BT
8 5 (2.53%) Databricks
9 4 (2.02%) HubSpot
10 3 (1.52%) Granicus
11 2 (1.01%) IBM
11 2 (1.01%) OpenText
12 1 (0.51%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.51%) Cisco
12 1 (0.51%) Foundry
12 1 (0.51%) Oracle
12 1 (0.51%) PeopleSoft