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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 3
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 223 166 522
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 10.74% 16.16% 20.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.78% 17.66% 23.47%
Number of salaries quoted 170 127 290
10th Percentile £28,686 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,188 £35,000 £33,474
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -18.37% -10.91%
75th Percentile £57,500 £64,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £85,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -12.37%

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 1,509 940 2,224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 72.69% 91.53% 87.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,119 592 1,423
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,250 £81,925 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 1 July 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 1 July 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
Guildford -5 32 £48,750 +21.88% 15
Staines +4 24 £50,000 -16.67% 4
Reigate -1 19 £41,585 +3.96% 5
Redhill +2 15 £35,000 -50.00% 6
Camberley +3 13 £28,686 -18.04% 8
Weybridge +5 10 £40,000 -15.79% 1
Epsom +3 8 £65,000 +73.33% 4
Leatherhead -2 8 £42,500 -22.73% 1
Woking -24 8 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Horley 0 7 £38,000 +46.15%
Egham - 5 £45,000 - 4
Godalming +1 4 £29,000 -47.27% 3
Farnham - 4 - -
Caterham +3 3 - -
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Warlingham - 3 - -
Tadworth +3 2 - -
Haslemere - 2 £32,500 -
Chertsey - 2 £75,000 - 2
Cobham - 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 (4.04%) CMS
2 4 (1.79%) WordPress
3 3 (1.35%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) govService
Applications
1 26 (11.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.24%) Photoshop
4 4 (1.79%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 28 (12.56%) Azure
2 20 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (8.07%) SaaS
4 17 (7.62%) AWS
5 10 (4.48%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.59%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (3.59%) Entra ID
6 8 (3.59%) Mimecast
7 7 (3.14%) GCP
8 6 (2.69%) Google Workspace
9 4 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.79%) Canva
10 3 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (0.90%) dbt
12 1 (0.45%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (0.45%) ClickUp
12 1 (0.45%) Figma
12 1 (0.45%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.38%) Wireless
2 11 (4.93%) Firewall
2 11 (4.93%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (4.04%) DNS
3 9 (4.04%) LAN
3 9 (4.04%) WAN
4 7 (3.14%) HTTP
5 6 (2.69%) Broadband
5 6 (2.69%) Internet
6 4 (1.79%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.35%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (1.35%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.90%) DHCP
8 2 (0.90%) Network Security
8 2 (0.90%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (0.90%) VPN
9 1 (0.45%) NGFW
9 1 (0.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.93%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.59%) Power BI
3 4 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.79%) MySQL
4 3 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.35%) Tableau
5 1 (0.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (4.04%) Rational DOORS
2 7 (3.14%) JIRA
3 6 (2.69%) Git
4 2 (0.90%) GitLab
4 2 (0.90%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.45%) Selenium
5 1 (0.45%) SpecFlow
General
1 97 (43.50%) Social Skills
2 58 (26.01%) Analytical Skills
2 58 (26.01%) Finance
3 20 (8.97%) Organisational Skills
4 17 (7.62%) Marketing
5 16 (7.17%) Influencing Skills
5 16 (7.17%) Telecoms
6 13 (5.83%) Local Government
6 13 (5.83%) Retail
7 8 (3.59%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.14%) Law
8 7 (3.14%) Publishing
9 6 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.79%) Advertising
10 4 (1.79%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.79%) Multimedia
11 3 (1.35%) Legal
12 2 (0.90%) Billing
12 2 (0.90%) Electronics
12 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (13.00%) Support Engineer
2 26 (11.66%) Developer
3 24 (10.76%) IT Support
3 24 (10.76%) Senior
4 17 (7.62%) IT Engineer
5 15 (6.73%) IT Support Engineer
5 15 (6.73%) Systems Engineer
6 14 (6.28%) Consultant
7 13 (5.83%) Analyst
7 13 (5.83%) Coordinator
8 12 (5.38%) Account Manager
8 12 (5.38%) IT Technician
9 11 (4.93%) Management Consultant
9 11 (4.93%) Programme Management Office Consultant
9 11 (4.93%) Programme Office Consultant
10 9 (4.04%) Linux Engineer
10 9 (4.04%) Linux Support
10 9 (4.04%) Linux Support Engineer
10 9 (4.04%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (4.04%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.93%) .NET
2 10 (4.48%) CSS
2 10 (4.48%) HTML
2 10 (4.48%) React
3 7 (3.14%) .NET Core
3 7 (3.14%) ASP.NET
4 6 (2.69%) REST
5 5 (2.24%) SOAP
6 4 (1.79%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.79%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.79%) Entity Framework
6 4 (1.79%) FastAPI
6 4 (1.79%) Laravel
6 4 (1.79%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (1.79%) Vue
6 4 (1.79%) WPF
7 3 (1.35%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (1.35%) Blazor
7 3 (1.35%) JWT
7 3 (1.35%) MUnit
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.42%) Management Information System
2 15 (6.73%) Onboarding
3 13 (5.83%) Driving Licence
4 6 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.24%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.79%) Blog
6 4 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.79%) IoT
6 4 (1.79%) Podcast
6 4 (1.79%) Social Media
7 3 (1.35%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.35%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (1.35%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.90%) Culture of Ownership
8 2 (0.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.90%) Over-the-Top Content
8 2 (0.90%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.52%) Windows
2 15 (6.73%) Linux
3 7 (3.14%) CentOS
3 7 (3.14%) Mac OS
3 7 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (14.80%) Continuous Improvement
2 29 (13.00%) Collaborative Working
3 28 (12.56%) Decision-Making
4 26 (11.66%) Mentoring
5 25 (11.21%) AI
6 24 (10.76%) Agile
7 23 (10.31%) Service Delivery
8 22 (9.87%) Validation
9 21 (9.42%) Business Continuity
10 20 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (8.97%) Project Management
11 19 (8.52%) Software Engineering
12 18 (8.07%) CI/CD
13 16 (7.17%) Change Management
13 16 (7.17%) Project Delivery
14 15 (6.73%) Data Protection
14 15 (6.73%) Process Improvement
15 14 (6.28%) Customer Experience
16 13 (5.83%) Asset Management
16 13 (5.83%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 37 (16.59%) Python
2 20 (8.97%) SQL
3 18 (8.07%) JavaScript
4 13 (5.83%) PHP
4 13 (5.83%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.83%) TypeScript
5 10 (4.48%) C#
6 9 (4.04%) Perl
7 5 (2.24%) Java
8 4 (1.79%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.35%) DataWeave
10 2 (0.90%) Bash
10 2 (0.90%) Go
10 2 (0.90%) Scala
11 1 (0.45%) C++
11 1 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (13.45%) Degree
2 10 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (4.04%) Chartered Engineer
4 8 (3.59%) ACCA
4 8 (3.59%) CIMA
5 7 (3.14%) A+ Certification
5 7 (3.14%) CISSP
6 6 (2.69%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.24%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (2.24%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.79%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 4 (1.79%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.35%) CCNA
9 3 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.35%) CISM
9 3 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.35%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.90%) CEH
10 2 (0.90%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.52%) QA
2 17 (7.62%) GDPR
3 14 (6.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.93%) PMO
4 11 (4.93%) SLA
5 7 (3.14%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.79%) ITGC
7 3 (1.35%) NIST
7 3 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 24 (10.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.35%) Docker
3 1 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (3.14%) Terraform
3 5 (2.24%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.90%) Ansible
4 2 (0.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.93%) Google
3 10 (4.48%) Sage
4 8 (3.59%) Qualys
4 8 (3.59%) Veeam
5 7 (3.14%) Palo Alto
6 6 (2.69%) Meraki
6 6 (2.69%) Ubiquiti
7 5 (2.24%) Cisco
8 4 (1.79%) Aruba
9 3 (1.35%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.35%) Splunk
10 2 (0.90%) New Relic
10 2 (0.90%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.90%) Typelevel
10 2 (0.90%) Zerto
11 1 (0.45%) Ahrefs
11 1 (0.45%) Granicus
11 1 (0.45%) Tenable