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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 5 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 290 166 368
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 11.61% 14.66% 20.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.02% 16.35% 23.68%
Number of salaries quoted 206 138 164
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,500 £30,375
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,063 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £40,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £53,438 £60,000 £67,813
90th Percentile £69,375 £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £41,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.75% -20.00% -

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 1,931 1,015 1,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 77.30% 89.66% 87.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,420 679 723
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 October 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 October 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 +3 43 £32,000 -64.04% 22
Guildford -5 28 £48,750 +21.88% 40
Camberley +4 27 £28,686 -28.29% 9
Reigate -4 21 £41,585 +10.89% 10
Godalming +1 17 £32,750 -37.62% 4
Leatherhead -4 17 £35,000 -36.36% 12
Staines - 17 £40,000 - 21
Woking -13 13 £64,000 +11.30% 38
Epsom +5 12 £65,000 +73.33% 7
Egham - 6 £45,000 - 1
Lingfield - 4 £27,000 -
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Shepperton - 3 £52,500 -
Farnham - 3 £42,500 - 1
Haslemere - 2 £32,500 -
Dorking - 2 £26,000 - 2
Tadworth - 2 - - 2
Windlesham +2 1 - -
Weybridge -7 1 £27,500 -42.11% 3
Chertsey - 1 - - 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 5 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.03%) CMS
2 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.69%) Confluence
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 26 (8.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.69%) AutoCAD
4 2 (0.69%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.69%) Academy Housing
2 2 (0.69%) SAP SD
2 2 (0.69%) Siebel CRM
2 2 (0.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 44 (15.17%) Azure
2 40 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (11.03%) AWS
4 16 (5.52%) Entra ID
5 15 (5.17%) SaaS
6 7 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (2.07%) GCP
7 6 (2.07%) GitHub
8 4 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.38%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.03%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.03%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.03%) dbt
9 3 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.03%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.03%) Google Gemini
9 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.03%) Firewall
2 23 (7.93%) TCP/IP
3 13 (4.48%) LAN
4 12 (4.14%) Wireless
5 11 (3.79%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (3.45%) WAN
7 9 (3.10%) DNS
8 8 (2.76%) LTE
8 8 (2.76%) VPN
9 7 (2.41%) Internet
10 5 (1.72%) VSAT
11 4 (1.38%) Asterisk PBX
11 4 (1.38%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (1.38%) VoIP
12 3 (1.03%) Hyperconnected
13 2 (0.69%) Broadband
13 2 (0.69%) DHCP
13 2 (0.69%) Network Security
14 1 (0.34%) NFC
14 1 (0.34%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.83%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.45%) MySQL
3 9 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.10%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.03%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.69%) Metadata
6 2 (0.69%) Power BI
6 2 (0.69%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 16 (5.52%) Git
2 12 (4.14%) JIRA
3 6 (2.07%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (1.03%) Selenium
4 3 (1.03%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.69%) GitLab
5 2 (0.69%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.34%) MLflow
6 1 (0.34%) Postman
General
1 127 (43.79%) Social Skills
2 87 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (16.90%) Finance
4 36 (12.41%) Organisational Skills
5 25 (8.62%) Influencing Skills
6 21 (7.24%) Retail
7 18 (6.21%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.52%) Electronics
8 16 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (5.17%) Manufacturing
10 13 (4.48%) Aerospace
11 12 (4.14%) Local Government
12 10 (3.45%) Law
13 9 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (2.76%) Marketing
14 8 (2.76%) Telecoms
15 7 (2.41%) Advertising
15 7 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.38%) Legal
17 3 (1.03%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 40 (13.79%) Analyst
2 32 (11.03%) Developer
2 32 (11.03%) Senior
3 24 (8.28%) IT Support
4 23 (7.93%) 1st Line Support
5 18 (6.21%) Consultant
6 16 (5.52%) Support Analyst
6 16 (5.52%) Support Engineer
7 14 (4.83%) 2nd Line Support
7 14 (4.83%) Senior Developer
7 14 (4.83%) Systems Engineer
8 13 (4.48%) IT Engineer
9 12 (4.14%) Applications Support
9 12 (4.14%) IT Technician
9 12 (4.14%) Security Analyst
10 11 (3.79%) IT Support Engineer
10 11 (3.79%) Management Consultant
10 11 (3.79%) Programme Management Office Consultant
10 11 (3.79%) Programme Office Consultant
11 10 (3.45%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.52%) React
2 15 (5.17%) .NET
2 15 (5.17%) REST
3 13 (4.48%) .NET Core
3 13 (4.48%) Terraform
4 12 (4.14%) CSS
4 12 (4.14%) HTML
5 10 (3.45%) .NET Framework
5 10 (3.45%) AngularJS
5 10 (3.45%) Entity Framework
5 10 (3.45%) SOAP
6 7 (2.41%) ASP.NET
7 5 (1.72%) Laravel
8 4 (1.38%) FastAPI
8 4 (1.38%) Gherkin
8 4 (1.38%) Tailwind CSS
8 4 (1.38%) Vue
8 4 (1.38%) WPF
9 3 (1.03%) Blazor
9 3 (1.03%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.66%) Management Information System
2 22 (7.59%) Onboarding
3 21 (7.24%) Driving Licence
4 12 (4.14%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.07%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.72%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.03%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.03%) Robotics
9 3 (1.03%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.69%) Analogue Electronics
10 2 (0.69%) Culture of Ownership
10 2 (0.69%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.69%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.14%) Windows
2 23 (7.93%) Windows Server
3 12 (4.14%) Linux
4 5 (1.72%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.03%) Android
5 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (16.90%) Agile
1 49 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
2 45 (15.52%) Customer Service
3 39 (13.45%) Decision-Making
4 34 (11.72%) Collaborative Working
5 31 (10.69%) AI
6 29 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 28 (9.66%) Cybersecurity
8 27 (9.31%) Validation
9 26 (8.97%) CI/CD
10 24 (8.28%) Mentoring
10 24 (8.28%) Software Engineering
11 22 (7.59%) CRM
11 22 (7.59%) Customer Experience
12 20 (6.90%) DevOps
12 20 (6.90%) Information Security
12 20 (6.90%) Project Management
13 18 (6.21%) Project Delivery
14 17 (5.86%) Data Protection
14 17 (5.86%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (7.93%) JavaScript
1 23 (7.93%) Python
1 23 (7.93%) SQL
2 16 (5.52%) C#
2 16 (5.52%) TypeScript
3 8 (2.76%) Java
4 7 (2.41%) PHP
4 7 (2.41%) Ruby
5 6 (2.07%) Bash
5 6 (2.07%) Perl
6 5 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.38%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.69%) Assembly Language
8 2 (0.69%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.34%) C++
Qualifications
1 45 (15.52%) Degree
2 28 (9.66%) Security Cleared
3 27 (9.31%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.86%) DBS Check
5 9 (3.10%) HNC
6 8 (2.76%) CSPO
7 7 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.41%) HND
8 6 (2.07%) Chartered Engineer
8 6 (2.07%) CISSP
8 6 (2.07%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.38%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.03%) CCNA
10 3 (1.03%) CEH
10 3 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.03%) CISM
10 3 (1.03%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.03%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.66%) GDPR
2 26 (8.97%) QA
3 17 (5.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.79%) PMO
5 6 (2.07%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.72%) SLA
6 5 (1.72%) SOC 2
7 4 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.38%) NIST
8 3 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.69%) FATCA
9 2 (0.69%) HAZOP
9 2 (0.69%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.34%) GRC
10 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 24 (8.28%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.72%) Hyper-V
2 5 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.38%) Docker
4 2 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (7.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.10%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.72%) Ansible
4 3 (1.03%) Grafana
4 3 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.69%) Functional Safety
5 2 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.34%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 82 (28.28%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.10%) Cisco
2 9 (3.10%) Google
2 9 (3.10%) Qualys
3 7 (2.41%) Palo Alto
4 6 (2.07%) Meraki
4 6 (2.07%) SAP
4 6 (2.07%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.07%) Ubiquiti
5 5 (1.72%) Citrix
5 5 (1.72%) Veeam
5 5 (1.72%) VMware
6 4 (1.38%) Aruba
6 4 (1.38%) Workday
7 3 (1.03%) EMC
7 3 (1.03%) New Relic
7 3 (1.03%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.03%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.03%) Splunk
7 3 (1.03%) Zerto