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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 5 4
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 193 169 406
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 9.31% 18.59% 19.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.12% 20.53% 22.10%
Number of salaries quoted 147 117 249
10th Percentile £30,150 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +10.53% -20.83%
75th Percentile £58,522 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £80,625
South East median annual salary £45,000 £50,967 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.71% +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 1,593 823 1,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 76.85% 90.54% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 935 495 1,282
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,790 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.58% -16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 3 April 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 3 April 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
Staines +1 27 £50,000 +28.21% 2
Redhill +4 26 £35,000 -22.22% 5
Guildford -19 14 £40,000 -27.27% 17
Horley +2 13 £55,000 +124.49% 2
Weybridge - 10 £40,000 -
Reigate -7 7 £37,500 -16.67% 1
Woking -14 7 £60,000 +84.62% 5
Godalming +2 5 £29,000 -47.27% 1
Camberley -3 5 £27,300 -22.00% 4
Addlestone - 5 £35,000 - 1
Farnham - 4 £28,750 - 1
Caterham +1 3 - - 1
Warlingham - 3 - -
Walton-on-Thames - 2 - -
Chertsey - 2 £55,000 - 1
Cobham - 2 - -
Godstone - 2 £36,000 -
Epsom +14 1 £57,500 -4.17% 3
Thames Ditton -3 1 - -
Leatherhead -7 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 11 (5.70%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.11%) CMS
3 5 (2.59%) IIS
4 4 (2.07%) WordPress
5 3 (1.55%) Anypoint
5 3 (1.55%) govService
5 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (7.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 15 (7.77%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.07%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (2.07%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (2.07%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.04%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.04%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (1.04%) Q-Pulse
3 2 (1.04%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.52%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.95%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (6.74%) Mimecast
2 13 (6.74%) SaaS
3 11 (5.70%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.18%) AWS
4 10 (5.18%) Azure
5 8 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.11%) Google Workspace
7 5 (2.59%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.07%) Canva
8 4 (2.07%) GCP
9 3 (1.55%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 3 (1.55%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.55%) Figma
10 1 (0.52%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.52%) Copilot Studio
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.52%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.52%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.74%) DNS
2 9 (4.66%) TCP/IP
3 8 (4.15%) Firewall
3 8 (4.15%) HTTP
3 8 (4.15%) Wireless
4 7 (3.63%) Broadband
5 5 (2.59%) DHCP
6 2 (1.04%) LAN
6 2 (1.04%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (1.04%) VPN
6 2 (1.04%) WAN
7 1 (0.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.70%) Power BI
2 8 (4.15%) Tableau
3 5 (2.59%) Big Data
3 5 (2.59%) Data Mining
3 5 (2.59%) Hadoop
3 5 (2.59%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.07%) MySQL
4 4 (2.07%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.07%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (4.15%) Rational DOORS
General
1 86 (44.56%) Social Skills
2 55 (28.50%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (24.35%) Finance
4 27 (13.99%) Retail
5 23 (11.92%) Marketing
6 15 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (7.25%) Telecoms
8 13 (6.74%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (5.18%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (4.66%) Law
11 6 (3.11%) Electronics
12 5 (2.59%) Legal
12 5 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (2.07%) General Ledger
13 4 (2.07%) Multimedia
13 4 (2.07%) Publishing
14 3 (1.55%) Local Government
14 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
15 2 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (20.21%) Support Engineer
2 32 (16.58%) IT Support
3 17 (8.81%) IT Engineer
3 17 (8.81%) IT Support Engineer
4 13 (6.74%) Help Desk Technician
4 13 (6.74%) Linux Engineer
4 13 (6.74%) Linux Support
4 13 (6.74%) Linux Support Engineer
5 12 (6.22%) Account Manager
5 12 (6.22%) Senior
6 9 (4.66%) 2nd Line Support
6 9 (4.66%) Lead
6 9 (4.66%) Support Technician
6 9 (4.66%) Systems Engineer
6 9 (4.66%) Technical Support
7 8 (4.15%) Analyst
7 8 (4.15%) Client Account Manager
7 8 (4.15%) Principal Engineer
7 8 (4.15%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 8 (4.15%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.18%) HTML
2 7 (3.63%) CSS
2 7 (3.63%) OLE
3 5 (2.59%) Play Framework
4 4 (2.07%) .NET
5 3 (1.55%) JWT
5 3 (1.55%) MUnit
5 3 (1.55%) OAuth
5 3 (1.55%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.55%) REST
5 3 (1.55%) SOAP
6 2 (1.04%) EDI
6 2 (1.04%) gRPC
7 1 (0.52%) LangChain
7 1 (0.52%) LangGraph
7 1 (0.52%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.81%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (7.25%) Driving Licence
3 13 (6.74%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.18%) Management Information System
5 7 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.11%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.07%) Blog
7 4 (2.07%) IoT
7 4 (2.07%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.07%) Podcast
7 4 (2.07%) Social Media
8 3 (1.55%) Digital Media
8 3 (1.55%) Digital Signage
8 3 (1.55%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.04%) NHS
9 2 (1.04%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.52%) Analogue Electronics
10 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.03%) Windows
2 14 (7.25%) Linux
3 9 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.15%) CentOS
4 8 (4.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.11%) Mac OS
5 6 (3.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
2 20 (10.36%) Service Delivery
3 17 (8.81%) Customer Service
3 17 (8.81%) Decision-Making
3 17 (8.81%) Project Management
4 16 (8.29%) Process Improvement
5 15 (7.77%) Change Management
5 15 (7.77%) Project Delivery
6 14 (7.25%) Agile
6 14 (7.25%) AI
6 14 (7.25%) Mentoring
6 14 (7.25%) Software Engineering
7 13 (6.74%) Computer Science
7 13 (6.74%) Data Protection
7 13 (6.74%) ITIL
8 12 (6.22%) Collaborative Working
8 12 (6.22%) Validation
8 12 (6.22%) Visualisation
9 11 (5.70%) Coaching
9 11 (5.70%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.62%) Python
2 20 (10.36%) PowerShell
3 11 (5.70%) SQL
4 8 (4.15%) Perl
4 8 (4.15%) PHP
5 7 (3.63%) Java
5 7 (3.63%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.63%) Scala
6 5 (2.59%) R
7 4 (2.07%) C#
8 3 (1.55%) DataWeave
9 2 (1.04%) Go
10 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 41 (21.24%) Degree
2 9 (4.66%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (4.15%) Chartered Engineer
4 7 (3.63%) A+ Certification
4 7 (3.63%) ACCA
4 7 (3.63%) CIMA
5 5 (2.59%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.59%) MBA
6 4 (2.07%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 4 (2.07%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (1.55%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.04%) APMP
8 2 (1.04%) CISA
8 2 (1.04%) CISSP
8 2 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (1.04%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.52%) CISM
9 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (13.47%) GDPR
2 12 (6.22%) SLA
3 11 (5.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.59%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (2.59%) QA
5 4 (2.07%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.07%) ITGC
6 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (16.06%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.63%) Hyper-V
3 5 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.04%) Docker
4 2 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.52%) Firmware
5 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.04%) Ansible
2 2 (1.04%) SCCM
2 2 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (23.83%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.81%) Veeam
3 14 (7.25%) Sage
4 10 (5.18%) NEC
5 8 (4.15%) Google
6 7 (3.63%) VMware
7 6 (3.11%) Adobe
7 6 (3.11%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.59%) BT
8 5 (2.59%) Databricks
9 4 (2.07%) Citrix
10 3 (1.55%) Granicus
10 3 (1.55%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.04%) IBM
11 2 (1.04%) OpenText
11 2 (1.04%) Typelevel
12 1 (0.52%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.52%) Cisco
12 1 (0.52%) PeopleSoft
12 1 (0.52%) Tenable