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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 253 183 397
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 10.97% 15.52% 20.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.67% 17.55% 24.02%
Number of salaries quoted 181 150 198
10th Percentile £26,875 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £35,000 £39,573
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,585 £40,875 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -22.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -15.00% -2.91%

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 1,725 1,043 1,653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 74.80% 88.46% 86.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,278 699 922
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,200 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £39,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 0 34 £32,000 -54.29% 20
Camberley +4 25 £28,686 -23.50% 10
Guildford -10 24 £55,000 +37.50% 34
Staines +7 21 £50,000 -18.37% 15
Reigate -4 21 £41,585 +3.96% 11
Godalming +2 17 £30,000 -42.86% 3
Leatherhead -4 12 £35,000 -36.36% 11
Epsom 0 10 £65,000 +73.33% 4
Egham - 6 £45,000 - 2
Woking -29 4 £63,500 +69.33% 20
Lingfield - 4 £27,000 -
Farnham - 4 £42,500 - 2
Horley -2 3 £55,000 +54.93% 1
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Chertsey - 3 £75,000 - 1
Dorking +5 2 £26,000 - 5
Haslemere - 2 £32,500 -
Tadworth - 2 - -
Cobham - 1 - -
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 (1.98%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.58%) CMS
3 3 (1.19%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.40%) Confluence
5 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (9.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.14%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.79%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.40%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.79%) Academy Housing
2 2 (0.79%) Siebel CRM
2 2 (0.79%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.40%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 41 (16.21%) Azure
2 33 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (11.46%) AWS
4 16 (6.32%) SaaS
5 13 (5.14%) Entra ID
6 8 (3.16%) GCP
7 5 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.58%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.58%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.19%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.19%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.19%) GitHub
9 3 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.19%) Google Gemini
10 2 (0.79%) dbt
10 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.79%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.67%) Firewall
2 23 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 13 (5.14%) Wireless
4 11 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (3.95%) LAN
5 10 (3.95%) WAN
6 8 (3.16%) DNS
6 8 (3.16%) LTE
7 7 (2.77%) Internet
8 5 (1.98%) VSAT
9 4 (1.58%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (1.58%) Broadband
9 4 (1.58%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (1.58%) VoIP
10 3 (1.19%) DHCP
10 3 (1.19%) Hyperconnected
11 2 (0.79%) HTTP
11 2 (0.79%) Network Security
11 2 (0.79%) VPN
12 1 (0.40%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.53%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.95%) MySQL
3 9 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.56%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.79%) Metadata
6 2 (0.79%) Power BI
6 2 (0.79%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 16 (6.32%) Git
2 11 (4.35%) JIRA
3 7 (2.77%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (1.19%) Selenium
4 3 (1.19%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.79%) GitLab
5 2 (0.79%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.40%) Postman
General
1 112 (44.27%) Social Skills
2 72 (28.46%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (18.58%) Finance
4 22 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
5 21 (8.30%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (7.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (5.93%) Public Sector
8 14 (5.53%) Retail
9 12 (4.74%) Local Government
10 11 (4.35%) Aerospace
10 11 (4.35%) Electronics
11 10 (3.95%) Law
12 8 (3.16%) Telecoms
13 7 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
13 7 (2.77%) Manufacturing
14 6 (2.37%) Publishing
15 5 (1.98%) Advertising
15 5 (1.98%) Marketing
16 4 (1.58%) Legal
16 4 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (13.83%) Developer
2 32 (12.65%) Analyst
3 31 (12.25%) Senior
4 28 (11.07%) IT Support
5 19 (7.51%) Support Engineer
6 18 (7.11%) Consultant
7 17 (6.72%) 1st Line Support
8 16 (6.32%) IT Engineer
9 15 (5.93%) IT Technician
10 14 (5.53%) IT Support Engineer
10 14 (5.53%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.74%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (4.35%) Management Consultant
12 11 (4.35%) Programme Management Office Consultant
12 11 (4.35%) Programme Office Consultant
12 11 (4.35%) Support Technician
13 10 (3.95%) .NET Developer
13 10 (3.95%) 2nd Line Support
13 10 (3.95%) Security Analyst
13 10 (3.95%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.32%) React
1 16 (6.32%) REST
2 15 (5.93%) .NET
3 13 (5.14%) .NET Core
4 12 (4.74%) CSS
4 12 (4.74%) HTML
5 11 (4.35%) SOAP
6 10 (3.95%) .NET Framework
6 10 (3.95%) AngularJS
6 10 (3.95%) Entity Framework
6 10 (3.95%) Terraform
7 7 (2.77%) ASP.NET
8 5 (1.98%) Laravel
9 4 (1.58%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.58%) Gherkin
9 4 (1.58%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (1.58%) Vue
9 4 (1.58%) WPF
10 3 (1.19%) Blazor
10 3 (1.19%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 18 (7.11%) Driving Licence
3 16 (6.32%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.95%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.37%) Security Posture
7 5 (1.98%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.19%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.19%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.79%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.79%) Culture of Ownership
10 2 (0.79%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (0.79%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.79%) IoT
10 2 (0.79%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.79%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.44%) Windows
2 17 (6.72%) Windows Server
3 14 (5.53%) Linux
4 3 (1.19%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.79%) CentOS
5 2 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (18.18%) Agile
2 38 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
3 34 (13.44%) Customer Service
4 32 (12.65%) Decision-Making
5 27 (10.67%) AI
6 26 (10.28%) CI/CD
6 26 (10.28%) Collaborative Working
6 26 (10.28%) Software Engineering
7 25 (9.88%) Validation
8 24 (9.49%) Cybersecurity
9 22 (8.70%) Mentoring
10 21 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (7.11%) Business Continuity
11 18 (7.11%) DevOps
12 17 (6.72%) Customer Experience
13 16 (6.32%) Code Quality
13 16 (6.32%) Information Security
13 16 (6.32%) Project Management
13 16 (6.32%) Test Automation
13 16 (6.32%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (9.88%) Python
2 23 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 19 (7.51%) SQL
4 16 (6.32%) C#
4 16 (6.32%) TypeScript
5 9 (3.56%) Java
5 9 (3.56%) PHP
6 8 (3.16%) Perl
7 6 (2.37%) Bash
8 5 (1.98%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.98%) Ruby
9 4 (1.58%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.19%) DataWeave
11 2 (0.79%) Assembly Language
11 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.40%) C++
12 1 (0.40%) Go
12 1 (0.40%) Scala
12 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (16.21%) Degree
2 28 (11.07%) Security Cleared
3 27 (10.67%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.35%) DBS Check
5 8 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.77%) A+ Certification
6 7 (2.77%) ACCA
6 7 (2.77%) Chartered Engineer
6 7 (2.77%) CIMA
6 7 (2.77%) HNC
7 6 (2.37%) CISSP
7 6 (2.37%) CSPO
7 6 (2.37%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.98%) HND
8 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.19%) CCNA
9 3 (1.19%) CEH
9 3 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.19%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.28%) QA
2 19 (7.51%) GDPR
3 13 (5.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (4.35%) PMO
5 7 (2.77%) SLA
6 5 (1.98%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.58%) NIST
8 3 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.19%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.79%) FATCA
10 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.40%) GRC
10 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 23 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.98%) Docker
2 5 (1.98%) Hyper-V
2 5 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (6.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.79%) Ansible
4 1 (0.40%) SCCM
Vendors
1 71 (28.06%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.56%) Cisco
2 9 (3.56%) Qualys
3 7 (2.77%) Google
3 7 (2.77%) Palo Alto
4 6 (2.37%) Meraki
4 6 (2.37%) Sage
4 6 (2.37%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.37%) Ubiquiti
5 5 (1.98%) Citrix
5 5 (1.98%) Veeam
5 5 (1.98%) VMware
6 4 (1.58%) Aruba
7 3 (1.19%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.19%) New Relic
7 3 (1.19%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.19%) Oracle
7 3 (1.19%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.19%) Splunk
7 3 (1.19%) Zerto