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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 5 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 249 187 411
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 10.89% 15.62% 20.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.66% 17.58% 23.91%
Number of salaries quoted 178 154 210
10th Percentile £28,025 £26,950 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £35,000 £39,573
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,585 £40,875 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -20.63% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £48,793
% change year-on-year - -12.90% -6.07%

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 1,698 1,064 1,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 74.25% 88.89% 85.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,258 714 991
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £83,750
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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -1 32 £32,000 -54.29% 17
Camberley +4 24 £28,686 -23.50% 8
Guildford -8 24 £55,000 +37.50% 31
Staines +4 23 £50,000 -16.67% 17
Reigate -4 21 £41,585 +3.96% 12
Godalming +2 15 £30,000 -42.86% 3
Leatherhead -5 12 £35,000 -36.36% 9
Epsom +1 9 £65,000 +73.33% 3
Egham - 6 £45,000 - 4
Farnham - 5 £42,500 - 2
Woking -30 4 £63,500 +45.14% 15
Horley -2 3 £55,000 +54.93% 4
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Dorking +5 2 £26,000 - 3
Chertsey - 2 £75,000 - 1
Cobham - 2 - -
Haslemere - 2 £32,500 -
Lingfield - 2 £27,000 - 1
Tadworth - 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 5 (2.01%) CMS
1 5 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.20%) Anypoint
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.80%) WordPress
4 1 (0.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 26 (10.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.22%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.20%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.80%) Academy Housing
2 2 (0.80%) Siebel CRM
2 2 (0.80%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.40%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 39 (15.66%) Azure
2 31 (12.45%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (11.65%) AWS
4 16 (6.43%) SaaS
5 12 (4.82%) Entra ID
6 8 (3.21%) GCP
7 5 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (1.61%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.20%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.20%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.20%) GitHub
9 3 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.20%) Google Gemini
10 2 (0.80%) Canva
10 2 (0.80%) dbt
10 2 (0.80%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 27 (10.84%) Firewall
2 23 (9.24%) TCP/IP
3 14 (5.62%) Wireless
4 11 (4.42%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (4.02%) LAN
5 10 (4.02%) WAN
6 8 (3.21%) DNS
6 8 (3.21%) LTE
7 7 (2.81%) Internet
8 5 (2.01%) VSAT
9 4 (1.61%) Asterisk PBX
9 4 (1.61%) Broadband
9 4 (1.61%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (1.61%) DHCP
9 4 (1.61%) VoIP
10 3 (1.20%) Hyperconnected
11 2 (0.80%) HTTP
11 2 (0.80%) Network Security
11 2 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
11 2 (0.80%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.02%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.42%) MySQL
3 9 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.61%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.80%) Metadata
6 2 (0.80%) Power BI
6 2 (0.80%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 16 (6.43%) Git
2 11 (4.42%) JIRA
3 7 (2.81%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (1.20%) Selenium
4 3 (1.20%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.80%) GitLab
5 2 (0.80%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.40%) Postman
General
1 111 (44.58%) Social Skills
2 68 (27.31%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (18.47%) Finance
4 21 (8.43%) Influencing Skills
5 19 (7.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (7.23%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (5.62%) Public Sector
7 14 (5.62%) Retail
8 12 (4.82%) Local Government
9 11 (4.42%) Aerospace
9 11 (4.42%) Electronics
10 10 (4.02%) Law
11 9 (3.61%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (2.81%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.81%) Publishing
13 5 (2.01%) Advertising
13 5 (2.01%) Marketing
14 4 (1.61%) Legal
14 4 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (14.06%) Developer
2 31 (12.45%) Senior
3 30 (12.05%) Analyst
4 27 (10.84%) IT Support
5 20 (8.03%) Support Engineer
6 18 (7.23%) Consultant
7 16 (6.43%) IT Engineer
8 14 (5.62%) 1st Line Support
8 14 (5.62%) IT Support Engineer
8 14 (5.62%) IT Technician
8 14 (5.62%) Senior Developer
9 12 (4.82%) Systems Engineer
10 11 (4.42%) Management Consultant
10 11 (4.42%) Programme Management Office Consultant
10 11 (4.42%) Programme Office Consultant
11 10 (4.02%) .NET Developer
11 10 (4.02%) 2nd Line Support
11 10 (4.02%) Security Analyst
11 10 (4.02%) Support Technician
12 9 (3.61%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.43%) .NET
1 16 (6.43%) React
2 15 (6.02%) REST
3 13 (5.22%) .NET Core
3 13 (5.22%) CSS
3 13 (5.22%) HTML
4 10 (4.02%) .NET Framework
4 10 (4.02%) AngularJS
4 10 (4.02%) Entity Framework
4 10 (4.02%) SOAP
4 10 (4.02%) Terraform
5 7 (2.81%) ASP.NET
6 5 (2.01%) Laravel
7 4 (1.61%) FastAPI
7 4 (1.61%) Gherkin
7 4 (1.61%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (1.61%) Vue
7 4 (1.61%) WPF
8 3 (1.20%) JPA
8 3 (1.20%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.24%) Onboarding
2 20 (8.03%) Driving Licence
3 14 (5.62%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.21%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.41%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.01%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.20%) IoT
9 3 (1.20%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.80%) Blog
10 2 (0.80%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (0.80%) FMCG
10 2 (0.80%) Podcast
10 2 (0.80%) Robotics
10 2 (0.80%) Social Media
10 2 (0.80%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.25%) Windows
2 17 (6.83%) Windows Server
3 14 (5.62%) Linux
4 3 (1.20%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.80%) CentOS
5 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (17.67%) Agile
2 35 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
3 33 (13.25%) Customer Service
4 31 (12.45%) Decision-Making
5 27 (10.84%) AI
6 26 (10.44%) CI/CD
6 26 (10.44%) Collaborative Working
6 26 (10.44%) Software Engineering
7 25 (10.04%) Validation
8 23 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
9 22 (8.84%) Mentoring
10 19 (7.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (7.23%) Business Continuity
12 17 (6.83%) DevOps
13 16 (6.43%) Code Quality
13 16 (6.43%) Customer Experience
13 16 (6.43%) Project Management
13 16 (6.43%) Test Automation
13 16 (6.43%) Vulnerability Management
14 15 (6.02%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.04%) Python
2 24 (9.64%) JavaScript
3 20 (8.03%) SQL
4 17 (6.83%) C#
5 16 (6.43%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.61%) Java
6 9 (3.61%) PHP
7 8 (3.21%) Perl
8 6 (2.41%) Bash
9 5 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.61%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.61%) Ruby
11 3 (1.20%) DataWeave
12 2 (0.80%) Assembly Language
12 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.40%) C++
13 1 (0.40%) Go
13 1 (0.40%) Scala
13 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (16.47%) Degree
2 28 (11.24%) Security Cleared
3 27 (10.84%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.61%) DBS Check
5 8 (3.21%) ACCA
5 8 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.21%) CIMA
6 7 (2.81%) Chartered Engineer
6 7 (2.81%) HNC
7 6 (2.41%) CISSP
7 6 (2.41%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.01%) A+ Certification
8 5 (2.01%) CSPO
8 5 (2.01%) HND
8 5 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.20%) CCNA
9 3 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.44%) QA
2 15 (6.02%) GDPR
3 11 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.42%) PMO
4 9 (3.61%) SLA
5 5 (2.01%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.20%) NIST
6 3 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.20%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.80%) FATCA
8 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.40%) GRC
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 23 (9.24%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.01%) Docker
2 5 (2.01%) Hyper-V
2 5 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.80%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (6.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.61%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.80%) Ansible
3 2 (0.80%) SCCM
Vendors
1 68 (27.31%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.61%) Cisco
2 9 (3.61%) Qualys
3 8 (3.21%) Sage
4 7 (2.81%) Google
4 7 (2.81%) Palo Alto
5 6 (2.41%) Meraki
5 6 (2.41%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.41%) Ubiquiti
6 5 (2.01%) Citrix
6 5 (2.01%) Veeam
6 5 (2.01%) VMware
7 4 (1.61%) Aruba
8 3 (1.20%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.20%) New Relic
8 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle
8 3 (1.20%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.20%) Splunk
8 3 (1.20%) Zerto