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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 5 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +4
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 257 178 407
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 11.31% 15.14% 20.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.37% 17.00% 23.16%
Number of salaries quoted 183 145 216
10th Percentile £28,300 £27,100 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £39,893
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £51,163
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -21.82% -2.08%
75th Percentile £57,500 £66,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £95,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £44,250 £42,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +4.12% -11.46% -6.80%

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 1,672 1,047 1,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 73.59% 89.03% 86.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,230 685 1,046
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £41,585 £35,000 £35,044
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 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 15 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 15 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 +2 32 £33,500 -52.14% 12
Guildford -8 28 £48,750 +21.88% 28
Camberley +3 24 £28,896 -17.44% 6
Staines +8 23 £50,000 -11.28% 21
Reigate -5 19 £41,585 +3.96% 7
Godalming +2 15 £30,000 -42.86% 4
Leatherhead -3 13 £42,500 -22.73% 4
Epsom 0 8 £66,250 +76.67% 1
Woking -23 7 £63,000 +44.00% 12
Farnham - 5 £42,500 - 4
Egham - 5 £45,000 - 3
Horley -1 3 £55,000 +111.54%
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Dorking +6 2 £26,000 -
Chertsey - 2 £75,000 - 3
Cobham - 2 - -
Haslemere - 2 £32,500 - 1
Tadworth - 2 - - 1
Caterham -1 1 - -
Lingfield - 1 £27,000 - 1
Warlingham - 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 7 (2.72%) CMS
2 4 (1.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.17%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.17%) WordPress
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 30 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.56%) Photoshop
4 3 (1.17%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.39%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Academy Housing
2 2 (0.78%) Siebel CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.39%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 37 (14.40%) Azure
2 30 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (10.12%) AWS
4 17 (6.61%) SaaS
5 12 (4.67%) Entra ID
6 9 (3.50%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.11%) GCP
8 5 (1.95%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.17%) Canva
10 3 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.78%) ChatGPT
11 2 (0.78%) dbt
11 2 (0.78%) GitHub
11 2 (0.78%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (0.78%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.78%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.12%) Firewall
2 22 (8.56%) TCP/IP
3 13 (5.06%) Wireless
4 11 (4.28%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (3.89%) LAN
5 10 (3.89%) WAN
6 9 (3.50%) DNS
7 8 (3.11%) LTE
8 7 (2.72%) Internet
9 5 (1.95%) Broadband
9 5 (1.95%) VSAT
10 4 (1.56%) Asterisk PBX
10 4 (1.56%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (1.56%) DHCP
10 4 (1.56%) HTTP
10 4 (1.56%) VoIP
11 3 (1.17%) Hyperconnected
12 2 (0.78%) Network Security
12 2 (0.78%) Structured Cabling
12 2 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.61%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.67%) MySQL
3 8 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.11%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.72%) Power BI
5 4 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.17%) Tableau
7 2 (0.78%) Metadata
7 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.78%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 15 (5.84%) Git
2 11 (4.28%) JIRA
3 7 (2.72%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (1.17%) Selenium
4 3 (1.17%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.78%) GitLab
5 2 (0.78%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.39%) Postman
General
1 113 (43.97%) Social Skills
2 72 (28.02%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (19.07%) Finance
4 22 (8.56%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (7.78%) Influencing Skills
6 17 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (5.84%) Retail
8 13 (5.06%) Public Sector
9 12 (4.67%) Local Government
10 11 (4.28%) Aerospace
10 11 (4.28%) Electronics
10 11 (4.28%) Law
11 9 (3.50%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.72%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.72%) Marketing
12 7 (2.72%) Publishing
13 6 (2.33%) Advertising
14 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.17%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 35 (13.62%) Developer
2 32 (12.45%) Senior
3 30 (11.67%) Analyst
4 27 (10.51%) IT Support
5 25 (9.73%) Support Engineer
6 18 (7.00%) Consultant
7 17 (6.61%) IT Engineer
8 15 (5.84%) IT Support Engineer
9 14 (5.45%) Senior Developer
10 13 (5.06%) IT Technician
10 13 (5.06%) Systems Engineer
11 12 (4.67%) 1st Line Support
12 11 (4.28%) Management Consultant
12 11 (4.28%) Programme Management Office Consultant
12 11 (4.28%) Programme Office Consultant
13 10 (3.89%) .NET Developer
13 10 (3.89%) Security Analyst
14 9 (3.50%) 2nd Line Support
14 9 (3.50%) Coordinator
14 9 (3.50%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.23%) .NET
1 16 (6.23%) React
2 15 (5.84%) CSS
2 15 (5.84%) HTML
3 13 (5.06%) .NET Core
3 13 (5.06%) REST
4 10 (3.89%) .NET Framework
4 10 (3.89%) AngularJS
4 10 (3.89%) Entity Framework
5 9 (3.50%) SOAP
6 7 (2.72%) ASP.NET
7 5 (1.95%) Laravel
8 4 (1.56%) FastAPI
8 4 (1.56%) Tailwind CSS
8 4 (1.56%) Vue
8 4 (1.56%) WPF
9 3 (1.17%) Blazor
9 3 (1.17%) Electron
9 3 (1.17%) JWT
9 3 (1.17%) MUnit
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.56%) Onboarding
2 21 (8.17%) Driving Licence
3 17 (6.61%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.33%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.56%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.17%) Blog
8 3 (1.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 3 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.17%) IoT
8 3 (1.17%) Podcast
8 3 (1.17%) Social Media
8 3 (1.17%) Web Conferencing
9 2 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.78%) FMCG
9 2 (0.78%) Robotics
9 2 (0.78%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.45%) Windows
2 16 (6.23%) Linux
2 16 (6.23%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.95%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.56%) CentOS
4 4 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 39 (15.18%) Agile
3 33 (12.84%) Decision-Making
4 30 (11.67%) Customer Service
5 28 (10.89%) AI
6 27 (10.51%) Collaborative Working
7 25 (9.73%) Mentoring
8 24 (9.34%) Validation
9 23 (8.95%) Cybersecurity
10 22 (8.56%) CI/CD
10 22 (8.56%) Software Engineering
11 19 (7.39%) Stakeholder Management
12 18 (7.00%) Business Continuity
12 18 (7.00%) Project Management
13 17 (6.61%) Customer Experience
14 16 (6.23%) Vulnerability Management
15 15 (5.84%) Collaborative Culture
15 15 (5.84%) DevOps
15 15 (5.84%) ITIL
16 14 (5.45%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 30 (11.67%) Python
2 24 (9.34%) JavaScript
3 22 (8.56%) SQL
4 17 (6.61%) C#
5 14 (5.45%) TypeScript
6 11 (4.28%) PHP
7 10 (3.89%) Perl
8 9 (3.50%) Java
9 7 (2.72%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.33%) Bash
11 4 (1.56%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.17%) DataWeave
13 2 (0.78%) Assembly Language
13 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.78%) Ruby
14 1 (0.39%) C++
14 1 (0.39%) Go
14 1 (0.39%) Scala
14 1 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 44 (17.12%) Degree
2 26 (10.12%) Security Cleared
3 25 (9.73%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.50%) ACCA
4 9 (3.50%) CIMA
5 8 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.11%) DBS Check
6 7 (2.72%) Chartered Engineer
6 7 (2.72%) HNC
7 6 (2.33%) CISSP
7 6 (2.33%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.95%) HND
8 5 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.56%) A+ Certification
9 4 (1.56%) CSPO
10 3 (1.17%) CCNA
10 3 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.17%) CISM
10 3 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.12%) QA
2 17 (6.61%) GDPR
3 11 (4.28%) PMO
3 11 (4.28%) SLA
4 10 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (3.11%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.17%) NIST
6 3 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.17%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.78%) FATCA
7 2 (0.78%) ITGC
8 1 (0.39%) GRC
8 1 (0.39%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 25 (9.73%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.56%) Docker
2 4 (1.56%) Hyper-V
2 4 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (6.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.50%) Terraform
3 8 (3.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.78%) Ansible
4 2 (0.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 67 (26.07%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.50%) Cisco
2 9 (3.50%) Google
2 9 (3.50%) Qualys
2 9 (3.50%) Sage
3 7 (2.72%) Palo Alto
4 6 (2.33%) Meraki
4 6 (2.33%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.33%) Ubiquiti
4 6 (2.33%) Veeam
5 4 (1.56%) Aruba
5 4 (1.56%) Citrix
5 4 (1.56%) VMware
6 3 (1.17%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.17%) New Relic
6 3 (1.17%) Oracle
6 3 (1.17%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.17%) Splunk
6 3 (1.17%) Zerto
7 2 (0.78%) SAP