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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 6 4
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +3
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 243 169 451
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 11.01% 15.04% 20.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.84% 16.82% 23.13%
Number of salaries quoted 178 134 241
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £41,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.80% -16.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £93,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -12.37%

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 1,637 1,005 1,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 74.14% 89.41% 87.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,214 662 1,193
10th Percentile £31,475 £28,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -14.89%
75th Percentile £73,438 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 25 July 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 25 July 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
Guildford -2 30 £48,750 +21.88% 9
Staines +8 26 £50,000 -16.67% 5
Camberley +4 21 £28,791 -17.74% 5
Redhill +3 21 £33,500 -52.14% 8
Reigate -2 19 £41,585 +3.96% 1
Godalming +1 11 £30,000 -42.86% 3
Leatherhead -3 11 £42,500 -22.73% 2
Woking -27 9 £60,000 +20.00% 10
Epsom -2 8 £66,250 +76.67% 3
Weybridge +1 7 £40,000 -15.79% 2
Egham - 5 £45,000 - 2
Farnham - 4 - - 2
Caterham +2 3 - -
Horley 0 3 £55,000 +111.54%
Warlingham - 3 - -
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Haslemere - 2 £32,500 -
Tadworth - 2 - -
Chertsey - 2 £75,000 - 1
Cobham - 2 - -
Dorking +4 1 £26,000 -62.86% 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 9 (3.70%) CMS
2 4 (1.65%) WordPress
3 3 (1.23%) Anypoint
3 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 28 (11.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.06%) Photoshop
4 4 (1.65%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Academy Housing
2 1 (0.41%) HFM
2 1 (0.41%) Siebel CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 36 (14.81%) Azure
2 27 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (10.70%) AWS
4 18 (7.41%) SaaS
5 12 (4.94%) Entra ID
6 10 (4.12%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.70%) GCP
8 7 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.47%) Google Workspace
10 5 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (1.65%) Canva
11 4 (1.65%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 2 (0.82%) Anthropic Claude
13 2 (0.82%) ChatGPT
13 2 (0.82%) dbt
13 2 (0.82%) GitHub Copilot
13 2 (0.82%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.64%) Firewall
2 19 (7.82%) TCP/IP
3 13 (5.35%) Wireless
4 11 (4.53%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (4.12%) LAN
5 10 (4.12%) WAN
6 8 (3.29%) DNS
7 7 (2.88%) Internet
8 6 (2.47%) LTE
9 5 (2.06%) Broadband
10 4 (1.65%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (1.65%) DHCP
10 4 (1.65%) HTTP
11 3 (1.23%) Asterisk PBX
11 3 (1.23%) Hyperconnected
11 3 (1.23%) VoIP
11 3 (1.23%) VSAT
12 2 (0.82%) Network Security
12 2 (0.82%) Structured Cabling
12 2 (0.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.35%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.29%) MySQL
2 8 (3.29%) Power BI
3 4 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.65%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.23%) Tableau
5 2 (0.82%) Metadata
5 2 (0.82%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.41%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 11 (4.53%) JIRA
2 10 (4.12%) Git
3 7 (2.88%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.82%) GitLab
4 2 (0.82%) Selenium
4 2 (0.82%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.82%) Terragrunt
General
1 105 (43.21%) Social Skills
2 68 (27.98%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (23.05%) Finance
4 18 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (6.58%) Influencing Skills
5 16 (6.58%) Telecoms
6 14 (5.76%) Marketing
7 12 (4.94%) Local Government
7 12 (4.94%) Retail
8 11 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.70%) Aerospace
9 9 (3.70%) Law
10 8 (3.29%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.88%) Publishing
12 6 (2.47%) Electronics
13 5 (2.06%) Advertising
14 4 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.65%) General Ledger
14 4 (1.65%) Legal
14 4 (1.65%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 30 (12.35%) Developer
2 28 (11.52%) Support Engineer
3 27 (11.11%) Analyst
3 27 (11.11%) IT Support
3 27 (11.11%) Senior
4 18 (7.41%) IT Engineer
5 16 (6.58%) Consultant
5 16 (6.58%) IT Support Engineer
6 13 (5.35%) Systems Engineer
7 12 (4.94%) IT Technician
8 11 (4.53%) Management Consultant
8 11 (4.53%) Programme Management Office Consultant
8 11 (4.53%) Programme Office Consultant
9 10 (4.12%) Security Analyst
10 9 (3.70%) 1st Line Support
10 9 (3.70%) Account Manager
10 9 (3.70%) Coordinator
10 9 (3.70%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.29%) Support Analyst
11 8 (3.29%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.35%) .NET
2 12 (4.94%) React
3 11 (4.53%) CSS
3 11 (4.53%) HTML
4 9 (3.70%) .NET Core
5 8 (3.29%) REST
6 7 (2.88%) ASP.NET
7 6 (2.47%) .NET Framework
7 6 (2.47%) AngularJS
7 6 (2.47%) Entity Framework
8 5 (2.06%) SOAP
9 4 (1.65%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.65%) Laravel
9 4 (1.65%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (1.65%) Vue
9 4 (1.65%) WPF
10 3 (1.23%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (1.23%) Blazor
10 3 (1.23%) JWT
10 3 (1.23%) MUnit
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.41%) Onboarding
2 17 (7.00%) Management Information System
3 15 (6.17%) Driving Licence
4 10 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.47%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.65%) Blog
6 4 (1.65%) IoT
6 4 (1.65%) Podcast
6 4 (1.65%) Social Media
7 3 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.23%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (1.23%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (0.82%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.82%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.82%) Culture of Ownership
8 2 (0.82%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.82%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.93%) Windows
2 16 (6.58%) Linux
3 12 (4.94%) Windows Server
4 9 (3.70%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.65%) CentOS
5 4 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
2 31 (12.76%) Collaborative Working
2 31 (12.76%) Decision-Making
3 30 (12.35%) Agile
4 29 (11.93%) AI
5 27 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 24 (9.88%) Validation
7 22 (9.05%) CI/CD
7 22 (9.05%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (8.64%) Customer Service
9 20 (8.23%) Service Delivery
9 20 (8.23%) Software Engineering
10 19 (7.82%) Project Management
11 18 (7.41%) Business Continuity
11 18 (7.41%) Project Delivery
12 16 (6.58%) Customer Experience
12 16 (6.58%) DevOps
12 16 (6.58%) ITIL
12 16 (6.58%) Vulnerability Management
13 14 (5.76%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 32 (13.17%) Python
2 22 (9.05%) SQL
3 20 (8.23%) JavaScript
4 13 (5.35%) C#
4 13 (5.35%) TypeScript
5 10 (4.12%) PHP
6 9 (3.70%) Perl
6 9 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.29%) Java
8 5 (2.06%) Bash
9 4 (1.65%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.23%) DataWeave
11 2 (0.82%) Go
11 2 (0.82%) Scala
12 1 (0.41%) C++
12 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (16.46%) Degree
2 17 (7.00%) Security Cleared
3 16 (6.58%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.70%) ACCA
4 9 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (3.70%) CIMA
5 8 (3.29%) CISSP
6 7 (2.88%) Chartered Engineer
7 6 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (2.06%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.65%) CISM
9 4 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.23%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.23%) CCNA
10 3 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.23%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.23%) GIAC
10 3 (1.23%) HNC
10 3 (1.23%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.88%) QA
2 15 (6.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (4.94%) SLA
4 11 (4.53%) PMO
5 10 (4.12%) GDPR
6 8 (3.29%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.65%) ITGC
7 4 (1.65%) NIST
8 3 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.23%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.41%) FATCA
9 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 27 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.06%) Docker
3 2 (0.82%) Firmware
4 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (6.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.70%) Terraform
3 8 (3.29%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.82%) Ansible
4 2 (0.82%) SCCM
Vendors
1 55 (22.63%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.35%) Google
3 10 (4.12%) Sage
4 9 (3.70%) Qualys
5 8 (3.29%) Cisco
6 7 (2.88%) Palo Alto
7 6 (2.47%) Meraki
7 6 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.47%) Ubiquiti
8 5 (2.06%) Veeam
9 4 (1.65%) Aruba
10 3 (1.23%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.23%) New Relic
10 3 (1.23%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.23%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.23%) Splunk
10 3 (1.23%) Zerto
11 2 (0.82%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.82%) Oracle
11 2 (0.82%) Typelevel