Problem-Solving Jobs in Surrey

Problem Solving
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey requiring Problem-Solving skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Problem-Solving over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 4 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +5
Permanent jobs citing Problem-Solving 157 519 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 16.09% 20.55% 18.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.88% 22.72% 19.62%
Number of salaries quoted 114 274 229
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,375 £97,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%

All Process and 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 878 2,284 2,314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 89.96% 90.42% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 531 1,435 1,395
10th Percentile £31,250 £24,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,021 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £91,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Problem-Solving
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Problem-Solving as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Problem-Solving in Surrey

Problem-Solving
Salary Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Problem-Solving in Surrey.

Salary trend for Problem-Solving in Surrey

Problem-Solving
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Problem-Solving in Surrey over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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 May 2025. 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 -7 16 £52,500 +16.67% 9
Woking +9 15 £50,000 -37.50% 38
Camberley -3 15 £35,000 +2.94% 3
Reigate +9 13 £42,500 -4.41% 3
Staines +8 9 £60,000 -33.33% 7
Guildford -9 8 £60,000 +29.73% 57
Dorking -2 7 £70,000 +12.00% 1
Caterham -2 6 £32,500 -4.41%
Leatherhead -1 4 £56,250 -6.25% 16
Tadworth -2 4 - -
Epsom -20 3 £60,000 +50.00% 9
Horley +1 1 £24,500 +5.38% 1
Godalming - 1 £55,000 - 1
Windlesham - 1 £77,500 -
Problem-Solving
South East

Problem-Solving
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.18%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.64%) Apache
3 1 (0.64%) Confluence
3 1 (0.64%) IIS
Applications
1 23 (14.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.27%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (1.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (1.27%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.27%) InDesign
3 2 (1.27%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.64%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.64%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 44 (28.03%) Azure
2 24 (15.29%) Power Platform
3 12 (7.64%) AWS
3 12 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (5.10%) SaaS
5 5 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.55%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (2.55%) GCP
7 3 (1.91%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.27%) Figma
8 2 (1.27%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.27%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.27%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.27%) Serverless
9 1 (0.64%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.64%) PaaS
9 1 (0.64%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.01%) Firewall
2 6 (3.82%) NAS
2 6 (3.82%) SAN
2 6 (3.82%) VPN
3 5 (3.18%) DNS
3 5 (3.18%) Network Security
3 5 (3.18%) VLAN
4 3 (1.91%) 3G
4 3 (1.91%) GPRS
4 3 (1.91%) LTE
4 3 (1.91%) Modbus
4 3 (1.91%) Wireless
5 1 (0.64%) DHCP
5 1 (0.64%) Internet
5 1 (0.64%) Intranet
5 1 (0.64%) LAN
5 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.01%) Power BI
2 12 (7.64%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (3.18%) Big Data
4 5 (3.18%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.55%) Metadata
5 4 (2.55%) Metadata Repository
5 4 (2.55%) MySQL
5 4 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.91%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.27%) Pentaho
7 2 (1.27%) Redis
7 2 (1.27%) Spark SQL
7 2 (1.27%) Tableau
7 2 (1.27%) Triplestore
8 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (12.10%) JIRA
2 9 (5.73%) Git
3 7 (4.46%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.27%) CMake
5 2 (1.27%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.27%) TestRail
6 1 (0.64%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.64%) ESLint
6 1 (0.64%) Gatling
6 1 (0.64%) JMeter
6 1 (0.64%) Maven
6 1 (0.64%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.64%) Subversion
6 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 96 (61.15%) Social Skills
2 45 (28.66%) Finance
3 35 (22.29%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.01%) Electronics
4 11 (7.01%) Telecoms
5 10 (6.37%) Marketing
6 8 (5.10%) Billing
6 8 (5.10%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.18%) Law
7 5 (3.18%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.91%) Retail
10 2 (1.27%) Back Office
10 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Legal
11 1 (0.64%) Aviation
11 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.64%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 29 (18.47%) Analyst
2 26 (16.56%) Support Engineer
3 25 (15.92%) IT Engineer
4 23 (14.65%) IT Support
4 23 (14.65%) IT Support Engineer
5 22 (14.01%) Senior
6 15 (9.55%) Financial Analyst
7 12 (7.64%) Data Engineer
8 10 (6.37%) Business Analyst
8 10 (6.37%) Finance Business Analyst
8 10 (6.37%) Systems Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) IT Manager
9 8 (5.10%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.10%) Support Analyst
10 7 (4.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.82%) Infrastructure Support
11 6 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (3.82%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.10%) HTML
2 7 (4.46%) .NET
3 6 (3.82%) REST
4 5 (3.18%) React
4 5 (3.18%) XML
5 4 (2.55%) CSS
6 3 (1.91%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.91%) HTML5
6 3 (1.91%) JSON
6 3 (1.91%) Kafka
6 3 (1.91%) Pandas
7 2 (1.27%) Apache Jena
7 2 (1.27%) Node.js
7 2 (1.27%) OpenCL
7 2 (1.27%) PySpark
7 2 (1.27%) QML
7 2 (1.27%) Qt
7 2 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.27%) RESTful
7 2 (1.27%) VTK
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.10%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (5.10%) Driving Licence
3 7 (4.46%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.82%) Clustering
4 6 (3.82%) VHDL
5 5 (3.18%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.91%) IoT
6 3 (1.91%) NB-IoT
6 3 (1.91%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.27%) Animation
7 2 (1.27%) CUDA
7 2 (1.27%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.27%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.27%) PMI
7 2 (1.27%) Video Editing
8 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.64%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 30 (19.11%) Windows
2 12 (7.64%) Apple iOS
2 12 (7.64%) Linux
3 11 (7.01%) Mac OS
4 7 (4.46%) Unix
5 3 (1.91%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.64%) Android
6 1 (0.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (19.11%) Business Intelligence
1 30 (19.11%) Computer Science
2 27 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (15.92%) Agile
3 25 (15.92%) Customer Service
4 21 (13.38%) Project Management
5 19 (12.10%) ITSM
6 18 (11.46%) Decision-Making
6 18 (11.46%) DevOps
7 17 (10.83%) Software Engineering
8 16 (10.19%) Roadmaps
9 15 (9.55%) CI/CD
9 15 (9.55%) Data Modelling
10 13 (8.28%) Validation
11 12 (7.64%) Product Requirements
12 11 (7.01%) Analytics
12 11 (7.01%) B2B
12 11 (7.01%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (7.01%) Data Analysis
12 11 (7.01%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 38 (24.20%) SQL
2 24 (15.29%) Python
3 16 (10.19%) PowerShell
4 11 (7.01%) Java
5 10 (6.37%) C#
6 9 (5.73%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.82%) Bash
7 6 (3.82%) Perl
7 6 (3.82%) Scala
8 5 (3.18%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.18%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.55%) C++
10 3 (1.91%) C
10 3 (1.91%) Fortran
10 3 (1.91%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.27%) C-shell
11 2 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.27%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.27%) SPARQL
11 2 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (29.94%) Degree
2 13 (8.28%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.01%) BPSS Clearance
3 11 (7.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (6.37%) DV Cleared
5 9 (5.73%) ACCA
5 9 (5.73%) CIMA
5 9 (5.73%) HNC
6 6 (3.82%) HND
7 4 (2.55%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.91%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.27%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.64%) CBAP
10 1 (0.64%) CRISC
10 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.46%) QA
2 4 (2.55%) GDPR
3 3 (1.91%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.27%) Dublin Core
5 1 (0.64%) COBIT
5 1 (0.64%) GRC
5 1 (0.64%) NCSC
5 1 (0.64%) NIST
5 1 (0.64%) SLA
5 1 (0.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (7.64%) Active Directory
1 12 (7.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.82%) Firmware
3 4 (2.55%) Docker
3 4 (2.55%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (6.37%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.55%) Terraform
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 41 (26.11%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.28%) VMware
3 8 (5.10%) Google
4 6 (3.82%) Anaplan
4 6 (3.82%) Oracle
5 5 (3.18%) CheckPoint
5 5 (3.18%) Informatica
5 5 (3.18%) SAP
6 4 (2.55%) Citrix
6 4 (2.55%) Dell
6 4 (2.55%) Veeam
7 2 (1.27%) Adobe
7 2 (1.27%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.27%) Talend
8 1 (0.64%) Adyen
8 1 (0.64%) Cisco
8 1 (0.64%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.64%) Sun
8 1 (0.64%) Vectorworks