AI Job Trends in Surrey

AI
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 51 35
Rank change year-on-year +39 -16 +59
Permanent jobs citing AI 189 51 126
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 8.31% 4.27% 6.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.19% 4.82% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 120 35 81
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,250 -
25th Percentile £49,063 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +37.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £62,500 £50,000 £64,250
% change year-on-year +25.00% -22.18% -14.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

AI 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 1,689 1,058 1,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 74.27% 88.68% 86.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,243 701 1,004
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £27,150
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £36,250
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 £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%

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

AI job vacancy trend in Surrey

AI
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing AI

AI
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing AI in Surrey over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in Surrey

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Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 23 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
Guildford +13 77 £85,000 -8.11% 11
Reigate - 19 £90,000 - 4
Redhill - 15 £107,500 - 1
Woking -22 14 £70,000 +62.79% 8
Epsom +4 8 £50,000 -
Egham +3 8 £92,500 -7.50% 2
Staines -10 5 £70,000 -3.45% 3
Godalming - 2 £36,500 - 1
Leatherhead - 2 - - 1
Farnham - 1 - - 2
Banstead - 1 - -
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 - 1
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - -
AI
South East

AI
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 10 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.23%) CMS
3 6 (3.17%) Apache
3 6 (3.17%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.65%) Apache Spark
4 5 (2.65%) WordPress
5 3 (1.59%) SAS
6 2 (1.06%) Confluence
7 1 (0.53%) JBoss
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (6.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (1.59%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.06%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.06%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.53%) Elementor
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (30.16%) Azure
2 49 (25.93%) AWS
3 32 (16.93%) SaaS
4 26 (13.76%) Azure AI
5 16 (8.47%) GitHub
5 16 (8.47%) Power Platform
6 12 (6.35%) Adobe Analytics
6 12 (6.35%) Snowflake
7 11 (5.82%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (5.82%) Figma
7 11 (5.82%) GCP
8 10 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (4.23%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (3.70%) Copilot Studio
11 6 (3.17%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (2.65%) ChatGPT
13 4 (2.12%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.12%) Anthropic Claude
13 4 (2.12%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.94%) Broadband
2 5 (2.65%) Firewall
3 3 (1.59%) VPN
4 2 (1.06%) 4G
4 2 (1.06%) 5G
4 2 (1.06%) Intelligent Network
4 2 (1.06%) Intranet
4 2 (1.06%) Network Security
4 2 (1.06%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.06%) Wireless
5 1 (0.53%) LAN
5 1 (0.53%) LTE
5 1 (0.53%) NGN
5 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.88%) Tableau
2 11 (5.82%) MongoDB
2 11 (5.82%) Power BI
3 10 (5.29%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.76%) Redis
5 7 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.65%) MySQL
7 4 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.59%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.06%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.06%) Impala
9 2 (1.06%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.06%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.06%) Parquet
9 2 (1.06%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.53%) Looker
10 1 (0.53%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 19 (10.05%) Git
2 6 (3.17%) JIRA
3 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.06%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (1.06%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 22 (11.64%) Finance
3 21 (11.11%) Games
3 21 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 20 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (7.41%) Legal
7 11 (5.82%) Marketing
8 10 (5.29%) Police
9 5 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.12%) Retail
10 4 (2.12%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.59%) Banking
11 3 (1.59%) Publishing
12 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.06%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.53%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 32 (16.93%) Developer
2 27 (14.29%) Lead
3 24 (12.70%) Senior
4 20 (10.58%) Software Engineer
5 18 (9.52%) Consultant
6 16 (8.47%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (7.94%) Analyst
7 15 (7.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 14 (7.41%) C++ Software Engineer
8 14 (7.41%) Python Engineer
8 14 (7.41%) Python Software Engineer
9 12 (6.35%) Junior
10 11 (5.82%) Data Analyst
10 11 (5.82%) Junior Analyst
10 11 (5.82%) Junior Data Analyst
10 11 (5.82%) Software Developer
11 9 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Data Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Designer
12 8 (4.23%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.94%) Terraform
2 13 (6.88%) Node.js
3 11 (5.82%) Vue
4 10 (5.29%) .NET
4 10 (5.29%) React
4 10 (5.29%) REST
5 9 (4.76%) .NET Core
6 8 (4.23%) Laravel
6 8 (4.23%) RESTful
7 7 (3.70%) HTML
7 7 (3.70%) PySpark
8 6 (3.17%) FastAPI
8 6 (3.17%) Kafka
8 6 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.65%) CSS
9 5 (2.65%) Spring
9 5 (2.65%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.12%) ASP.NET
10 4 (2.12%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (2.12%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.47%) Social Media
2 11 (5.82%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.29%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.70%) Blog
6 6 (3.17%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.17%) Podcast
7 5 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (2.65%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.65%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.12%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.12%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.12%) iPhone
8 4 (2.12%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.12%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.59%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.59%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.76%) Linux
2 7 (3.70%) Windows
3 5 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (26.98%) Machine Learning
2 42 (22.22%) Agile
3 41 (21.69%) Analytics
4 39 (20.63%) CI/CD
5 34 (17.99%) Software Engineering
6 29 (15.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 28 (14.81%) Roadmaps
8 27 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (12.17%) Cybersecurity
10 23 (12.17%) DevOps
11 21 (11.11%) Customer Experience
12 20 (10.58%) Information Security
13 18 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (9.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 17 (8.99%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (8.99%) User Research
15 16 (8.47%) Collaborative Working
15 16 (8.47%) Data Engineering
15 16 (8.47%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (34.92%) Python
2 32 (16.93%) SQL
3 25 (13.23%) C#
4 24 (12.70%) JavaScript
5 20 (10.58%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.52%) C++
7 8 (4.23%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.70%) Java
9 5 (2.65%) Go
9 5 (2.65%) Julia
10 4 (2.12%) PHP
11 3 (1.59%) Bash
12 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (20.11%) Degree
2 18 (9.52%) Azure Certification
2 18 (9.52%) PhD
3 16 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (8.47%) Master's Degree
4 13 (6.88%) Security Cleared
5 12 (6.35%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.70%) CISSP
7 5 (2.65%) CEH
7 5 (2.65%) CISM
7 5 (2.65%) GIAC
8 4 (2.12%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.06%) APMP
9 2 (1.06%) CISMP
9 2 (1.06%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.06%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (1.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.53%) CBAP
10 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.23%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.70%) NIST
4 5 (2.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (2.65%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.65%) GDPR
4 5 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 4 (2.12%) ISO 9001
5 4 (2.12%) WCAG
6 3 (1.59%) QA
7 2 (1.06%) GRC
7 2 (1.06%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (4.76%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.59%) Ansible
2 3 (1.59%) Grafana
2 3 (1.59%) Prometheus
2 3 (1.59%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 52 (27.51%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.52%) Google
3 15 (7.94%) Adobe
4 6 (3.17%) Databricks
5 5 (2.65%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.65%) Qualys
5 5 (2.65%) Splunk
6 4 (2.12%) New Relic
6 4 (2.12%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.12%) VMware
6 4 (2.12%) Zerto
7 3 (1.59%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.59%) Mitel
7 3 (1.59%) Oracle
8 2 (1.06%) Ericsson
8 2 (1.06%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.53%) Huawei
9 1 (0.53%) Nokia
9 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.53%) SAP