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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 54 53
Rank change year-on-year +51 -1 +42
Permanent jobs citing AI 270 44 121
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 13.14% 4.33% 5.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.15% 4.73% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 87 16 71
10th Percentile £40,663 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £62,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +20.83% -14.29%
75th Percentile £91,250 £104,375 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% -15.63%

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 1,488 930 2,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 72.41% 91.54% 89.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,003 520 1,373
10th Percentile £31,302 £30,750 £24,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,766 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,250 £77,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -9.09%

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 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in Surrey

AI
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 21 May 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 +8 68 £62,500 -13.79% 13
Redhill - 16 £165,000 - 1
Epsom +23 15 £50,000 - 2
Reigate +1 13 £66,250 - 2
Weybridge - 7 £90,000 - 1
Warlingham - 6 - -
Egham - 6 - - 2
Cobham - 5 - -
Esher - 5 £60,000 - 4
Woking -22 4 £66,250 -23.19% 7
Sunbury-on-Thames - 4 - - 1
Chertsey - 4 £52,500 - 2
Banstead - 3 - -
Caterham - 3 - -
Leatherhead - 3 £50,000 -
Staines - 3 - - 1
Shepperton - 2 - -
Tadworth - 2 - -
Thames Ditton - 2 - -
Walton-on-Thames - 2 - - 1
Whyteleafe - 2 - -
Oxted - 2 - - 1
Godalming - 2 £36,500 -
Betchworth - 2 - -
East Molesey - 2 - -
Addlestone - 1 - -
Godstone - 1 - -
Farnham - 1 - - 3
Hindhead - 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 7 (2.59%) CMS
2 6 (2.22%) WordPress
3 5 (1.85%) IIS
3 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.74%) Apache
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.74%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 21 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.48%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (1.48%) Photoshop
3 3 (1.11%) UserZoom
4 2 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.74%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.74%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 102 (37.78%) Cloud Computing
2 42 (15.56%) Azure
3 31 (11.48%) AWS
3 31 (11.48%) Azure AI
4 28 (10.37%) SaaS
5 25 (9.26%) Adobe Analytics
6 24 (8.89%) Power Platform
7 20 (7.41%) Figma
8 13 (4.81%) GitHub
9 11 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (2.59%) Google Analytics
12 7 (2.59%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.22%) Canva
13 6 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (1.85%) Copilot Studio
14 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
15 4 (1.48%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 102 (37.78%) Internet
2 29 (10.74%) Broadband
3 10 (3.70%) Unified Communications
4 8 (2.96%) Firewall
4 8 (2.96%) VPN
5 3 (1.11%) HTTP
5 3 (1.11%) RTP
5 3 (1.11%) VoIP
5 3 (1.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.00%) Tableau
2 20 (7.41%) Power BI
3 8 (2.96%) Metadata
4 5 (1.85%) Big Data
4 5 (1.85%) Data Mining
4 5 (1.85%) Hadoop
4 5 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.85%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.48%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.11%) MySQL
7 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.74%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.74%) Impala
7 2 (0.74%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.74%) Parquet
7 2 (0.74%) Redis
7 2 (0.74%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (3.33%) Git
2 2 (0.74%) Cypress.io
2 2 (0.74%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (0.74%) Terragrunt
2 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.37%) JIRA
General
1 151 (55.93%) Social Skills
2 105 (38.89%) Banking
3 103 (38.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (11.11%) Games
4 30 (11.11%) Marketing
5 22 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.93%) Finance
6 16 (5.93%) Retail
7 7 (2.59%) Automotive
8 5 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.48%) Multimedia
9 4 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.11%) Legal
10 3 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.11%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.74%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.37%) Advertising
12 1 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 86 (31.85%) Lecturer
2 31 (11.48%) Senior
3 25 (9.26%) Lead
4 23 (8.52%) Analyst
5 20 (7.41%) Data Analyst
5 20 (7.41%) Junior
5 20 (7.41%) Junior Analyst
5 20 (7.41%) Junior Data Analyst
6 18 (6.67%) Developer
7 17 (6.30%) Designer
7 17 (6.30%) Lead Designer
8 14 (5.19%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.44%) C++ Software Engineer
9 12 (4.44%) Python Engineer
9 12 (4.44%) Python Software Engineer
9 12 (4.44%) Senior Manager
10 11 (4.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (3.33%) Head of Digital
12 8 (2.96%) DevOps Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.96%) REST
2 6 (2.22%) Laravel
3 5 (1.85%) Node.js
3 5 (1.85%) Play Framework
3 5 (1.85%) Vue
4 4 (1.48%) HTML
4 4 (1.48%) React
5 3 (1.11%) .NET
5 3 (1.11%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.11%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.11%) Django
5 3 (1.11%) Flask
5 3 (1.11%) FreeSWITCH
5 3 (1.11%) Jinja
5 3 (1.11%) OAuth
5 3 (1.11%) OAuth2
5 3 (1.11%) pytest
5 3 (1.11%) RFC 2833
5 3 (1.11%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (1.11%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 106 (39.26%) IoT
2 29 (10.74%) Social Media
3 16 (5.93%) Algorithms
4 10 (3.70%) Blog
4 10 (3.70%) Podcast
5 8 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.96%) Private Cloud
6 7 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.48%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.11%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.11%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.74%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.37%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.37%) BBC
10 1 (0.37%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 1 (0.37%) iPhone
10 1 (0.37%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.44%) Linux
2 3 (1.11%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.37%) Android
3 1 (0.37%) Windows
3 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (50.74%) Machine Learning
2 113 (41.85%) User Experience
3 111 (41.11%) Cybersecurity
4 104 (38.52%) Web Development
5 47 (17.41%) Roadmaps
6 44 (16.30%) Analytics
7 40 (14.81%) Agile
8 39 (14.44%) Customer Experience
9 26 (9.63%) User Research
10 25 (9.26%) Digital Customer Experience
10 25 (9.26%) Product Roadmap
10 25 (9.26%) Storytelling
10 25 (9.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 24 (8.89%) B2B
11 24 (8.89%) CI/CD
12 23 (8.52%) Prototyping
13 21 (7.78%) Workshop Facilitation
14 20 (7.41%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (7.04%) SEO
15 19 (7.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (25.19%) Python
2 30 (11.11%) SQL
3 15 (5.56%) C++
4 12 (4.44%) C#
5 9 (3.33%) Go
5 9 (3.33%) TypeScript
6 8 (2.96%) Bash
6 8 (2.96%) Java
6 8 (2.96%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.85%) R
7 5 (1.85%) Scala
8 3 (1.11%) C
8 3 (1.11%) Julia
8 3 (1.11%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 130 (48.15%) Degree
2 119 (44.07%) Master's Degree
3 115 (42.59%) PhD
4 102 (37.78%) Postgraduate
5 26 (9.63%) Azure Certification
6 12 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.96%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.85%) MBA
9 3 (1.11%) Security Cleared
10 2 (0.74%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.37%) CEH
11 1 (0.37%) CISM
11 1 (0.37%) CISSP
11 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.37%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.22%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.11%) QA
4 3 (1.11%) WCAG
5 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.37%) GDPR
6 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.37%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (1.11%) Docker
1 3 (1.11%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 12 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.70%) Terraform
3 8 (2.96%) Ansible
3 8 (2.96%) Grafana
3 8 (2.96%) Prometheus
3 8 (2.96%) Proxmox
4 3 (1.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 44 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.00%) Adobe
3 12 (4.44%) Google
4 11 (4.07%) BT
5 8 (2.96%) VMware
6 6 (2.22%) Fortinet
6 6 (2.22%) Mitel
7 5 (1.85%) Databricks
8 2 (0.74%) HubSpot
8 2 (0.74%) Oracle
8 2 (0.74%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.37%) Ahrefs
9 1 (0.37%) Foundry
9 1 (0.37%) New Relic
9 1 (0.37%) Qualys
9 1 (0.37%) Screaming Frog
9 1 (0.37%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.37%) Splunk
9 1 (0.37%) Zerto