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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 56 46
Rank change year-on-year +47 -10 +47
Permanent jobs citing AI 189 40 127
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 9.10% 3.86% 4.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.49% 4.22% 5.70%
Number of salaries quoted 109 19 81
10th Percentile £36,250 - £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £44,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £91,250 £106,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -30.77% -13.33%

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 1,513 947 2,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 72.88% 91.50% 87.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,123 598 1,425
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 2 July 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 2 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 +12 77 £80,000 -9.86% 20
Redhill - 15 £107,500 -
Epsom +15 14 £50,000 - 2
Reigate - 13 £66,250 - 7
Woking -24 10 £75,000 +74.42% 13
Egham - 6 £50,000 - 1
Staines - 3 £70,000 - 6
Godalming - 2 £36,500 -
Leatherhead - 2 £50,000 - 3
Warlingham - 2 - -
Esher +1 1 - -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - -
Farnham - 1 - -
Hindhead - 1 - -
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 - 2
Banstead - 1 - - 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%) CMS
2 6 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.17%) WordPress
3 5 (2.65%) Apache
3 5 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.59%) SAS
5 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.12%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (2.12%) Photoshop
3 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.06%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.06%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (27.51%) Azure
2 37 (19.58%) AWS
2 37 (19.58%) SaaS
3 31 (16.40%) Azure AI
4 23 (12.17%) Adobe Analytics
5 19 (10.05%) Figma
5 19 (10.05%) GitHub
6 18 (9.52%) Power Platform
7 12 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (4.23%) Google Analytics
10 8 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (3.70%) GCP
12 6 (3.17%) Canva
12 6 (3.17%) Copilot Studio
12 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (2.12%) Google Play
13 4 (2.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 28 (14.81%) Broadband
2 10 (5.29%) Unified Communications
3 8 (4.23%) Firewall
3 8 (4.23%) VPN
4 3 (1.59%) HTTP
4 3 (1.59%) RTP
4 3 (1.59%) VoIP
4 3 (1.59%) Wireshark
5 2 (1.06%) Intranet
6 1 (0.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.52%) Tableau
2 16 (8.47%) Power BI
3 12 (6.35%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.23%) Metadata
5 7 (3.70%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.17%) MySQL
6 6 (3.17%) Redis
7 5 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.06%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.06%) Impala
10 2 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.06%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.06%) Parquet
10 2 (1.06%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.06%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (7.41%) Git
2 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.06%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (1.06%) JIRA
2 2 (1.06%) Terragrunt
2 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 56 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.34%) Games
3 25 (13.23%) Marketing
4 20 (10.58%) Finance
5 19 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (8.47%) Retail
7 8 (4.23%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.70%) Automotive
9 6 (3.17%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.12%) Multimedia
11 4 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.12%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.59%) Banking
12 3 (1.59%) Legal
12 3 (1.59%) Publishing
13 2 (1.06%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.53%) Advertising
14 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (15.87%) Senior
2 28 (14.81%) Developer
3 27 (14.29%) Lead
4 22 (11.64%) Software Engineer
5 19 (10.05%) Analyst
6 16 (8.47%) Data Analyst
6 16 (8.47%) Designer
6 16 (8.47%) Junior
6 16 (8.47%) Junior Analyst
6 16 (8.47%) Junior Data Analyst
6 16 (8.47%) Lead Designer
7 15 (7.94%) C++ Software Engineer
7 15 (7.94%) Python Engineer
7 15 (7.94%) Python Software Engineer
8 14 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 13 (6.88%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (4.76%) Head of Digital
10 9 (4.76%) Senior Manager
10 9 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (4.23%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.82%) React
1 11 (5.82%) REST
2 10 (5.29%) Node.js
3 9 (4.76%) Vue
4 8 (4.23%) Laravel
5 7 (3.70%) .NET
5 7 (3.70%) HTML
6 6 (3.17%) .NET Core
6 6 (3.17%) FastAPI
6 6 (3.17%) RESTful
7 5 (2.65%) CSS
7 5 (2.65%) Flask
8 4 (2.12%) ASP.NET
8 4 (2.12%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (2.12%) Blazor
8 4 (2.12%) ML.NET
8 4 (2.12%) Spring
8 4 (2.12%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.12%) Tailwind CSS
9 3 (1.59%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.29%) Social Media
2 13 (6.88%) Algorithms
3 10 (5.29%) Blog
3 10 (5.29%) Podcast
4 8 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.23%) Private Cloud
5 7 (3.70%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.65%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.12%) IoT
8 4 (2.12%) iPhone
8 4 (2.12%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.12%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.59%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (1.59%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (1.06%) Culture of Ownership
10 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.88%) Linux
2 4 (2.12%) Android
3 3 (1.59%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.59%) Windows
4 2 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (23.81%) Machine Learning
2 43 (22.75%) Agile
2 43 (22.75%) Analytics
3 40 (21.16%) Customer Experience
4 39 (20.63%) Roadmaps
5 34 (17.99%) CI/CD
6 29 (15.34%) Full-Stack Development
6 29 (15.34%) Software Engineering
7 27 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 26 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (13.23%) User Research
10 24 (12.70%) B2B
11 23 (12.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (12.17%) DevOps
11 23 (12.17%) Digital Customer Experience
11 23 (12.17%) Product Roadmap
11 23 (12.17%) Prototyping
11 23 (12.17%) Storytelling
12 20 (10.58%) SEO
12 20 (10.58%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 68 (35.98%) Python
2 30 (15.87%) SQL
3 20 (10.58%) C++
4 18 (9.52%) C#
5 17 (8.99%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.29%) Go
8 8 (4.23%) Bash
9 7 (3.70%) Java
10 5 (2.65%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.12%) Julia
11 4 (2.12%) PHP
12 3 (1.59%) C
13 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (17.46%) Degree
2 22 (11.64%) Azure Certification
3 17 (8.99%) PhD
4 15 (7.94%) Master's Degree
5 14 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.23%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.59%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.06%) CEH
8 2 (1.06%) CISM
8 2 (1.06%) CISSP
8 2 (1.06%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.06%) GIAC
8 2 (1.06%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.46%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.12%) WCAG
4 3 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.59%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.59%) QA
5 2 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.06%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 6 (3.17%) Docker
2 3 (1.59%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.41%) Terraform
3 8 (4.23%) Ansible
3 8 (4.23%) Grafana
3 8 (4.23%) Prometheus
3 8 (4.23%) Proxmox
4 3 (1.59%) Argo
Vendors
1 51 (26.98%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.23%) Adobe
3 19 (10.05%) Google
4 8 (4.23%) VMware
5 6 (3.17%) BT
5 6 (3.17%) Fortinet
5 6 (3.17%) Mitel
6 3 (1.59%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.59%) Oracle
7 2 (1.06%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.06%) New Relic
7 2 (1.06%) Qualys
7 2 (1.06%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.06%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.06%) Splunk
7 2 (1.06%) Zerto
8 1 (0.53%) Ahrefs
8 1 (0.53%) Foundry
8 1 (0.53%) SAP
8 1 (0.53%) Screaming Frog