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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 52 40
Rank change year-on-year +35 -12 +39
Permanent jobs citing AI 173 49 111
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 6.88% 4.28% 6.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.96% 4.78% 6.99%
Number of salaries quoted 110 43 56
10th Percentile £36,125 £34,650 -
25th Percentile £45,750 £47,244 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -16.13% -16.22%
75th Percentile £93,125 £105,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,000 £118,750 -
South East median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -25.00% -1.23%

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 1,930 1,026 1,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 76.74% 89.53% 87.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,427 681 743
10th Percentile £30,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,520 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.74% -13.60% -

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +9 65 £82,500 -10.81% 43
Woking -7 21 £70,000 +86.67% 67
Reigate - 17 £51,250 - 9
Staines -8 9 £57,500 -20.69% 25
Egham -2 8 £92,500 -7.50% 7
Leatherhead - 5 - - 6
Redhill - 5 £50,000 - 13
Epsom +1 2 - - 7
Sunbury-on-Thames - 2 - - 13
Chertsey - 2 £52,500 - 3
Farnham - 1 - - 2
Addlestone - 1 £30,000 - 6
Banstead - 1 - - 1
AI
South East

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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 8 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.47%) CMS
3 5 (2.89%) Confluence
3 5 (2.89%) SAS
4 4 (2.31%) Apache
4 4 (2.31%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.31%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.73%) WordPress
6 2 (1.16%) JBoss
6 2 (1.16%) R Markdown
6 2 (1.16%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (5.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.16%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (1.16%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.16%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.58%) Elementor
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.58%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (31.21%) Azure
2 53 (30.64%) AWS
3 24 (13.87%) GitHub
4 23 (13.29%) SaaS
5 17 (9.83%) Azure AI
6 14 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.09%) Power Platform
7 13 (7.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (6.94%) Snowflake
9 11 (6.36%) GCP
10 9 (5.20%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (4.62%) Figma
11 8 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (4.62%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (4.05%) Anthropic Claude
12 7 (4.05%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (3.47%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (3.47%) ChatGPT
13 6 (3.47%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (2.89%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.36%) Firewall
2 9 (5.20%) VPN
3 5 (2.89%) Broadband
4 2 (1.16%) 4G
4 2 (1.16%) 5G
4 2 (1.16%) Intelligent Network
4 2 (1.16%) Intranet
4 2 (1.16%) Network Security
4 2 (1.16%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.16%) Wireless
5 1 (0.58%) LAN
5 1 (0.58%) LTE
5 1 (0.58%) NGN
5 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.78%) MongoDB
1 10 (5.78%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.20%) Power BI
2 9 (5.20%) Redis
3 6 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.47%) Tableau
4 5 (2.89%) Looker
4 5 (2.89%) MySQL
5 4 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.73%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.73%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.16%) Metadata
7 2 (1.16%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.58%) Big Data
8 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.58%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.58%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (10.98%) Git
2 10 (5.78%) JIRA
3 3 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.16%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.58%) MLflow
General
1 55 (31.79%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.14%) Finance
2 21 (12.14%) Public Sector
3 20 (11.56%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.40%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (8.09%) Marketing
6 13 (7.51%) Legal
7 10 (5.78%) Police
8 8 (4.62%) Games
8 8 (4.62%) Retail
9 6 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.73%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.73%) Publishing
11 2 (1.16%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.58%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (16.18%) Developer
2 27 (15.61%) Senior
3 24 (13.87%) Lead
4 22 (12.72%) Consultant
5 14 (8.09%) Software Engineer
6 13 (7.51%) Administrator
7 12 (6.94%) Analyst
7 12 (6.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (6.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 11 (6.36%) Software Developer
9 9 (5.20%) C++ Software Engineer
9 9 (5.20%) DevOps Administrator
9 9 (5.20%) Python Engineer
9 9 (5.20%) Python Software Engineer
9 9 (5.20%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (5.20%) Systems Administrator
10 8 (4.62%) Architect
10 8 (4.62%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.62%) Lead Developer
11 7 (4.05%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.14%) Terraform
2 12 (6.94%) Node.js
3 11 (6.36%) Vue
4 10 (5.78%) .NET
4 10 (5.78%) React
5 9 (5.20%) .NET Core
5 9 (5.20%) REST
6 8 (4.62%) HTML
6 8 (4.62%) RESTful
7 7 (4.05%) Kafka
7 7 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (3.47%) CSS
8 6 (3.47%) FastAPI
9 5 (2.89%) PySpark
9 5 (2.89%) Spring
9 5 (2.89%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.31%) ASP.NET
10 4 (2.31%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (2.31%) Laravel
10 4 (2.31%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.94%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (6.36%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (5.20%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.20%) Private Cloud
5 7 (4.05%) Social Media
6 6 (3.47%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.47%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.47%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (2.89%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.89%) Marketing Technology
7 5 (2.89%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.31%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.31%) iPhone
8 4 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.31%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.73%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.73%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.09%) Linux
2 8 (4.62%) Windows
3 5 (2.89%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.31%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (26.59%) CI/CD
2 42 (24.28%) Analytics
3 40 (23.12%) Machine Learning
4 38 (21.97%) Agile
5 32 (18.50%) DevOps
6 31 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (16.76%) Software Engineering
8 28 (16.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (12.14%) Collaborative Working
9 21 (12.14%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (11.56%) Full-Stack Development
11 19 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
12 18 (10.40%) Information Security
12 18 (10.40%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (9.83%) Customer Experience
13 17 (9.83%) Data Engineering
13 17 (9.83%) Decision-Making
13 17 (9.83%) LLM
14 16 (9.25%) Microservices
14 16 (9.25%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 58 (33.53%) Python
2 26 (15.03%) SQL
3 25 (14.45%) C#
3 25 (14.45%) JavaScript
4 20 (11.56%) TypeScript
5 14 (8.09%) C++
6 8 (4.62%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.05%) Go
8 6 (3.47%) Bash
8 6 (3.47%) Java
9 5 (2.89%) Julia
10 4 (2.31%) PHP
11 2 (1.16%) R
12 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (20.23%) Degree
2 17 (9.83%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.67%) PhD
4 14 (8.09%) Master's Degree
4 14 (8.09%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.20%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.05%) AWS Certification
7 7 (4.05%) CISSP
8 5 (2.89%) CEH
8 5 (2.89%) CISM
8 5 (2.89%) GIAC
9 2 (1.16%) APMP
9 2 (1.16%) CBAP
9 2 (1.16%) CISMP
9 2 (1.16%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.16%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (1.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.40%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.05%) NIST
4 5 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 4 (2.31%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.31%) GDPR
5 4 (2.31%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.73%) WCAG
7 2 (1.16%) GRC
7 2 (1.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 10 (5.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (12.72%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.78%) Ansible
3 9 (5.20%) Grafana
3 9 (5.20%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.47%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 50 (28.90%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.14%) Google
3 8 (4.62%) Adobe
3 8 (4.62%) Databricks
3 8 (4.62%) VMware
4 7 (4.05%) HubSpot
5 5 (2.89%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.89%) Qualys
5 5 (2.89%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.89%) Splunk
5 5 (2.89%) Spotify
6 4 (2.31%) New Relic
6 4 (2.31%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.31%) Zerto
7 3 (1.73%) Mitel
8 2 (1.16%) Ericsson
8 2 (1.16%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.16%) Oracle
9 1 (0.58%) Samsung
9 1 (0.58%) SAP