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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 22 84
Rank change year-on-year +19 +62 -16
Permanent jobs citing AI 430 82 45
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 22.50% 7.81% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.42% 8.37% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 58 34 29
10th Percentile £44,750 £60,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,313 £66,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £77,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% +33.91% -17.86%
75th Percentile £83,750 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,375 £103,750 -
South East median annual salary £50,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +7.14% -

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 1,513 980 1,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 79.17% 93.33% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 901 474 1,137
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £78,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 7 March 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 7 March 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 +1 44 £62,500 -16.67% 8
Epsom +34 17 £50,000 - 3
Warlingham - 15 - -
Weybridge - 14 £90,000 -
Cobham - 14 - -
Reigate +1 10 £90,000 +33.33% 7
Esher 0 9 £60,000 - 1
Banstead 0 8 - - 2
Egham - 8 - -
Whyteleafe +3 7 - -
Redhill +2 7 - - 13
Thames Ditton -1 7 - -
Woking -11 7 £57,500 -28.13% 8
Staines - 7 - - 3
Sunbury-on-Thames - 7 - - 1
Tadworth - 7 - -
Godstone - 7 - -
Leatherhead - 7 £50,000 - 4
Addlestone - 7 - -
Betchworth - 7 - -
Caterham - 7 - - 1
Chertsey - 7 - -
East Molesey 0 6 - -
Oxted - 6 - -
Shepperton - 6 - -
Walton-on-Thames - 6 - -
Farnham - 1 - -
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 5 (1.16%) IIS
2 4 (0.93%) CMS
3 3 (0.70%) WordPress
4 2 (0.47%) Apache
4 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.47%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.70%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (0.70%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.23%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.47%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 327 (76.05%) Cloud Computing
2 16 (3.72%) AWS
2 16 (3.72%) Power Platform
2 16 (3.72%) SaaS
3 15 (3.49%) Azure
4 13 (3.02%) Adobe Analytics
5 12 (2.79%) Azure AI
6 10 (2.33%) Figma
6 10 (2.33%) GitHub
6 10 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (1.63%) Google Analytics
8 5 (1.16%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.70%) Canva
10 2 (0.47%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.47%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.47%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.23%) GCP
11 1 (0.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 327 (76.05%) Internet
2 16 (3.72%) Broadband
3 10 (2.33%) Unified Communications
4 8 (1.86%) VPN
5 7 (1.63%) Firewall
6 3 (0.70%) HTTP
6 3 (0.70%) RTP
6 3 (0.70%) VoIP
6 3 (0.70%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.23%) BGP
7 1 (0.23%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.65%) Tableau
2 14 (3.26%) Power BI
3 8 (1.86%) Metadata
4 5 (1.16%) Big Data
4 5 (1.16%) Data Mining
4 5 (1.16%) Hadoop
4 5 (1.16%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.70%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.70%) MySQL
6 2 (0.47%) Apache Hive
6 2 (0.47%) Impala
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.47%) Parquet
6 2 (0.47%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (1.16%) Git
2 2 (0.47%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.23%) Jasmine
General
1 352 (81.86%) Social Skills
2 332 (77.21%) Banking
3 327 (76.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 27 (6.28%) Marketing
5 18 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (3.95%) Retail
7 16 (3.72%) Games
8 9 (2.09%) Finance
9 7 (1.63%) Automotive
10 5 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.16%) Public Sector
11 4 (0.93%) Legal
11 4 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.70%) Law
12 3 (0.70%) Multimedia
12 3 (0.70%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.23%) Advertising
14 1 (0.23%) Local Government
14 1 (0.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 270 (62.79%) Lecturer
2 28 (6.51%) Senior
3 14 (3.26%) Analyst
4 13 (3.02%) Lead
5 12 (2.79%) Data Analyst
5 12 (2.79%) Junior
5 12 (2.79%) Junior Analyst
5 12 (2.79%) Junior Data Analyst
5 12 (2.79%) Senior Manager
6 10 (2.33%) Designer
6 10 (2.33%) Developer
6 10 (2.33%) Lead Designer
7 8 (1.86%) Software Engineer
8 7 (1.63%) Account Manager
8 7 (1.63%) Administrator
8 7 (1.63%) DevOps Administrator
8 7 (1.63%) Senior Account Manager
8 7 (1.63%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (1.63%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 7 (1.63%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.33%) REST
2 8 (1.86%) WPF
3 7 (1.63%) .NET
3 7 (1.63%) Blazor
3 7 (1.63%) WinForms
4 5 (1.16%) Play Framework
5 4 (0.93%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.93%) React
5 4 (0.93%) Vue
6 3 (0.70%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.70%) Django
6 3 (0.70%) Flask
6 3 (0.70%) FreeSWITCH
6 3 (0.70%) Jinja
6 3 (0.70%) OAuth
6 3 (0.70%) OAuth2
6 3 (0.70%) pytest
6 3 (0.70%) RFC 2833
6 3 (0.70%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (0.70%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 330 (76.74%) IoT
2 16 (3.72%) Social Media
3 15 (3.49%) Algorithms
4 7 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (1.63%) Private Cloud
5 6 (1.40%) Blog
5 6 (1.40%) Podcast
6 5 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.70%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.23%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (0.23%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.23%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.23%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.23%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.23%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.23%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.23%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.23%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.33%) Linux
2 3 (0.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (81.63%) Machine Learning
2 331 (76.98%) User Experience
3 330 (76.74%) Cybersecurity
4 327 (76.05%) Web Development
5 33 (7.67%) Analytics
6 28 (6.51%) Customer Experience
7 27 (6.28%) Roadmaps
8 24 (5.58%) Agile
9 19 (4.42%) CI/CD
10 18 (4.19%) B2B
11 16 (3.72%) Decision-Making
12 15 (3.49%) DevOps
12 15 (3.49%) SEO
13 14 (3.26%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (3.26%) Software Engineering
13 14 (3.26%) User Research
14 13 (3.02%) Digital Customer Experience
14 13 (3.02%) Product Roadmap
14 13 (3.02%) Storytelling
14 13 (3.02%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 36 (8.37%) Python
2 20 (4.65%) SQL
3 8 (1.86%) C#
3 8 (1.86%) C++
4 7 (1.63%) Bash
4 7 (1.63%) Go
4 7 (1.63%) Java
5 5 (1.16%) R
5 5 (1.16%) Scala
6 4 (0.93%) C
7 2 (0.47%) Julia
7 2 (0.47%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.23%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 347 (80.70%) Degree
2 337 (78.37%) Master's Degree
3 332 (77.21%) PhD
4 327 (76.05%) Postgraduate
5 12 (2.79%) Azure Certification
6 10 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.63%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.16%) MBA
9 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.23%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.95%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.47%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.23%) GDPR
5 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
System Software
1 9 (2.09%) Docker
2 3 (0.70%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (3.02%) Terraform
2 10 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.63%) Ansible
3 7 (1.63%) Grafana
3 7 (1.63%) Prometheus
3 7 (1.63%) Proxmox
4 3 (0.70%) Argo
5 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (5.58%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.02%) Adobe
3 11 (2.56%) BT
4 8 (1.86%) Google
4 8 (1.86%) VMware
5 6 (1.40%) Fortinet
5 6 (1.40%) Mitel
6 5 (1.16%) Databricks
7 3 (0.70%) Sage
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle
8 2 (0.47%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.23%) Ahrefs
9 1 (0.23%) Cisco
9 1 (0.23%) Foundry
9 1 (0.23%) Meraki
9 1 (0.23%) Screaming Frog