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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 48 37
Rank change year-on-year +36 -11 +60
Permanent jobs citing AI 192 52 125
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 8.44% 4.42% 6.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.49% 4.97% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 116 31 79
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,250 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £62,500 £42,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +47.06% -34.62% -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 1,671 1,047 1,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 73.45% 89.03% 86.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,228 685 1,055
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £25,200
25th Percentile £41,585 £35,000 £35,021
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 £66,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 14 August 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 14 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 £86,250 -6.76% 14
Reigate - 18 £90,000 - 10
Redhill - 15 £107,500 - 3
Woking -18 14 £70,000 +62.79% 12
Epsom +5 9 £50,000 -
Egham +1 6 £50,000 -50.00%
Staines -5 4 £70,000 -3.45% 14
Leatherhead - 3 £50,000 -
Godalming - 2 £36,500 - 1
Esher +1 1 - - 1
Farnham - 1 - - 3
Banstead - 1 - - 3
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 - 2
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - - 2
Warlingham - 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 (5.21%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (5.21%) CMS
2 6 (3.13%) Apache
2 6 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.13%) WordPress
3 5 (2.60%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.56%) SAS
5 2 (1.04%) Confluence
6 1 (0.52%) JBoss
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (6.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.56%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (1.56%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.04%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.04%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.52%) Elementor
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (29.69%) Azure
2 46 (23.96%) AWS
3 33 (17.19%) SaaS
4 27 (14.06%) Azure AI
5 17 (8.85%) Power Platform
6 16 (8.33%) Adobe Analytics
7 14 (7.29%) Figma
7 14 (7.29%) GitHub
8 12 (6.25%) Snowflake
9 11 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (5.73%) GCP
10 10 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (4.69%) Microsoft Copilot
12 8 (4.17%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (2.60%) Canva
14 5 (2.60%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (2.08%) ChatGPT
15 4 (2.08%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.42%) Broadband
2 4 (2.08%) Firewall
3 2 (1.04%) Intranet
3 2 (1.04%) VPN
4 1 (0.52%) LAN
4 1 (0.52%) Network Security
4 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.29%) Tableau
2 12 (6.25%) Power BI
3 10 (5.21%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.21%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.69%) Redis
5 6 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.08%) MySQL
7 3 (1.56%) Metadata
7 3 (1.56%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.04%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.04%) Impala
8 2 (1.04%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.04%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.04%) Parquet
8 2 (1.04%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (9.38%) Git
2 5 (2.60%) JIRA
3 3 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.04%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.04%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (1.04%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.02%) Games
3 22 (11.46%) Finance
4 21 (10.94%) Influencing Skills
5 19 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.90%) Public Sector
6 14 (7.29%) Legal
7 13 (6.77%) Marketing
8 10 (5.21%) Police
9 6 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.60%) Retail
11 3 (1.56%) Banking
11 3 (1.56%) Multimedia
11 3 (1.56%) Publishing
11 3 (1.56%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.04%) Automotive
12 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.04%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.52%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 31 (16.15%) Developer
2 30 (15.63%) Lead
3 24 (12.50%) Senior
4 20 (10.42%) Software Engineer
5 17 (8.85%) Consultant
6 16 (8.33%) Analyst
6 16 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (7.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 14 (7.29%) C++ Software Engineer
8 14 (7.29%) Python Engineer
8 14 (7.29%) Python Software Engineer
9 12 (6.25%) Data Analyst
9 12 (6.25%) Junior
9 12 (6.25%) Junior Analyst
9 12 (6.25%) Junior Data Analyst
10 11 (5.73%) Software Developer
11 10 (5.21%) Designer
11 10 (5.21%) Lead Designer
12 9 (4.69%) Head of Digital
12 9 (4.69%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.77%) Node.js
2 11 (5.73%) Vue
3 10 (5.21%) .NET
3 10 (5.21%) React
4 9 (4.69%) .NET Core
5 8 (4.17%) Laravel
5 8 (4.17%) REST
6 7 (3.65%) HTML
6 7 (3.65%) PySpark
6 7 (3.65%) RESTful
7 6 (3.13%) FastAPI
8 5 (2.60%) CSS
8 5 (2.60%) Kafka
8 5 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (2.08%) ASP.NET
9 4 (2.08%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (2.08%) ML.NET
9 4 (2.08%) Spring
9 4 (2.08%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.08%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.42%) Social Media
2 10 (5.21%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.21%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.17%) Blog
4 7 (3.65%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.65%) Podcast
5 6 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.60%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 4 (2.08%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.08%) iPhone
7 4 (2.08%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.08%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.08%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.56%) IoT
8 3 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.56%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.65%) Linux
2 6 (3.13%) Windows
3 4 (2.08%) Android
3 4 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (26.04%) Machine Learning
2 46 (23.96%) Agile
2 46 (23.96%) Analytics
3 37 (19.27%) CI/CD
4 34 (17.71%) Roadmaps
5 33 (17.19%) Software Engineering
6 29 (15.10%) Full-Stack Development
7 28 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (14.06%) Customer Experience
9 26 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (11.46%) Cybersecurity
11 21 (10.94%) User Research
11 21 (10.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 20 (10.42%) DevOps
13 19 (9.90%) Information Security
14 17 (8.85%) Collaborative Working
14 17 (8.85%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (8.85%) LLM
14 17 (8.85%) Project Management
14 17 (8.85%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 66 (34.38%) Python
2 33 (17.19%) SQL
3 25 (13.02%) C#
4 23 (11.98%) JavaScript
5 20 (10.42%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.38%) C++
7 7 (3.65%) Java
7 7 (3.65%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.60%) Julia
9 4 (2.08%) Go
9 4 (2.08%) PHP
10 2 (1.04%) Bash
11 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (20.31%) Degree
2 19 (9.90%) Azure Certification
3 18 (9.38%) PhD
4 16 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (8.33%) Master's Degree
5 13 (6.77%) Security Cleared
6 12 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.13%) CISSP
8 4 (2.08%) CEH
8 4 (2.08%) CISM
8 4 (2.08%) GIAC
9 3 (1.56%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.04%) APMP
10 2 (1.04%) CISMP
10 2 (1.04%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.04%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 2 (1.04%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (0.52%) CBAP
11 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.58%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.13%) NIST
4 5 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.60%) GDPR
4 5 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 4 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.08%) ISO 9001
5 4 (2.08%) WCAG
6 3 (1.56%) QA
7 2 (1.04%) GRC
7 2 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
System Software
1 8 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (7.29%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.77%) Terraform
3 2 (1.04%) Ansible
3 2 (1.04%) Grafana
3 2 (1.04%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.04%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 52 (27.08%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.90%) Google
3 18 (9.38%) Adobe
4 6 (3.13%) Databricks
5 4 (2.08%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.08%) Qualys
5 4 (2.08%) Splunk
6 3 (1.56%) Mitel
6 3 (1.56%) New Relic
6 3 (1.56%) Oracle
6 3 (1.56%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.56%) VMware
6 3 (1.56%) Zerto
7 2 (1.04%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.04%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.52%) Foundry
8 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.52%) SAP
8 1 (0.52%) Screaming Frog