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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 54 39
Rank change year-on-year +41 -15 +52
Permanent jobs citing AI 187 49 127
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 8.17% 4.09% 6.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.99% 4.60% 7.38%
Number of salaries quoted 121 36 81
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,250 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% +27.08% -14.29%
75th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,625 £87,500
South East median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -19.23% -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 1,702 1,065 1,720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 74.32% 88.82% 86.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,257 711 993
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £37,500
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 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 26 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 26 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 +14 77 £83,750 -9.46% 12
Reigate - 20 £75,000 - 3
Redhill - 15 £107,500 -
Woking -21 14 £70,000 +62.79% 9
Egham +3 8 £92,500 -7.50% 2
Epsom +2 5 £50,000 -
Staines -10 5 £70,000 -3.45% 1
Godalming - 2 £36,500 - 1
Leatherhead - 2 - - 2
Farnham - 1 - -
Banstead - 1 - -
Chertsey - 1 £52,500 - 1
Sunbury-on-Thames - 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 8 (4.28%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (4.28%) CMS
2 6 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.67%) WordPress
4 4 (2.14%) Apache
5 3 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.60%) SAS
6 2 (1.07%) Confluence
7 1 (0.53%) JBoss
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (2.14%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.07%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (1.07%) Adobe XD
3 2 (1.07%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.07%) UserZoom
4 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.53%) Elementor
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (29.95%) Azure
2 48 (25.67%) AWS
3 31 (16.58%) SaaS
4 25 (13.37%) Azure AI
5 17 (9.09%) GitHub
6 15 (8.02%) Power Platform
7 12 (6.42%) Adobe Analytics
7 12 (6.42%) Figma
7 12 (6.42%) Snowflake
8 11 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (5.88%) GCP
9 10 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (4.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (3.74%) Copilot Studio
12 6 (3.21%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (2.67%) ChatGPT
14 4 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (2.14%) Anthropic Claude
14 4 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.02%) Broadband
2 6 (3.21%) Firewall
3 4 (2.14%) VPN
4 2 (1.07%) 4G
4 2 (1.07%) 5G
4 2 (1.07%) Intelligent Network
4 2 (1.07%) Intranet
4 2 (1.07%) Network Security
4 2 (1.07%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.07%) Wireless
5 1 (0.53%) LAN
5 1 (0.53%) LTE
5 1 (0.53%) NGN
5 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 10 (5.35%) Power BI
2 10 (5.35%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.35%) Tableau
3 9 (4.81%) Redis
4 7 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.67%) MySQL
6 4 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.07%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.07%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.53%) Looker
9 1 (0.53%) Metadata
9 1 (0.53%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (9.09%) Git
2 6 (3.21%) JIRA
3 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.07%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.07%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (32.62%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.23%) Influencing Skills
3 20 (10.70%) Finance
3 20 (10.70%) Games
3 20 (10.70%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.95%) Legal
6 12 (6.42%) Marketing
7 10 (5.35%) Police
8 5 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.67%) Retail
9 4 (2.14%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.60%) Publishing
11 2 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.07%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.53%) Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 31 (16.58%) Developer
2 27 (14.44%) Lead
3 25 (13.37%) Senior
4 20 (10.70%) Software Engineer
5 18 (9.63%) Consultant
6 15 (8.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 15 (8.02%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (7.49%) C++ Software Engineer
7 14 (7.49%) Python Engineer
7 14 (7.49%) Python Software Engineer
8 12 (6.42%) Analyst
8 12 (6.42%) Junior
9 11 (5.88%) Software Developer
10 10 (5.35%) Data Analyst
10 10 (5.35%) Junior Analyst
10 10 (5.35%) Junior Data Analyst
11 9 (4.81%) Designer
11 9 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Data Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.56%) Terraform
2 13 (6.95%) Node.js
3 11 (5.88%) Vue
4 10 (5.35%) .NET
4 10 (5.35%) React
4 10 (5.35%) REST
5 9 (4.81%) .NET Core
6 8 (4.28%) RESTful
7 7 (3.74%) HTML
7 7 (3.74%) Laravel
8 6 (3.21%) FastAPI
8 6 (3.21%) Kafka
8 6 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.67%) CSS
9 5 (2.67%) PySpark
9 5 (2.67%) Spring
9 5 (2.67%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.14%) ASP.NET
10 4 (2.14%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (2.14%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.09%) Social Media
2 11 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.35%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.74%) Blog
6 6 (3.21%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.21%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.21%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.21%) Podcast
7 5 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (2.67%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.14%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.14%) iPhone
8 4 (2.14%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.14%) Private Cloud
8 4 (2.14%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.35%) Linux
2 7 (3.74%) Windows
3 5 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.14%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (26.74%) Machine Learning
2 40 (21.39%) Agile
2 40 (21.39%) Analytics
3 38 (20.32%) CI/CD
4 34 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 28 (14.97%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (14.97%) Roadmaps
6 27 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (12.83%) DevOps
9 23 (12.30%) Cybersecurity
10 22 (11.76%) Customer Experience
11 20 (10.70%) Information Security
12 18 (9.63%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (9.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 17 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (9.09%) User Research
14 16 (8.56%) Collaborative Working
14 16 (8.56%) LLM
14 16 (8.56%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.22%) Python
2 29 (15.51%) SQL
3 25 (13.37%) C#
3 25 (13.37%) JavaScript
4 20 (10.70%) TypeScript
5 18 (9.63%) C++
6 8 (4.28%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.74%) Java
8 6 (3.21%) Go
9 5 (2.67%) Julia
10 4 (2.14%) Bash
10 4 (2.14%) PHP
11 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (20.32%) Degree
2 18 (9.63%) PhD
3 17 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (8.56%) Master's Degree
5 13 (6.95%) Security Cleared
6 12 (6.42%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.74%) CISSP
8 5 (2.67%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.67%) CEH
8 5 (2.67%) CISM
8 5 (2.67%) GIAC
9 2 (1.07%) APMP
9 2 (1.07%) CISMP
9 2 (1.07%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.07%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.07%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (1.07%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.53%) CBAP
10 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.37%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.74%) NIST
4 5 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 4 (2.14%) GDPR
5 4 (2.14%) ISO 9001
5 4 (2.14%) WCAG
6 3 (1.60%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.60%) QA
7 2 (1.07%) GRC
7 2 (1.07%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 9 (4.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (10.16%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.14%) Ansible
2 4 (2.14%) Grafana
2 4 (2.14%) Prometheus
2 4 (2.14%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 51 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.63%) Google
3 16 (8.56%) Adobe
4 6 (3.21%) Databricks
5 5 (2.67%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.67%) Qualys
5 5 (2.67%) Splunk
5 5 (2.67%) VMware
6 4 (2.14%) New Relic
6 4 (2.14%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.14%) Zerto
7 3 (1.60%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.60%) Mitel
8 2 (1.07%) Ericsson
9 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.53%) Huawei
9 1 (0.53%) Nokia
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle
9 1 (0.53%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.53%) SAP