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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 28 63
Rank change year-on-year +25 +35 +17
Permanent jobs citing AI 460 66 76
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 21.97% 7.25% 3.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.64% 8.03% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 71 28 54
10th Percentile £39,783 £57,000 £41,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £64,375 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £81,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +35.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,938 £87,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,875 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -21.43% +3.70% -10.00%

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 1,606 822 1,849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 76.70% 90.33% 89.15%
Number of salaries quoted 948 502 1,289
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,790 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.58% -16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 5 April 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 5 April 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 +2 51 £62,500 -16.67% 10
Epsom +24 18 £50,000 - 1
Redhill +14 17 £165,000 +86.44% 3
Warlingham - 15 - -
Weybridge - 14 £90,000 -
Cobham - 14 - -
Reigate +2 12 £90,000 +33.33% 3
Esher 0 9 £60,000 -
Banstead 0 8 - -
Egham - 8 - - 1
Whyteleafe +1 7 - -
Thames Ditton -1 7 - -
Woking -16 7 £57,500 -43.90% 8
Staines - 7 - - 1
Sunbury-on-Thames - 7 - -
Tadworth - 7 - -
Addlestone - 7 - -
Betchworth - 7 - -
Caterham - 7 - -
Chertsey - 7 - - 1
Godstone - 7 - -
Leatherhead - 7 £50,000 - 5
East Molesey -1 6 - -
Oxted - 6 - -
Shepperton - 6 - -
Walton-on-Thames - 6 - - 1
Godalming - 2 £36,500 - 1
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 (1.09%) CMS
1 5 (1.09%) IIS
2 4 (0.87%) WordPress
3 2 (0.43%) Apache
3 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.87%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.87%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.65%) UserZoom
4 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 327 (71.09%) Cloud Computing
2 21 (4.57%) Adobe Analytics
2 21 (4.57%) Azure
3 20 (4.35%) Power Platform
3 20 (4.35%) SaaS
4 19 (4.13%) AWS
4 19 (4.13%) Azure AI
5 14 (3.04%) Figma
6 11 (2.39%) GitHub
6 11 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (1.74%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (1.52%) Google Analytics
9 5 (1.09%) Snowflake
10 4 (0.87%) Canva
11 3 (0.65%) Contentsquare
12 2 (0.43%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.43%) ChatGPT
12 2 (0.43%) GCP
12 2 (0.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 327 (71.09%) Internet
2 26 (5.65%) Broadband
3 10 (2.17%) Unified Communications
4 8 (1.74%) Firewall
4 8 (1.74%) VPN
5 3 (0.65%) HTTP
5 3 (0.65%) RTP
5 3 (0.65%) VoIP
5 3 (0.65%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.43%) Tableau
2 18 (3.91%) Power BI
3 8 (1.74%) Metadata
4 5 (1.09%) Big Data
4 5 (1.09%) Data Mining
4 5 (1.09%) Hadoop
4 5 (1.09%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.87%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.65%) MySQL
7 2 (0.43%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.43%) Impala
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.43%) Parquet
7 2 (0.43%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (1.09%) Git
2 2 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.22%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.22%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.22%) Jasmine
General
1 364 (79.13%) Social Skills
2 332 (72.17%) Banking
3 327 (71.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (6.30%) Marketing
5 27 (5.87%) Games
6 20 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (3.91%) Retail
8 13 (2.83%) Finance
9 7 (1.52%) Automotive
10 5 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.09%) Public Sector
11 4 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.87%) Legal
11 4 (0.87%) Multimedia
11 4 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.65%) Law
12 3 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.43%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.22%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 270 (58.70%) Lecturer
2 31 (6.74%) Senior
3 19 (4.13%) Analyst
3 19 (4.13%) Lead
4 17 (3.70%) Data Analyst
4 17 (3.70%) Junior
4 17 (3.70%) Junior Analyst
4 17 (3.70%) Junior Data Analyst
5 13 (2.83%) Designer
5 13 (2.83%) Lead Designer
6 12 (2.61%) Senior Manager
7 11 (2.39%) Developer
8 8 (1.74%) Administrator
8 8 (1.74%) DevOps Administrator
8 8 (1.74%) Head of Digital
8 8 (1.74%) Senior DevOps
8 8 (1.74%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 8 (1.74%) Software Engineer
8 8 (1.74%) Systems Administrator
9 7 (1.52%) Senior Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.74%) REST
2 5 (1.09%) Play Framework
3 4 (0.87%) Laravel
4 3 (0.65%) .NET
4 3 (0.65%) AngularJS
4 3 (0.65%) Blazor
4 3 (0.65%) Django
4 3 (0.65%) Flask
4 3 (0.65%) FreeSWITCH
4 3 (0.65%) Jinja
4 3 (0.65%) OAuth
4 3 (0.65%) OAuth2
4 3 (0.65%) pytest
4 3 (0.65%) React
4 3 (0.65%) RFC 2833
4 3 (0.65%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (0.65%) Vue
4 3 (0.65%) WebRTC
4 3 (0.65%) WinForms
4 3 (0.65%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 331 (71.96%) IoT
2 25 (5.43%) Social Media
3 16 (3.48%) Algorithms
4 9 (1.96%) Blog
4 9 (1.96%) Podcast
5 8 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (1.74%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.43%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.43%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.43%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.22%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.22%) BBC
9 1 (0.22%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.22%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.22%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.22%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.39%) Linux
2 3 (0.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (77.17%) Machine Learning
2 333 (72.39%) User Experience
3 332 (72.17%) Cybersecurity
4 327 (71.09%) Web Development
5 41 (8.91%) Analytics
6 39 (8.48%) Roadmaps
7 37 (8.04%) Customer Experience
8 32 (6.96%) Agile
9 22 (4.78%) User Research
10 21 (4.57%) B2B
10 21 (4.57%) Digital Customer Experience
10 21 (4.57%) Product Roadmap
10 21 (4.57%) Storytelling
10 21 (4.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 19 (4.13%) Prototyping
12 18 (3.91%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (3.91%) SEO
13 17 (3.70%) CI/CD
13 17 (3.70%) Workshop Facilitation
14 16 (3.48%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (10.43%) Python
2 25 (5.43%) SQL
3 9 (1.96%) C++
3 9 (1.96%) Go
4 8 (1.74%) Bash
4 8 (1.74%) Java
5 5 (1.09%) C#
5 5 (1.09%) R
5 5 (1.09%) Scala
6 3 (0.65%) C
7 2 (0.43%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.43%) Julia
7 2 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 346 (75.22%) Degree
2 338 (73.48%) Master's Degree
3 334 (72.61%) PhD
4 327 (71.09%) Postgraduate
5 19 (4.13%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.74%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.09%) MBA
9 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.87%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.65%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.22%) GDPR
5 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.22%) QA
5 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (1.30%) Docker
2 3 (0.65%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 11 (2.39%) Kubernetes
1 11 (2.39%) Terraform
2 8 (1.74%) Ansible
2 8 (1.74%) Grafana
2 8 (1.74%) Prometheus
2 8 (1.74%) Proxmox
3 3 (0.65%) Argo
Vendors
1 31 (6.74%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.57%) Adobe
3 11 (2.39%) BT
4 9 (1.96%) Google
5 8 (1.74%) VMware
6 6 (1.30%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.30%) Mitel
7 5 (1.09%) Databricks
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle
8 2 (0.43%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.43%) Sage
9 1 (0.22%) Ahrefs
9 1 (0.22%) Foundry
9 1 (0.22%) Screaming Frog