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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 27 70
Rank change year-on-year +24 +43 +17
Permanent jobs citing AI 472 63 83
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 21.76% 6.83% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.80% 7.64% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 77 26 59
10th Percentile £38,370 £56,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £65,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £88,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.39% +47.92% -14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £102,813 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,625 £87,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -17.86% +3.70% -15.63%

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 1,639 825 2,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 75.56% 89.48% 89.55%
Number of salaries quoted 964 510 1,324
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £37,938 £37,500 £33,474
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £66,672 £70,938 £65,000
90th Percentile £89,700 £85,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 15 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 15 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 58 £62,500 -16.67% 5
Redhill +20 20 £165,000 +86.44% 3
Epsom +23 18 £50,000 - 3
Warlingham - 15 - - 2
Weybridge - 14 £90,000 - 2
Cobham - 14 - - 2
Reigate +3 12 £90,000 - 6
Esher 0 9 £60,000 - 2
Banstead +1 8 - - 2
Egham - 8 - - 3
Whyteleafe +1 7 - - 2
Thames Ditton -1 7 - - 2
Staines - 7 - - 4
Sunbury-on-Thames - 7 - - 2
Tadworth - 7 - - 2
Addlestone - 7 - - 2
Betchworth - 7 - - 2
Caterham - 7 - - 2
Chertsey - 7 - - 3
Godstone - 7 - - 2
Leatherhead - 7 £50,000 - 2
East Molesey -1 6 - - 2
Woking -15 6 £57,500 -43.90% 9
Shepperton - 6 - - 2
Walton-on-Thames - 6 - - 3
Oxted - 6 - - 2
Godalming - 2 £36,500 -
Farnham - 1 - - 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 6 (1.27%) CMS
2 5 (1.06%) IIS
2 5 (1.06%) WordPress
3 4 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.42%) Apache
4 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 21 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (0.85%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.64%) UserZoom
4 2 (0.42%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 327 (69.28%) Cloud Computing
2 28 (5.93%) Azure
3 25 (5.30%) Azure AI
4 23 (4.87%) Power Platform
5 22 (4.66%) Adobe Analytics
5 22 (4.66%) SaaS
6 19 (4.03%) AWS
7 15 (3.18%) Figma
8 11 (2.33%) GitHub
8 11 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (1.48%) Google Analytics
11 5 (1.06%) Canva
11 5 (1.06%) Snowflake
12 4 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (0.64%) Contentsquare
14 2 (0.42%) ChatGPT
14 2 (0.42%) GCP
14 2 (0.42%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 327 (69.28%) Internet
2 27 (5.72%) Broadband
3 10 (2.12%) Unified Communications
4 8 (1.69%) Firewall
4 8 (1.69%) VPN
5 3 (0.64%) HTTP
5 3 (0.64%) RTP
5 3 (0.64%) VoIP
5 3 (0.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (5.93%) Tableau
2 21 (4.45%) Power BI
3 8 (1.69%) Metadata
4 5 (1.06%) Big Data
4 5 (1.06%) Data Mining
4 5 (1.06%) Hadoop
4 5 (1.06%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.85%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.64%) MySQL
7 2 (0.42%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.42%) Impala
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.42%) Parquet
7 2 (0.42%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (1.06%) Git
2 2 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.21%) Jasmine
General
1 371 (78.60%) Social Skills
2 330 (69.92%) Banking
3 327 (69.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 30 (6.36%) Marketing
5 28 (5.93%) Games
6 20 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (3.81%) Retail
8 14 (2.97%) Finance
9 7 (1.48%) Automotive
10 5 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.06%) Public Sector
11 4 (0.85%) Legal
11 4 (0.85%) Multimedia
11 4 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.85%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.64%) Law
12 3 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.42%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.21%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 270 (57.20%) Lecturer
2 31 (6.57%) Senior
3 22 (4.66%) Analyst
4 20 (4.24%) Data Analyst
4 20 (4.24%) Junior
4 20 (4.24%) Junior Analyst
4 20 (4.24%) Junior Data Analyst
4 20 (4.24%) Lead
5 14 (2.97%) Designer
5 14 (2.97%) Lead Designer
6 12 (2.54%) Senior Manager
7 10 (2.12%) Developer
7 10 (2.12%) Software Engineer
8 9 (1.91%) Head of Digital
9 8 (1.69%) Administrator
9 8 (1.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (1.69%) C++ Software Engineer
9 8 (1.69%) Python Engineer
9 8 (1.69%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (1.69%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.27%) REST
2 5 (1.06%) Play Framework
3 4 (0.85%) Laravel
4 3 (0.64%) Django
4 3 (0.64%) Flask
4 3 (0.64%) FreeSWITCH
4 3 (0.64%) Jinja
4 3 (0.64%) OAuth
4 3 (0.64%) OAuth2
4 3 (0.64%) pytest
4 3 (0.64%) RFC 2833
4 3 (0.64%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (0.64%) WebRTC
5 2 (0.42%) .NET
5 2 (0.42%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.42%) PySpark
5 2 (0.42%) React
5 2 (0.42%) Vue
6 1 (0.21%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.21%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 331 (70.13%) IoT
2 26 (5.51%) Social Media
3 16 (3.39%) Algorithms
4 10 (2.12%) Blog
4 10 (2.12%) Podcast
5 8 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (1.69%) Private Cloud
6 6 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.64%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.42%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.42%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.21%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.21%) BBC
10 1 (0.21%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.21%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.21%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.21%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.21%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.33%) Linux
2 3 (0.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (75.21%) Machine Learning
2 334 (70.76%) Cybersecurity
2 334 (70.76%) User Experience
3 327 (69.28%) Web Development
4 42 (8.90%) Analytics
5 41 (8.69%) Roadmaps
6 38 (8.05%) Customer Experience
7 33 (6.99%) Agile
8 23 (4.87%) B2B
8 23 (4.87%) User Research
9 22 (4.66%) Digital Customer Experience
9 22 (4.66%) Product Roadmap
9 22 (4.66%) Storytelling
9 22 (4.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 21 (4.45%) Business Intelligence
11 20 (4.24%) Prototyping
12 19 (4.03%) SEO
13 18 (3.81%) Workshop Facilitation
14 17 (3.60%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (3.39%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 56 (11.86%) Python
2 28 (5.93%) SQL
3 11 (2.33%) C++
4 9 (1.91%) Go
5 8 (1.69%) Bash
5 8 (1.69%) Java
6 5 (1.06%) R
6 5 (1.06%) Scala
7 4 (0.85%) C#
8 3 (0.64%) C
9 2 (0.42%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.42%) Julia
9 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 347 (73.52%) Degree
2 340 (72.03%) Master's Degree
3 336 (71.19%) PhD
4 327 (69.28%) Postgraduate
5 25 (5.30%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.06%) MBA
9 2 (0.42%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.21%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.21%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.93%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.42%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.21%) GDPR
5 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.21%) QA
5 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (0.85%) Docker
2 3 (0.64%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 11 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.91%) Terraform
3 8 (1.69%) Ansible
3 8 (1.69%) Grafana
3 8 (1.69%) Prometheus
3 8 (1.69%) Proxmox
4 3 (0.64%) Argo
Vendors
1 36 (7.63%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.87%) Adobe
3 11 (2.33%) BT
4 9 (1.91%) Google
5 8 (1.69%) VMware
6 6 (1.27%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.27%) Mitel
7 5 (1.06%) Databricks
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle
8 2 (0.42%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.21%) Ahrefs
9 1 (0.21%) Foundry
9 1 (0.21%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.21%) Sage
9 1 (0.21%) Screaming Frog