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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 33 79
Rank change year-on-year +30 +46 -16
Permanent jobs citing AI 404 80 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 23.45% 6.90% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 29.04% 7.41% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 51 38 17
10th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £45,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £66,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £77,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% -3.75% +28.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £101,125 -
South East median annual salary £50,000 £77,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -35.06% +10.00% +12.00%

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 1,391 1,080 1,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 80.73% 93.18% 88.67%
Number of salaries quoted 815 476 892
10th Percentile £28,000 £33,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,625 £77,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +4 34 £62,500 -16.67% 16
Cobham - 14 - -
Warlingham - 14 - -
Weybridge - 14 £90,000 -
Epsom +32 9 £48,580 - 3
Reigate +2 9 - - 2
Esher 0 8 £60,000 - 3
Banstead 0 8 - - 2
Egham - 8 - -
Whyteleafe +4 7 - -
Redhill +2 7 - - 3
Thames Ditton -1 7 - -
Woking -3 7 £57,500 -28.13% 3
Staines - 7 - - 1
Sunbury-on-Thames - 7 - - 3
Tadworth - 7 - -
Addlestone - 7 - -
Betchworth - 7 - -
Caterham - 7 - -
Chertsey - 7 - -
Godstone - 7 - -
East Molesey 0 6 - -
Leatherhead - 6 - -
Oxted - 6 - -
Shepperton - 6 - -
Walton-on-Thames - 6 - -
Horley - 3 £35,500 -
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 5 (1.24%) IIS
2 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.25%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.25%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.25%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 327 (80.94%) Cloud Computing
2 11 (2.72%) AWS
2 11 (2.72%) Power Platform
3 10 (2.48%) Azure
4 8 (1.98%) SaaS
5 7 (1.73%) Adobe Analytics
5 7 (1.73%) Azure AI
6 6 (1.49%) GitHub
6 6 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (1.24%) Figma
7 5 (1.24%) Snowflake
8 4 (0.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.50%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.50%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.25%) Contentsquare
11 1 (0.25%) IaaS
11 1 (0.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 327 (80.94%) Internet
2 9 (2.23%) Broadband
3 7 (1.73%) Unified Communications
4 5 (1.24%) VPN
5 4 (0.99%) Firewall
6 2 (0.50%) HTTP
6 2 (0.50%) RTP
6 2 (0.50%) VoIP
6 2 (0.50%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.25%) BGP
7 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.71%) Tableau
2 9 (2.23%) Power BI
3 7 (1.73%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.24%) Big Data
4 5 (1.24%) Data Mining
4 5 (1.24%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.50%) Metadata
5 2 (0.50%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.50%) MySQL
6 1 (0.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (0.74%) JIRA
2 2 (0.50%) Git
3 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.25%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.25%) Jasmine
General
1 343 (84.90%) Social Skills
2 330 (81.68%) Banking
3 327 (80.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (3.71%) Marketing
5 9 (2.23%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.98%) Games
6 8 (1.98%) Retail
7 7 (1.73%) Finance
8 5 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (0.99%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.74%) Law
10 3 (0.74%) Legal
11 2 (0.50%) Electronics
11 2 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.25%) Advertising
12 1 (0.25%) Automotive
12 1 (0.25%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (0.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 270 (66.83%) Lecturer
2 21 (5.20%) Senior
3 10 (2.48%) Developer
3 10 (2.48%) Senior Manager
4 8 (1.98%) Lead
5 7 (1.73%) Analyst
5 7 (1.73%) Data Analyst
5 7 (1.73%) Junior
5 7 (1.73%) Junior Analyst
5 7 (1.73%) Junior Data Analyst
6 6 (1.49%) Account Executive
6 6 (1.49%) Designer
6 6 (1.49%) Lead Designer
6 6 (1.49%) Senior Account Executive
6 6 (1.49%) Software Engineer
7 5 (1.24%) Account Manager
7 5 (1.24%) Data Science Manager
7 5 (1.24%) Senior Account Manager
8 4 (0.99%) .NET Developer
8 4 (0.99%) Blazor Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.48%) REST
1 10 (2.48%) WPF
2 9 (2.23%) .NET
2 9 (2.23%) Blazor
3 8 (1.98%) WinForms
4 5 (1.24%) AngularJS
4 5 (1.24%) Play Framework
4 5 (1.24%) React
4 5 (1.24%) Vue
5 4 (0.99%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.50%) Django
6 2 (0.50%) Flask
6 2 (0.50%) Jinja
6 2 (0.50%) OAuth
6 2 (0.50%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.50%) pytest
6 2 (0.50%) RFC 2833
6 2 (0.50%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (0.50%) TensorFlow
6 2 (0.50%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 327 (80.94%) IoT
2 7 (1.73%) Algorithms
2 7 (1.73%) Social Media
3 5 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (0.99%) Private Cloud
5 3 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (0.74%) Onboarding
5 3 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.25%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (0.25%) Blog
7 1 (0.25%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.25%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.25%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.25%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.25%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.25%) Podcast
7 1 (0.25%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.25%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.49%) Linux
2 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (86.63%) Machine Learning
2 332 (82.18%) User Experience
3 328 (81.19%) Cybersecurity
4 327 (80.94%) Web Development
5 20 (4.95%) Analytics
6 18 (4.46%) Roadmaps
7 16 (3.96%) Agile
7 16 (3.96%) Computer Science
7 16 (3.96%) Mathematics
8 15 (3.71%) CI/CD
8 15 (3.71%) Decision-Making
9 14 (3.47%) Customer Experience
10 13 (3.22%) DevOps
10 13 (3.22%) Software Engineering
11 12 (2.97%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (2.72%) Value Proposition
13 9 (2.23%) Business Intelligence
14 8 (1.98%) Data Science
14 8 (1.98%) User Research
15 7 (1.73%) Digital Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 25 (6.19%) Python
2 15 (3.71%) SQL
3 10 (2.48%) C#
4 7 (1.73%) Java
4 7 (1.73%) R
5 6 (1.49%) C++
6 5 (1.24%) Scala
7 4 (0.99%) Bash
7 4 (0.99%) C
7 4 (0.99%) Go
8 3 (0.74%) Julia
9 2 (0.50%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.25%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 349 (86.39%) Degree
2 340 (84.16%) Master's Degree
3 331 (81.93%) PhD
4 327 (80.94%) Postgraduate
5 11 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.24%) MBA
8 4 (0.99%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.25%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.23%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (0.74%) SLA
4 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 9 (2.23%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (2.72%) Terraform
2 6 (1.49%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.99%) Ansible
3 4 (0.99%) Grafana
3 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.99%) Prometheus
3 4 (0.99%) Proxmox
4 2 (0.50%) Argo
5 1 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 20 (4.95%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.23%) BT
3 7 (1.73%) Adobe
4 5 (1.24%) Databricks
4 5 (1.24%) VMware
5 4 (0.99%) Fortinet
5 4 (0.99%) Mitel
6 3 (0.74%) Sage
7 2 (0.50%) Google
8 1 (0.25%) Cisco
8 1 (0.25%) Meraki
8 1 (0.25%) Samsung