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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 30 85
Rank change year-on-year +27 +55 -17
Permanent jobs citing AI 421 76 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 22.81% 7.04% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.33% 7.52% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 52 38 19
10th Percentile £46,250 £57,000 £45,750
25th Percentile £50,938 £67,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £77,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% +10.00% +9.80%
75th Percentile £83,750 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £103,750 -
South East median annual salary £50,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +7.14% +3.70%

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 1,486 1,011 1,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 80.50% 93.61% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 891 464 1,011
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £78,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -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 21 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 21 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 40 £62,500 -16.67% 10
Warlingham - 15 - -
Weybridge - 14 £90,000 -
Cobham - 14 - -
Epsom +37 13 £48,580 - 8
Esher 0 9 £60,000 - 3
Reigate -1 9 - - 2
Banstead 0 8 - -
Egham - 8 - -
Whyteleafe +3 7 - -
Thames Ditton -1 7 - -
Redhill -2 7 - - 6
Woking -5 7 £57,500 -28.13% 8
Staines - 7 - -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 7 - - 1
Tadworth - 7 - -
Godstone - 7 - -
Leatherhead - 7 £50,000 - 1
Addlestone - 7 - -
Betchworth - 7 - -
Caterham - 7 - -
Chertsey - 7 - -
East Molesey 0 6 - -
Oxted - 6 - -
Shepperton - 6 - -
Walton-on-Thames - 6 - -
Farnham - 1 - - 2
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 (1.19%) IIS
2 3 (0.71%) CMS
3 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.24%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 327 (77.67%) Cloud Computing
2 14 (3.33%) Power Platform
3 13 (3.09%) Adobe Analytics
3 13 (3.09%) Azure
4 12 (2.85%) AWS
5 11 (2.61%) SaaS
6 10 (2.38%) Azure AI
6 10 (2.38%) Figma
7 9 (2.14%) GitHub
7 9 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (1.90%) Google Analytics
9 6 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (1.19%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.48%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.24%) Canva
12 1 (0.24%) Contentsquare
12 1 (0.24%) Copilot Studio
12 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.24%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 327 (77.67%) Internet
2 16 (3.80%) Broadband
3 10 (2.38%) Unified Communications
4 7 (1.66%) VPN
5 6 (1.43%) Firewall
6 3 (0.71%) HTTP
6 3 (0.71%) RTP
6 3 (0.71%) VoIP
6 3 (0.71%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.24%) BGP
7 1 (0.24%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.28%) Tableau
2 12 (2.85%) Power BI
3 8 (1.90%) Metadata
4 7 (1.66%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.19%) Big Data
5 5 (1.19%) Data Mining
5 5 (1.19%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.71%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Git
2 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.24%) Jasmine
General
1 351 (83.37%) Social Skills
2 330 (78.38%) Banking
3 327 (77.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (5.94%) Marketing
5 17 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (3.80%) Retail
7 14 (3.33%) Games
8 7 (1.66%) Automotive
8 7 (1.66%) Finance
9 5 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (1.19%) Public Sector
10 4 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.71%) Law
11 3 (0.71%) Legal
12 2 (0.48%) Advertising
13 1 (0.24%) Brand Awareness
13 1 (0.24%) Local Government
13 1 (0.24%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 270 (64.13%) Lecturer
2 26 (6.18%) Senior
3 13 (3.09%) Lead
4 12 (2.85%) Senior Manager
5 10 (2.38%) Analyst
5 10 (2.38%) Data Analyst
5 10 (2.38%) Designer
5 10 (2.38%) Developer
5 10 (2.38%) Junior
5 10 (2.38%) Junior Analyst
5 10 (2.38%) Junior Data Analyst
5 10 (2.38%) Lead Designer
6 7 (1.66%) Account Manager
6 7 (1.66%) Senior Account Manager
7 6 (1.43%) Account Executive
7 6 (1.43%) Administrator
7 6 (1.43%) Senior Account Executive
7 6 (1.43%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 6 (1.43%) Software Engineer
7 6 (1.43%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.61%) REST
2 9 (2.14%) WPF
3 8 (1.90%) .NET
3 8 (1.90%) Blazor
3 8 (1.90%) WinForms
4 5 (1.19%) Play Framework
5 4 (0.95%) AngularJS
5 4 (0.95%) React
5 4 (0.95%) Vue
6 3 (0.71%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.71%) Django
6 3 (0.71%) Flask
6 3 (0.71%) FreeSWITCH
6 3 (0.71%) Jinja
6 3 (0.71%) OAuth
6 3 (0.71%) OAuth2
6 3 (0.71%) pytest
6 3 (0.71%) RFC 2833
6 3 (0.71%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (0.71%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 328 (77.91%) IoT
2 15 (3.56%) Algorithms
3 14 (3.33%) Social Media
4 6 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (1.43%) Private Cloud
5 5 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (0.71%) Blog
6 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (0.71%) Podcast
6 3 (0.71%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.24%) 3D Graphics
7 1 (0.24%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.24%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.24%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.24%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.24%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.24%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.24%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.14%) Linux
2 3 (0.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (82.90%) Machine Learning
2 332 (78.86%) User Experience
3 329 (78.15%) Cybersecurity
4 327 (77.67%) Web Development
5 33 (7.84%) Analytics
6 28 (6.65%) Customer Experience
7 26 (6.18%) Roadmaps
8 22 (5.23%) Agile
9 17 (4.04%) CI/CD
9 17 (4.04%) Decision-Making
10 15 (3.56%) B2B
11 14 (3.33%) Computer Science
11 14 (3.33%) DevOps
11 14 (3.33%) Mathematics
11 14 (3.33%) User Research
12 13 (3.09%) Customer Engagement
12 13 (3.09%) Digital Customer Experience
12 13 (3.09%) Product Roadmap
12 13 (3.09%) Storytelling
12 13 (3.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 31 (7.36%) Python
2 18 (4.28%) SQL
3 9 (2.14%) C#
4 8 (1.90%) Java
5 7 (1.66%) R
6 6 (1.43%) Bash
6 6 (1.43%) C++
6 6 (1.43%) Go
7 5 (1.19%) Scala
8 4 (0.95%) C
9 2 (0.48%) Julia
9 2 (0.48%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.24%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 346 (82.19%) Degree
2 337 (80.05%) Master's Degree
3 330 (78.38%) PhD
4 327 (77.67%) Postgraduate
5 10 (2.38%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.43%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.19%) MBA
8 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.80%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 10 (2.38%) Docker
2 3 (0.71%) Kamailio
3 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (3.09%) Terraform
2 9 (2.14%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.43%) Ansible
3 6 (1.43%) Grafana
3 6 (1.43%) Prometheus
3 6 (1.43%) Proxmox
4 3 (0.71%) Argo
5 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (5.46%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.09%) Adobe
3 11 (2.61%) BT
4 9 (2.14%) Google
5 7 (1.66%) VMware
6 6 (1.43%) Fortinet
6 6 (1.43%) Mitel
7 5 (1.19%) Databricks
8 3 (0.71%) Sage
9 1 (0.24%) Ahrefs
9 1 (0.24%) Cisco
9 1 (0.24%) Foundry
9 1 (0.24%) Meraki
9 1 (0.24%) Samsung
9 1 (0.24%) Screaming Frog