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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 55 41
Rank change year-on-year +38 -14 +47
Permanent jobs citing AI 178 43 113
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 7.22% 3.74% 6.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.52% 4.18% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 114 37 65
10th Percentile £36,325 £34,250 -
25th Percentile £46,563 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% -18.92%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,500 £86,250
South East median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -19.23% -8.29%

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 1,870 1,028 1,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 75.83% 89.31% 86.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,391 685 798
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +9 74 £82,500 -10.81% 45
Woking -14 17 £70,000 +86.67% 61
Reigate - 17 £51,250 - 3
Redhill - 12 £165,000 - 11
Egham -2 8 £92,500 -7.50% 2
Staines -9 8 £55,000 -24.14% 27
Leatherhead - 5 - - 10
Chertsey - 2 £52,500 - 3
Epsom - 2 - - 1
Farnham - 1 - -
Godalming - 1 £36,500 - 3
Banstead - 1 - -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - - 15
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 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.37%) CMS
3 5 (2.81%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.25%) Apache
4 4 (2.25%) SAS
5 3 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.69%) Confluence
5 3 (1.69%) WordPress
6 1 (0.56%) JBoss
6 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.56%) R Markdown
6 1 (0.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.12%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (1.12%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.12%) Adobe XD
3 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.56%) Elementor
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.56%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.56%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (30.90%) Azure
2 50 (28.09%) AWS
3 23 (12.92%) GitHub
3 23 (12.92%) SaaS
4 21 (11.80%) Azure AI
5 15 (8.43%) Power Platform
6 13 (7.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (6.74%) Snowflake
8 11 (6.18%) GCP
9 9 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (4.49%) Figma
10 8 (4.49%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (3.93%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.93%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (3.93%) ChatGPT
11 7 (3.93%) Copilot Studio
12 6 (3.37%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (2.81%) Adobe Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.18%) Firewall
2 9 (5.06%) VPN
3 6 (3.37%) Broadband
4 2 (1.12%) 4G
4 2 (1.12%) 5G
4 2 (1.12%) Intelligent Network
4 2 (1.12%) Intranet
4 2 (1.12%) Network Security
4 2 (1.12%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.12%) Wireless
5 1 (0.56%) LAN
5 1 (0.56%) LTE
5 1 (0.56%) NGN
5 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.62%) MongoDB
1 10 (5.62%) Power BI
1 10 (5.62%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.06%) Redis
3 7 (3.93%) Tableau
4 6 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.81%) MySQL
6 4 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.69%) Looker
7 3 (1.69%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.12%) Metadata
8 2 (1.12%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.56%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (10.11%) Git
2 8 (4.49%) JIRA
3 3 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.12%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.12%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
General
1 60 (33.71%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.04%) Finance
3 21 (11.80%) Influencing Skills
4 20 (11.24%) Public Sector
5 19 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (7.30%) Legal
7 11 (6.18%) Marketing
8 10 (5.62%) Police
9 9 (5.06%) Games
9 9 (5.06%) Retail
10 6 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.69%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.69%) Publishing
13 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.56%) Banking
14 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (15.73%) Developer
2 27 (15.17%) Senior
3 22 (12.36%) Lead
4 20 (11.24%) Consultant
5 18 (10.11%) Software Engineer
6 13 (7.30%) Analyst
6 13 (7.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 12 (6.74%) Administrator
7 12 (6.74%) C++ Software Engineer
7 12 (6.74%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (6.74%) Python Engineer
7 12 (6.74%) Python Software Engineer
8 11 (6.18%) Software Developer
9 9 (5.06%) Data Analyst
9 9 (5.06%) DevOps Administrator
9 9 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (5.06%) Systems Administrator
10 8 (4.49%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Junior
10 8 (4.49%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.80%) Terraform
2 12 (6.74%) Node.js
3 11 (6.18%) Vue
4 10 (5.62%) .NET
4 10 (5.62%) React
5 9 (5.06%) .NET Core
5 9 (5.06%) REST
6 8 (4.49%) HTML
6 8 (4.49%) RESTful
7 6 (3.37%) CSS
7 6 (3.37%) FastAPI
7 6 (3.37%) Kafka
7 6 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (2.81%) PySpark
8 5 (2.81%) Spring
8 5 (2.81%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.25%) ASP.NET
9 4 (2.25%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (2.25%) Laravel
9 4 (2.25%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.18%) Cloud Native
1 11 (6.18%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (5.06%) Private Cloud
3 8 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.49%) Social Media
4 6 (3.37%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (3.37%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.37%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.81%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (2.81%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.25%) iPhone
6 4 (2.25%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.25%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.69%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.69%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.87%) Linux
2 7 (3.93%) Windows
3 5 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (24.72%) CI/CD
2 42 (23.60%) Machine Learning
3 41 (23.03%) Analytics
4 36 (20.22%) Agile
5 32 (17.98%) Software Engineering
6 30 (16.85%) DevOps
7 29 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (11.24%) Collaborative Working
9 20 (11.24%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (11.24%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (11.24%) Roadmaps
10 18 (10.11%) Customer Experience
10 18 (10.11%) Information Security
10 18 (10.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (10.11%) Technical Leadership
11 16 (8.99%) Computer Science
11 16 (8.99%) Decision-Making
11 16 (8.99%) Project Management
11 16 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (35.96%) Python
2 27 (15.17%) SQL
3 26 (14.61%) C#
4 25 (14.04%) JavaScript
5 20 (11.24%) TypeScript
6 17 (9.55%) C++
7 8 (4.49%) Go
7 8 (4.49%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.93%) Bash
9 6 (3.37%) Java
9 6 (3.37%) Julia
10 4 (2.25%) PHP
11 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.56%) R
11 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (21.35%) Degree
2 18 (10.11%) PhD
3 16 (8.99%) Master's Degree
3 16 (8.99%) Security Cleared
4 14 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (7.30%) Azure Certification
5 13 (7.30%) SC Cleared
6 8 (4.49%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.93%) CISSP
8 5 (2.81%) CEH
8 5 (2.81%) CISM
8 5 (2.81%) GIAC
9 2 (1.12%) APMP
9 2 (1.12%) CBAP
9 2 (1.12%) CISMP
9 2 (1.12%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.12%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (1.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.55%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.93%) NIST
4 5 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 4 (2.25%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.25%) GDPR
5 4 (2.25%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.69%) WCAG
7 2 (1.12%) GRC
7 2 (1.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 10 (5.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (12.92%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.62%) Ansible
3 9 (5.06%) Grafana
3 9 (5.06%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.93%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 49 (27.53%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.67%) Google
3 9 (5.06%) Adobe
4 8 (4.49%) VMware
5 6 (3.37%) Databricks
6 5 (2.81%) HubSpot
6 5 (2.81%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.81%) Qualys
6 5 (2.81%) Splunk
7 4 (2.25%) New Relic
7 4 (2.25%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.25%) Zerto
8 3 (1.69%) Mitel
8 3 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.69%) Spotify
9 2 (1.12%) Ericsson
9 2 (1.12%) Oracle
10 1 (0.56%) Huawei
10 1 (0.56%) Nokia
10 1 (0.56%) SAP