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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 50 37
Rank change year-on-year +36 -13 +46
Permanent jobs citing AI 184 47 117
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 7.69% 4.02% 6.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.22% 4.52% 7.32%
Number of salaries quoted 114 39 68
10th Percentile £35,900 £34,250 -
25th Percentile £45,875 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,250 £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 1,800 1,040 1,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 75.22% 88.96% 86.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,338 693 830
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -13.88% -9.13%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £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 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for AI in Surrey

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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 13 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 +12 76 £82,500 -10.81% 20
Reigate - 18 £51,250 - 2
Redhill - 15 £107,500 - 5
Woking -19 14 £70,000 +62.79% 32
Egham +1 8 £92,500 -7.50% 2
Staines -9 6 £70,000 -3.45% 22
Leatherhead - 5 - - 10
Epsom - 3 £50,000 - 2
Chertsey - 2 £52,500 - 3
Godalming - 2 £36,500 - 1
Banstead - 1 - -
Farnham - 1 - -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - - 10
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 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.26%) CMS
2 6 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.17%) Apache
4 3 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.63%) SAS
4 3 (1.63%) WordPress
5 2 (1.09%) Confluence
6 1 (0.54%) JBoss
6 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.54%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.09%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (1.09%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.09%) Adobe XD
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.09%) UserZoom
4 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.54%) Elementor
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.54%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (30.43%) Azure
2 50 (27.17%) AWS
3 25 (13.59%) SaaS
4 23 (12.50%) Azure AI
5 20 (10.87%) GitHub
6 14 (7.61%) Power Platform
7 12 (6.52%) GCP
7 12 (6.52%) Snowflake
8 11 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (5.98%) Figma
9 10 (5.43%) Adobe Analytics
9 10 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (3.80%) Copilot Studio
11 7 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (3.26%) ChatGPT
12 6 (3.26%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (2.72%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.07%) Broadband
2 9 (4.89%) Firewall
3 7 (3.80%) VPN
4 2 (1.09%) 4G
4 2 (1.09%) 5G
4 2 (1.09%) Intelligent Network
4 2 (1.09%) Intranet
4 2 (1.09%) Network Security
4 2 (1.09%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.09%) Wireless
5 1 (0.54%) LAN
5 1 (0.54%) LTE
5 1 (0.54%) NGN
5 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.98%) MongoDB
2 10 (5.43%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.89%) Power BI
3 9 (4.89%) Redis
4 8 (4.35%) Tableau
5 7 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.72%) MySQL
7 4 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.63%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.63%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.09%) Looker
9 2 (1.09%) Pinecone
10 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.54%) Metadata
10 1 (0.54%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (9.24%) Git
2 6 (3.26%) JIRA
3 3 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.09%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.09%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
General
1 61 (33.15%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.50%) Finance
3 21 (11.41%) Influencing Skills
4 20 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 18 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (8.70%) Games
7 13 (7.07%) Legal
8 10 (5.43%) Marketing
8 10 (5.43%) Police
9 8 (4.35%) Retail
10 6 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.63%) Aerospace
12 3 (1.63%) Publishing
13 2 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.54%) Banking
14 1 (0.54%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 30 (16.30%) Developer
2 26 (14.13%) Senior
3 25 (13.59%) Lead
4 19 (10.33%) Consultant
5 18 (9.78%) Software Engineer
6 13 (7.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 13 (7.07%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (6.52%) C++ Software Engineer
7 12 (6.52%) Python Engineer
7 12 (6.52%) Python Software Engineer
8 11 (5.98%) Analyst
8 11 (5.98%) Software Developer
9 10 (5.43%) Administrator
9 10 (5.43%) Junior
10 9 (4.89%) Data Analyst
10 9 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (4.35%) Designer
11 8 (4.35%) Junior Analyst
11 8 (4.35%) Junior Data Analyst
11 8 (4.35%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.33%) Terraform
2 13 (7.07%) Node.js
3 11 (5.98%) Vue
4 10 (5.43%) .NET
4 10 (5.43%) React
4 10 (5.43%) REST
5 9 (4.89%) .NET Core
6 8 (4.35%) HTML
6 8 (4.35%) RESTful
7 6 (3.26%) CSS
7 6 (3.26%) FastAPI
7 6 (3.26%) Kafka
7 6 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (2.72%) Laravel
8 5 (2.72%) PySpark
8 5 (2.72%) Spring
8 5 (2.72%) Spring Boot
9 4 (2.17%) ASP.NET
9 4 (2.17%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (2.17%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.07%) Social Media
2 11 (5.98%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.98%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.80%) Private Cloud
5 6 (3.26%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.26%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (2.72%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.17%) iPhone
7 4 (2.17%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.17%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.63%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.07%) Linux
2 7 (3.80%) Windows
3 5 (2.72%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (24.46%) Machine Learning
2 43 (23.37%) Analytics
3 42 (22.83%) CI/CD
4 41 (22.28%) Agile
5 33 (17.93%) Software Engineering
6 28 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (14.13%) DevOps
8 25 (13.59%) Roadmaps
9 24 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 23 (12.50%) Customer Experience
11 21 (11.41%) Cybersecurity
12 19 (10.33%) Collaborative Working
13 18 (9.78%) Information Security
13 18 (9.78%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (9.78%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (9.24%) LLM
15 16 (8.70%) Project Management
15 16 (8.70%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 15 (8.15%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.78%) Python
2 28 (15.22%) SQL
3 26 (14.13%) C#
3 26 (14.13%) JavaScript
4 21 (11.41%) TypeScript
5 17 (9.24%) C++
6 8 (4.35%) Go
6 8 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.80%) Java
8 6 (3.26%) Bash
8 6 (3.26%) Julia
9 4 (2.17%) PHP
10 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (19.57%) Degree
2 17 (9.24%) PhD
3 16 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 15 (8.15%) Azure Certification
4 15 (8.15%) Master's Degree
5 14 (7.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (7.07%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.80%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.80%) CISSP
8 5 (2.72%) CEH
8 5 (2.72%) CISM
8 5 (2.72%) GIAC
9 2 (1.09%) APMP
9 2 (1.09%) CISMP
9 2 (1.09%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.09%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (1.09%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 1 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.96%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.80%) NIST
4 5 (2.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 4 (2.17%) GDPR
5 4 (2.17%) ISO 9001
5 4 (2.17%) WCAG
6 3 (1.63%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.63%) QA
7 2 (1.09%) GRC
7 2 (1.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 10 (5.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (11.96%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.35%) Ansible
3 7 (3.80%) Grafana
3 7 (3.80%) Prometheus
4 6 (3.26%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 50 (27.17%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.33%) Google
3 14 (7.61%) Adobe
4 7 (3.80%) VMware
5 6 (3.26%) Databricks
6 5 (2.72%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.72%) Qualys
6 5 (2.72%) Splunk
7 4 (2.17%) HubSpot
7 4 (2.17%) New Relic
7 4 (2.17%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.17%) Zerto
8 3 (1.63%) Mitel
9 2 (1.09%) Ericsson
9 2 (1.09%) Oracle
9 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.09%) Spotify
10 1 (0.54%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.54%) Samsung
10 1 (0.54%) SAP