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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 55 41
Rank change year-on-year +39 -14 +42
Permanent jobs citing AI 175 48 107
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 6.98% 4.18% 5.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.11% 4.66% 6.73%
Number of salaries quoted 113 42 57
10th Percentile £35,850 £34,450 -
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,997 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% -22.08%
75th Percentile £93,750 £105,938 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,500 £119,375 -
South East median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +19.05% -25.00% -1.23%

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 1,920 1,029 1,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 76.62% 89.63% 87.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,432 683 755
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,557 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -10.91% -

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 66 £80,000 -13.51% 50
Woking -9 20 £70,000 +86.67% 61
Reigate - 17 £51,250 - 11
Staines -10 9 £57,500 -20.69% 36
Egham -2 8 £92,500 -7.50% 4
Redhill - 6 £50,000 - 8
Leatherhead - 5 - - 9
Epsom +2 2 - - 2
Chertsey - 2 £52,500 - 1
Sunbury-on-Thames - 2 - - 8
Farnham - 1 - - 1
Godalming - 1 £36,500 - 3
Addlestone - 1 £30,000 - 1
Banstead - 1 - - 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 8 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.43%) CMS
3 5 (2.86%) Confluence
3 5 (2.86%) SAS
4 4 (2.29%) Apache
4 4 (2.29%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.29%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.71%) WordPress
6 2 (1.14%) JBoss
6 2 (1.14%) R Markdown
6 2 (1.14%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.14%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (1.14%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.14%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.57%) Elementor
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.57%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (30.86%) Azure
2 53 (30.29%) AWS
3 25 (14.29%) GitHub
4 23 (13.14%) SaaS
5 17 (9.71%) Azure AI
6 14 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (8.00%) Power Platform
7 12 (6.86%) Snowflake
8 11 (6.29%) GCP
9 10 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (4.57%) Figma
10 8 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (4.57%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (4.00%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (4.00%) ChatGPT
11 7 (4.00%) Copilot Studio
12 6 (3.43%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (2.86%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.86%) Firewall
2 10 (5.71%) VPN
3 5 (2.86%) Broadband
4 2 (1.14%) 4G
4 2 (1.14%) 5G
4 2 (1.14%) Intelligent Network
4 2 (1.14%) Intranet
4 2 (1.14%) Network Security
4 2 (1.14%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.14%) Wireless
5 1 (0.57%) LAN
5 1 (0.57%) LTE
5 1 (0.57%) NGN
5 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.71%) MongoDB
1 10 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.14%) Power BI
2 9 (5.14%) Redis
3 6 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.43%) Tableau
4 5 (2.86%) Looker
4 5 (2.86%) MySQL
5 4 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.71%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.71%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.14%) Metadata
7 2 (1.14%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.57%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (10.86%) Git
2 10 (5.71%) JIRA
3 3 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.14%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.14%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.57%) MLflow
General
1 56 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.57%) Finance
3 21 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 20 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.29%) Influencing Skills
6 14 (8.00%) Marketing
7 13 (7.43%) Legal
8 10 (5.71%) Police
9 9 (5.14%) Retail
10 8 (4.57%) Games
11 7 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.71%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.71%) Publishing
14 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.57%) Banking
15 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.57%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (16.00%) Developer
1 28 (16.00%) Senior
2 24 (13.71%) Lead
3 22 (12.57%) Consultant
4 14 (8.00%) Administrator
4 14 (8.00%) Software Engineer
5 12 (6.86%) Analyst
5 12 (6.86%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (6.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 11 (6.29%) Software Developer
7 10 (5.71%) DevOps Administrator
7 10 (5.71%) Systems Administrator
8 9 (5.14%) C++ Software Engineer
8 9 (5.14%) Python Engineer
8 9 (5.14%) Python Software Engineer
8 9 (5.14%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) Lead Developer
10 7 (4.00%) Data Analyst
10 7 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.57%) Terraform
2 12 (6.86%) Node.js
3 11 (6.29%) Vue
4 10 (5.71%) .NET
4 10 (5.71%) React
5 9 (5.14%) .NET Core
5 9 (5.14%) REST
6 8 (4.57%) HTML
6 8 (4.57%) RESTful
7 7 (4.00%) Kafka
7 7 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (3.43%) CSS
8 6 (3.43%) FastAPI
9 5 (2.86%) PySpark
9 5 (2.86%) Spring
9 5 (2.86%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.29%) ASP.NET
10 4 (2.29%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (2.29%) Laravel
10 4 (2.29%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.86%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (6.29%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (5.71%) Private Cloud
4 9 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.00%) Social Media
6 6 (3.43%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.43%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.43%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (2.86%) Low-Code
7 5 (2.86%) Marketing Technology
7 5 (2.86%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.29%) iPhone
8 4 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.29%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.71%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.71%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.57%) Linux
2 8 (4.57%) Windows
3 5 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (26.86%) CI/CD
2 42 (24.00%) Analytics
3 40 (22.86%) Machine Learning
4 38 (21.71%) Agile
5 33 (18.86%) DevOps
6 31 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (16.57%) Software Engineering
8 28 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
10 20 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
11 19 (10.86%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (10.86%) Technical Leadership
12 18 (10.29%) Information Security
13 17 (9.71%) Customer Experience
13 17 (9.71%) Data Engineering
13 17 (9.71%) Decision-Making
13 17 (9.71%) LLM
13 17 (9.71%) Observability
14 16 (9.14%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 59 (33.71%) Python
2 26 (14.86%) SQL
3 25 (14.29%) C#
3 25 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 20 (11.43%) TypeScript
5 14 (8.00%) C++
6 8 (4.57%) Go
6 8 (4.57%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.00%) Bash
8 6 (3.43%) Java
9 5 (2.86%) Julia
10 4 (2.29%) PHP
11 2 (1.14%) R
12 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (20.00%) Degree
2 17 (9.71%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.57%) PhD
4 14 (8.00%) Master's Degree
4 14 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.14%) Azure Certification
7 8 (4.57%) AWS Certification
8 7 (4.00%) CISSP
9 5 (2.86%) CEH
9 5 (2.86%) CISM
9 5 (2.86%) GIAC
10 2 (1.14%) APMP
10 2 (1.14%) CBAP
10 2 (1.14%) CISMP
10 2 (1.14%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.14%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 2 (1.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.29%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (4.00%) NIST
4 5 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 4 (2.29%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.29%) GDPR
5 4 (2.29%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.71%) WCAG
7 2 (1.14%) GRC
7 2 (1.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 10 (5.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (13.14%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.29%) Ansible
3 10 (5.71%) Grafana
3 10 (5.71%) Prometheus
4 7 (4.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 50 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.00%) Google
3 9 (5.14%) VMware
4 8 (4.57%) Adobe
4 8 (4.57%) Databricks
5 7 (4.00%) HubSpot
6 5 (2.86%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.86%) Qualys
6 5 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.86%) Splunk
6 5 (2.86%) Spotify
7 4 (2.29%) New Relic
7 4 (2.29%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.29%) Zerto
8 3 (1.71%) Mitel
9 2 (1.14%) Ericsson
9 2 (1.14%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.14%) Oracle
10 1 (0.57%) Samsung
10 1 (0.57%) SAP