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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 55 39
Rank change year-on-year +42 -16 +47
Permanent jobs citing AI 188 47 118
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 8.13% 4.01% 6.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.85% 4.52% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 118 37 73
10th Percentile £36,100 £34,250 -
25th Percentile £45,875 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £106,250 £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% -11.86%

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 1,733 1,039 1,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 74.96% 88.73% 85.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,284 692 893
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £50,825
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -6.54% -11.61%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £68,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £53,050
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.75% -3.55%

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 4 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 4 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 +17 76 £82,500 -10.81% 30
Reigate - 19 £60,000 - 6
Woking -22 15 £70,000 +62.79% 25
Redhill - 15 £107,500 - 4
Egham +2 8 £92,500 -7.50% 8
Staines -7 6 £70,000 -3.45% 18
Epsom - 4 £50,000 -
Leatherhead - 4 - - 10
Godalming - 2 £36,500 - 1
Chertsey - 2 £52,500 - 3
Banstead - 1 - -
Farnham - 1 - -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - - 3
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 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.72%) CMS
3 6 (3.19%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.13%) Apache
4 4 (2.13%) WordPress
5 3 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.60%) SAS
6 2 (1.06%) Confluence
7 1 (0.53%) JBoss
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.60%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.06%) Adobe After Effects
4 2 (1.06%) Adobe XD
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.06%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.53%) Elementor
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.53%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 57 (30.32%) Azure
2 50 (26.60%) AWS
3 28 (14.89%) SaaS
4 24 (12.77%) Azure AI
5 19 (10.11%) GitHub
6 15 (7.98%) Power Platform
7 12 (6.38%) Adobe Analytics
7 12 (6.38%) Figma
7 12 (6.38%) GCP
7 12 (6.38%) Snowflake
8 11 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (4.26%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (3.72%) Copilot Studio
12 6 (3.19%) ChatGPT
12 6 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.19%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.66%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.98%) Broadband
2 8 (4.26%) Firewall
3 6 (3.19%) VPN
4 2 (1.06%) 4G
4 2 (1.06%) 5G
4 2 (1.06%) Intelligent Network
4 2 (1.06%) Intranet
4 2 (1.06%) Network Security
4 2 (1.06%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (1.06%) Wireless
5 1 (0.53%) LAN
5 1 (0.53%) LTE
5 1 (0.53%) NGN
5 1 (0.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.85%) MongoDB
2 10 (5.32%) Power BI
2 10 (5.32%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.79%) Redis
3 9 (4.79%) Tableau
4 7 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.66%) MySQL
6 4 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.06%) Looker
8 2 (1.06%) Pinecone
9 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.53%) Metadata
9 1 (0.53%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (9.04%) Git
2 6 (3.19%) JIRA
3 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.06%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (32.45%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.23%) Finance
3 21 (11.17%) Influencing Skills
4 20 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 19 (10.11%) Games
6 17 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (6.91%) Legal
8 11 (5.85%) Marketing
9 10 (5.32%) Police
10 6 (3.19%) Retail
11 5 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.60%) Publishing
12 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.06%) Aerospace
13 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.53%) Banking
14 1 (0.53%) Multimedia
14 1 (0.53%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 30 (15.96%) Developer
2 27 (14.36%) Lead
3 26 (13.83%) Senior
4 19 (10.11%) Consultant
5 18 (9.57%) Software Engineer
6 14 (7.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 14 (7.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (6.38%) Analyst
7 12 (6.38%) C++ Software Engineer
7 12 (6.38%) Python Engineer
7 12 (6.38%) Python Software Engineer
8 11 (5.85%) Junior
8 11 (5.85%) Software Developer
9 10 (5.32%) Data Analyst
10 9 (4.79%) Administrator
10 9 (4.79%) Designer
10 9 (4.79%) Junior Analyst
10 9 (4.79%) Junior Data Analyst
10 9 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (4.26%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.57%) Terraform
2 13 (6.91%) Node.js
3 11 (5.85%) Vue
4 10 (5.32%) .NET
4 10 (5.32%) React
4 10 (5.32%) REST
5 9 (4.79%) .NET Core
6 8 (4.26%) RESTful
7 7 (3.72%) HTML
8 6 (3.19%) FastAPI
8 6 (3.19%) Kafka
8 6 (3.19%) Laravel
8 6 (3.19%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (2.66%) CSS
9 5 (2.66%) PySpark
9 5 (2.66%) Spring
9 5 (2.66%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.13%) ASP.NET
10 4 (2.13%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (2.13%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.51%) Social Media
2 11 (5.85%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.32%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.19%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.19%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.19%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.66%) Blog
6 5 (2.66%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (2.66%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.13%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.13%) iPhone
7 4 (2.13%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.13%) Podcast
7 4 (2.13%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.38%) Linux
2 7 (3.72%) Windows
3 5 (2.66%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.13%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 43 (22.87%) Analytics
3 42 (22.34%) Agile
4 41 (21.81%) CI/CD
5 33 (17.55%) Software Engineering
6 28 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (14.89%) Roadmaps
7 26 (13.83%) DevOps
7 26 (13.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 24 (12.77%) Customer Experience
9 22 (11.70%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (10.11%) Information Security
11 18 (9.57%) Collaborative Working
11 18 (9.57%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (9.57%) Technical Leadership
11 18 (9.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 17 (9.04%) LLM
12 17 (9.04%) Project Management
12 17 (9.04%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.04%) Python
2 29 (15.43%) SQL
3 26 (13.83%) C#
4 25 (13.30%) JavaScript
5 20 (10.64%) TypeScript
6 17 (9.04%) C++
7 8 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.72%) Go
8 7 (3.72%) Java
9 6 (3.19%) Julia
10 5 (2.66%) Bash
11 4 (2.13%) PHP
12 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (19.68%) Degree
2 17 (9.04%) PhD
3 16 (8.51%) Azure Certification
4 15 (7.98%) Master's Degree
4 15 (7.98%) Security Cleared
5 14 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (6.91%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.72%) CISSP
8 6 (3.19%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.66%) CEH
9 5 (2.66%) CISM
9 5 (2.66%) GIAC
10 2 (1.06%) APMP
10 2 (1.06%) CISMP
10 2 (1.06%) CREST Certified
10 2 (1.06%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 2 (1.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.30%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.72%) NIST
4 5 (2.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 4 (2.13%) GDPR
5 4 (2.13%) ISO 9001
5 4 (2.13%) WCAG
6 3 (1.60%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.60%) QA
7 2 (1.06%) GRC
7 2 (1.06%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 10 (5.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (11.17%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.72%) Ansible
3 6 (3.19%) Grafana
3 6 (3.19%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.66%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 51 (27.13%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.11%) Google
3 16 (8.51%) Adobe
4 6 (3.19%) Databricks
4 6 (3.19%) VMware
5 5 (2.66%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.66%) Qualys
5 5 (2.66%) Splunk
6 4 (2.13%) HubSpot
6 4 (2.13%) New Relic
6 4 (2.13%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.13%) Zerto
7 3 (1.60%) Mitel
8 2 (1.06%) Ericsson
8 2 (1.06%) Oracle
8 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.06%) Spotify
9 1 (0.53%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.53%) Samsung
9 1 (0.53%) SAP