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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 56 40
Rank change year-on-year +39 -16 +45
Permanent jobs citing AI 176 44 109
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 7.05% 3.84% 5.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.25% 4.30% 6.87%
Number of salaries quoted 112 38 59
10th Percentile £36,275 £34,250 -
25th Percentile £45,750 £38,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -13.33% -22.08%
75th Percentile £94,063 £103,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £114,750 £120,375 -
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 1,902 1,024 1,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 76.23% 89.43% 87.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,413 677 759
10th Percentile £30,750 £27,500 £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 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £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 29 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 29 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 68 £80,000 -13.51% 35
Woking -11 19 £70,000 +86.67% 54
Reigate - 17 £51,250 - 7
Staines -8 9 £57,500 -20.69% 26
Egham -1 8 £92,500 -7.50%
Redhill - 8 £107,500 - 11
Leatherhead - 5 - - 3
Epsom +2 2 - -
Chertsey - 2 £52,500 - 3
Sunbury-on-Thames - 2 - - 9
Banstead - 1 - - 1
Farnham - 1 - -
Godalming - 1 £36,500 - 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 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.41%) CMS
3 5 (2.84%) SAS
4 4 (2.27%) Apache
4 4 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.27%) Confluence
4 4 (2.27%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.70%) 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 11 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.14%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (1.14%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.14%) Adobe XD
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.57%) Elementor
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.57%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (31.25%) Azure
2 53 (30.11%) AWS
3 25 (14.20%) GitHub
4 23 (13.07%) SaaS
5 19 (10.80%) Azure AI
6 14 (7.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (7.95%) Power Platform
7 13 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (6.82%) Snowflake
9 11 (6.25%) GCP
10 10 (5.68%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (4.55%) Figma
11 8 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (3.98%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.98%) Anthropic Claude
12 7 (3.98%) ChatGPT
12 7 (3.98%) Copilot Studio
13 6 (3.41%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (2.84%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.82%) Firewall
2 10 (5.68%) VPN
3 5 (2.84%) 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 (5.68%) MongoDB
1 10 (5.68%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.11%) Power BI
2 9 (5.11%) Redis
3 6 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.41%) Tableau
4 5 (2.84%) Looker
4 5 (2.84%) MySQL
5 4 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.70%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.70%) 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 (10.80%) Git
2 9 (5.11%) JIRA
3 3 (1.70%) 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 58 (32.95%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.64%) Finance
3 21 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (11.93%) Public Sector
4 19 (10.80%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (7.95%) Marketing
6 13 (7.39%) Legal
7 10 (5.68%) Police
8 9 (5.11%) Retail
9 8 (4.55%) Games
10 6 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.70%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.70%) Publishing
12 2 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.57%) Banking
13 1 (0.57%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 28 (15.91%) Developer
2 27 (15.34%) Senior
3 23 (13.07%) Lead
4 22 (12.50%) Consultant
5 14 (7.95%) Software Engineer
6 13 (7.39%) Administrator
7 12 (6.82%) Analyst
7 12 (6.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 12 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (6.25%) Software Developer
9 10 (5.68%) DevOps Administrator
9 10 (5.68%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (5.11%) C++ Software Engineer
10 9 (5.11%) Python Engineer
10 9 (5.11%) Python Software Engineer
10 9 (5.11%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (4.55%) Data Analyst
11 8 (4.55%) Data Engineer
11 8 (4.55%) Lead Developer
12 7 (3.98%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.50%) Terraform
2 12 (6.82%) Node.js
3 11 (6.25%) Vue
4 10 (5.68%) .NET
4 10 (5.68%) React
5 9 (5.11%) .NET Core
5 9 (5.11%) REST
6 8 (4.55%) HTML
6 8 (4.55%) RESTful
7 7 (3.98%) Kafka
7 7 (3.98%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (3.41%) CSS
8 6 (3.41%) FastAPI
9 5 (2.84%) PySpark
9 5 (2.84%) Spring
9 5 (2.84%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.27%) ASP.NET
10 4 (2.27%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (2.27%) Laravel
10 4 (2.27%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 11 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
1 11 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (5.68%) Private Cloud
3 9 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.98%) Social Media
5 6 (3.41%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.41%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.41%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.84%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 5 (2.84%) Marketing Technology
6 5 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.27%) iPhone
7 4 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.27%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.27%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.70%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.70%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.52%) Linux
2 8 (4.55%) Windows
3 5 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (26.70%) CI/CD
2 41 (23.30%) Analytics
3 39 (22.16%) Machine Learning
4 37 (21.02%) Agile
5 32 (18.18%) DevOps
6 31 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (16.48%) Software Engineering
8 21 (11.93%) Collaborative Working
9 20 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (11.36%) Full-Stack Development
10 19 (10.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (10.80%) Technical Leadership
11 18 (10.23%) Information Security
12 17 (9.66%) Customer Experience
12 17 (9.66%) Decision-Making
12 17 (9.66%) LLM
12 17 (9.66%) Observability
12 17 (9.66%) Roadmaps
13 16 (9.09%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 61 (34.66%) Python
2 27 (15.34%) SQL
3 25 (14.20%) C#
3 25 (14.20%) JavaScript
4 20 (11.36%) TypeScript
5 14 (7.95%) C++
6 8 (4.55%) Go
6 8 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.98%) Bash
8 6 (3.41%) Java
9 5 (2.84%) Julia
10 4 (2.27%) PHP
11 2 (1.14%) R
12 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (19.89%) Degree
2 17 (9.66%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.52%) PhD
4 14 (7.95%) Master's Degree
4 14 (7.95%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 11 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.55%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.98%) CISSP
8 5 (2.84%) CEH
8 5 (2.84%) CISM
8 5 (2.84%) GIAC
9 2 (1.14%) APMP
9 2 (1.14%) CBAP
9 2 (1.14%) CISMP
9 2 (1.14%) CREST Certified
9 2 (1.14%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 2 (1.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.23%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.98%) NIST
4 5 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 4 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.27%) GDPR
5 4 (2.27%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.70%) WCAG
7 2 (1.14%) GRC
7 2 (1.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 10 (5.68%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (13.07%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.25%) Ansible
3 10 (5.68%) Grafana
3 10 (5.68%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.98%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 50 (28.41%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.93%) Google
3 9 (5.11%) VMware
4 8 (4.55%) Adobe
5 7 (3.98%) Databricks
5 7 (3.98%) HubSpot
6 5 (2.84%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.84%) Qualys
6 5 (2.84%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.84%) Splunk
6 5 (2.84%) Spotify
7 4 (2.27%) New Relic
7 4 (2.27%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.27%) Zerto
8 3 (1.70%) Mitel
9 2 (1.14%) Ericsson
9 2 (1.14%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.14%) Oracle
10 1 (0.57%) Nokia
10 1 (0.57%) SAP