Machine Learning Job Trends in Surrey

Machine Learning (ML)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Machine Learning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 34 97
Rank change year-on-year +28 +63 -20
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 354 56 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 18.31% 5.61% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 23.26% 6.05% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 18 38 19
10th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £44,750
25th Percentile £60,625 £60,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £72,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.62% +26.09% -17.86%
75th Percentile £98,125 £94,375 £72,500
90th Percentile £105,375 £101,125 £82,500
South East median annual salary £66,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +7.14% +0.72%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

Machine Learning 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 1,522 926 1,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 78.74% 92.79% 88.98%
Number of salaries quoted 905 472 1,195
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £33,474
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,700 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% +19.40% -16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,375 £78,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

Machine Learning
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Machine Learning relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Machine Learning job vacancy trend in Surrey

Machine Learning
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Machine Learning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Machine Learning

Machine Learning
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Machine Learning in Surrey over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Machine Learning in Surrey

Machine Learning
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Machine Learning within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 12 March 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
Cobham - 14 - -
Warlingham - 12 - -
Guildford -18 11 £82,500 +10.00% 8
Reigate - 10 £90,000 - 1
Epsom - 9 £50,000 - 1
Egham - 8 - -
Banstead - 8 - -
Addlestone +8 7 - -
Staines +4 7 - -
Redhill +2 7 - -
Godstone - 7 - -
Betchworth - 7 - -
Caterham - 7 - -
Chertsey - 7 - -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 7 - -
Tadworth - 7 - -
Thames Ditton - 7 - -
Whyteleafe - 7 - -
Weybridge - 6 - -
Walton-on-Thames - 6 - -
East Molesey - 6 - -
Shepperton - 6 - -
Esher - 6 - -
Leatherhead - 6 - -
Oxted - 6 - -
Woking -12 2 £58,750 -35.62% 7
Machine Learning
South East

Machine Learning
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 5 (1.41%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 327 (92.37%) Cloud Computing
2 10 (2.82%) AWS
3 5 (1.41%) Snowflake
4 3 (0.85%) Azure
4 3 (0.85%) GCP
4 3 (0.85%) SaaS
5 1 (0.28%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (0.28%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (0.28%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.28%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 327 (92.37%) Internet
2 3 (0.85%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.69%) Tableau
2 5 (1.41%) Big Data
2 5 (1.41%) Data Mining
2 5 (1.41%) Hadoop
2 5 (1.41%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.28%) GIS
3 1 (0.28%) Metadata
3 1 (0.28%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Git
1 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.28%) JIRA
1 1 (0.28%) TestRail
General
1 330 (93.22%) Banking
2 328 (92.66%) Social Skills
3 327 (92.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (1.69%) Marketing
5 6 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (1.41%) Finance
7 3 (0.85%) Games
8 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 270 (76.27%) Lecturer
2 8 (2.26%) Senior
3 7 (1.98%) Developer
3 7 (1.98%) Software Engineer
4 6 (1.69%) C++ Software Engineer
5 5 (1.41%) Data Science Manager
5 5 (1.41%) Senior Manager
6 4 (1.13%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (1.13%) Python Engineer
6 4 (1.13%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (0.85%) .NET Developer
7 3 (0.85%) Blazor Developer
7 3 (0.85%) Games Developer
7 3 (0.85%) SaaS Developer
8 2 (0.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (0.56%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (0.56%) C# Developer
8 2 (0.56%) Lead
9 1 (0.28%) Analytics Manager
9 1 (0.28%) Scientific Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.69%) WPF
2 5 (1.41%) .NET
2 5 (1.41%) Blazor
2 5 (1.41%) Play Framework
2 5 (1.41%) REST
2 5 (1.41%) WinForms
3 4 (1.13%) AngularJS
3 4 (1.13%) React
3 4 (1.13%) Vue
4 3 (0.85%) .NET Framework
4 3 (0.85%) Laravel
5 2 (0.56%) Qt
6 1 (0.28%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.28%) gRPC
6 1 (0.28%) LangChain
6 1 (0.28%) LangGraph
6 1 (0.28%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.28%) Spring
6 1 (0.28%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 327 (92.37%) IoT
2 8 (2.26%) Algorithms
3 6 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (0.56%) 3D Graphics
5 2 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.28%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.28%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (0.28%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (99.15%) AI
2 327 (92.37%) Cybersecurity
2 327 (92.37%) User Experience
2 327 (92.37%) Web Development
3 13 (3.67%) Software Engineering
4 12 (3.39%) Decision-Making
4 12 (3.39%) Mathematics
5 11 (3.11%) Data Science
6 10 (2.82%) Computer Science
6 10 (2.82%) Roadmaps
7 9 (2.54%) Agile
8 8 (2.26%) Actionable Insight
9 7 (1.98%) Analytics
9 7 (1.98%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 7 (1.98%) DevOps
9 7 (1.98%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (1.98%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (1.98%) Statistics
10 6 (1.69%) CI/CD
10 6 (1.69%) Digital Transformation Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (3.95%) Python
2 8 (2.26%) C#
2 8 (2.26%) Java
3 7 (1.98%) SQL
4 6 (1.69%) C++
4 6 (1.69%) R
4 6 (1.69%) Scala
5 2 (0.56%) Julia
6 1 (0.28%) Bash
6 1 (0.28%) C
6 1 (0.28%) Go
6 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 343 (96.89%) Degree
2 338 (95.48%) Master's Degree
3 333 (94.07%) PhD
4 327 (92.37%) Postgraduate
5 8 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.41%) MBA
7 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (1.41%) BT
1 5 (1.41%) Databricks
2 4 (1.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.28%) Foundry
3 1 (0.28%) Google
3 1 (0.28%) Typelevel