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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 63 55
Rank change year-on-year -24 -8 +29
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 39 32 78
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.57% 2.84% 4.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 3.16% 5.06%
Number of salaries quoted 35 29 48
10th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 -
25th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £114,000 £121,250 -
South East median annual salary £62,500 £77,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year -19.35% +5.08% +7.66%

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 1,935 1,013 1,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 77.68% 89.88% 87.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,416 678 708
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,872 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -17.05% -1.36%
75th Percentile £73,750 £64,750 £73,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

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 October 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 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 -25 19 £100,000 +9.59% 15
Woking -14 8 £75,000 -11.76% 16
Reigate - 4 £60,000 - 4
Egham -9 2 £98,750 -1.25%
Staines -13 2 £70,000 -3.45% 3
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 (12.82%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (10.26%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) Azure
3 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.82%) Snowflake
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (10.26%) Azure AI
5 4 (10.26%) GCP
5 4 (10.26%) Google Play
6 2 (5.13%) GitHub
6 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.56%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) 4G
1 2 (5.13%) 5G
1 2 (5.13%) Intelligent Network
1 2 (5.13%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (5.13%) Wireless
2 1 (2.56%) Broadband
2 1 (2.56%) LTE
2 1 (2.56%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) MongoDB
2 4 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (10.26%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.13%) MySQL
4 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.13%) Pinecone
4 2 (5.13%) Power BI
4 2 (5.13%) Redis
4 2 (5.13%) Tableau
5 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.56%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (30.77%) Git
2 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.13%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) Terragrunt
4 1 (2.56%) MLflow
General
1 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.13%) Finance
2 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Games
3 1 (2.56%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (2.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Senior
2 12 (30.77%) Software Engineer
3 11 (28.21%) Developer
4 9 (23.08%) Senior Software Engineer
5 8 (20.51%) C++ Software Engineer
5 8 (20.51%) Python Engineer
5 8 (20.51%) Python Software Engineer
6 7 (17.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (12.82%) C# Software Engineer
7 5 (12.82%) Data Engineer
7 5 (12.82%) Senior C# Software Engineer
7 5 (12.82%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) .NET Developer
8 4 (10.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (10.26%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) Senior Integration Engineer
8 4 (10.26%) Software Developer
8 4 (10.26%) Software Integration Engineer
9 3 (7.69%) Architect
10 2 (5.13%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) React
1 8 (20.51%) Terraform
2 6 (15.38%) FastAPI
3 5 (12.82%) PySpark
3 5 (12.82%) RESTful
4 4 (10.26%) .NET
4 4 (10.26%) .NET Core
4 4 (10.26%) ASP.NET
4 4 (10.26%) ASP.NET Core
4 4 (10.26%) Blazor
4 4 (10.26%) CSS
4 4 (10.26%) HTML
4 4 (10.26%) Laravel
4 4 (10.26%) ML.NET
4 4 (10.26%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (10.26%) Vue
5 3 (7.69%) REST
6 2 (5.13%) Faiss
6 2 (5.13%) Kafka
6 2 (5.13%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) iPhone
1 4 (10.26%) Mobile App
2 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Low-Code
3 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) IoT
4 1 (2.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) AI
2 18 (46.15%) Software Engineering
3 16 (41.03%) Agile
4 15 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 9 (23.08%) Analytics
5 9 (23.08%) Data Science
5 9 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (20.51%) DevOps
6 8 (20.51%) Generative AI
6 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (20.51%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (17.95%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (17.95%) LLM
8 6 (15.38%) Data Engineering
8 6 (15.38%) Decision-Making
9 5 (12.82%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 4 (10.26%) Backlog Management
10 4 (10.26%) Product Backlog
10 4 (10.26%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 27 (69.23%) Python
2 14 (35.90%) C#
3 13 (33.33%) C++
3 13 (33.33%) SQL
4 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
5 6 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 5 (12.82%) Julia
7 4 (10.26%) PHP
8 2 (5.13%) Java
9 1 (2.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Degree
1 11 (28.21%) Master's Degree
1 11 (28.21%) PhD
2 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) QA
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.51%) Databricks
3 6 (15.38%) Google
4 2 (5.13%) Ericsson
4 2 (5.13%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.56%) Axway
5 1 (2.56%) Huawei
5 1 (2.56%) Nokia
5 1 (2.56%) Samsung