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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 72 71
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +24
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 51 25 58
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 2.24% 2.13% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 2.39% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 43 20 45
10th Percentile £50,000 £62,500 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +75.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £85,000
90th Percentile - £107,750 -
South East median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -14.29%

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 1,671 1,046 1,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 73.48% 89.17% 86.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,232 684 1,051
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £35,000 £35,042
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.79% -4.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -8 25 £100,000 +8.11% 6
Reigate - 6 £90,000 - 3
Woking -17 5 £75,000 -11.76% 10
Epsom - 4 £50,000 -
Staines -7 2 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Redhill - 1 - -
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 (9.80%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.96%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 19 (37.25%) AWS
2 11 (21.57%) Azure
3 7 (13.73%) GCP
4 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (9.80%) Snowflake
5 4 (7.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (7.84%) Azure AI
5 4 (7.84%) Google Play
5 4 (7.84%) SaaS
6 2 (3.92%) GitHub
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.96%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (1.96%) dbt
7 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.96%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) MongoDB
2 4 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (7.84%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.92%) MySQL
3 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.92%) Pinecone
3 2 (3.92%) Redis
4 1 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.96%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.96%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) Git
2 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (11.76%) Games
2 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.92%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Finance
4 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.96%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 20 (39.22%) Software Engineer
2 16 (31.37%) Developer
2 16 (31.37%) Senior
3 14 (27.45%) C++ Software Engineer
3 14 (27.45%) Python Engineer
3 14 (27.45%) Python Software Engineer
4 9 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 9 (17.65%) Senior Software Engineer
5 8 (15.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (9.80%) C# Software Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Data Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) .NET Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Games Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) SaaS Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Software Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Software Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.69%) Laravel
1 8 (15.69%) React
2 6 (11.76%) FastAPI
3 5 (9.80%) PySpark
3 5 (9.80%) RESTful
4 4 (7.84%) .NET
4 4 (7.84%) .NET Core
4 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET
4 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET Core
4 4 (7.84%) Blazor
4 4 (7.84%) CSS
4 4 (7.84%) HTML
4 4 (7.84%) ML.NET
4 4 (7.84%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (7.84%) Vue
5 3 (5.88%) Node.js
5 3 (5.88%) REST
6 2 (3.92%) Kafka
6 2 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.92%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.84%) Algorithms
1 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (7.84%) iPhone
1 4 (7.84%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.88%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.92%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.96%) BBC
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.96%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.84%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (96.08%) AI
2 25 (49.02%) Software Engineering
3 16 (31.37%) Agile
3 16 (31.37%) CI/CD
4 15 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (21.57%) Generative AI
6 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (17.65%) Data Science
7 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (13.73%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (13.73%) DevOps
8 7 (13.73%) LLM
9 6 (11.76%) Analytics
10 5 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (9.80%) Data Engineering
10 5 (9.80%) Decision-Making
10 5 (9.80%) Mentoring
10 5 (9.80%) Roadmaps
10 5 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (9.80%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (66.67%) Python
2 17 (33.33%) C++
3 13 (25.49%) C#
4 12 (23.53%) SQL
5 11 (21.57%) JavaScript
6 7 (13.73%) TypeScript
7 4 (7.84%) Java
7 4 (7.84%) Julia
7 4 (7.84%) PHP
8 3 (5.88%) Go
9 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) Degree
1 16 (31.37%) PhD
2 15 (29.41%) Master's Degree
3 9 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 7 (13.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (15.69%) Terraform
2 6 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.69%) Google
3 6 (11.76%) Databricks
4 2 (3.92%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.96%) Foundry
5 1 (1.96%) Typelevel