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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 52 98
Rank change year-on-year +46 +46 -6
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 358 35 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 16.77% 3.78% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.98% 4.20% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 19 31 23
10th Percentile £49,250 £53,750 £40,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £61,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +33.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -7.14%

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 1,629 833 1,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 76.30% 89.86% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 963 514 1,311
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £37,625 £39,813 £33,362
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,250 £85,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -23 10 £100,000 +33.33% 5
Epsom - 10 £50,000 -
Reigate - 10 £90,000 - 1
Redhill +9 8 - -
Egham - 8 - -
Banstead - 8 - -
Addlestone +6 7 - -
Staines +4 7 - -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 7 - -
Tadworth - 7 - -
Thames Ditton - 7 - -
Whyteleafe - 7 - -
Betchworth - 7 - -
Caterham - 7 - -
Chertsey - 7 - -
Godstone - 7 - -
Shepperton - 6 - -
Esher - 6 - -
Leatherhead - 6 - -
Oxted - 6 - -
East Molesey - 6 - -
Weybridge - 6 - -
Walton-on-Thames - 6 - - 1
Woking -13 2 £58,750 -42.68% 5
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 (1.40%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 327 (91.34%) Cloud Computing
2 12 (3.35%) AWS
3 5 (1.40%) GCP
3 5 (1.40%) Snowflake
4 4 (1.12%) SaaS
5 3 (0.84%) Azure
6 1 (0.28%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (0.28%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (0.28%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.28%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 327 (91.34%) Internet
2 6 (1.68%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.68%) Tableau
2 5 (1.40%) Big Data
2 5 (1.40%) Data Mining
2 5 (1.40%) Hadoop
2 5 (1.40%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.28%) Metadata
3 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.28%) Power BI
General
1 328 (91.62%) Social Skills
2 327 (91.34%) Banking
2 327 (91.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (2.51%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (1.68%) Marketing
4 6 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (1.40%) Games
6 2 (0.56%) Finance
7 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 270 (75.42%) Lecturer
2 10 (2.79%) Software Engineer
3 9 (2.51%) Senior
4 7 (1.96%) C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (1.96%) Python Engineer
4 7 (1.96%) Python Software Engineer
5 6 (1.68%) Developer
6 5 (1.40%) Data Science Manager
6 5 (1.40%) Senior Manager
7 4 (1.12%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (1.12%) Games Developer
7 4 (1.12%) SaaS Developer
8 3 (0.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (0.56%) Lead
10 1 (0.28%) Data Science Director
10 1 (0.28%) Data Science Leader
10 1 (0.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 1 (0.28%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 1 (0.28%) Research Software Engineer
10 1 (0.28%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.40%) Play Framework
2 4 (1.12%) Laravel
3 3 (0.84%) REST
4 2 (0.56%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.56%) gRPC
4 2 (0.56%) React
4 2 (0.56%) Vue
5 1 (0.28%) .NET
5 1 (0.28%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.28%) Blazor
5 1 (0.28%) LangChain
5 1 (0.28%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.28%) Node.js
5 1 (0.28%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.28%) Spring
5 1 (0.28%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.28%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.28%) WinForms
5 1 (0.28%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 327 (91.34%) IoT
2 8 (2.23%) Algorithms
3 7 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (0.56%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (0.28%) BBC
6 1 (0.28%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.28%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.28%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (98.88%) AI
2 327 (91.34%) Cybersecurity
2 327 (91.34%) User Experience
2 327 (91.34%) Web Development
3 13 (3.63%) Software Engineering
4 12 (3.35%) Data Science
5 10 (2.79%) Decision-Making
5 10 (2.79%) Roadmaps
6 9 (2.51%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (2.23%) Actionable Insight
7 8 (2.23%) Agile
7 8 (2.23%) Computer Science
7 8 (2.23%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (1.96%) Analytics
8 7 (1.96%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 7 (1.96%) LLM
8 7 (1.96%) Mathematics
8 7 (1.96%) Statistics
9 6 (1.68%) Digital Transformation Strategy
9 6 (1.68%) Operations Research
Programming Languages
1 20 (5.59%) Python
2 8 (2.23%) Java
3 7 (1.96%) C++
3 7 (1.96%) Scala
3 7 (1.96%) SQL
4 6 (1.68%) R
5 3 (0.84%) C#
5 3 (0.84%) Go
6 2 (0.56%) Julia
7 1 (0.28%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 341 (95.25%) Degree
2 339 (94.69%) Master's Degree
3 335 (93.58%) PhD
4 327 (91.34%) Postgraduate
5 8 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.40%) MBA
7 1 (0.28%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.28%) QA
System Software
1 3 (0.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (1.40%) BT
1 5 (1.40%) Databricks
2 3 (0.84%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.56%) Google
3 2 (0.56%) Typelevel
4 1 (0.28%) Foundry