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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 71 101
Rank change year-on-year +12 +30 -7
Permanent jobs citing Machine Learning 48 20 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 2.40% 2.01% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 2.18% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 34 15 37
10th Percentile £47,375 - -
25th Percentile £50,625 £65,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £77,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% +29.17% -23.81%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,625 £85,000
90th Percentile - £105,250 -
South East median annual salary £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +3.85% -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 1,435 916 2,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 71.68% 92.06% 87.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,042 546 1,452
10th Percentile £31,276 £30,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £97,375 £77,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -10 22 £100,000 +25.00% 4
Reigate - 4 £90,000 - 1
Epsom - 4 £50,000 -
Woking -19 3 £75,000 -11.76% 3
Staines -3 2 £70,000 -9.68% 1
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 4 (8.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 20 (41.67%) AWS
2 9 (18.75%) Azure
2 9 (18.75%) GCP
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (8.33%) SaaS
3 4 (8.33%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.17%) Azure AI
4 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.17%) GitHub
4 2 (4.17%) Google Play
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (2.08%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (2.08%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.58%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 6 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 4 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (8.33%) Big Data
2 4 (8.33%) Data Mining
2 4 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.33%) Tableau
3 2 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.17%) MySQL
3 2 (4.17%) Pinecone
3 2 (4.17%) Redis
4 1 (2.08%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Games
3 5 (10.42%) Marketing
3 5 (10.42%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (6.25%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Finance
6 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (39.58%) Software Engineer
2 15 (31.25%) C++ Software Engineer
2 15 (31.25%) Developer
2 15 (31.25%) Python Engineer
2 15 (31.25%) Python Software Engineer
3 14 (29.17%) Senior
4 8 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) C# Software Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Senior C# Software Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Data Science Manager
7 4 (8.33%) Games Developer
7 4 (8.33%) SaaS Developer
7 4 (8.33%) Senior Manager
7 4 (8.33%) Software Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Lead
9 2 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 2 (4.17%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.67%) Laravel
2 7 (14.58%) React
3 6 (12.50%) FastAPI
4 5 (10.42%) Vue
5 4 (8.33%) CSS
5 4 (8.33%) HTML
5 4 (8.33%) Play Framework
5 4 (8.33%) REST
5 4 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
6 3 (6.25%) Node.js
6 3 (6.25%) PyTorch
6 3 (6.25%) RESTful
6 3 (6.25%) Spring
6 3 (6.25%) Spring Boot
6 3 (6.25%) TensorFlow
7 2 (4.17%) .NET Core
7 2 (4.17%) Blazor
7 2 (4.17%) Faiss
7 2 (4.17%) gRPC
7 2 (4.17%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Algorithms
1 9 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (10.42%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.17%) iPhone
3 2 (4.17%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.17%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (2.08%) BBC
4 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (91.67%) AI
2 24 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 15 (31.25%) Agile
3 15 (31.25%) Data Science
4 14 (29.17%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 11 (22.92%) Roadmaps
7 10 (20.83%) LLM
8 9 (18.75%) Decision-Making
9 7 (14.58%) Generative AI
9 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (14.58%) Mentoring
10 6 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
10 6 (12.50%) Computer Science
10 6 (12.50%) Statistics
11 5 (10.42%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 5 (10.42%) Digital Transformation Strategy
11 5 (10.42%) Operations Research
11 5 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (72.92%) Python
2 17 (35.42%) C++
3 11 (22.92%) C#
4 9 (18.75%) Java
4 9 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 9 (18.75%) SQL
5 7 (14.58%) TypeScript
6 6 (12.50%) Scala
7 5 (10.42%) R
8 4 (8.33%) Go
8 4 (8.33%) Julia
8 4 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (41.67%) Degree
2 19 (39.58%) Master's Degree
3 16 (33.33%) PhD
4 10 (20.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (8.33%) MBA
6 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Terraform
2 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) Google
3 4 (8.33%) BT
3 4 (8.33%) Databricks
4 2 (4.17%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.17%) Typelevel
5 1 (2.08%) Foundry