AI Job Trends in Kingston Upon Thames

AI
South London > Kingston Upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kingston Upon Thames requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 25 43
Rank change year-on-year +15 +18 -18
Permanent jobs citing AI 23 3 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Kingston Upon Thames 12.78% 2.68% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.69% 2.70% 3.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £68,750
90th Percentile - - -
South London median annual salary £112,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% +15.38% +30.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Kingston Upon Thames

AI 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 Kingston Upon Thames.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 130 111 376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kingston Upon Thames 72.22% 99.11% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 49 55 103
10th Percentile £30,000 £38,000 £30,416
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,750 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £58,850
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +10.45% -4.31%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £79,000 £76,850
South London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Kingston Upon Thames

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Kingston Upon Thames.

AI job vacancy trend in Kingston Upon Thames

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Salary Trend in Kingston Upon Thames

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kingston Upon Thames citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kingston Upon Thames citing AI

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Job Locations in Kingston Upon Thames

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the Kingston Upon Thames region over the 6 months to 23 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
New Malden - 1 £70,000 -
AI
South London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kingston Upon Thames 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 (21.74%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (21.74%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) Snowflake
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 5 (21.74%) dbt
2 5 (21.74%) GCP
2 5 (21.74%) Power Platform
3 4 (17.39%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.35%) H2O.ai
4 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) 3GPP
1 1 (4.35%) GSM
1 1 (4.35%) LTE
1 1 (4.35%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (4.35%) RANAP
1 1 (4.35%) SS7
1 1 (4.35%) UMTS
1 1 (4.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) Data Lake
2 11 (47.83%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (21.74%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (21.74%) BigQuery
3 5 (21.74%) DTS
3 5 (21.74%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (21.74%) Looker
3 5 (21.74%) Power BI
3 5 (21.74%) Snowflake Schema
3 5 (21.74%) Tableau
4 1 (4.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) MLflow
2 1 (4.35%) GCC
2 1 (4.35%) GDB
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Games
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Product Specialist
2 6 (26.09%) Data Management Specialist
3 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 5 (21.74%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Presales Solution Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Graduate
6 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Security Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) PyTorch
1 6 (26.09%) TensorFlow
2 5 (21.74%) Kafka
2 5 (21.74%) LangChain
2 5 (21.74%) LlamaIndex
2 5 (21.74%) pgvector
2 5 (21.74%) scikit-learn
3 1 (4.35%) Keras
3 1 (4.35%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Data Centre
2 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 5 (21.74%) Clustering
2 5 (21.74%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Use Case
2 15 (65.22%) Presales
3 12 (52.17%) Analytics
3 12 (52.17%) Data Engineering
3 12 (52.17%) Data Management
3 12 (52.17%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
4 11 (47.83%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (47.83%) Data Science
5 6 (26.09%) AI Transformation
5 6 (26.09%) Business Development
5 6 (26.09%) Conversational UI
5 6 (26.09%) Customer Acquisition
5 6 (26.09%) Customer Engagement
5 6 (26.09%) Data Governance
5 6 (26.09%) Decision-Making
5 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
5 6 (26.09%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (26.09%) Service Delivery
5 6 (26.09%) Storytelling
5 6 (26.09%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (56.52%) Degree
2 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
3 5 (21.74%) Master's Degree
4 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 5 (21.74%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (91.30%) Dell
2 12 (52.17%) Databricks
3 6 (26.09%) Denodo
3 6 (26.09%) Informatica
3 6 (26.09%) Teradata
4 5 (21.74%) Cloudera
5 1 (4.35%) NVIDIA