AI Job Trends in Merton

AI
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merton requiring AI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing AI 10 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Merton 14.29% - 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.83% - 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £72,500 - -
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
Merton

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 Merton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48 73 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 68.57% 100.00% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 31 53 37
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,600 £30,650
25th Percentile £45,250 £58,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £82,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +24.53% +20.45%
75th Percentile £60,875 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £111,250 £96,000
South London median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -

AI
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

AI job vacancy trend in Merton

AI
Salary Trend in Merton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing AI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing AI

AI
Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AI within the Merton region over the 6 months to 16 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
Mitcham - 2 - -
Morden - 2 - -
New Malden - 1 £70,000 - 1
AI
South London

AI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merton 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 2 (20.00%) CMS
1 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) Contentsquare
3 2 (20.00%) Figma
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (10.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (50.00%) Games
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Content Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Content Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Content Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Digital User Researcher
2 1 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Product Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Content Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Digital Content Designer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Digital Designer
2 1 (10.00%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (30.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Social Media
1 3 (30.00%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 5 (50.00%) Analytics
3 5 (50.00%) Customer Experience
3 5 (50.00%) Digital Customer Experience
3 5 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
3 5 (50.00%) Storytelling
3 5 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (30.00%) Computer Vision
5 3 (30.00%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (30.00%) Data Science
5 3 (30.00%) Generative AI
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (30.00%) MLOps
5 3 (30.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (30.00%) WCAG
3 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (10.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Adobe