Data Strategy Job Trends in Merton

Data Strategy
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merton requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Strategy 1 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Merton 1.22% - 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% - 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
South London median annual salary £54,150 £105,000 -
% change year-on-year -48.43% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merton

Data Strategy 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 60 71 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 73.17% 100.00% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 33 53 41
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,100 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £58,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £55,000 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £72,000 £111,250 £95,000
South London median annual salary £50,000 £61,125 £56,650
% change year-on-year -18.20% +7.90% +3.00%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in Merton

Data Strategy
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality