Data Structures Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Structures over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 296 295
Rank change year-on-year +17 -1 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 106 162 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.69% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.77% 2.12% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 106 114
10th Percentile £324 £400 £357
25th Percentile £400 £477 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £580 £638 £562
90th Percentile £674 £748 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £40.05 £22.45 £15.94
25th Percentile £40.13 £36.25 £16.41
Median hourly rate £40.25 £79.19 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year -49.17% +370.81% -
75th Percentile £40.38 - £24.50
90th Percentile £40.45 - £42.80
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £57.72 £16.82
% change year-on-year -29.83% +243.16% -60.42%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Data Structures is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,981 7,647 9,728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.14% 32.53% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,582 5,163 6,728
10th Percentile £208 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £614 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 435 456
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.36
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +9.64% -16.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £45.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% -18.24% +4.90%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Structures as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Structures within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +42 32 £525 +5.00% 23
Scotland +46 23 £400 -34.69% 13
Midlands +32 22 £563 -6.25% 14
West Midlands +36 21 £531 +1.19% 11
North West +32 21 £525 +18.31% 12
South West +25 13 £525 -2.78% 6
East of England +8 13 £463 -7.50% 16
South East -48 10 £469 -18.48% 8
Yorkshire +31 8 £645 +17.27% 6
North East +20 6 £330 -40.00% 5
East Midlands +10 1 £675 +12.50% 3
Wales +5 1 £175 -66.65% 2
Data Structures
UK

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (10.38%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.66%) Confluence
3 1 (0.94%) Apache
3 1 (0.94%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.89%) Sketch
2 2 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.89%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.94%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.94%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 34 (32.08%) Azure
2 30 (28.30%) AWS
3 20 (18.87%) GCP
4 16 (15.09%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.60%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.66%) Apigee
6 6 (5.66%) Azure Stack
6 6 (5.66%) GitHub
6 6 (5.66%) Kong
6 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.77%) npm
8 4 (3.77%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.77%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.77%) Yarn
9 3 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.83%) Serverless
9 3 (2.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.66%) DNS
1 6 (5.66%) Firewall
1 6 (5.66%) HTTP
1 6 (5.66%) TCP/IP
1 6 (5.66%) VPN
2 2 (1.89%) RS-485
3 1 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.92%) Relational Database
2 16 (15.09%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (15.09%) Power BI
3 7 (6.60%) Tableau
4 6 (5.66%) Data Lake
4 6 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (5.66%) Metadata
4 6 (5.66%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.66%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (4.72%) Big Data
5 5 (4.72%) Data Mining
5 5 (4.72%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.77%) Oracle Database
6 4 (3.77%) Oracle Database 12c
6 4 (3.77%) Oracle8/8i Database
6 4 (3.77%) Redis
7 3 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.89%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (1.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 17 (16.04%) JIRA
2 10 (9.43%) Git
3 6 (5.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (5.66%) CircleCI
3 6 (5.66%) GitLab
3 6 (5.66%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.66%) Travis CI
4 4 (3.77%) Jasmine
4 4 (3.77%) Karma Test Runner
4 4 (3.77%) Mocha
4 4 (3.77%) webpack
5 2 (1.89%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.89%) ERwin
5 2 (1.89%) kappa
5 2 (1.89%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.94%) Ant
6 1 (0.94%) Gradle
6 1 (0.94%) JUnit
6 1 (0.94%) Maven
6 1 (0.94%) Mockito
General
1 27 (25.47%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (22.64%) Social Skills
3 19 (17.92%) Finance
4 9 (8.49%) Banking
5 8 (7.55%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (6.60%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.72%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.77%) Retail
9 3 (2.83%) Electronics
9 3 (2.83%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.89%) Marketing
10 2 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.94%) Billing
11 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 35 (33.02%) Developer
2 23 (21.70%) Analyst
3 21 (19.81%) Java Developer
4 15 (14.15%) Architect
4 15 (14.15%) Data Architect
4 15 (14.15%) Senior
5 13 (12.26%) Data Analyst
6 8 (7.55%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (6.60%) Senior Data Analyst
8 6 (5.66%) Backend Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Business Analyst
8 6 (5.66%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) SAP Analyst
8 6 (5.66%) SAP Data Analyst
9 4 (3.77%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Consultant
9 4 (3.77%) DevOps Automation Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Lead
9 4 (3.77%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.92%) Spring
2 16 (15.09%) Kafka
3 15 (14.15%) RESTful
4 14 (13.21%) Elastic Stack
4 14 (13.21%) XML
5 13 (12.26%) JSON
6 11 (10.38%) Spring Boot
7 9 (8.49%) React
8 8 (7.55%) OpenTracing
9 7 (6.60%) REST
10 6 (5.66%) .NET
10 6 (5.66%) Web Services
10 6 (5.66%) YAML
11 5 (4.72%) .NET Framework
12 4 (3.77%) AngularJS
12 4 (3.77%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 3 (2.83%) .NET Core
13 3 (2.83%) CSS
13 3 (2.83%) Hibernate
13 3 (2.83%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.92%) Algorithms
2 18 (16.98%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.60%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.60%) Reference Data
4 5 (4.72%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.72%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.83%) Biopharmaceutical
6 3 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.89%) Derivative
7 2 (1.89%) FPGA
7 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.94%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.94%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.94%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.94%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.94%) NHS
8 1 (0.94%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.21%) Linux
2 11 (10.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (41.51%) Agile
2 37 (34.91%) Data Modelling
3 25 (23.58%) Microservices
4 23 (21.70%) Analytics
5 22 (20.75%) Scrum
6 21 (19.81%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (19.81%) Migration
7 16 (15.09%) CI/CD
7 16 (15.09%) Software Engineering
8 15 (14.15%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (13.21%) ETL
10 13 (12.26%) Computer Science
10 13 (12.26%) Data Analysis
10 13 (12.26%) Data Architecture
10 13 (12.26%) Data Integration
10 13 (12.26%) OO
10 13 (12.26%) Use Case
11 12 (11.32%) Data Governance
11 12 (11.32%) Data Migration
11 12 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (28.30%) Java
2 26 (24.53%) Python
3 19 (17.92%) SQL
4 12 (11.32%) Scala
5 11 (10.38%) Kotlin
6 9 (8.49%) C#
6 9 (8.49%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.66%) Bash
7 6 (5.66%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.66%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.77%) C
8 4 (3.77%) C++
8 4 (3.77%) Perl
8 4 (3.77%) R
9 3 (2.83%) ABAP
9 3 (2.83%) Rust
10 2 (1.89%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.89%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.94%) COBOL
11 1 (0.94%) JCL
Qualifications
1 16 (15.09%) Degree
2 10 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.77%) Master's Degree
3 4 (3.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.77%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.83%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.83%) PhD
5 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.15%) Data Quality
2 12 (11.32%) QA
3 7 (6.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.94%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (16.98%) Docker
2 4 (3.77%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (17.92%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.21%) Prometheus
3 10 (9.43%) Grafana
4 8 (7.55%) Zipkin
5 6 (5.66%) Ansible
5 6 (5.66%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (5.66%) Kibana
5 6 (5.66%) logstash
5 6 (5.66%) Progress Chef
5 6 (5.66%) Puppet
5 6 (5.66%) Terraform
6 4 (3.77%) Data Guard
6 4 (3.77%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 21 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.21%) SAP
3 9 (8.49%) Splunk
4 8 (7.55%) Oracle
5 5 (4.72%) Autodesk
6 4 (3.77%) Ariba
7 2 (1.89%) Google
7 2 (1.89%) IDERA
7 2 (1.89%) Informatica
7 2 (1.89%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.89%) Talend
8 1 (0.94%) Cadence
8 1 (0.94%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.94%) Workday