Data Structures Contracts in Birmingham

Data Structures
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 56 69
Rank change year-on-year +12 +13 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 6 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.15% 1.42% 0.66%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.14% 4.70% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £412 £459
25th Percentile £513 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £566
90th Percentile - £595 £606
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £531 £525
% change year-on-year -5.88% +1.19% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £40.25 -

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

Data Structures falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 145 234 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.78% 30.27% 35.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 155 206
10th Percentile £160 £260 £263
25th Percentile £349 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £601 £575 £648
90th Percentile £675 £718 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 8
10th Percentile £30.05 £18.88 £14.10
25th Percentile £30.11 £22.33 £17.44
Median hourly rate £30.45 £26.00 £22.35
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +16.32% +26.29%
75th Percentile £30.68 £40.81 £64.69
90th Percentile - £54.80 £98.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year +25.24% -6.25% +51.32%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Data Structures as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in Birmingham

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in Birmingham

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) Pentaho
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Ant
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Gradle
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Mockito
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (16.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Business Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) J2EE
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) CMDB
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ETL
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (16.67%) Batch Processing
4 1 (16.67%) Community of Practice
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Data Design
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Master Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Talend
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Sybase
2 1 (16.67%) Workday