Data Structures Contract Job Trends 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 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 63 64
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 2 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.31% 0.71% 0.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.68% 2.72% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £414 £429 £409
25th Percentile £433 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £658 £425
Median % change year-on-year -27.60% +54.71% -28.57%
75th Percentile £532 £788 £438
90th Percentile £558 £825 -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%

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 294 184 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 44.89% 26.14% 36.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 108 154
10th Percentile £250 £158 £272
25th Percentile £375 £372 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +6.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £676 £586
90th Percentile £600 £741 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -11.36% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 15
10th Percentile - £17.10 £26.25
25th Percentile - £21.25 £28.13
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% -23.08% +242.11%
75th Percentile £22.34 £56.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £29.70 £58.35 £68.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £27.53 £27.00
% change year-on-year +8.98% +1.95% +42.11%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Structures relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Data Structures job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Data Structures
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Structures.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Structures

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in Birmingham over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in Birmingham

Data Structures
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Structures.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Structures

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Law
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Legal Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) SAP