Data Structures Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Data Structures
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.69% - 3.14%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.55% - 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £513 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +33.33%

All Generic Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 66 78 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 37.29% 45.61% 30.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 38 15
10th Percentile £209 £374 £304
25th Percentile £373 £438 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £558 £650 £638
90th Percentile £645 £754 £645
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £413 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -19.90% +8.42% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile £21.60 £17.11 £22.44
25th Percentile £28.31 £18.70 £38.75
Median hourly rate £31.47 £60.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.56% +4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £34.62 £69.38 £69.38
90th Percentile £37.10 £78.75 £75.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £18.36 £30.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -38.79% -42.86% -8.70%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Data Structures job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Data Structures
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Data Structures
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Excel Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Migration Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) B2B
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Conversion
3 1 (33.33%) Data Deduplication
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) VBA
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft