Data Structures Contracts in Central London

Data Structures
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in Central London. 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 105 104 138
Rank change year-on-year -1 +34 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 24 29 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.20% 1.19% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.52% 3.87% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 16
10th Percentile £338 £330 £450
25th Percentile £475 £519 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £655 £569
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +15.16% -24.17%
75th Percentile £680 £698 £659
90th Percentile £730 £710 £785
London median daily rate £588 £650 £635
% change year-on-year -9.62% +2.36% -3.79%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 681 749 1,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 34.10% 30.62% 36.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 524 960
10th Percentile £361 £275 £313
25th Percentile £465 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £750
90th Percentile £780 £850 £850
London median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 16
10th Percentile £23.78 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £26.45 £16.73 £24.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.25 £84.89
90th Percentile £72.40 £29.78 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -21.35%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in Central London

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in Central London

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in Central London

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in Central London

Data Structures
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +6 24 £600 -8.40% 16
Data Structures
London

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 4 (16.67%) Apache
1 4 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 4 (16.67%) Jupyter
2 1 (4.17%) CMS
2 1 (4.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Power BI
2 5 (20.83%) NoSQL
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
3 4 (16.67%) Apache Hive
3 4 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (16.67%) Delta Lake
3 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.33%) CockroachDB
4 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.33%) MySQL
4 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.33%) Tableau
5 1 (4.17%) Big Data
5 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (4.17%) KDB
5 1 (4.17%) Looker
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (16.67%) Git
2 4 (16.67%) RStudio
3 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.17%) JMeter
3 1 (4.17%) Selenium
3 1 (4.17%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Retail
5 1 (4.17%) Automotive
5 1 (4.17%) Billing
5 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.17%) Front Office
5 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Data Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Junior
5 2 (8.33%) Administrator
5 2 (8.33%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Data Administrator
5 2 (8.33%) Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Junior Architect
5 2 (8.33%) SAP Administrator
5 2 (8.33%) SAP Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) SAP Data Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Business Data Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) CRM Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Migration Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Junior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) JSON
2 4 (16.67%) pydantic
2 4 (16.67%) PySpark
2 4 (16.67%) YAML
3 2 (8.33%) CSS
3 2 (8.33%) HTML
3 2 (8.33%) REST
3 2 (8.33%) SOAP
4 1 (4.17%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) Gherkin
4 1 (4.17%) jQuery
4 1 (4.17%) Middleware
4 1 (4.17%) Plotly
4 1 (4.17%) Spring
4 1 (4.17%) Web Services
4 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (16.67%) Reference Data
2 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.33%) Private Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) Derivative
3 1 (4.17%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.17%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (33.33%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 6 (25.00%) Data Management
4 5 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (16.67%) Data Security
5 4 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (16.67%) Scrum
5 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Analytics
6 3 (12.50%) Business Transformation
6 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Migration
6 3 (12.50%) SDLC
7 2 (8.33%) System Testing
7 2 (8.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) Bash
3 4 (16.67%) Scala
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.17%) C#
6 1 (4.17%) Java
6 1 (4.17%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) GDPR
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) Databricks
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) SAP
4 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) ION Trading
5 1 (4.17%) OutSystems
5 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.17%) Workday
5 1 (4.17%) Zuora