Data Structures Contract Job Trends in Chester

Data Structures
Cheshire > Chester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in Chester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 0.50% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £537 £395 £500
% change year-on-year +35.95% -21.00% +25.00%

All Generic Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 39 32 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 19.60% 40.00% 46.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 9
10th Percentile £410 £258 £240
25th Percentile £413 £325 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +11.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £552
90th Percentile £830 £725 £584
Cheshire median daily rate £483 £430 £500
% change year-on-year +12.46% -14.10% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.70 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £31.66 £22.75 -
% change year-on-year +39.16% - -

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Data Structures job vacancy trend in Chester

Data Structures
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

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

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LightGBM
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) XGBoost
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Personalization
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft