Data Structures Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Data Structures
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 70 102
Rank change year-on-year -19 +32 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 10 12 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.63% 1.10% 0.58%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.96% 3.05% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 8
10th Percentile £408 £455 £344
25th Percentile £428 £463 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £490 £445
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% +10.11% -20.89%
75th Percentile £566 £495 £538
90th Percentile £710 £611 -
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
England median hourly rate £57.00 - £46.18
% change year-on-year - - +71.04%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 509 393 566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 31.97% 36.12% 33.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 193 306
10th Percentile £185 £250 £204
25th Percentile £325 £338 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £560
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 49 90
10th Percentile £12.77 £30.42 £16.98
25th Percentile £15.79 £46.31 £35.54
Median hourly rate £32.25 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.22% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £67.81 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.06 £37.25 £37.75
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.32% +58.68%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Data Structures job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Structures
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Structures.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Structures

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in the East of England

Data Structures
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Structures.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Structures

Data Structures
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 16 January 2026. 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
Hertfordshire -18 7 £454 -7.35% 10
Suffolk +6 1 £425 -5.56% 5
Norfolk -20 1 £463 - 3
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 8
Data Structures
England

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) npm
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Designer
1 2 (20.00%) Development Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Product Designer
1 2 (20.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (10.00%) Lead Product Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) SAP HCM Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) SAP Technical Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) JSON
1 3 (30.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (20.00%) CSS
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) Svelte
2 2 (20.00%) Vue
3 1 (10.00%) Immutable.js
3 1 (10.00%) JSON-LD
3 1 (10.00%) JWT
3 1 (10.00%) Redux
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Linked Data
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Business Analysis
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Wireframes
4 2 (20.00%) Business Process Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (20.00%) Ideation Sessions
4 2 (20.00%) Journey Map
4 2 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 2 (20.00%) User Journey Map
4 2 (20.00%) User Research
4 2 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) ABAP
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) GMP
1 1 (10.00%) GxP
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Avature
1 1 (10.00%) SAP
1 1 (10.00%) Workday