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 3 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 82 97
Rank change year-on-year -12 +15 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 18 15 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.83% 1.19% 0.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.86% 3.36% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 2
10th Percentile £363 £480 £533
25th Percentile £391 £581 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £750 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +30.43% +17.65%
75th Percentile £650 - £594
90th Percentile - - £598
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £67.00 -
England median hourly rate £88.00 £66.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +32.33% +64.20% -48.86%

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 629 446 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.84% 35.34% 22.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 206 181
10th Percentile £186 £195 £178
25th Percentile £350 £379 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £666 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 95 72
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.95 £25.10
25th Percentile £16.55 £27.74 £46.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £74.00 £76.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.50 £85.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £31.78 £47.50
% change year-on-year +38.35% -33.11% +17.02%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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
Bedfordshire +5 8 £650 -13.33%
Cambridgeshire - 7 £513 - 2
Hertfordshire -20 2 - - 6
Essex - 1 - - 3
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 (5.56%) Mendix
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) SaaS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.56%) Metadata
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Analyst
1 6 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 6 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 4 (22.22%) Excel Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Salesforce Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Business Data Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Data Migration Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Migration Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) DBA
5 1 (5.56%) Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Project Leader
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Life Science
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Migration
2 10 (55.56%) Data Migration
2 10 (55.56%) Validation
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Data Management
3 6 (33.33%) Project Management
3 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (27.78%) Data Design
5 4 (22.22%) B2B
5 4 (22.22%) Data Cleansing
5 4 (22.22%) Data Governance
5 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 4 (22.22%) ERP
5 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (16.67%) Data Conversion
6 3 (16.67%) Data Deduplication
7 2 (11.11%) Analytics
7 2 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
7 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) VBA
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) ACCA
1 1 (5.56%) CIMA
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) SAP
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 4 (22.22%) Salesforce
4 3 (16.67%) Atlassian
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle
5 1 (5.56%) Adobe
5 1 (5.56%) Ariba