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 2 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 79 117
Rank change year-on-year -4 +38 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 17 12 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.20% 0.91% 0.054%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.53% 3.33% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 1
10th Percentile £428 £454 -
25th Percentile £445 £459 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £483 £490
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% -1.53% -12.89%
75th Percentile £725 £521 £510
90th Percentile £750 £569 -
England median daily rate £550 £563 £613
% change year-on-year -2.31% -8.08% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £63.63 - -
25th Percentile £65.88 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 - £46.18
% change year-on-year - - +130.90%

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 481 360 623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.92% 27.17% 33.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 161 339
10th Percentile £194 £231 £195
25th Percentile £363 £325 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 43 81
10th Percentile £12.98 £27.00 £21.25
25th Percentile £16.20 £37.50 £42.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% -7.69% +59.59%
75th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £80.00 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £49.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -43.43% +11.24% +64.94%

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 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 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
Hertfordshire -4 12 £550 +13.99% 7
Bedfordshire - 3 £750 -
Suffolk +5 1 £425 -5.56%
Norfolk -15 1 £463 -
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 (5.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) npm
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) JIRA
2 9 (52.94%) Artifactory
2 9 (52.94%) GitLab
2 9 (52.94%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Law
3 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
1 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Software Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Development Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Lead
3 3 (17.65%) Software Development Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Product Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Migration Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Product Manager
5 1 (5.88%) React Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) React
2 9 (52.94%) .NET
2 9 (52.94%) .NET Framework
2 9 (52.94%) AngularJS
2 9 (52.94%) CSS
2 9 (52.94%) HTML
2 9 (52.94%) Node.js
2 9 (52.94%) Svelte
2 9 (52.94%) Vue
3 3 (17.65%) JSON
4 1 (5.88%) ggplot2
4 1 (5.88%) Gherkin
4 1 (5.88%) Immutable.js
4 1 (5.88%) JWT
4 1 (5.88%) Redux
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) Shiny
4 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Algorithms
1 9 (52.94%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Agile
2 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) Computer Science
3 9 (52.94%) Containerisation
3 9 (52.94%) Design Patterns
3 9 (52.94%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (52.94%) Microservices
3 9 (52.94%) OOP
3 9 (52.94%) SDLC
3 9 (52.94%) Software Testing
3 9 (52.94%) TDD
4 8 (47.06%) DevOps
5 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
6 4 (23.53%) Migration
6 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) Data Design
7 3 (17.65%) Master Data Management
8 2 (11.76%) Analytics
8 2 (11.76%) Data Stewardship
8 2 (11.76%) Record to Report
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) JavaScript
2 9 (52.94%) C#
2 9 (52.94%) TypeScript
3 7 (41.18%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) R
4 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) Avature