Data Structures Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Data Structures
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 65 77
Rank change year-on-year +9 +12 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 8 5 11
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.34% 0.76% 1.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.52% 2.14% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £460 £425 £454
25th Percentile £506 £444 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.34% - -11.63%
75th Percentile £555 £588 £525
90th Percentile £583 £655 £593
Scotland median daily rate £540 £473 £625
% change year-on-year +14.29% -24.40% +14.16%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 227 234 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.96% 35.51% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 109 176
10th Percentile £153 £192 £300
25th Percentile £262 £363 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £510 £538 £550
90th Percentile £573 £619 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 6
10th Percentile £14.35 £18.92 £14.69
25th Percentile £15.69 £21.74 £19.01
Median hourly rate £23.75 £23.59 £28.94
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -18.47% +27.55%
75th Percentile £63.75 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £26.28 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £19.18
% change year-on-year +6.61% +22.99% -8.67%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Data Structures job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Data Structures
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in Edinburgh

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (37.50%) Serverless
4 2 (25.00%) Dagster
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) MLflow
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) boto
1 5 (62.50%) Hugging Face
1 5 (62.50%) NumPy
1 5 (62.50%) OpenCV
1 5 (62.50%) Pandas
1 5 (62.50%) PyTorch
1 5 (62.50%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (37.50%) AWS CDK
2 3 (37.50%) FastAPI
2 3 (37.50%) JWT
2 3 (37.50%) OAuth
2 3 (37.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Algorithms
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) OO
2 5 (62.50%) AI
2 5 (62.50%) Async-Await
2 5 (62.50%) Computer Vision
2 5 (62.50%) Data Cleansing
2 5 (62.50%) Deep Learning
2 5 (62.50%) LLM
2 5 (62.50%) Machine Learning
2 5 (62.50%) OCR
2 5 (62.50%) OOP
2 5 (62.50%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) API Development
3 4 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 4 (50.00%) Community of Practice
3 4 (50.00%) ETL
3 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (37.50%) Code Coverage
4 3 (37.50%) Kanban
4 3 (37.50%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle