Data Structures Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 67 110
Rank change year-on-year +4 +43 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.64% 0.61% 0.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.67% 1.83% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £515 - £441
25th Percentile £519 £400 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -15.56% +18.42%
75th Percentile £619 £550 £634
90th Percentile £668 - £674
Scotland median daily rate £508 £400 £600
% change year-on-year +26.88% -33.33% +24.87%

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 239 273 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.24% 33.50% 35.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 147 327
10th Percentile £208 £334 £242
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £510 £479
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% +6.47% -4.20%
75th Percentile £554 £600 £538
90th Percentile £638 £675 £625
Scotland median daily rate £467 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 3
10th Percentile - £14.88 £21.34
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.47
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.57 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -5.08% -54.38%
75th Percentile £24.38 £60.19 £37.71
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.75 £47.33
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
% change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Data Structures as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in Edinburgh

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in Edinburgh

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in Edinburgh

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) MSTest
1 1 (25.00%) NUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Ranorex
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Principal Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Principal Data Architect
1 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) WebSockets
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Workshops
3 1 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Hitachi
1 1 (25.00%) Pega
1 1 (25.00%) SAP