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 21 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 71 88
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 10 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.57% 0.73% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.97% 2.00% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 3
10th Percentile £453 - £453
25th Percentile £475 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £551 £475 £563
90th Percentile £555 £745 £608
Scotland median daily rate £525 £450 £625
% change year-on-year +16.67% -28.00% -

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 252 300 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.62% 36.32% 37.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 147 223
10th Percentile £175 £208 £166
25th Percentile £356 £343 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £635 £599
Scotland median daily rate £450 £460 £500
% change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 20 4
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.09 £13.47
25th Percentile - £17.31 £16.20
Median hourly rate £17.30 £18.27 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +3.10% -55.14%
75th Percentile £24.38 £23.89 £26.73
90th Percentile £60.00 £24.18 £42.94
Scotland median hourly rate £21.86 £18.38 £19.18
% change year-on-year +18.97% -4.20% -44.58%

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
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 21 September 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (30.00%) Serverless
4 2 (20.00%) Dagster
4 2 (20.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (20.00%) Looker
1 2 (20.00%) Metadata
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) ER Studio
1 2 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Modeller
2 2 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Modeller
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) boto
1 5 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 5 (50.00%) NumPy
1 5 (50.00%) OpenCV
1 5 (50.00%) Pandas
1 5 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 5 (50.00%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (30.00%) AWS CDK
2 3 (30.00%) FastAPI
2 3 (30.00%) JWT
2 3 (30.00%) OAuth
2 3 (30.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) OO
3 5 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (50.00%) Async-Await
3 5 (50.00%) Computer Vision
3 5 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
3 5 (50.00%) Deep Learning
3 5 (50.00%) LLM
3 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (50.00%) OCR
3 5 (50.00%) OOP
3 5 (50.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) API Development
4 4 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 4 (40.00%) Community of Practice
4 4 (40.00%) ETL
4 4 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (30.00%) Code Coverage
5 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Perl
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft