Data Structures Contracts in England

Data Structures
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 282 307
Rank change year-on-year +23 +25 -38
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 237 282 400
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.97% 0.76% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.86% 2.46% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 191 283
10th Percentile £331 £410 £410
25th Percentile £413 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £563 £588
Median % change year-on-year -3.11% -4.26% -7.84%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £750
90th Percentile £771 £800 £950
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £40.10 £29.20
25th Percentile £43.25 £40.25 £36.25
Median hourly rate £44.50 £40.50 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% -48.86% +370.81%
75th Percentile £45.75 £55.25 -
90th Percentile - £64.10 -
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £40.50 £57.72
% change year-on-year +9.88% -29.83% +243.16%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,299 11,467 17,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.10% 30.81% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,427 7,502 11,797
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 825 591
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.00 £30.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +33.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.40 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in England

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in England

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in England over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in England

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in England

Data Structures
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
London +12 142 £575 -11.54% 252
Midlands +32 31 £505 -13.12% 20
North of England +9 26 £390 -29.09% 26
West Midlands +21 25 £500 -5.88% 14
South East +59 24 £584 +3.78% 40
North West -7 14 £489 -9.12% 13
Yorkshire +14 9 £275 -56.69% 3
East of England +29 7 £490 +5.95% 20
East Midlands +14 6 £545 -14.51% 6
North East -3 3 £335 +1.52% 10
South West +34 2 £588 +11.90% 17
Data Structures
UK

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (5.91%) Confluence
2 12 (5.06%) Apache Spark
3 9 (3.80%) Apache
4 8 (3.38%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.84%) SAS
6 1 (0.42%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.42%) CMS
6 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.84%) Maya
2 2 (0.84%) NUKE
3 1 (0.42%) Adobe Captivate
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (5.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (3.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 6 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.27%) Aladdin
4 3 (1.27%) Shopify
5 2 (0.84%) Exstream
5 2 (0.84%) Magento
5 2 (0.84%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.84%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.84%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.42%) CA PPM
6 1 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.42%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.42%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.42%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 40 (16.88%) Azure
2 31 (13.08%) Power Platform
3 29 (12.24%) AWS
4 20 (8.44%) GCP
5 9 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (3.38%) GitHub
6 8 (3.38%) Snowflake
7 5 (2.11%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.11%) SaaS
7 5 (2.11%) Serverless
8 4 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.69%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.27%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.27%) dbt
9 3 (1.27%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.84%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.84%) PaaS
10 2 (0.84%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.53%) SSH
2 3 (1.27%) HTTP
3 2 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.42%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.39%) Power BI
2 24 (10.13%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (8.44%) Relational Database
4 16 (6.75%) SQL Server
5 15 (6.33%) DB2
5 15 (6.33%) MongoDB
6 14 (5.91%) Tableau
7 11 (4.64%) NoSQL
8 10 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (3.38%) BigQuery
10 7 (2.95%) Apache Hive
10 7 (2.95%) Delta Lake
10 7 (2.95%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (2.53%) Metadata
12 5 (2.11%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (2.11%) MySQL
12 5 (2.11%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.69%) Big Data
13 4 (1.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (10.55%) Git
2 18 (7.59%) JIRA
3 17 (7.17%) JUnit
4 12 (5.06%) ERwin
5 10 (4.22%) Selenium
6 8 (3.38%) Jenkins
7 7 (2.95%) PowerDesigner
8 6 (2.53%) Gradle
8 6 (2.53%) Postman
8 6 (2.53%) RStudio
9 5 (2.11%) IntelliJ
9 5 (2.11%) Maven
10 4 (1.69%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.69%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (1.69%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.69%) ER Studio
10 4 (1.69%) HP UFT
10 4 (1.69%) NetBeans
10 4 (1.69%) Subversion
11 3 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 99 (41.77%) Social Skills
2 75 (31.65%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (28.27%) Finance
4 33 (13.92%) Banking
5 17 (7.17%) Investment Banking
6 11 (4.64%) Retail
7 9 (3.80%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.38%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.95%) Marketing
10 5 (2.11%) Front Office
10 5 (2.11%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.27%) Automotive
11 3 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.84%) Legal
12 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.42%) Games
Job Titles
1 52 (21.94%) Developer
2 38 (16.03%) Analyst
3 35 (14.77%) Architect
4 29 (12.24%) Senior
5 27 (11.39%) Data Analyst
5 27 (11.39%) Data Engineer
6 22 (9.28%) Data Architect
7 18 (7.59%) Java Developer
8 16 (6.75%) Senior Developer
8 16 (6.75%) SQL Developer
9 15 (6.33%) Consultant
9 15 (6.33%) Data Modeller
9 15 (6.33%) Lead
10 14 (5.91%) Software Engineer
11 12 (5.06%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (4.64%) Investment Banking Java Developer
12 11 (4.64%) Linux Developer
12 11 (4.64%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
12 11 (4.64%) Senior SQL Developer
13 10 (4.22%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.44%) Kafka
1 20 (8.44%) Spring
2 18 (7.59%) REST
3 15 (6.33%) JSON
4 13 (5.49%) HTML
5 12 (5.06%) CSS
5 12 (5.06%) Web Services
6 11 (4.64%) JMS
6 11 (4.64%) PySpark
7 9 (3.80%) SOAP
8 8 (3.38%) HTML5
8 8 (3.38%) YAML
9 7 (2.95%) Node.js
9 7 (2.95%) pydantic
10 6 (2.53%) Middleware
10 6 (2.53%) React
10 6 (2.53%) RESTful
10 6 (2.53%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.11%) .NET
11 5 (2.11%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 36 (15.19%) Algorithms
2 18 (7.59%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (5.06%) Reference Data
4 11 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.64%) Equities
5 10 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.80%) Hedge funds
6 9 (3.80%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (3.38%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.95%) IoT
9 6 (2.53%) Blockchain
10 5 (2.11%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.69%) Clustering
11 4 (1.69%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.27%) Mainframe
12 3 (1.27%) Operational Technology
12 3 (1.27%) Replication
12 3 (1.27%) Vector Graphics
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.77%) Linux
2 5 (2.11%) Android
3 4 (1.69%) Unix
4 2 (0.84%) Windows
5 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (30.80%) Data Modelling
3 66 (27.85%) Agile
4 57 (24.05%) ETL
5 52 (21.94%) Migration
6 39 (16.46%) Data Migration
7 36 (15.19%) Analytics
7 36 (15.19%) Data Analysis
8 34 (14.35%) Data Governance
9 33 (13.92%) Computer Science
10 28 (11.81%) Data Management
11 27 (11.39%) CI/CD
11 27 (11.39%) Data Architecture
12 26 (10.97%) Business Intelligence
13 25 (10.55%) Software Engineering
14 23 (9.70%) Translating Business Requirements
15 22 (9.28%) Data Pipeline
15 22 (9.28%) Scrum
16 21 (8.86%) Data Integration
16 21 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 97 (40.93%) SQL
2 74 (31.22%) Python
3 47 (19.83%) Java
4 30 (12.66%) JavaScript
5 15 (6.33%) Shell Script
6 12 (5.06%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.64%) C++
8 10 (4.22%) Bash
8 10 (4.22%) Scala
9 7 (2.95%) R
10 6 (2.53%) ABAP
10 6 (2.53%) C
10 6 (2.53%) Kotlin
11 5 (2.11%) C#
12 3 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.27%) Go
13 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.84%) Rust
14 1 (0.42%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (12.24%) Degree
2 26 (10.97%) Security Cleared
3 23 (9.70%) SC Cleared
4 20 (8.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.64%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (0.84%) MBA
8 1 (0.42%) ACCA
8 1 (0.42%) CIMA
8 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.42%) PhD
8 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (13.92%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.59%) GDPR
3 8 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.38%) QA
4 3 (1.27%) NIST
5 2 (0.84%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.84%) IFRS
5 2 (0.84%) IFRS 9
5 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (2.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.11%) Kubernetes
1 5 (2.11%) Progress Chef
2 4 (1.69%) Ansible
2 4 (1.69%) Puppet
3 1 (0.42%) Cobbler
3 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (11.81%) SAP
2 26 (10.97%) Microsoft
3 23 (9.70%) Oracle
4 13 (5.49%) Databricks
5 12 (5.06%) Sybase
6 10 (4.22%) Google
6 10 (4.22%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.38%) Sparx
8 7 (2.95%) Foundry
8 7 (2.95%) Palantir
8 7 (2.95%) Talend
9 5 (2.11%) IBM
10 4 (1.69%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (1.69%) Denodo
10 4 (1.69%) Informatica
11 3 (1.27%) Adobe
11 3 (1.27%) IDERA
11 3 (1.27%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.84%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.84%) VeriFone