Data Structures Contract Job Trends 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 17 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 279 309
Rank change year-on-year +38 +30 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 349 253 261
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.11% 0.87% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.11% 2.68% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 182 186
10th Percentile £400 £363 £413
25th Percentile £419 £443 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £720
90th Percentile £726 £775 £813
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -0.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile £45.05 - -
25th Percentile £61.75 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £68.45 - -
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £70.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.29% +51.58% +175.70%

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 11,224 9,439 11,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.73% 32.35% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,080 5,723 8,061
10th Percentile £282 £282 £269
25th Percentile £408 £413 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.68% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.88% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 281 458
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £16.75
25th Percentile £18.25 £23.60 £20.89
Median hourly rate £28.06 £37.50 £43.92
Median % change year-on-year -25.17% -14.62% +25.39%
75th Percentile £61.44 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £33.27 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.85% -21.72% +21.43%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Data Structures job vacancy trend in England

Data Structures
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in England

Data Structures
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Structures.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Structures

Data Structures
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Structures in England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 17 December 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 +33 214 £525 -12.13% 69
North of England -22 50 £438 -11.62% 38
South East -5 34 £613 +9.38% 59
North West -18 29 £438 -12.06% 17
Midlands -26 18 £450 -17.43% 25
Yorkshire -30 18 £646 +14.89% 17
East of England -6 17 £454 -5.91% 21
West Midlands -28 15 £550 +2.33% 15
South West -3 4 £475 -29.63% 15
North East -5 3 £438 -11.62% 4
East Midlands -24 3 £450 -17.43% 10
Data Structures
UK

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 7 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.72%) Confluence
3 5 (1.43%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.15%) Apache
5 3 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.86%) SAS
6 2 (0.57%) CMS
7 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.29%) CICS
7 1 (0.29%) Luigi
7 1 (0.29%) Mendix
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 23 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.01%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (4.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.58%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (2.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.86%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.86%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.86%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.86%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.86%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.57%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.57%) Maximo
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.57%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 52 (14.90%) Azure
2 45 (12.89%) Power Platform
3 40 (11.46%) AWS
4 34 (9.74%) GCP
5 23 (6.59%) Snowflake
6 21 (6.02%) OCI
7 17 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (3.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (3.15%) npm
9 11 (3.15%) Serverless
10 9 (2.58%) GitHub
10 9 (2.58%) PowerApps
11 8 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (2.29%) Power Automate
12 7 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.72%) Collibra
13 6 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
14 5 (1.43%) dbt
14 5 (1.43%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.57%) tcpdump
2 1 (0.29%) DNS
2 1 (0.29%) Firewall
2 1 (0.29%) HTTP
2 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (10.03%) Power BI
2 32 (9.17%) Relational Database
3 27 (7.74%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (7.74%) Metadata
4 25 (7.16%) MongoDB
5 24 (6.88%) NoSQL
6 17 (4.87%) DB2
7 16 (4.58%) Data Vault
7 16 (4.58%) Oracle Reports
8 14 (4.01%) SQL Server
9 13 (3.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 12 (3.44%) Snowflake Schema
10 12 (3.44%) Tableau
11 11 (3.15%) Oracle BI EE
11 11 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (2.58%) Data Lake
12 9 (2.58%) KDB
13 8 (2.29%) BigQuery
13 8 (2.29%) Kdb+
13 8 (2.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (9.74%) JIRA
2 22 (6.30%) Git
3 16 (4.58%) ERwin
4 14 (4.01%) JUnit
5 12 (3.44%) Jenkins
6 11 (3.15%) GitLab
6 11 (3.15%) PowerDesigner
7 9 (2.58%) Artifactory
7 9 (2.58%) ER Studio
7 9 (2.58%) Visual Studio
8 4 (1.15%) Gradle
8 4 (1.15%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.86%) JMeter
9 3 (0.86%) Postman
9 3 (0.86%) Selenium
9 3 (0.86%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.57%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.57%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.57%) Mockito
10 2 (0.57%) WebDriver
General
1 144 (41.26%) Social Skills
2 100 (28.65%) Finance
3 81 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (11.75%) Banking
5 27 (7.74%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.16%) Investment Banking
7 15 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (4.30%) Front Office
8 8 (2.29%) Retail
9 7 (2.01%) Local Government
10 6 (1.72%) Marketing
11 5 (1.43%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.43%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.43%) Law
11 5 (1.43%) Legal
11 5 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.15%) Back Office
12 4 (1.15%) Billing
13 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 109 (31.23%) Developer
2 59 (16.91%) Analyst
3 39 (11.17%) Lead
4 30 (8.60%) Business Analyst
4 30 (8.60%) Java Developer
4 30 (8.60%) Senior
5 29 (8.31%) Data Analyst
6 27 (7.74%) Architect
7 25 (7.16%) Data Engineer
7 25 (7.16%) Linux Developer
8 22 (6.30%) Data Architect
9 21 (6.02%) Data Modeller
10 19 (5.44%) Python Developer
10 19 (5.44%) Senior Developer
11 17 (4.87%) Consultant
11 17 (4.87%) Software Engineer
12 14 (4.01%) SQL Developer
13 13 (3.72%) SAP Analyst
13 13 (3.72%) Senior Java Developer
13 13 (3.72%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.88%) Kafka
1 24 (6.88%) React
2 19 (5.44%) CSS
2 19 (5.44%) HTML
3 17 (4.87%) JSON
3 17 (4.87%) Spring
4 16 (4.58%) XML
5 14 (4.01%) AngularJS
6 13 (3.72%) REST
7 12 (3.44%) JMS
7 12 (3.44%) Node.js
8 11 (3.15%) .NET
8 11 (3.15%) RESTful
8 11 (3.15%) Vue
9 10 (2.87%) PySpark
10 9 (2.58%) .NET Framework
10 9 (2.58%) Oracle Fusion
10 9 (2.58%) Svelte
11 6 (1.72%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (1.72%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 71 (20.34%) Algorithms
2 22 (6.30%) Equities
2 22 (6.30%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.72%) Fixed Income
5 11 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 11 (3.15%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.29%) Reinsurance
7 6 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.15%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.15%) Derivative
9 4 (1.15%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.15%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.15%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.15%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (11.75%) Linux
2 5 (1.43%) Unix
3 2 (0.57%) Android
3 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.29%) Windows
4 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (37.25%) Data Modelling
2 111 (31.81%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (25.79%) Agile
4 77 (22.06%) Migration
5 74 (21.20%) Analytics
6 63 (18.05%) Business Intelligence
7 59 (16.91%) Data Governance
8 57 (16.33%) Data Migration
9 54 (15.47%) ETL
10 49 (14.04%) Computer Science
11 48 (13.75%) Validation
12 47 (13.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 46 (13.18%) Data Analysis
14 41 (11.75%) Multithreading
15 40 (11.46%) Data Cleansing
16 38 (10.89%) CI/CD
16 38 (10.89%) Software Engineering
17 36 (10.32%) Data Mapping
18 34 (9.74%) Collaborative Working
18 34 (9.74%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 104 (29.80%) SQL
2 88 (25.21%) Python
3 47 (13.47%) Java
4 32 (9.17%) JavaScript
5 24 (6.88%) TypeScript
6 19 (5.44%) C++
7 16 (4.58%) C#
7 16 (4.58%) Shell Script
8 8 (2.29%) R
9 7 (2.01%) Go
10 6 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.15%) FoxPro (VFP)
11 4 (1.15%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.15%) Scala
12 3 (0.86%) Korn
12 3 (0.86%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.57%) LookML
13 2 (0.57%) Rust
13 2 (0.57%) Swift
13 2 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (8.88%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.60%) Degree
3 19 (5.44%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.15%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.15%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.86%) CIMA
6 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.57%) ACCA
7 2 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (22.35%) Data Quality
2 35 (10.03%) GDPR
3 20 (5.73%) QA
4 10 (2.87%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.86%) PMO
6 3 (0.86%) WCAG
7 2 (0.57%) GMP
7 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.57%) NIST
8 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.29%) GxP
8 1 (0.29%) HL7
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (5.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (7.16%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.01%) Terraform
3 4 (1.15%) Ansible
4 2 (0.57%) Puppet
4 2 (0.57%) rkt
4 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.29%) Kibana
5 1 (0.29%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.29%) logstash
5 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (12.89%) Oracle
2 35 (10.03%) SAP
3 32 (9.17%) Microsoft
4 26 (7.45%) Databricks
5 12 (3.44%) Sybase
6 9 (2.58%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.29%) Google
7 8 (2.29%) Sparx
8 7 (2.01%) Workday
9 5 (1.43%) Charles River
9 5 (1.43%) Informatica
10 4 (1.15%) Adaptive Insights
10 4 (1.15%) IBM
10 4 (1.15%) Palantir
10 4 (1.15%) Sage
11 3 (0.86%) Avaloq
11 3 (0.86%) GoldenSource
11 3 (0.86%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.86%) Temenos
12 2 (0.57%) Yardi