Data Structures Contracts in Glasgow

Data Structures
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 38 69 67
Rank change year-on-year +31 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 46 13 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 5.76% 1.48% 1.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.98% 4.69% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 13 8
10th Percentile £413 £324 £418
25th Percentile £460 £325 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £390 £588
Median % change year-on-year +25.64% -33.62% +11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £400 £638
90th Percentile £569 - £670
Scotland median daily rate £508 £400 £600
% change year-on-year +26.88% -33.33% +24.87%

All Generic Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 307 277 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 38.47% 31.58% 40.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 163 238
10th Percentile £313 £214 £267
25th Percentile £407 £356 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £440 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.57% -9.74% +8.33%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £613
90th Percentile £589 £675 £750
Scotland median daily rate £467 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 16
10th Percentile £15.65 £15.42 -
25th Percentile £18.28 £15.86 -
Median hourly rate £20.29 £18.00 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +12.72% +69.33% -51.68%
75th Percentile £36.64 £28.06 £22.81
90th Percentile £64.58 £57.13 £41.37
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in Glasgow

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in Glasgow

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in Glasgow

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (78.26%) Relational Database
2 27 (58.70%) DB2
3 26 (56.52%) MongoDB
4 5 (10.87%) RDBMS
5 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (63.04%) JUnit
2 4 (8.70%) JIRA
3 2 (4.35%) Toad
General
1 28 (60.87%) Social Skills
2 26 (56.52%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (54.35%) Finance
4 18 (39.13%) Front Office
5 11 (23.91%) Banking
5 11 (23.91%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.52%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (84.78%) Developer
1 39 (84.78%) Java Developer
2 7 (15.22%) Core Java Developer
2 7 (15.22%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 7 (15.22%) SQL Developer
2 7 (15.22%) Sybase Developer
3 4 (8.70%) Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Linux Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Java Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (2.17%) Architect
6 1 (2.17%) Data Architect
6 1 (2.17%) Database Developer
6 1 (2.17%) Java Server Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) Server Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (63.04%) Spring
2 28 (60.87%) Kafka
3 24 (52.17%) JMS
4 3 (6.52%) Middleware
5 2 (4.35%) J2EE
5 2 (4.35%) MSMQ
5 2 (4.35%) REST
5 2 (4.35%) SOAP
5 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.17%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 20 (43.48%) Equities
2 5 (10.87%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.52%) Derivative
3 3 (6.52%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) CMDB
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (76.09%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (82.61%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (76.09%) Agile
3 28 (60.87%) Multithreading
4 27 (58.70%) SDLC
5 24 (52.17%) Open Source
6 19 (41.30%) Performance Tuning
6 19 (41.30%) Software Engineering
7 18 (39.13%) Database Tuning
8 9 (19.57%) Computer Science
9 7 (15.22%) Concurrent Programming
10 4 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (8.70%) Test Automation
11 3 (6.52%) Data Protection
11 3 (6.52%) Investment Management
11 3 (6.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 3 (6.52%) Wealth Management
12 2 (4.35%) Business Analysis
12 2 (4.35%) Data Mapping
12 2 (4.35%) Reverse Engineering
12 2 (4.35%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 41 (89.13%) Java
1 41 (89.13%) SQL
2 24 (52.17%) Python
2 24 (52.17%) Shell Script
3 4 (8.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.52%) QA
Vendors
1 25 (54.35%) Sybase
2 3 (6.52%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.35%) DocuSign