Data Structures Contract Job Trends 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 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 61 73
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 -12
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 22 12 6
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.00% 1.61% 0.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.07% 4.55% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 6
10th Percentile £475 £403 £631
25th Percentile £484 £411 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £470 £700
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -32.86% +34.62%
75th Percentile £542 £483 £750
90th Percentile £659 £504 £863
Scotland median daily rate £540 £473 £625
% change year-on-year +14.29% -24.40% +14.16%

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 311 264 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 42.43% 35.39% 33.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 150 176
10th Percentile £208 £324 £276
25th Percentile £381 £371 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £675
90th Percentile £599 £650 £703
Scotland median daily rate £447 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 6
10th Percentile £15.38 £19.15 £15.42
25th Percentile £16.98 £19.98 £15.57
Median hourly rate £25.92 £24.15 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% +42.06% +13.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £25.97 £19.50
90th Percentile £63.05 £34.27 -
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £19.18
% change year-on-year +6.61% +22.99% -2.89%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Data Structures job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Data Structures
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in Glasgow over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in Glasgow

Data Structures
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.55%) GCP
2 1 (4.55%) GitHub
2 1 (4.55%) Serverless
2 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (77.27%) Relational Database
2 14 (63.64%) DB2
3 12 (54.55%) MongoDB
4 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.55%) Data Vault
5 1 (4.55%) Metadata
5 1 (4.55%) MySQL
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (59.09%) JUnit
2 1 (4.55%) ERwin
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Mockito
2 1 (4.55%) PowerDesigner
General
1 15 (68.18%) Social Skills
2 14 (63.64%) Finance
3 13 (59.09%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (54.55%) Banking
4 12 (54.55%) Front Office
4 12 (54.55%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (77.27%) Developer
1 17 (77.27%) Java Developer
2 12 (54.55%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 12 (54.55%) SQL Developer
2 12 (54.55%) Sybase Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Core Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Data Modeller
5 1 (4.55%) HR Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) HR Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Report Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Modeller
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (63.64%) Spring
2 13 (59.09%) Kafka
3 12 (54.55%) JMS
4 3 (13.64%) REST
5 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
6 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
6 1 (4.55%) boto
6 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
6 1 (4.55%) Hugging Face
6 1 (4.55%) J2EE
6 1 (4.55%) JSON
6 1 (4.55%) NumPy
6 1 (4.55%) OAuth
6 1 (4.55%) OpenCV
6 1 (4.55%) Pandas
6 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
6 1 (4.55%) SOAP
6 1 (4.55%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (54.55%) Equities
2 4 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (77.27%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (63.64%) Agile
2 14 (63.64%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (54.55%) Database Tuning
3 12 (54.55%) Multithreading
3 12 (54.55%) Open Source
3 12 (54.55%) SDLC
4 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
5 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
6 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
7 2 (9.09%) ETL
7 2 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (4.55%) Business Strategy
8 1 (4.55%) CI/CD
8 1 (4.55%) Community of Practice
8 1 (4.55%) Decision-Making
8 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (4.55%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (86.36%) SQL
2 18 (81.82%) Java
3 14 (63.64%) Python
4 13 (59.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Grafana
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Sybase
2 1 (4.55%) DocuSign
2 1 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Greenplum
2 1 (4.55%) Informatica
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.55%) Sparx
2 1 (4.55%) Talend