Data Structures Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Data Structures
North West > Lancashire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in Lancashire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 36
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 1.45% - 1.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.49% - 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £464 - -
25th Percentile £466 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £516 - -
90th Percentile £521 - -
North West median daily rate £450 £498 £550
% change year-on-year -9.55% -9.55% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
Median hourly rate £74.26 - £46.18
North West median hourly rate £74.26 - £46.18

All Generic Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 86 20 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 41.55% 10.42% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 8 24
10th Percentile £160 £241 £322
25th Percentile £306 £369 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £509 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +1.71% -28.51%
75th Percentile £551 £563 £646
90th Percentile £588 £589 £703
North West median daily rate £460 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -4.78% +1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 1 13
10th Percentile - - £24.60
25th Percentile £45.46 - £37.80
Median hourly rate £47.12 £46.18 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +0.65% +77.76%
75th Percentile £74.26 - £46.18
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £43.70 £31.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year +37.64% -25.29% +95.13%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Data Structures job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Data Structures
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Data Structures
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Data Structures
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Blackburn - 2 £488 -
Data Structures
North West

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Lead
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Developer Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) JWT
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft