Data Structures Contracts in the Midlands

Data Structures
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 80 110 145
Rank change year-on-year +30 +35 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 31 23 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.62% 0.83% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.34% 2.68% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 21
10th Percentile £450 £413 £463
25th Percentile £500 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £581 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.12% -3.13% +23.08%
75th Percentile £546 £684 £638
90th Percentile £551 £700 £756
England median daily rate £545 £563 £588
% change year-on-year -3.11% -4.26% -7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.25 -
England median hourly rate £44.50 £40.50 £79.19
% change year-on-year +9.88% -48.86% +370.81%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 580 857 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.30% 31.08% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 557 737
10th Percentile £200 £220 £237
25th Percentile £375 £350 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £594 £611 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 62 41
10th Percentile - £10.47 £16.70
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.93 £18.13
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -13.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £30.34 £28.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in the Midlands

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in the Midlands

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in the Midlands

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in the Midlands

Data Structures
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +18 25 £500 -5.88% 14
East Midlands +14 6 £545 -14.51% 6
Data Structures
England

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (9.68%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Maya
1 2 (6.45%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Exstream
Cloud Services
1 6 (19.35%) AWS
2 3 (9.68%) Snowflake
3 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (6.45%) GitHub
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
2 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.23%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.23%) MySQL
3 1 (3.23%) Pentaho
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.23%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 1 (3.23%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Gradle
1 3 (9.68%) JIRA
1 3 (9.68%) JUnit
1 3 (9.68%) Maven
2 2 (6.45%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (6.45%) HP UFT
2 2 (6.45%) IntelliJ
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) NetBeans
2 2 (6.45%) Selenium
2 2 (6.45%) Subversion
3 1 (3.23%) Ant
3 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.23%) ER Studio
3 1 (3.23%) ERwin
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) Mockito
General
1 16 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Finance
4 3 (9.68%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.45%) Automotive
5 2 (6.45%) Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.23%) Games
6 1 (3.23%) Law
6 1 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Analyst
2 6 (19.35%) Data Analyst
2 6 (19.35%) Test Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Business Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Applications Architect
4 4 (12.90%) Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) Data Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Senior
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Snowflake Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Business Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Business Project Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) J2EE
1 3 (9.68%) Spring
2 2 (6.45%) Ajax
2 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.45%) Bootstrap
2 2 (6.45%) CSS
2 2 (6.45%) Hibernate
2 2 (6.45%) HTML
2 2 (6.45%) HTML5
2 2 (6.45%) jQuery
2 2 (6.45%) Kafka
2 2 (6.45%) Node.js
2 2 (6.45%) REST
2 2 (6.45%) RESTful
2 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
2 2 (6.45%) Spring Integration
2 2 (6.45%) Spring MVC
2 2 (6.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Blockchain
1 4 (12.90%) IoT
2 3 (9.68%) Operational Technology
3 2 (6.45%) Animation
3 2 (6.45%) CMDB
3 2 (6.45%) Mainframe
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Migration
2 12 (38.71%) Agile
3 9 (29.03%) Data Modelling
4 7 (22.58%) Data Migration
4 7 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (19.35%) Data Analysis
5 6 (19.35%) Microservices
5 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (16.13%) Business Analysis
6 5 (16.13%) Business Process Modelling
6 5 (16.13%) Change Control
6 5 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (16.13%) Data Integration
6 5 (16.13%) ETL
6 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
6 5 (16.13%) Waterfall
7 4 (12.90%) Data Mapping
7 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (12.90%) SOA
7 4 (12.90%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) SQL
2 6 (19.35%) Java
3 5 (16.13%) Python
4 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.23%) R
6 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) NIST
2 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.45%) QA
3 1 (3.23%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Progress Chef
1 2 (6.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Denodo
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
1 4 (12.90%) Talend
2 2 (6.45%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (6.45%) OpenText
3 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.23%) Sybase
3 1 (3.23%) Workday