Data Structures Contract Job Trends 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 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 112 115
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 +56
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 20 22 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.75% 0.80% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.06% 2.77% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 19
10th Percentile £475 £386 £399
25th Percentile £500 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £553 £688 £669
90th Percentile £606 £772 £750
England median daily rate £550 £586 £625
% change year-on-year -6.18% -6.20% -

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 969 795 942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 36.50% 29.07% 31.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 472 594
10th Percentile £243 £241 £263
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £626 £600
90th Percentile £663 £736 £709
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 22 44
10th Percentile - £15.13 £17.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.10 £20.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.23 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.13% -4.61% +55.90%
75th Percentile £44.00 £53.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.05 £69.63
England median hourly rate £32.83 £57.35 £45.85
% change year-on-year -42.76% +25.08% +79.80%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Structures

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in the Midlands

Data Structures
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Structures

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 20 September 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 -8 17 £550 -4.35% 8
East Midlands -3 2 £544 +7.14% 7
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 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Maya
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.00%) NUKE
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (10.00%) SaaS
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Metadata
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) ERwin
General
1 11 (55.00%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Automotive
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.00%) Games
3 1 (5.00%) Law
3 1 (5.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Business Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Applications Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Data Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Data Modeller
5 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Legal Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) SIEM Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Kafka
1 1 (5.00%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (15.00%) Blockchain
2 3 (15.00%) IoT
3 2 (10.00%) Animation
3 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Data Modelling
2 10 (50.00%) Migration
3 9 (45.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (40.00%) Agile
5 7 (35.00%) Data Analysis
6 6 (30.00%) Data Governance
7 5 (25.00%) Business Analysis
7 5 (25.00%) Business Process Modelling
7 5 (25.00%) Change Control
7 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
7 5 (25.00%) Waterfall
8 4 (20.00%) MoSCoW
8 4 (20.00%) Validation
9 3 (15.00%) Architectural Design
9 3 (15.00%) Cost Reduction
9 3 (15.00%) Privileged Access Management
9 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
9 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (15.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) NIST
2 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.00%) OpenText
1 2 (10.00%) SAP
1 2 (10.00%) Workday
2 1 (5.00%) Google