Data Structures Contracts in the North of England

Data Structures
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 152 194
Rank change year-on-year +12 +42 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 28 34 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.85% 0.74% 0.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.72% 2.78% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 13
10th Percentile £263 £447 £400
25th Percentile £313 £494 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £519 £631 £575
90th Percentile £689 £649 £595
England median daily rate £550 £581 £575
% change year-on-year -5.38% +1.09% -8.77%

All Generic Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,028 1,222 1,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 31.26% 26.52% 30.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 744 1,125
10th Percentile £213 £265 £288
25th Percentile £365 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -3.33% +7.37%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £610
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £537 £550 £571
% change year-on-year -2.32% -3.64% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 156 81
10th Percentile £20.59 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.80 £15.59 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +91.21% -7.51% -10.61%
75th Percentile £55.05 £28.55 £40.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £47.47 £66.69
England median hourly rate £33.00 £34.11 £22.49
% change year-on-year -3.24% +51.68% -15.15%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in the North of England

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in the North of England

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in the North of England

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in the North of England

Data Structures
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 22 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
North West +9 17 £475 -9.52% 41
Yorkshire +6 8 £275 -56.00% 9
North East 0 3 £335 +1.52% 27
Data Structures
England

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (21.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.57%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (14.29%) GCP
3 3 (10.71%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub
4 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.57%) Google Analytics
5 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (17.86%) Metadata
2 3 (10.71%) Bigtable
2 3 (10.71%) Data Vault
2 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.71%) Power BI
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.57%) Big Data
4 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.57%) MySQL
4 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (3.57%) Star Schema
4 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) ERwin
2 3 (10.71%) ER Studio
3 2 (7.14%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (7.14%) Gradle
3 2 (7.14%) HP UFT
3 2 (7.14%) IntelliJ
3 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.14%) JIRA
3 2 (7.14%) JUnit
3 2 (7.14%) Maven
3 2 (7.14%) NetBeans
3 2 (7.14%) Selenium
3 2 (7.14%) Subversion
4 1 (3.57%) Flyway
4 1 (3.57%) Liquibase
General
1 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (10.71%) Retail
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Data Modeller
3 4 (14.29%) SQL Developer
4 3 (10.71%) ABAP Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) SAP Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Applications Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Information Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Snowflake Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) SAP Data Architect
6 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Hibernate
1 2 (7.14%) J2EE
1 2 (7.14%) Kafka
1 2 (7.14%) REST
1 2 (7.14%) Spring
1 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
1 2 (7.14%) Spring Integration
1 2 (7.14%) Spring MVC
1 2 (7.14%) Web Services
2 1 (3.57%) Ajax
2 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.57%) Bootstrap
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (3.57%) HTML5
2 1 (3.57%) jQuery
2 1 (3.57%) Node.js
2 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (10.71%) IoT
3 2 (7.14%) Blockchain
3 2 (7.14%) Data Fabric
3 2 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Taxonomies
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Agile
1 15 (53.57%) Data Modelling
2 13 (46.43%) ETL
3 11 (39.29%) Migration
4 9 (32.14%) Data Migration
5 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (21.43%) Data Governance
7 5 (17.86%) Analytics
8 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 4 (14.29%) Data Analysis
8 4 (14.29%) Data Design
8 4 (14.29%) Data Management
8 4 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (14.29%) ERP
8 4 (14.29%) Information Architecture
8 4 (14.29%) SQL Optimisation
8 4 (14.29%) Use Case
9 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (10.71%) Scrum
9 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) SQL
2 3 (10.71%) ABAP
2 3 (10.71%) Java
3 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.57%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Progress Chef
2 2 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) SAP
2 3 (10.71%) Databricks
2 3 (10.71%) IDERA
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Ariba
3 2 (7.14%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (7.14%) Talend
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) IBM
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle