Data Structures Contracts in the North West

Data Structures
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 111 144
Rank change year-on-year 0 +33 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 17 22 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.87% 0.82% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.10% 3.17% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 8
10th Percentile £369 £463 -
25th Percentile £380 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £444
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +18.31% -15.48%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £528
90th Percentile £673 £656 £549
England median daily rate £540 £581 £575
% change year-on-year -7.10% +1.09% -8.00%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 549 693 1,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.21% 25.72% 32.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 450 654
10th Percentile £208 £287 £304
25th Percentile £363 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.51% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £676 £675
England median daily rate £530 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -3.64% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 78 43
10th Percentile £22.73 £13.00 £16.67
25th Percentile £26.41 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.90 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -9.76% +45.35%
75th Percentile £59.83 £37.44 £65.88
90th Percentile £76.00 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.91 £35.50 £22.21
% change year-on-year -4.48% +59.87% -16.21%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in the North West

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in the North West

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in the North West over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in the North West

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in the North West

Data Structures
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Cheshire 0 10 £489 -6.95% 61
Manchester +16 4 £500 -11.11% 115
Lancashire - 2 £488 - 42
Data Structures
England

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (5.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.88%) NetSuite
2 1 (5.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
4 3 (17.65%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) AWS
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.88%) Google Analytics
6 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (23.53%) Metadata
1 4 (23.53%) Power BI
2 3 (17.65%) Bigtable
2 3 (17.65%) Data Vault
3 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
3 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.88%) MySQL
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) ER Studio
1 3 (17.65%) ERwin
2 2 (11.76%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (11.76%) Gradle
2 2 (11.76%) HP UFT
2 2 (11.76%) IntelliJ
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) JUnit
2 2 (11.76%) Maven
2 2 (11.76%) NetBeans
2 2 (11.76%) Selenium
2 2 (11.76%) Subversion
3 1 (5.88%) Flyway
3 1 (5.88%) Liquibase
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Finance
3 5 (29.41%) Retail
4 4 (23.53%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Analyst
1 3 (17.65%) Architect
1 3 (17.65%) Data Architect
1 3 (17.65%) Data Modeller
1 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Information Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Lead
2 2 (11.76%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Developer Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (5.88%) SAP Data Architect
3 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
1 2 (11.76%) J2EE
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
1 2 (11.76%) Spring
1 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
1 2 (11.76%) Spring Integration
1 2 (11.76%) Spring MVC
1 2 (11.76%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) Ajax
2 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.88%) Bootstrap
2 1 (5.88%) CSS
2 1 (5.88%) HTML
2 1 (5.88%) HTML5
2 1 (5.88%) jQuery
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Fabric
1 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
1 2 (11.76%) Taxonomies
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) IoT
2 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Agile
2 10 (58.82%) Data Modelling
3 5 (29.41%) Data Governance
3 5 (29.41%) Data Management
3 5 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (29.41%) ETL
4 4 (23.53%) Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (23.53%) Data Extraction
4 4 (23.53%) Data Transformation
4 4 (23.53%) Information Architecture
4 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) Use Case
5 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (17.65%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (17.65%) Data Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Data Mapping
5 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
5 3 (17.65%) Migration
5 3 (17.65%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) ABAP
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Progress Chef
2 2 (11.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) SAP
2 3 (17.65%) Databricks
2 3 (17.65%) IDERA
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Ariba
3 2 (11.76%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (5.88%) Google