Data Structures Contract Job Trends in Reading

Data Structures
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 85 85
Rank change year-on-year +35 0 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 14 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.45% 0.36% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.93% 1.24% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 3
10th Percentile £550 £383 £276
25th Percentile £597 £384 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £386 £500
Median % change year-on-year +68.61% -22.90% -28.06%
75th Percentile £664 £390 £594
90th Percentile £669 £396 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £650 £386 £693
% change year-on-year +68.61% -44.33% -0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £79.19

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 202 322 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 35.31% 29.27% 28.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 161 227
10th Percentile £350 £350 £212
25th Percentile £443 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +5.45% +7.58%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £621
90th Percentile £664 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £520
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 6
10th Percentile £31.44 £42.05 £40.13
25th Percentile £45.63 £56.25 £62.27
Median hourly rate £56.50 £60.60 £66.44
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% -8.79% -
75th Percentile £58.00 £65.37 £72.44
90th Percentile - £71.76 £76.60
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £52.37 £64.31
% change year-on-year +10.75% -18.57% -24.34%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in Reading

Data Structures
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in Reading over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in Reading

Data Structures
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (21.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) OCI
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (28.57%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (21.43%) BusinessObjects
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Lead
2 5 (35.71%) Data Migration Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Report Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) HR Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle HRMS Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 10 (71.43%) Data Modelling
3 9 (64.29%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (50.00%) Data Protection
5 6 (42.86%) Migration
6 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (35.71%) Data Analysis
6 5 (35.71%) Data Cleansing
6 5 (35.71%) Data Migration
7 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (21.43%) Data Mapping
8 3 (21.43%) Data Transformation
8 3 (21.43%) Impact Analysis
8 3 (21.43%) Impact Assessments
8 3 (21.43%) Integration Testing
8 3 (21.43%) SOA
8 3 (21.43%) System Integration Testing
8 3 (21.43%) Validation
9 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
9 1 (7.14%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (92.86%) GDPR
2 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 3 (21.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft