Data Structures Contracts in Scotland

Data Structures
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in Scotland. 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 68 111 140
Rank change year-on-year +43 +29 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 50 18 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.08% 0.81% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.09% 2.46% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 17 11
10th Percentile £413 £324 £413
25th Percentile £460 £350 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +26.88% -33.33% +24.87%
75th Percentile £550 - £644
90th Percentile £575 £528 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in Scotland

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in Scotland

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in Scotland

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in Scotland

Data Structures
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +31 46 £490 +25.64% 9
Edinburgh +4 4 £525 +10.53% 13
Data Structures
UK

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.00%) Azure
1 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (74.00%) Relational Database
2 27 (54.00%) DB2
3 26 (52.00%) MongoDB
4 5 (10.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.00%) Power BI
6 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.00%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.00%) Metadata
6 1 (2.00%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 30 (60.00%) JUnit
2 4 (8.00%) JIRA
3 2 (4.00%) Toad
4 1 (2.00%) Git
4 1 (2.00%) MSTest
4 1 (2.00%) NUnit
4 1 (2.00%) Postman
4 1 (2.00%) Ranorex
4 1 (2.00%) Selenium
General
1 30 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 27 (54.00%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (52.00%) Finance
4 18 (36.00%) Front Office
5 11 (22.00%) Banking
5 11 (22.00%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (78.00%) Developer
1 39 (78.00%) Java Developer
2 7 (14.00%) Core Java Developer
2 7 (14.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 7 (14.00%) SQL Developer
2 7 (14.00%) Sybase Developer
3 5 (10.00%) Analyst
4 3 (6.00%) Linux Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Architect
5 2 (4.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.00%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (4.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (4.00%) Java Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (2.00%) Data Analyst
6 1 (2.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) QA Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Server Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (58.00%) Spring
2 28 (56.00%) Kafka
3 24 (48.00%) JMS
4 3 (6.00%) Middleware
4 3 (6.00%) REST
4 3 (6.00%) SOAP
5 2 (4.00%) J2EE
5 2 (4.00%) MSMQ
5 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.00%) .NET
6 1 (2.00%) Java EE
6 1 (2.00%) JSON
6 1 (2.00%) Playwright
6 1 (2.00%) WebSockets
6 1 (2.00%) XML
6 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (40.00%) Equities
2 5 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.00%) Derivative
3 3 (6.00%) Equity Derivative
3 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.00%) CMDB
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (70.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (76.00%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (72.00%) Agile
3 28 (56.00%) Multithreading
3 28 (56.00%) SDLC
4 24 (48.00%) Open Source
5 19 (38.00%) Performance Tuning
5 19 (38.00%) Software Engineering
6 18 (36.00%) Database Tuning
7 9 (18.00%) Computer Science
8 7 (14.00%) Concurrent Programming
9 5 (10.00%) Data Modelling
9 5 (10.00%) Test Automation
10 4 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 4 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 3 (6.00%) Data Governance
11 3 (6.00%) Data Protection
11 3 (6.00%) Data Strategy
11 3 (6.00%) Reverse Engineering
11 3 (6.00%) User Stories
11 3 (6.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 43 (86.00%) SQL
2 42 (84.00%) Java
3 24 (48.00%) Python
3 24 (48.00%) Shell Script
4 4 (8.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.00%) C#
5 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (10.00%) QA
3 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 25 (50.00%) Sybase
2 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.00%) DocuSign
4 1 (2.00%) Databricks
4 1 (2.00%) Hitachi
4 1 (2.00%) Pega
4 1 (2.00%) SAP