Data Structures Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Data Structures
South West > Somerset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in Somerset. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 2.13% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £444 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £652 - -
South West median daily rate £513 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +7.89% -13.64% +3.29%

All Generic Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 70 43 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 24.82% 35.83% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 25 25
10th Percentile £225 £149 £137
25th Percentile £263 £313 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.82% +10.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £583 £675 £570
90th Percentile £607 £708 £606
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 13
10th Percentile - - £12.10
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - £21.01 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - -47.48% +63.27%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £56.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% +40.63% +196.30%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Structures relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Data Structures job vacancy trend in Somerset

Data Structures
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in Somerset over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in Somerset

Data Structures
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
Taunton - 3 £481 - 1
Bath - 1 £695 - 1
Data Structures
South West

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (16.67%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Figma
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
1 1 (16.67%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (16.67%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (16.67%) GIS
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MSI
1 1 (16.67%) webpack
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Data Migration Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Database Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Migration Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Database Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) C++ Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Integration Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (16.67%) ATL
2 1 (16.67%) Blazor
2 1 (16.67%) COM
2 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
2 1 (16.67%) FHIR
2 1 (16.67%) GeoJSON
2 1 (16.67%) MFC
2 1 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Validation
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 2 (33.33%) Database Security
3 2 (33.33%) ERP
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Bicep
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) HL7
2 1 (16.67%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) InterSystems
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle