Data Structures Contract Job Trends in the South East

Data Structures
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in the South East. 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 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 135 196
Rank change year-on-year -20 +61 -49
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 60 24 9
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.03% 0.80% 0.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.49% 2.37% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 16 7
10th Percentile £295 £511 £286
25th Percentile £331 £550 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £584 £563
Median % change year-on-year -24.28% +3.78% -2.17%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £694
90th Percentile £600 £650 £744
England median daily rate £525 £545 £563
% change year-on-year -3.67% -3.11% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 0 0
10th Percentile £58.15 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £88.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £88.00 £44.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +97.75% +9.88% -48.86%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,720 1,011 1,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.48% 33.59% 28.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,144 634 937
10th Percentile £252 £211 £205
25th Percentile £400 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £700 £661 £688
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.44% -0.41% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 63 154
10th Percentile £17.30 £16.95 £11.74
25th Percentile £27.94 £23.50 £18.35
Median hourly rate £70.00 £47.81 £47.19
Median % change year-on-year +46.43% +1.31% -7.93%
75th Percentile £87.00 £64.13 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £33.91 £30.16
% change year-on-year +38.60% +12.43% +34.04%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Data Structures job vacancy trend in the South East

Data Structures
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Structures.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Structures

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in the South East

Data Structures
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Structures.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data Structures

Data Structures
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Structures in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Structures in the South East

Data Structures
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley -23 40 £364 -37.95% 10
Berkshire -11 32 £358 -35.00% 5
Hampshire -21 10 £600 +9.09% 6
West Sussex -6 6 £325 - 1
Buckinghamshire -29 6 £370 -37.29% 3
Oxfordshire - 2 £325 - 2
East Sussex - 2 £459 -
Kent -10 1 - - 1
Data Structures
England

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (3.33%) CMS
1 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.67%) CPLEX
3 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (3.33%) iTrent
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (3.33%) SAP R/3
2 2 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.67%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.67%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.33%) Azure
1 8 (13.33%) Power Platform
2 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.67%) Power Automate
4 3 (5.00%) OCI
5 2 (3.33%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.67%) AWS
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.67%) Kong
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.67%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.67%) SaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Serverless
6 1 (1.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.67%) NoSQL
1 7 (11.67%) Power BI
2 6 (10.00%) Metadata
3 5 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.33%) Tableau
6 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.67%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.67%) IBM InfoSphere
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (1.67%) PowerPivot
6 1 (1.67%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.67%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (36.67%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (1.67%) ERwin
3 1 (1.67%) Gradle
3 1 (1.67%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) JMeter
3 1 (1.67%) Maven
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.67%) Postman
General
1 23 (38.33%) Aerospace
2 15 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (21.67%) Social Skills
4 10 (16.67%) Finance
5 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.33%) Retail
7 1 (1.67%) Automotive
7 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Local Government
7 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (36.67%) Delivery Manager
1 22 (36.67%) Product Delivery Manager
1 22 (36.67%) Product Manager
2 21 (35.00%) Systems Delivery Manager
2 21 (35.00%) Systems Manager
3 15 (25.00%) Developer
4 9 (15.00%) Analyst
4 9 (15.00%) Python Developer
5 8 (13.33%) Data Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Consultant
6 3 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Oracle Consultant
6 3 (5.00%) SAP Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) SAP Data Analyst
6 3 (5.00%) Senior
7 2 (3.33%) Backend Developer
7 2 (3.33%) HR Analyst
7 2 (3.33%) Lead
7 2 (3.33%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) JSON
1 6 (10.00%) RESTful
2 5 (8.33%) OpenAPI
2 5 (8.33%) Swagger
3 4 (6.67%) Django
3 4 (6.67%) FastAPI
3 4 (6.67%) Flask
3 4 (6.67%) Kafka
3 4 (6.67%) NumPy
3 4 (6.67%) Pandas
3 4 (6.67%) React
4 3 (5.00%) pytest
4 3 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (5.00%) REST
4 3 (5.00%) Spring
4 3 (5.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.33%) Jinja
5 2 (3.33%) JSON Schema
5 2 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 23 (38.33%) Product Ownership
2 7 (11.67%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.33%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.00%) Agile
2 25 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 23 (38.33%) Computer Science
4 23 (38.33%) UML
5 22 (36.67%) Change Control
5 22 (36.67%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 22 (36.67%) PRINCE2
5 22 (36.67%) Programme Management
5 22 (36.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 22 (36.67%) SysML
5 22 (36.67%) Systems Engineering
6 21 (35.00%) Configuration Management
6 21 (35.00%) DoDAF
6 21 (35.00%) Requirements Management
7 11 (18.33%) Data Modelling
8 9 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (13.33%) Data Analysis
9 8 (13.33%) Migration
10 7 (11.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.67%) SQL
2 10 (16.67%) Python
3 4 (6.67%) Java
3 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.33%) Go
4 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.67%) C#
5 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.67%) X++
Qualifications
1 34 (56.67%) Security Cleared
2 24 (40.00%) Degree
3 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.33%) GDPR
2 2 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (40.00%) IBM
2 7 (11.67%) Oracle
3 6 (10.00%) SAP
4 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.33%) Workday
6 1 (1.67%) Databricks
6 1 (1.67%) NEC
6 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.67%) Solace
6 1 (1.67%) Sparx
6 1 (1.67%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.67%) webMethods