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 19 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 159 176
Rank change year-on-year +13 +17 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 32 22 34
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.79% 0.54% 0.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.53% 1.72% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 18 28
10th Percentile £458 £380 £380
25th Percentile £589 £390 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -6.67% -3.85%
75th Percentile £650 £586 £641
90th Percentile £664 £688 £863
England median daily rate £550 £564 £610
% change year-on-year -2.48% -7.47% -2.48%

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 1,266 1,279 1,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.28% 31.31% 31.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 810 722 1,068
10th Percentile £204 £254 £205
25th Percentile £363 £400 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +2.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £607
90th Percentile £675 £690 £689
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 74 107
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.84 £18.77
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.44 £24.80
Median hourly rate £25.00 £52.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -1.87% +42.67%
75th Percentile £62.00 £71.74 £63.29
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.16 £76.92
England median hourly rate £29.00 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.20% +2.62% +47.54%

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 19 November 2025.

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
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 19 November 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
Thames Valley +10 26 £638 +21.43% 12
Berkshire +16 23 £650 +62.50% 6
Hampshire +8 15 £625 +31.58% 4
Surrey +7 3 £563 +50.00% 4
Buckinghamshire +1 3 £425 -24.94% 5
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:

Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.13%) Primavera
2 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (62.50%) OCI
2 2 (6.25%) AWS
2 2 (6.25%) Azure
2 2 (6.25%) GCP
2 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (37.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 9 (28.13%) Oracle BI EE
3 8 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (6.25%) Power BI
4 2 (6.25%) Tableau
5 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) MLflow
General
1 26 (81.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Finance
2 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.13%) Billing
3 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Legal
3 1 (3.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Lead
2 9 (28.13%) Data Migration Lead
3 5 (15.63%) Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Oracle Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Report Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Consultant
4 4 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Data Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Data Migration Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Functional Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Migration Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Oracle Project Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Report Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Migration Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) SAP Migration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.13%) Hugging Face
2 1 (3.13%) PySpark
2 1 (3.13%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 24 (75.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 19 (59.38%) Collaborative Working
3 17 (53.13%) Migration
4 14 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (43.75%) Data Cleansing
5 13 (40.63%) Data Migration
6 10 (31.25%) Data Analysis
7 8 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (25.00%) Data Protection
8 5 (15.63%) ERP
8 5 (15.63%) Validation
9 4 (12.50%) Data Governance
9 4 (12.50%) Data Mapping
9 4 (12.50%) ETL
10 3 (9.38%) Actionable Insight
10 3 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
11 2 (6.25%) Agile
11 2 (6.25%) CRM
11 2 (6.25%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) Python
2 2 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (53.13%) GDPR
2 8 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Kubeflow
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (68.75%) Oracle
2 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) Foundry
3 1 (3.13%) Palantir
3 1 (3.13%) TIBCO
3 1 (3.13%) webMethods
3 1 (3.13%) Workday