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 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 136 195
Rank change year-on-year -20 +59 -50
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 31 25 17
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.68% 0.78% 0.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.27% 2.35% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 13
10th Percentile £492 £386 £403
25th Percentile £600 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.65% +3.64% +2.80%
75th Percentile £650 £590 £744
90th Percentile £664 £688 £839
England median daily rate £525 £545 £569
% change year-on-year -3.67% -4.18% -9.00%

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 1,364 1,063 1,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.74% 33.07% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 921 611 1,007
10th Percentile £204 £223 £205
25th Percentile £363 £378 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -8.13%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 39 118
10th Percentile £12.50 £19.68 £15.57
25th Percentile £15.62 £24.42 £23.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -26.32% +26.67%
75th Percentile £60.25 £59.87 £61.96
90th Percentile £82.00 £71.97 £76.82
England median hourly rate £30.30 £37.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.65% +6.43% +55.66%

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 31 January 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
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 31 January 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 -7 26 £638 +9.44% 10
Berkshire -4 24 £650 +62.50% 6
Hampshire -8 14 £625 +31.58% 7
Surrey -7 2 £700 +33.33% 8
Buckinghamshire -9 2 £438 -25.37% 3
East Sussex +2 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 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (3.23%) Primavera
2 1 (3.23%) SAP MDG
2 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (64.52%) OCI
2 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.23%) AWS
3 1 (3.23%) Azure
3 1 (3.23%) GCP
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.23%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.23%) Power Automate
3 1 (3.23%) PowerApps
3 1 (3.23%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (38.71%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 9 (29.03%) Oracle BI EE
3 8 (25.81%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (6.45%) Power BI
4 2 (6.45%) Tableau
5 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.23%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 23 (74.19%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Finance
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Marketing
4 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Lead
2 9 (29.03%) Data Migration Lead
3 6 (19.35%) Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Oracle Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Report Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Analyst
5 4 (12.90%) Consultant
6 3 (9.68%) Data Analyst
6 3 (9.68%) Project Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Data Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) Data Migration Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) Functional Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) Migration Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) Oracle Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) Oracle Functional Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) Oracle Project Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Report Manager
8 1 (3.23%) Migration Specialist
8 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Analyst
8 1 (3.23%) Supply Chain Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.23%) PySpark
2 1 (3.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (74.19%) Data Modelling
1 23 (74.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 19 (61.29%) Collaborative Working
3 16 (51.61%) Migration
4 14 (45.16%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (41.94%) Data Cleansing
5 13 (41.94%) Data Migration
6 10 (32.26%) Data Analysis
7 9 (29.03%) Data Protection
8 8 (25.81%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (16.13%) ERP
10 4 (12.90%) Data Governance
10 4 (12.90%) ETL
10 4 (12.90%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (12.90%) Validation
11 3 (9.68%) Actionable Insight
11 3 (9.68%) Data Mapping
11 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (9.68%) Translating Business Requirements
12 2 (6.45%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (54.84%) GDPR
2 7 (22.58%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.45%) QA
Vendors
1 23 (74.19%) Oracle
2 3 (9.68%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) Foundry
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) Palantir
3 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.23%) TIBCO
3 1 (3.23%) webMethods
3 1 (3.23%) Workday