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 12 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 142 161
Rank change year-on-year -37 +19 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 46 25 21
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.69% 0.71% 0.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.35% 2.26% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 20 17
10th Percentile £289 £452 £363
25th Percentile £349 £508 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £613 £400
Median % change year-on-year -27.84% +53.13% -30.43%
75th Percentile £569 £654 £580
90th Percentile £800 £672 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £29.84 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £38.25 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £48.20 - -
England median hourly rate £38.25 £66.50 -
% change year-on-year -42.48% - -

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 1,956 1,105 1,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.49% 31.54% 29.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 692 784
10th Percentile £293 £204 £223
25th Percentile £413 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £619 £600 £623
90th Percentile £700 £664 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 95 120
10th Percentile £12.84 £15.28 £14.32
25th Percentile £16.29 £16.95 £35.00
Median hourly rate £38.72 £33.89 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +14.27% -40.92% +4.87%
75th Percentile £70.75 £59.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £70.96 £75.16
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.95 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.83% -42.55% +25.00%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -35 24 £380 -40.39% 25
Berkshire -27 17 £358 -45.00% 17
Hampshire -33 11 £600 -4.00% 8
West Sussex - 6 £550 - 4
Buckinghamshire -31 5 £453 +6.59% 6
Surrey -19 2 £425 -24.44% 7
Oxfordshire - 2 £325 - 2
East Sussex - 1 £459 - 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 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (17.39%) CPLEX
2 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) iTrent
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) Azure
1 15 (32.61%) Power Platform
2 12 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (21.74%) Power Automate
4 7 (15.22%) PowerApps
5 6 (13.04%) Azure Functions
5 6 (13.04%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (13.04%) Serverless
6 3 (6.52%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (4.35%) Collibra
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.17%) Kong
8 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (30.43%) Power BI
2 10 (21.74%) MongoDB
2 10 (21.74%) NoSQL
2 10 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (17.39%) Relational Database
4 6 (13.04%) Metadata
5 3 (6.52%) Tableau
6 2 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (4.35%) Couchbase
6 2 (4.35%) Db2
6 2 (4.35%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.17%) GIS
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.17%) PowerPivot
7 1 (2.17%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (2.17%) QlikView
7 1 (2.17%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 8 (17.39%) Git
2 2 (4.35%) JMeter
2 2 (4.35%) Postman
3 1 (2.17%) JIRA
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.17%) Rational DOORS
General
1 16 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
1 16 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Finance
3 7 (15.22%) Aerospace
4 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Automotive
6 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Marketing
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (39.13%) Developer
2 9 (19.57%) Analyst
2 9 (19.57%) Python Developer
3 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Developer
4 5 (10.87%) Data Analyst
4 5 (10.87%) Senior
5 3 (6.52%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Data Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) HR Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) HR Data Analyst
6 2 (4.35%) Lead
6 2 (4.35%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 1 (2.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (2.17%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.57%) Kafka
1 9 (19.57%) OpenAPI
1 9 (19.57%) Swagger
2 8 (17.39%) Django
2 8 (17.39%) FastAPI
2 8 (17.39%) Flask
2 8 (17.39%) NumPy
2 8 (17.39%) Pandas
2 8 (17.39%) RESTful
3 7 (15.22%) Middleware
3 7 (15.22%) pytest
3 7 (15.22%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (13.04%) .NET
5 5 (10.87%) Jinja
5 5 (10.87%) JSON
6 3 (6.52%) React
6 3 (6.52%) REST
7 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (4.35%) Redux
7 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.91%) Algorithms
2 9 (19.57%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.35%) Housing Association
5 1 (2.17%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (39.13%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (34.78%) DevOps
3 14 (30.43%) Analytics
3 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (23.91%) Agile
4 11 (23.91%) Containerisation
4 11 (23.91%) Data Modelling
4 11 (23.91%) Visualisation
5 10 (21.74%) CI/CD
5 10 (21.74%) Mathematics
5 10 (21.74%) Translating Business Requirements
5 10 (21.74%) Validation
6 9 (19.57%) Decision-Making
6 9 (19.57%) Software Engineering
6 9 (19.57%) TDD
7 8 (17.39%) Data Analytics
7 8 (17.39%) Data Governance
7 8 (17.39%) OOP
7 8 (17.39%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.78%) SQL
2 15 (32.61%) Python
3 9 (19.57%) JavaScript
4 6 (13.04%) C#
5 4 (8.70%) X++
6 2 (4.35%) Java
7 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 10 (21.74%) Degree
3 9 (19.57%) SC Cleared
4 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.74%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.52%) QA
3 2 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.04%) SAP
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) Solace
4 2 (4.35%) Workday
5 1 (2.17%) Databricks
5 1 (2.17%) IBM
5 1 (2.17%) webMethods