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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 134 163
Rank change year-on-year -39 +29 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 55 25 18
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.84% 0.72% 0.39%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.85% 2.27% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 19 14
10th Percentile £290 £448 £363
25th Percentile £349 £506 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £386
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +62.13% -32.96%
75th Percentile £563 £657 £513
90th Percentile £800 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile £35.55 - -
25th Percentile £38.25 - -
Median hourly rate £88.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 1,927 1,103 1,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.30% 31.69% 29.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 694 780
10th Percentile £279 £204 £222
25th Percentile £413 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £617 £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 205 96 123
10th Percentile £13.10 £15.31 £12.08
25th Percentile £16.85 £16.95 £27.63
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.89 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +25.42% -40.92% +4.87%
75th Percentile £77.50 £62.62 £69.84
90th Percentile £88.00 £72.25 £75.16
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.78% -40.45% +19.96%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -26 33 £390 -38.82% 12
Berkshire -15 25 £358 -45.00% 6
Hampshire -32 11 £600 -7.69% 7
West Sussex -18 6 £550 - 4
Buckinghamshire -30 5 £453 +6.59% 1
Oxfordshire - 3 £400 - 5
Surrey -21 2 £425 -24.44% 5
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 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (14.55%) CPLEX
2 7 (12.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) iTrent
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.82%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.09%) Power Platform
2 15 (27.27%) Azure
3 12 (21.82%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (18.18%) Power Automate
5 7 (12.73%) PowerApps
6 6 (10.91%) Azure Functions
6 6 (10.91%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (10.91%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (10.91%) Serverless
7 3 (5.45%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (3.64%) Collibra
9 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.82%) Kong
9 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.27%) Power BI
2 10 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 10 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 10 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (14.55%) Relational Database
4 7 (12.73%) Metadata
5 4 (7.27%) Tableau
6 2 (3.64%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (3.64%) Couchbase
6 2 (3.64%) Db2
6 2 (3.64%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.82%) GIS
7 1 (1.82%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.82%) PowerPivot
7 1 (1.82%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.82%) QlikView
7 1 (1.82%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 9 (16.36%) Rational DOORS
2 8 (14.55%) Git
3 2 (3.64%) JMeter
3 2 (3.64%) Postman
4 1 (1.82%) JIRA
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Forms
General
1 17 (30.91%) Analytical Skills
1 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 15 (27.27%) Aerospace
3 10 (18.18%) Finance
4 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.64%) Retail
6 1 (1.82%) Automotive
6 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Marketing
6 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (32.73%) Developer
2 10 (18.18%) Analyst
3 9 (16.36%) Delivery Manager
3 9 (16.36%) Product Delivery Manager
3 9 (16.36%) Product Manager
3 9 (16.36%) Python Developer
4 8 (14.55%) Systems Delivery Manager
4 8 (14.55%) Systems Manager
5 6 (10.91%) Data Analyst
5 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Developer
6 5 (9.09%) Senior
7 3 (5.45%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Architect
8 2 (3.64%) Data Manager
8 2 (3.64%) Finance Business Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Financial Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) HR Analyst
8 2 (3.64%) Python Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.36%) Kafka
1 9 (16.36%) OpenAPI
1 9 (16.36%) Swagger
2 8 (14.55%) Django
2 8 (14.55%) FastAPI
2 8 (14.55%) Flask
2 8 (14.55%) NumPy
2 8 (14.55%) Pandas
2 8 (14.55%) RESTful
3 7 (12.73%) Middleware
3 7 (12.73%) pytest
3 7 (12.73%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (10.91%) .NET
5 5 (9.09%) Jinja
5 5 (9.09%) JSON
6 3 (5.45%) React
6 3 (5.45%) REST
7 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (3.64%) Redux
7 2 (3.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 9 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 9 (16.36%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.64%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.82%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (34.55%) Agile
1 19 (34.55%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (29.09%) DevOps
3 15 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (25.45%) Analytics
4 14 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (23.64%) Computer Science
5 13 (23.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (21.82%) Data Modelling
6 12 (21.82%) Visualisation
7 11 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 11 (20.00%) Validation
8 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
8 10 (18.18%) Decision-Making
8 10 (18.18%) Mathematics
8 10 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 10 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
8 10 (18.18%) UML
9 9 (16.36%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 9 (16.36%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) SQL
2 15 (27.27%) Python
3 9 (16.36%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.91%) C#
5 4 (7.27%) X++
6 2 (3.64%) Java
7 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 18 (32.73%) Degree
3 9 (16.36%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.45%) QA
3 2 (3.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (10.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.36%) IBM
3 6 (10.91%) SAP
4 3 (5.45%) Oracle
5 2 (3.64%) Solace
5 2 (3.64%) Workday
6 1 (1.82%) Databricks
6 1 (1.82%) webMethods