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

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 160 182
Rank change year-on-year +22 +22 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 24 21 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.69% 0.46% 0.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.16% 1.55% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 28
10th Percentile £443 £363 £380
25th Percentile £550 £375 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +59.38% -30.43% +9.52%
75th Percentile £661 £580 £699
90th Percentile £678 £688 £863
England median daily rate £550 £598 £625
% change year-on-year -7.95% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £79.19
England median hourly rate £67.00 - £79.19
% change year-on-year - - +244.30%

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 1,111 1,357 1,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.83% 29.45% 31.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 704 777 1,210
10th Percentile £204 £232 £205
25th Percentile £350 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £618
90th Percentile £664 £689 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 108 101
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.90 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £30.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.05 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +4.27% +132.12%
75th Percentile £58.19 £70.05 £67.75
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.16 £77.50
England median hourly rate £33.03 £57.35 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.41% +25.00% +81.06%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Structures as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures 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 September 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 September 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 +16 18 £650 +68.39% 15
Berkshire +20 15 £650 +68.61% 15
Hampshire - 11 £625 -
Buckinghamshire +8 3 £425 -
Surrey +7 3 £563 +50.00% 7
Data Structures
England

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.17%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) OCI
2 3 (12.50%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (8.33%) Power BI
5 2 (8.33%) Tableau
6 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) MLflow
General
1 15 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Billing
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Lead
2 7 (29.17%) Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Data Migration Lead
4 4 (16.67%) Data Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
6 2 (8.33%) Consultant
6 2 (8.33%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Oracle Project Manager
6 2 (8.33%) Report Manager
7 1 (4.17%) Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Data Consultant
7 1 (4.17%) Data Migration Consultant
7 1 (4.17%) Integration Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Migration Consultant
7 1 (4.17%) Procurement Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Supply Chain Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (4.17%) Hugging Face
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.17%) PySpark
2 1 (4.17%) PyTorch
2 1 (4.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 13 (54.17%) Data Modelling
3 10 (41.67%) Collaborative Working
3 10 (41.67%) Migration
4 9 (37.50%) Data Cleansing
5 8 (33.33%) Data Migration
6 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (29.17%) Data Mapping
6 7 (29.17%) Data Protection
6 7 (29.17%) Validation
7 6 (25.00%) Data Analysis
8 5 (20.83%) Data Governance
8 5 (20.83%) ERP
9 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (16.67%) Data Transformation
10 3 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
10 3 (12.50%) ETL
10 3 (12.50%) SOA
10 3 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
10 3 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) PL/SQL
2 3 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (58.33%) GDPR
2 6 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubeflow
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) Foundry
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Palantir
3 1 (4.17%) TIBCO
3 1 (4.17%) webMethods