Data Structures Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Structures
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 135 123
Rank change year-on-year +47 -12 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 14 6 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.95% 0.23% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.71% 0.78% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 16
10th Percentile £495 £276 £252
25th Percentile £510 £306 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £375 £525
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -28.57% +0.96%
75th Percentile £600 £388 £626
90th Percentile £620 - £711
South East median daily rate £550 £375 £575
% change year-on-year +46.67% -34.78% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £79.19
South East median hourly rate - - £79.19
% change year-on-year - - +370.81%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 516 768 922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.98% 29.16% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 458 605
10th Percentile £300 £205 £300
25th Percentile £406 £307 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 58 24
10th Percentile £13.16 £11.79 £18.08
25th Percentile £15.13 £21.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £38.53 £29.00 £60.88
Median % change year-on-year +32.84% -52.36% +204.38%
75th Percentile £68.06 £59.64 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.87 £65.00 £77.93
South East median hourly rate £47.90 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.20% -4.76% +144.19%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in the Thames Valley

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in the Thames Valley

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in the Thames Valley

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in the Thames Valley

Data Structures
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Berkshire +33 11 £550 +46.67% 11
Buckinghamshire - 3 £600 - 2
Data Structures
South East

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (21.43%) Apache Spark
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (14.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (14.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) ERwin
1 2 (14.29%) PowerDesigner
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Data Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Data Modeller
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) HR Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle HRMS Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) PySpark
1 3 (21.43%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Validation
2 5 (35.71%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) Data Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Data Mapping
3 4 (28.57%) Generative AI
3 4 (28.57%) LLM
3 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
4 3 (21.43%) Data Management
4 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
4 3 (21.43%) Data Transformation
4 3 (21.43%) Data Validation
4 3 (21.43%) Impact Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (21.43%) Integration Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 3 (21.43%) SOA
4 3 (21.43%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 4 (28.57%) Python
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
1 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
2 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) GDPR
1 3 (21.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Foundry
1 4 (28.57%) Palantir
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) Sparx