Data Structures Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 287 291
Rank change year-on-year +90 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 143 113 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.12% 0.54% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.37% 1.84% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 87 114
10th Percentile £342 £325 £411
25th Percentile £452 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £638
90th Percentile £609 £680 £742
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £40.05 £22.45
25th Percentile - £40.13 £36.25
Median hourly rate - £40.25 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year - -49.17% +370.81%
75th Percentile - £40.38 -
90th Percentile - £40.45 -
UK median hourly rate £44.50 £40.50 £57.72
% change year-on-year +9.88% -29.83% +243.16%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Structures as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Scotland +43 50 £508 +26.88% 22
Midlands +30 31 £505 -13.12% 20
North of England +1 27 £400 -27.27% 27
West Midlands +18 25 £500 -5.88% 14
South East +61 24 £584 +3.78% 94
North West 0 15 £500 -6.98% 13
Yorkshire +7 9 £275 -56.69% 4
East of England +25 6 £490 +5.95% 28
East Midlands +14 6 £545 -14.51% 6
Northern Ireland -6 4 £500 - 6
North East -3 3 £335 +1.52% 10
South West +35 2 £588 +11.90% 26
Wales +2 2 £453 +158.91% 9
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Data Structures
UK

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (9.09%) Confluence
2 3 (2.10%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Maya
1 2 (1.40%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.40%) NUKE
2 1 (0.70%) Adobe Captivate
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.90%) SAP S/4HANA
1 7 (4.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.40%) Exstream
2 2 (1.40%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.70%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (11.19%) Azure
2 11 (7.69%) AWS
3 7 (4.90%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.50%) GCP
5 4 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.10%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.40%) GitHub
7 2 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.40%) PaaS
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.70%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.70%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.40%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (27.97%) Relational Database
2 28 (19.58%) DB2
2 28 (19.58%) MongoDB
3 8 (5.59%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.20%) Metadata
5 6 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.20%) Power BI
5 6 (4.20%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.10%) Bigtable
6 3 (2.10%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (2.10%) Data Vault
6 3 (2.10%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.40%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.40%) MySQL
7 2 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.40%) Tableau
8 1 (0.70%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 35 (24.48%) JUnit
2 12 (8.39%) ERwin
3 9 (6.29%) JIRA
4 7 (4.90%) PowerDesigner
5 5 (3.50%) Gradle
5 5 (3.50%) Maven
5 5 (3.50%) Selenium
6 4 (2.80%) CA Release Automation
6 4 (2.80%) ER Studio
6 4 (2.80%) Git
6 4 (2.80%) HP UFT
6 4 (2.80%) IntelliJ
6 4 (2.80%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.80%) NetBeans
6 4 (2.80%) Subversion
7 2 (1.40%) Toad
8 1 (0.70%) Ant
8 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.70%) MSTest
8 1 (0.70%) NUnit
General
1 69 (48.25%) Social Skills
2 49 (34.27%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (28.67%) Finance
4 18 (12.59%) Front Office
5 15 (10.49%) Banking
6 13 (9.09%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.80%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.80%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.80%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.80%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.10%) Retail
9 2 (1.40%) Automotive
9 2 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.40%) Law
9 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Games
10 1 (0.70%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 58 (40.56%) Developer
2 47 (32.87%) Java Developer
3 22 (15.38%) Analyst
4 18 (12.59%) Architect
5 11 (7.69%) Data Analyst
5 11 (7.69%) Data Modeller
5 11 (7.69%) SQL Developer
6 10 (6.99%) Core Java Developer
6 10 (6.99%) Data Architect
7 9 (6.29%) Data Engineer
8 7 (4.90%) Business Analyst
8 7 (4.90%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 7 (4.90%) Senior
8 7 (4.90%) Sybase Developer
9 6 (4.20%) Applications Architect
9 6 (4.20%) Test Analyst
10 5 (3.50%) Lead
11 4 (2.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (2.80%) Consultant
12 3 (2.10%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (23.78%) Spring
2 32 (22.38%) Kafka
3 24 (16.78%) JMS
4 7 (4.90%) J2EE
5 6 (4.20%) Spring Boot
5 6 (4.20%) Web Services
6 5 (3.50%) REST
7 4 (2.80%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.80%) RESTful
7 4 (2.80%) Spring Integration
7 4 (2.80%) Spring MVC
8 3 (2.10%) Ajax
8 3 (2.10%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.10%) CSS
8 3 (2.10%) HTML
8 3 (2.10%) HTML5
8 3 (2.10%) jQuery
8 3 (2.10%) Middleware
8 3 (2.10%) Node.js
8 3 (2.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.99%) Equities
2 12 (8.39%) Algorithms
3 10 (6.99%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.90%) IoT
5 6 (4.20%) Blockchain
6 5 (3.50%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.80%) Derivative
8 3 (2.10%) CMDB
8 3 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.10%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (2.10%) Mainframe
8 3 (2.10%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.10%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.40%) Animation
9 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.40%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.70%) Learning Management System
10 1 (0.70%) Life Science
10 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 37 (25.87%) Linux
2 2 (1.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (44.76%) Agile
2 55 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (25.17%) Data Modelling
4 31 (21.68%) Migration
4 31 (21.68%) SDLC
5 28 (19.58%) Multithreading
6 27 (18.88%) Open Source
7 23 (16.08%) Software Engineering
8 22 (15.38%) ETL
8 22 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
9 21 (14.69%) Data Migration
10 18 (12.59%) Analytics
10 18 (12.59%) Data Analysis
10 18 (12.59%) Database Tuning
11 16 (11.19%) Data Management
12 15 (10.49%) Data Mapping
12 15 (10.49%) Roadmaps
13 14 (9.79%) Data Architecture
13 14 (9.79%) Data Governance
13 14 (9.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (51.05%) SQL
2 56 (39.16%) Java
3 39 (27.27%) Python
4 25 (17.48%) Shell Script
5 12 (8.39%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.59%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.20%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.10%) ABAP
9 2 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.40%) R
10 1 (0.70%) C#
10 1 (0.70%) C++
10 1 (0.70%) Go
10 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (9.79%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.20%) Degree
4 3 (2.10%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.70%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.19%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.90%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (4.90%) QA
3 5 (3.50%) GDPR
4 3 (2.10%) NIST
5 2 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (1.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.50%) Progress Chef
2 4 (2.80%) Puppet
3 1 (0.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (18.88%) Sybase
2 14 (9.79%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.79%) SAP
3 7 (4.90%) Sparx
4 6 (4.20%) Oracle
5 5 (3.50%) Foundry
5 5 (3.50%) Palantir
6 4 (2.80%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (2.80%) Databricks
6 4 (2.80%) Denodo
6 4 (2.80%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.80%) Talend
7 3 (2.10%) IDERA
8 2 (1.40%) Ariba
8 2 (1.40%) DocuSign
8 2 (1.40%) Google
8 2 (1.40%) IFS
8 2 (1.40%) OpenText
9 1 (0.70%) Adobe
9 1 (0.70%) Hitachi