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

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 275 297
Rank change year-on-year +76 +22 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 146 111 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.12% 0.55% 0.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.37% 1.89% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 85 101
10th Percentile £335 £324 £400
25th Percentile £455 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £549
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -13.48% +6.86%
75th Percentile £566 £622 £625
90th Percentile £635 £683 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
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 4,331 5,882 7,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.34% 28.95% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,622 3,533 5,007
10th Percentile £205 £210 £220
25th Percentile £363 £378 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £613
90th Percentile £656 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 722 422
10th Percentile £16.58 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.97 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.53 £30.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% +36.36% +3.53%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £83.26 £70.00 £74.90
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £31.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year +0.83% +40.09% -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 18 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 18 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 +31 49 £525 +31.25% 31
Midlands +24 32 £500 -17.53% 34
North of England +16 29 £400 -25.58% 47
West Midlands +6 25 £500 -11.11% 28
South East +53 22 £568 +21.07% 102
North West +8 17 £500 -4.76% 24
Yorkshire +15 9 £275 -56.00% 7
East of England +21 8 £713 +54.05% 47
East Midlands +17 6 £545 -19.26% 4
Northern Ireland - 5 £500 - 8
North East -8 3 £335 +1.52% 16
South West +28 2 £588 +11.90% 21
Wales +4 2 £453 +158.91% 4
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 10 (6.85%) Confluence
2 4 (2.74%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Maya
1 2 (1.37%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.37%) NUKE
2 1 (0.68%) Adobe Captivate
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (6.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (2.05%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.37%) Exstream
5 1 (0.68%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.68%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (11.64%) Azure
2 12 (8.22%) AWS
3 7 (4.79%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.11%) GCP
5 5 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.05%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.37%) GitHub
8 2 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.37%) PaaS
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.68%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (28.08%) Relational Database
2 28 (19.18%) MongoDB
3 27 (18.49%) DB2
4 8 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.48%) Metadata
5 7 (4.79%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.11%) Power BI
7 5 (3.42%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.74%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.05%) Bigtable
9 3 (2.05%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.05%) Data Vault
9 3 (2.05%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (2.05%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.37%) MySQL
10 2 (1.37%) Tableau
11 1 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (24.66%) JUnit
2 9 (6.16%) ERwin
3 8 (5.48%) JIRA
4 5 (3.42%) Gradle
4 5 (3.42%) Maven
4 5 (3.42%) Selenium
5 4 (2.74%) CA Release Automation
5 4 (2.74%) ER Studio
5 4 (2.74%) Git
5 4 (2.74%) HP UFT
5 4 (2.74%) IntelliJ
5 4 (2.74%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.74%) NetBeans
5 4 (2.74%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (2.74%) Subversion
6 2 (1.37%) Toad
7 1 (0.68%) Ant
7 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.68%) Mockito
7 1 (0.68%) MSTest
General
1 66 (45.21%) Social Skills
2 48 (32.88%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (30.82%) Finance
4 19 (13.01%) Front Office
5 17 (11.64%) Banking
6 14 (9.59%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.79%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.74%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.74%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.74%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.05%) Retail
10 2 (1.37%) Automotive
10 2 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.37%) Law
10 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Games
11 1 (0.68%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 57 (39.04%) Developer
2 46 (31.51%) Java Developer
3 24 (16.44%) Analyst
4 18 (12.33%) Architect
5 12 (8.22%) Data Analyst
5 12 (8.22%) SQL Developer
6 11 (7.53%) Core Java Developer
7 10 (6.85%) Data Architect
7 10 (6.85%) Data Engineer
8 8 (5.48%) Data Modeller
8 8 (5.48%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 8 (5.48%) Senior
8 8 (5.48%) Sybase Developer
9 7 (4.79%) Business Analyst
10 6 (4.11%) Applications Architect
10 6 (4.11%) Lead
10 6 (4.11%) Test Analyst
11 4 (2.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (2.74%) Consultant
12 3 (2.05%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (23.97%) Spring
2 32 (21.92%) Kafka
3 25 (17.12%) JMS
4 7 (4.79%) Web Services
5 5 (3.42%) J2EE
6 4 (2.74%) Hibernate
6 4 (2.74%) RESTful
6 4 (2.74%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.74%) Spring Integration
6 4 (2.74%) Spring MVC
7 3 (2.05%) Ajax
7 3 (2.05%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.05%) Bootstrap
7 3 (2.05%) CSS
7 3 (2.05%) HTML
7 3 (2.05%) HTML5
7 3 (2.05%) jQuery
7 3 (2.05%) Node.js
7 3 (2.05%) PySpark
7 3 (2.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 22 (15.07%) Equities
2 10 (6.85%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.16%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (4.79%) IoT
5 6 (4.11%) Blockchain
6 5 (3.42%) Derivative
6 5 (3.42%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.74%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (2.05%) CMDB
8 3 (2.05%) Mainframe
8 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.05%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.05%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.37%) Animation
9 2 (1.37%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.37%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.68%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 36 (24.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (44.52%) Agile
2 56 (38.36%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (26.71%) Data Modelling
4 34 (23.29%) Migration
5 29 (19.86%) Multithreading
5 29 (19.86%) SDLC
6 28 (19.18%) Open Source
7 23 (15.75%) Data Migration
7 23 (15.75%) ETL
7 23 (15.75%) Performance Tuning
7 23 (15.75%) Software Engineering
8 20 (13.70%) Database Tuning
9 19 (13.01%) Data Analysis
10 17 (11.64%) Analytics
10 17 (11.64%) Data Governance
11 15 (10.27%) Data Mapping
12 14 (9.59%) Data Management
13 13 (8.90%) Data Integration
14 12 (8.22%) Computer Science
14 12 (8.22%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 74 (50.68%) SQL
2 55 (37.67%) Java
3 40 (27.40%) Python
4 25 (17.12%) Shell Script
5 12 (8.22%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.48%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.42%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.05%) ABAP
9 2 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.37%) R
10 1 (0.68%) C#
10 1 (0.68%) C++
10 1 (0.68%) Go
10 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (10.27%) Security Cleared
2 13 (8.90%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.48%) Degree
4 3 (2.05%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.37%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.37%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.37%) PMP
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) ISEB
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.33%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (4.11%) GDPR
2 6 (4.11%) QA
3 3 (2.05%) NIST
3 3 (2.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.68%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (1.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.42%) Progress Chef
2 4 (2.74%) Puppet
3 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (19.18%) Sybase
2 16 (10.96%) SAP
3 13 (8.90%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.11%) Oracle
5 5 (3.42%) Foundry
5 5 (3.42%) Palantir
6 4 (2.74%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (2.74%) Databricks
6 4 (2.74%) Denodo
6 4 (2.74%) Sparx
6 4 (2.74%) Talend
7 3 (2.05%) Google
7 3 (2.05%) IDERA
7 3 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.37%) Ariba
8 2 (1.37%) OpenText
9 1 (0.68%) Adobe
9 1 (0.68%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.68%) IBM
9 1 (0.68%) Salesforce