Data Structures Contracts

Data Structures
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Structures over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 319 271
Rank change year-on-year +12 -48 -15
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 327 478 921
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.80% 1.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.49% 2.40% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 328 579
10th Percentile £384 £411 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -6.12% +11.36%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £750
90th Percentile £755 £915 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £40.10 £18.88 £12.55
25th Percentile £40.25 £27.44 £15.63
Median hourly rate £40.50 £57.72 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year -29.83% +243.16% -61.33%
75th Percentile £55.25 £79.19 £17.23
90th Percentile £64.10 - £23.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.25 £79.19 £16.82
% change year-on-year -49.17% +370.81% -70.75%

All Generic Skills
UK

Data Structures is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Structures as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Structures over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +32 279 £556 -3.26% 190
London +21 169 £638 +2.00% 112
Work from Home +108 144 £600 +9.09% 135
UK excluding London +3 110 £500 -9.09% 95
North of England +61 45 £550 +10.00% 24
North West +37 32 £538 +19.44% 11
Midlands +23 22 £581 -3.13% 15
West Midlands +38 20 £531 +1.19% 11
Scotland +27 17 £400 -33.33% 16
South West +27 13 £525 -1.41% 7
East of England +18 11 £463 -7.50% 18
Yorkshire +26 10 £635 +15.45% 7
South East -45 8 £563 -2.17% 14
North East +24 6 £330 -40.00% 6
East Midlands +10 2 £638 +6.25% 4
Northern Ireland +6 2 £500 - 1
Wales +2 1 £175 -66.65% 2

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (5.20%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.98%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.75%) Confluence
4 6 (1.83%) Apache
4 6 (1.83%) SAS
5 5 (1.53%) IBM Notes
6 4 (1.22%) CICS
6 4 (1.22%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.61%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.31%) CMS
9 1 (0.31%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.31%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 13 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.31%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 27 (8.26%) Dynamics AX
2 13 (3.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.61%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.61%) SAP GTS
4 2 (0.61%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.31%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.31%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.31%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.31%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 103 (31.50%) Azure
2 45 (13.76%) Power Platform
3 43 (13.15%) AWS
4 30 (9.17%) Dynamics 365
5 29 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (8.87%) Power Automate
5 29 (8.87%) PowerApps
6 23 (7.03%) GCP
7 18 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (4.89%) Azure Stack
9 15 (4.59%) Amazon S3
10 14 (4.28%) Microsoft Purview
11 10 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (3.06%) GitHub
12 8 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.45%) Serverless
13 6 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (1.83%) Kong
13 6 (1.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.36%) DNS
2 10 (3.06%) Firewall
3 6 (1.83%) HTTP
3 6 (1.83%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.83%) VPN
4 4 (1.22%) DHCP
4 4 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.61%) SSH
6 1 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (13.46%) Power BI
2 38 (11.62%) Relational Database
3 37 (11.31%) Data Lake
4 36 (11.01%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (5.81%) NoSQL
6 16 (4.89%) Snowflake Schema
7 14 (4.28%) Metadata
8 13 (3.98%) Big Data
9 12 (3.67%) SQL Server
10 11 (3.36%) MongoDB
11 10 (3.06%) Tableau
12 9 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (2.45%) RDBMS
14 7 (2.14%) KDB
15 6 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (1.53%) Data Mining
16 5 (1.53%) Redis
16 5 (1.53%) Star Schema
17 4 (1.22%) DB2
17 4 (1.22%) Oracle8/8i Database
Development Applications
1 23 (7.03%) JIRA
2 19 (5.81%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.28%) Git
3 14 (4.28%) GitLab
4 6 (1.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (1.83%) CircleCI
4 6 (1.83%) Travis CI
4 6 (1.83%) webpack
5 5 (1.53%) ERwin
6 4 (1.22%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.22%) JUnit
6 4 (1.22%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (1.22%) Mocha
7 3 (0.92%) Gradle
7 3 (0.92%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.92%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.61%) Ant
8 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.61%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.61%) Maven
General
1 115 (35.17%) Social Skills
2 91 (27.83%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (23.85%) Finance
4 51 (15.60%) Public Sector
5 33 (10.09%) Retail
6 28 (8.56%) General Ledger
7 18 (5.50%) Banking
8 16 (4.89%) Front Office
9 12 (3.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.83%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.53%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.22%) Marketing
15 3 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.92%) Legal
15 3 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.92%) Police
16 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 76 (23.24%) Developer
2 68 (20.80%) Architect
3 48 (14.68%) Analyst
4 42 (12.84%) Senior
5 41 (12.54%) Consultant
6 39 (11.93%) Data Architect
7 32 (9.79%) Data Analyst
8 30 (9.17%) Java Developer
9 19 (5.81%) Data Engineer
9 19 (5.81%) Microsoft Consultant
9 19 (5.81%) Technical Architect
10 16 (4.89%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 14 (4.28%) SAP Analyst
11 14 (4.28%) SAP Data Analyst
11 14 (4.28%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.98%) Senior Data Analyst
13 12 (3.67%) Lead
13 12 (3.67%) SharePoint Architect
14 11 (3.36%) Python Developer
15 10 (3.06%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.70%) JSON
2 33 (10.09%) React
3 30 (9.17%) XML
4 27 (8.26%) REST
5 26 (7.95%) Spring
6 25 (7.65%) RESTful
7 21 (6.42%) Kafka
8 18 (5.50%) CSS
8 18 (5.50%) HTML
9 13 (3.98%) Node.js
10 11 (3.36%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (3.06%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.75%) .NET
12 9 (2.75%) YAML
13 8 (2.45%) JSON Schema
13 8 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
13 8 (2.45%) Spring Boot
14 7 (2.14%) Django
14 7 (2.14%) Pandas
15 6 (1.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 96 (29.36%) Algorithms
2 38 (11.62%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (7.65%) Cloud Native
4 19 (5.81%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (5.50%) Product Ownership
6 15 (4.59%) Reference Data
7 14 (4.28%) Derivative
7 14 (4.28%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.06%) Fixed Income
9 7 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.14%) Life Science
9 7 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.53%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.53%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.53%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.53%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.53%) NHS
12 4 (1.22%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.70%) Linux
2 17 (5.20%) Unix
3 3 (0.92%) Android
4 1 (0.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (28.44%) Agile
2 90 (27.52%) Data Modelling
3 65 (19.88%) Business Intelligence
4 61 (18.65%) Migration
5 60 (18.35%) DevOps
6 58 (17.74%) Analytics
7 57 (17.43%) Microservices
8 53 (16.21%) CI/CD
9 50 (15.29%) Computer Science
10 47 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (12.84%) Data Migration
12 41 (12.54%) Requirements Gathering
13 39 (11.93%) ETL
14 35 (10.70%) Data Architecture
14 35 (10.70%) Data Governance
15 34 (10.40%) Design Patterns
16 30 (9.17%) Accounts Payable
16 30 (9.17%) Change Management
16 30 (9.17%) Requirements Workshops
16 30 (9.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 78 (23.85%) Python
2 70 (21.41%) Java
3 64 (19.57%) SQL
4 31 (9.48%) JavaScript
5 19 (5.81%) C++
6 18 (5.50%) Shell Script
7 14 (4.28%) Kotlin
7 14 (4.28%) Scala
8 13 (3.98%) C#
8 13 (3.98%) TypeScript
9 12 (3.67%) Go
10 10 (3.06%) Perl
11 9 (2.75%) C
11 9 (2.75%) R
12 7 (2.14%) Bash
13 6 (1.83%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.53%) COBOL
15 4 (1.22%) ABAP
15 4 (1.22%) JCL
15 4 (1.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 60 (18.35%) Degree
2 28 (8.56%) SC Cleared
2 28 (8.56%) Security Cleared
3 27 (8.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.53%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.22%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.92%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.31%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.31%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (15.29%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.50%) GDPR
3 16 (4.89%) QA
4 5 (1.53%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.31%) MiFID
5 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (8.26%) Docker
2 8 (2.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 4 (1.22%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (12.84%) Kubernetes
2 19 (5.81%) Prometheus
3 14 (4.28%) Grafana
4 9 (2.75%) Terraform
5 8 (2.45%) Consul
6 6 (1.83%) Ansible
6 6 (1.83%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (1.83%) Kibana
6 6 (1.83%) logstash
6 6 (1.83%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.83%) Puppet
7 5 (1.53%) Zipkin
8 4 (1.22%) Data Guard
8 4 (1.22%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.31%) Argo
9 1 (0.31%) Istio
9 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (26.91%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.17%) SAP
3 17 (5.20%) NetApp
4 15 (4.59%) Oracle
5 12 (3.67%) Splunk
6 10 (3.06%) Ariba
7 8 (2.45%) Databricks
7 8 (2.45%) SaltStack
8 7 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.53%) Autodesk
9 5 (1.53%) Google
9 5 (1.53%) IBM
9 5 (1.53%) ION Trading
9 5 (1.53%) Lotus
9 5 (1.53%) New Relic
10 4 (1.22%) Sparx
11 3 (0.92%) Facebook
11 3 (0.92%) Instagram
11 3 (0.92%) Twitter
11 3 (0.92%) YouTube