Data Structures Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Structures
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 87 107
Rank change year-on-year +5 +20 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 24 26 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.61% 1.27% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.64% 4.06% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 13
10th Percentile £449 £428 £434
25th Percentile £488 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% -11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £688 £638
90th Percentile - £707 £745
England median daily rate £540 £588 £590
% change year-on-year -8.09% -0.42% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £40.25 -
England median hourly rate £41.00 £40.50 £79.19
% change year-on-year +1.23% -48.86% +295.95%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 517 640 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.77% 31.19% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 394 477
10th Percentile £203 £263 £281
25th Percentile £400 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £626
90th Percentile £650 £750 £701
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 45 23
10th Percentile £18.87 £10.42 £18.60
25th Percentile £29.00 £14.71 £21.83
Median hourly rate £33.91 £22.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.71% -18.18% +58.50%
75th Percentile £50.00 £40.50 £36.88
90th Percentile - £58.75 £56.75
England median hourly rate £32.81 £37.00 £23.33
% change year-on-year -11.32% +58.63% -11.98%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in the West Midlands

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in the West Midlands

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in the West Midlands

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in the West Midlands

Data Structures
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Warwickshire +3 15 £500 -23.08% 3
Birmingham +1 4 £525 +10.53% 24
Shropshire - 4 £449 - 9
Coventry - 1 £450 - 2
Data Structures
England

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Maya
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.33%) NUKE
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
1 2 (8.33%) SaaS
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Metadata
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
1 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Pentaho
2 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.17%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Ant
1 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
1 1 (4.17%) ER Studio
1 1 (4.17%) ERwin
1 1 (4.17%) Gradle
1 1 (4.17%) JUnit
1 1 (4.17%) Maven
1 1 (4.17%) Mockito
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 12 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Automotive
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.17%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Architect
4 4 (16.67%) Applications Architect
4 4 (16.67%) Test Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Developer
5 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Business Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Business Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Business Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Data Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Data Modeller
6 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Project Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
6 1 (4.17%) SIEM Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Workday Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) J2EE
1 1 (4.17%) RESTful
1 1 (4.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Blockchain
1 4 (16.67%) IoT
2 3 (12.50%) Operational Technology
3 2 (8.33%) Animation
3 2 (8.33%) CMDB
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Migration
2 10 (41.67%) Agile
2 10 (41.67%) Data Modelling
3 9 (37.50%) Data Analysis
4 8 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (25.00%) Business Analysis
5 6 (25.00%) Business Process Modelling
5 6 (25.00%) Change Control
5 6 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 6 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 6 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 5 (20.83%) Change Management
7 4 (16.67%) Data Management
7 4 (16.67%) DevOps
7 4 (16.67%) Machine Learning
7 4 (16.67%) Microservices
7 4 (16.67%) SOA
7 4 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.33%) SQL
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) R
3 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 4 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Denodo
2 2 (8.33%) OpenText
2 2 (8.33%) Workday
3 1 (4.17%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Sybase