Data Structures Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Structures
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 203 316
Rank change year-on-year +25 +113 -55
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 126 149 160
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.27% 0.97% 0.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.84% 3.39% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 100 113
10th Percentile £332 £400 £413
25th Percentile £434 £477 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £628 £700 £706
90th Percentile £738 £739 £863
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,280 4,396 8,091
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.12% 28.70% 31.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,230 2,971 5,690
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 199 153
10th Percentile £18.80 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £30.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.61% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.52 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.28 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.58% +33.42% -18.24%

Data Structures
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Structures as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Structures trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Structures
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Structures.

Data Structures daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Structures over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Data Structures daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Structures
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Structures.

Data Structures hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (4.76%) Confluence
2 3 (2.38%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.59%) Apache
3 2 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.79%) Mattermost
4 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.79%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle iRecruitment
3 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (11.11%) AWS
1 14 (11.11%) Azure
2 9 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 6 (4.76%) Amazon S3
3 6 (4.76%) GCP
4 5 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (3.97%) GitHub
5 4 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.17%) Serverless
5 4 (3.17%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.38%) Amazon Cognito
6 3 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.59%) Firebase
7 2 (1.59%) Vertex AI
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.79%) OVHcloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) HTTP
2 2 (1.59%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (1.59%) SSH
3 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.79%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (29.37%) Relational Database
2 31 (24.60%) DB2
2 31 (24.60%) MongoDB
3 13 (10.32%) NoSQL
4 10 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (6.35%) Power BI
6 6 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (3.97%) MySQL
7 5 (3.97%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (3.97%) Tableau
8 4 (3.17%) DynamoDB
8 4 (3.17%) Metadata
8 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.17%) Star Schema
9 3 (2.38%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 34 (26.98%) JUnit
2 13 (10.32%) Git
3 9 (7.14%) JIRA
4 5 (3.97%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.97%) Postman
4 5 (3.97%) Selenium
5 4 (3.17%) ERwin
6 3 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.38%) CA Release Automation
6 3 (2.38%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.38%) GitLab
6 3 (2.38%) Gradle
6 3 (2.38%) HP UFT
6 3 (2.38%) IntelliJ
6 3 (2.38%) Maven
6 3 (2.38%) Mocha
6 3 (2.38%) NetBeans
6 3 (2.38%) Subversion
6 3 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.59%) PowerDesigner
General
1 59 (46.83%) Social Skills
2 54 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (36.51%) Finance
4 24 (19.05%) Banking
5 23 (18.25%) Investment Banking
6 13 (10.32%) Front Office
7 4 (3.17%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.38%) Law
9 2 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.59%) Marketing
9 2 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.59%) Retail
10 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.79%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 54 (42.86%) Developer
2 39 (30.95%) Java Developer
3 19 (15.08%) SQL Developer
4 18 (14.29%) Analyst
4 18 (14.29%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 17 (13.49%) Senior
6 14 (11.11%) Linux Developer
7 13 (10.32%) Senior Developer
8 12 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (8.73%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
9 11 (8.73%) Senior SQL Developer
10 10 (7.94%) Architect
11 9 (7.14%) Data Analyst
12 8 (6.35%) Consultant
13 7 (5.56%) Business Analyst
13 7 (5.56%) Data Architect
13 7 (5.56%) Data Engineer
13 7 (5.56%) Software Engineer
13 7 (5.56%) Sybase Developer
14 5 (3.97%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (27.78%) Spring
2 33 (26.19%) Kafka
3 25 (19.84%) JMS
4 8 (6.35%) CSS
4 8 (6.35%) HTML
4 8 (6.35%) REST
5 7 (5.56%) React
6 6 (4.76%) Node.js
6 6 (4.76%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.97%) HTML5
7 5 (3.97%) JSON
8 4 (3.17%) AngularJS
8 4 (3.17%) J2EE
8 4 (3.17%) SOAP
8 4 (3.17%) Vue
8 4 (3.17%) WebSockets
9 3 (2.38%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.38%) Hibernate
9 3 (2.38%) Spring Integration
9 3 (2.38%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.63%) Equities
2 18 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.97%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.17%) Derivative
5 4 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.17%) Hedge funds
6 3 (2.38%) Clustering
6 3 (2.38%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.38%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.38%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.38%) Vector Graphics
7 2 (1.59%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.59%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.59%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.59%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (35.71%) Linux
2 5 (3.97%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) Android
3 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.79%) VMS
3 1 (0.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (50.79%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (46.83%) Agile
3 36 (28.57%) SDLC
4 32 (25.40%) Multithreading
4 32 (25.40%) Performance Tuning
5 31 (24.60%) Data Modelling
6 28 (22.22%) Open Source
7 26 (20.63%) Database Tuning
8 23 (18.25%) Software Engineering
9 20 (15.87%) Data Analysis
10 19 (15.08%) ETL
11 15 (11.90%) CI/CD
11 15 (11.90%) Computer Science
12 13 (10.32%) Analytics
13 12 (9.52%) Migration
13 12 (9.52%) Translating Business Requirements
14 11 (8.73%) Artificial Intelligence
14 11 (8.73%) Data Integration
14 11 (8.73%) Data Management
14 11 (8.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 72 (57.14%) SQL
2 50 (39.68%) Java
3 46 (36.51%) Python
4 29 (23.02%) Shell Script
5 12 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.76%) C++
7 3 (2.38%) ABAP
7 3 (2.38%) Bash
7 3 (2.38%) C#
7 3 (2.38%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.59%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.79%) R
9 1 (0.79%) Scala
9 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.73%) Degree
2 8 (6.35%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 6 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.35%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (3.17%) QA
4 3 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.38%) GDPR
4 3 (2.38%) NIST
5 1 (0.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (3.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.17%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.17%) Progress Chef
2 3 (2.38%) Ansible
2 3 (2.38%) Puppet
3 1 (0.79%) Cobbler
3 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (23.81%) Sybase
2 9 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.35%) Oracle
4 6 (4.76%) SAP
5 5 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.38%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (2.38%) Talend
7 2 (1.59%) Databricks
7 2 (1.59%) Google
7 2 (1.59%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.59%) Sparx
8 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.79%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.79%) Foundry
8 1 (0.79%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.79%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.79%) Palantir
8 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.79%) Splunk
8 1 (0.79%) Zuora