Data Structures Job Trends in the City of London

Data Structures
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in permanent job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 132 134
Rank change year-on-year +34 +2 +65
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 28 37 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.34% 1.36% 1.26%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.79% 3.22% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 18 15 36
10th Percentile £57,250 £34,500 £70,000
25th Percentile £73,438 £70,625 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £92,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% - +12.12%
75th Percentile £139,375 £123,750 £110,000
90th Percentile £170,000 - £122,500
Central London median annual salary £107,500 £92,500 £92,500
% change year-on-year +16.22% - +8.82%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 738 1,149 954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 35.21% 42.35% 33.52%
Number of salaries quoted 572 712 847
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,085
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £115,000 £122,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -3.23%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Structures relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Structures job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Structures
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Structures.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Structures

Data Structures
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Structures in the City of London

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 2 (7.14%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (3.57%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) AWS
3 8 (28.57%) GCP
4 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 2 (7.14%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) BigQuery
1 6 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.71%) Power BI
3 2 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.14%) Power Query
4 1 (3.57%) KDB
4 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.57%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) ERwin
2 1 (3.57%) Eclipse
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Front Office
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Billing
4 1 (3.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Lead
2 6 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Data Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Lead Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Lead Data Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Principal Software Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Data Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.57%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.57%) C++ Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Quantitative Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Django
2 5 (17.86%) Kafka
3 3 (10.71%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (10.71%) Java Concurrency
3 3 (10.71%) RESTful
4 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.57%) .NET
5 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 16 (57.14%) Algorithms
2 9 (32.14%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (21.43%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (14.29%) Blockchain
5 3 (10.71%) Cloud Native
5 3 (10.71%) Derivative
6 1 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (3.57%) Hedge funds
6 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.57%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 12 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 10 (35.71%) Data Science
4 9 (32.14%) Coaching
4 9 (32.14%) Microservices
5 8 (28.57%) Data Modelling
6 7 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (25.00%) Data Analysis
6 7 (25.00%) Data Governance
6 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 7 (25.00%) Software Architecture
6 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (21.43%) AI
7 6 (21.43%) Analytics
7 6 (21.43%) Data Architecture
7 6 (21.43%) Machine Learning
8 5 (17.86%) Agile
8 5 (17.86%) Data Security
8 5 (17.86%) DevOps
8 5 (17.86%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) Java
2 5 (17.86%) SQL
3 2 (7.14%) C++
3 2 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (7.14%) Scala
4 1 (3.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Degree
2 10 (35.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (14.29%) PhD
3 4 (14.29%) Postgraduate
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Ansible
1 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
1 2 (7.14%) Puppet
2 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Google
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) SAP
3 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.57%) Workday