Data Structures Job Trends in England

Data Structures
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 352 316
Rank change year-on-year -41 -36 +4
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 407 342 626
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.78% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.71% 1.86% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 270 127 231
10th Percentile £42,375 £40,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,563 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,510 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,125 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £127,500
UK median annual salary £68,255 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.49% - +7.69%

All Generic Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 23,832 18,386 24,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.76% 42.18% 33.03%
Number of salaries quoted 15,650 9,298 14,893
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,443 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.97% -3.58% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.16%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Data Structures job vacancy trend in England

Data Structures
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Structures.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Structures

Data Structures
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in England over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Structures in England

Data Structures
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Structures within the England region over the 6 months to 5 August 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -8 214 £85,000 -0.58% 245
North of England +5 71 £55,000 -21.43% 34
South East -34 55 £62,500 +25.00% 44
North West +8 29 £60,000 -7.69% 14
Yorkshire -11 25 £55,000 -29.03% 14
Midlands -50 22 £47,121 -2.84% 25
East of England -22 18 £37,500 -42.31% 15
North East -40 17 £55,000 -52.17% 6
South West -76 17 £70,000 +33.33% 14
West Midlands -33 15 £50,000 -1.96% 13
East Midlands -38 7 £44,241 -8.78% 12
Data Structures
UK

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 20 (4.91%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.93%) Apache
2 16 (3.93%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.70%) Jupyter
4 9 (2.21%) SAS
4 9 (2.21%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.47%) Confluence
5 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.23%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (8.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (1.23%) SAP SCM
5 5 (1.23%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.74%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.74%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.49%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.49%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.49%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.49%) Misys Opics
7 2 (0.49%) Shopify
8 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.25%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 101 (24.82%) AWS
2 92 (22.60%) Azure
3 91 (22.36%) Power Platform
4 45 (11.06%) GCP
5 26 (6.39%) Amazon S3
6 23 (5.65%) Dynamics 365
6 23 (5.65%) SaaS
7 22 (5.41%) PowerApps
8 20 (4.91%) dbt
9 19 (4.67%) Entra ID
9 19 (4.67%) Power Automate
10 17 (4.18%) Snowflake
11 14 (3.44%) Serverless
12 13 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (2.95%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (2.46%) GitHub
16 9 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (2.21%) Intacct
16 9 (2.21%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.42%) Broadband
2 3 (0.74%) Intranet
3 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (18.67%) Power BI
2 30 (7.37%) Data Lake
3 29 (7.13%) Tableau
4 27 (6.63%) BigQuery
5 23 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (5.65%) Relational Database
6 22 (5.41%) Metadata
7 18 (4.42%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (4.42%) Data Vault
8 15 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (3.69%) SQL Server
9 14 (3.44%) Star Schema
10 13 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (2.95%) SAP BW
11 12 (2.95%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (2.46%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (2.21%) DynamoDB
13 9 (2.21%) MySQL
13 9 (2.21%) NoSQL
14 7 (1.72%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (6.14%) Git
2 9 (2.21%) GitLab
3 8 (1.97%) ERwin
3 8 (1.97%) JIRA
4 6 (1.47%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.74%) Postman
6 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.49%) MLflow
7 1 (0.25%) CMake
7 1 (0.25%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.25%) Maven
7 1 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.25%) Toad
7 1 (0.25%) utPLSQL
7 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 166 (40.79%) Finance
2 158 (38.82%) Social Skills
3 74 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.13%) Law
5 26 (6.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.91%) Banking
7 19 (4.67%) Legal
7 19 (4.67%) Retail
8 17 (4.18%) Front Office
9 15 (3.69%) Billing
10 14 (3.44%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.70%) Marketing
12 9 (2.21%) Public Sector
12 9 (2.21%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.72%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.47%) General Ledger
14 6 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.23%) German Language
15 5 (1.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 95 (23.34%) Analyst
2 90 (22.11%) Senior
3 65 (15.97%) Developer
4 45 (11.06%) Consultant
5 41 (10.07%) Software Engineer
6 34 (8.35%) Senior Developer
7 32 (7.86%) Architect
7 32 (7.86%) Data Analyst
8 28 (6.88%) Administrator
9 26 (6.39%) Systems Analyst
10 25 (6.14%) Data Architect
11 24 (5.90%) Data Engineer
12 23 (5.65%) Systems Administrator
13 20 (4.91%) Python Developer
14 18 (4.42%) Data Consultant
15 17 (4.18%) Backend Developer
16 15 (3.69%) C++ Developer
16 15 (3.69%) Senior Backend Developer
16 15 (3.69%) Senior C++ Developer
16 15 (3.69%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.67%) Kafka
1 19 (4.67%) REST
2 18 (4.42%) JSON
2 18 (4.42%) React
3 17 (4.18%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 16 (3.93%) Django
4 16 (3.93%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (3.93%) RESTful
5 15 (3.69%) PySpark
5 15 (3.69%) XML
6 12 (2.95%) .NET
7 9 (2.21%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (2.21%) Flask
8 7 (1.72%) FastAPI
8 7 (1.72%) FpML
8 7 (1.72%) Middleware
8 7 (1.72%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.72%) Vue
8 7 (1.72%) XML Schema
9 6 (1.47%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 86 (21.13%) Algorithms
2 41 (10.07%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (7.86%) Management Information System
4 19 (4.67%) Hedge funds
5 18 (4.42%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.42%) Social Media
6 15 (3.69%) Cloud Native
6 15 (3.69%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (3.44%) Equities
8 11 (2.70%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.97%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.72%) e-Learning
11 6 (1.47%) Anti-Piracy
12 5 (1.23%) PKI
12 5 (1.23%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.98%) Clustering
13 4 (0.98%) Credit Risk
13 4 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.65%) Linux
2 8 (1.97%) Windows
3 3 (0.74%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (29.73%) Data Modelling
2 111 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (25.80%) Analytics
4 95 (23.34%) Business Intelligence
5 85 (20.88%) Agile
6 84 (20.64%) Software Engineering
7 76 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (16.95%) Data Engineering
8 69 (16.95%) Decision-Making
9 66 (16.22%) AI
10 64 (15.72%) Computer Science
11 62 (15.23%) Data Governance
11 62 (15.23%) Data Pipeline
12 61 (14.99%) CI/CD
12 61 (14.99%) ERP
13 58 (14.25%) Validation
14 53 (13.02%) Stakeholder Management
15 50 (12.29%) DevOps
16 49 (12.04%) Data Architecture
17 48 (11.79%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 165 (40.54%) Python
2 163 (40.05%) SQL
3 46 (11.30%) C++
4 42 (10.32%) Java
5 27 (6.63%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.91%) Rust
7 16 (3.93%) C#
8 14 (3.44%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.95%) Go
10 10 (2.46%) Scala
10 10 (2.46%) T-SQL
11 7 (1.72%) C
11 7 (1.72%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.47%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.98%) R
15 3 (0.74%) Bash
15 3 (0.74%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.74%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 80 (19.66%) Degree
2 41 (10.07%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (6.14%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.42%) ACCA
5 18 (4.42%) CIMA
6 10 (2.46%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.47%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.98%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.74%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.74%) HND
10 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.74%) PhD
10 3 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (20.39%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.67%) GDPR
3 16 (3.93%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.93%) QA
4 4 (0.98%) IFRS
4 4 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.74%) CDISC
5 3 (0.74%) GAAP
5 3 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 32 (7.86%) Docker
2 14 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.49%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (5.41%) Terraform
2 20 (4.91%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.23%) Ansible
4 4 (0.98%) Packer
5 3 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.25%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 58 (14.25%) Microsoft
2 48 (11.79%) SAP
3 43 (10.57%) Oracle
4 21 (5.16%) Sage
5 20 (4.91%) Google
6 15 (3.69%) Databricks
7 13 (3.19%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.70%) Workday
9 7 (1.72%) Sparx
10 6 (1.47%) Foundry
11 5 (1.23%) Palantir
12 4 (0.98%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.98%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.74%) Avaya
13 3 (0.74%) Cisco
13 3 (0.74%) Genesys
13 3 (0.74%) Informatica
13 3 (0.74%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.74%) Talend
13 3 (0.74%) TOWER Software