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 22 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 339 351
Rank change year-on-year -25 +12 -103
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 273 423 350
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 0.84% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.46% 2.26% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 154 161 295
10th Percentile £45,257 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -12.61%
75th Percentile £85,938 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £132,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 18,731 18,731 16,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.15% 37.21% 38.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,461 9,100 12,255
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,613 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,055 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,450
% change year-on-year -8.33% -3.92% -3.92%

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +55 167 £75,000 -18.92% 193
North of England +22 37 £75,000 +30.43% 139
Midlands +34 27 £50,500 -15.83% 113
North West +35 18 £70,000 +12.45% 61
Yorkshire -6 18 £76,250 +205.00% 62
East Midlands +9 16 £49,250 -24.23% 48
South East +17 14 £65,000 +52.94% 191
West Midlands +31 11 £56,250 -6.25% 59
East of England +15 8 £45,000 -50.00% 115
South West -111 5 £39,743 -43.23% 66
North East +8 1 - - 16
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 6 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.83%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.83%) CMS
2 5 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.73%) Apache
3 2 (0.73%) Luigi
3 2 (0.73%) Mendix
4 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 29 (10.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.10%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.37%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.37%) Blender
5 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 8 (2.93%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.83%) PeopleSoft Financials
2 5 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.10%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (1.10%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.73%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.73%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.73%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.37%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.37%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.37%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 51 (18.68%) Power Platform
2 48 (17.58%) AWS
3 43 (15.75%) Azure
4 23 (8.42%) GitHub
5 21 (7.69%) GCP
6 19 (6.96%) Serverless
7 8 (2.93%) SaaS
8 7 (2.56%) Boomi
8 7 (2.56%) Power Automate
9 6 (2.20%) Snowflake
10 5 (1.83%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.47%) Firebase
11 4 (1.47%) Google Analytics
11 4 (1.47%) Slack
11 4 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (1.47%) Zapier
12 3 (1.10%) PowerApps
13 2 (0.73%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.10%) Network Security
2 1 (0.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (18.68%) Power BI
2 29 (10.62%) NoSQL
3 23 (8.42%) SQL Server
4 18 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (5.49%) Data Lake
6 13 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (4.40%) Relational Database
7 12 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (4.40%) Tableau
8 11 (4.03%) BigQuery
8 11 (4.03%) Metadata
9 8 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (2.56%) Redis
11 6 (2.20%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.83%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (1.83%) Couchbase
12 5 (1.83%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (7.69%) Git
2 11 (4.03%) ERwin
2 11 (4.03%) Postman
3 3 (1.10%) JIRA
4 2 (0.73%) JConsole
4 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.73%) VisualVM
4 2 (0.73%) Xcode
5 1 (0.37%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.37%) MLflow
5 1 (0.37%) Storybook
General
1 93 (34.07%) Social Skills
2 80 (29.30%) Finance
3 57 (20.88%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.89%) Front Office
5 25 (9.16%) Law
6 19 (6.96%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.76%) Retail
8 12 (4.40%) Banking
9 10 (3.66%) Investment Banking
10 9 (3.30%) Marketing
11 6 (2.20%) Legal
12 5 (1.83%) Publishing
13 3 (1.10%) Health Technology
13 3 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.37%) Digital Economy
15 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 86 (31.50%) Developer
2 58 (21.25%) Analyst
3 53 (19.41%) Senior
4 35 (12.82%) Python Developer
4 35 (12.82%) Senior Developer
5 31 (11.36%) Lead
6 24 (8.79%) C++ Developer
6 24 (8.79%) Software Engineer
7 22 (8.06%) Senior Python Developer
8 21 (7.69%) Quantitative Developer
9 20 (7.33%) Data Analyst
10 19 (6.96%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 18 (6.59%) Architect
11 18 (6.59%) Linux Developer
11 18 (6.59%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 18 (6.59%) Senior C++ Developer
11 18 (6.59%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
11 18 (6.59%) Senior Quantitative Developer
12 16 (5.86%) Data Architect
13 15 (5.49%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.72%) Django
2 27 (9.89%) Flask
3 25 (9.16%) FastAPI
4 21 (7.69%) React
5 20 (7.33%) CSS
5 20 (7.33%) HTML
6 19 (6.96%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 19 (6.96%) Kafka
7 15 (5.49%) REST
7 15 (5.49%) Vue
8 13 (4.76%) RESTful
9 11 (4.03%) JSON
10 8 (2.93%) .NET
10 8 (2.93%) OpenAPI
10 8 (2.93%) Swagger
10 8 (2.93%) Web Services
11 6 (2.20%) OAuth
11 6 (2.20%) SwiftUI
12 5 (1.83%) Memcached
12 5 (1.83%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 56 (20.51%) Algorithms
2 33 (12.09%) Management Information System
3 28 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (9.89%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (8.06%) Hedge funds
6 19 (6.96%) Equities
7 12 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (3.30%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.93%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.93%) Low-Code
9 8 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.56%) Client/Server
11 6 (2.20%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.83%) Onboarding
13 4 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.47%) Derivative
13 4 (1.47%) PKI
14 3 (1.10%) Blockchain
14 3 (1.10%) FMCG
14 3 (1.10%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.06%) Linux
2 7 (2.56%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.10%) Android
4 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (20.88%) Agile
3 55 (20.15%) Data Modelling
4 54 (19.78%) Business Intelligence
4 54 (19.78%) OOP
5 53 (19.41%) Analytics
6 51 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 49 (17.95%) Computer Science
8 47 (17.22%) Data Analysis
9 46 (16.85%) AI
9 46 (16.85%) CI/CD
10 44 (16.12%) Mentoring
11 41 (15.02%) Software Engineering
12 37 (13.55%) Mathematics
13 36 (13.19%) Data Governance
13 36 (13.19%) ETL
14 35 (12.82%) OO
15 32 (11.72%) Data Integration
15 32 (11.72%) Microservices
16 31 (11.36%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 131 (47.99%) Python
2 122 (44.69%) SQL
3 33 (12.09%) C++
3 33 (12.09%) JavaScript
4 24 (8.79%) Java
5 11 (4.03%) Scala
6 10 (3.66%) T-SQL
7 9 (3.30%) C#
8 7 (2.56%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.20%) Swift
9 6 (2.20%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.47%) Go
10 4 (1.47%) VBA
11 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.73%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.37%) ABAP
12 1 (0.37%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.37%) PHP
12 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (26.74%) Degree
2 25 (9.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 17 (6.23%) Security Cleared
4 13 (4.76%) Master's Degree
5 11 (4.03%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.56%) PhD
7 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.10%) ACCA
8 3 (1.10%) CIMA
8 3 (1.10%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.73%) HNC
9 2 (0.73%) HND
9 2 (0.73%) MCSA
9 2 (0.73%) MCSE
9 2 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.37%) IIBA
10 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (11.72%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.96%) GDPR
3 12 (4.40%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.47%) QA
5 1 (0.37%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.37%) NIST
5 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (8.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (6.59%) Terraform
2 7 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.73%) Ansible
3 2 (0.73%) logstash
3 2 (0.73%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.73%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.73%) Puppet
4 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 40 (14.65%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.86%) Salesforce
3 14 (5.13%) Google
4 12 (4.40%) Oracle
5 11 (4.03%) SAP
6 10 (3.66%) Foundry
7 9 (3.30%) Intapp
7 9 (3.30%) Palantir
8 7 (2.56%) Workday
9 5 (1.83%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (1.83%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.47%) Databricks
10 4 (1.47%) Facebook
10 4 (1.47%) HubSpot
11 3 (1.10%) Talend
11 3 (1.10%) Temenos
12 2 (0.73%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.73%) IBM
12 2 (0.73%) Informatica
12 2 (0.73%) MuleSoft