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 24 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 359 316
Rank change year-on-year -22 -43 -6
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 404 324 671
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.75% 0.84%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.77% 1.79% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 264 128 275
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,625 £41,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £93,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £125,000 £116,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

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 22,787 18,129 26,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.57% 41.90% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,055 9,125 17,121
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,346
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,490 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.75% +3.64% -14.73%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +23 220 £85,000 -0.58% 145
North of England +5 66 £55,000 -20.00% 39
South East -21 57 £60,000 +20.00% 32
North West +2 27 £60,000 +4.35% 18
Yorkshire -9 24 £56,250 -27.42% 14
East of England -8 19 £37,500 -42.31% 7
Midlands -49 17 £42,500 -12.37% 14
North East -35 15 £55,000 -52.17% 7
South West -78 15 £75,000 +42.86% 10
West Midlands -33 14 £46,500 +44.19% 7
East Midlands -41 3 £42,500 -12.37% 7
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 19 (4.70%) Apache Spark
2 16 (3.96%) Apache
3 15 (3.71%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.48%) Jupyter
4 10 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (2.23%) SAS
5 9 (2.23%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.49%) Confluence
7 5 (1.24%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (8.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.73%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (1.24%) NetSuite
5 5 (1.24%) SAP SCM
6 3 (0.74%) FLEXCUBE
6 3 (0.74%) Misys Opics
6 3 (0.74%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.74%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.50%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.50%) Shopify
8 1 (0.25%) FastStats
8 1 (0.25%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.25%) Magento
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle iProcurement
8 1 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 101 (25.00%) AWS
2 99 (24.50%) Azure
3 93 (23.02%) Power Platform
4 47 (11.63%) GCP
5 28 (6.93%) SaaS
6 26 (6.44%) Amazon S3
7 23 (5.69%) Entra ID
8 21 (5.20%) PowerApps
9 20 (4.95%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (4.70%) dbt
10 19 (4.70%) Power Automate
11 16 (3.96%) Snowflake
12 14 (3.47%) Serverless
13 12 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (2.72%) Amazon EMR
15 10 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (2.23%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (2.23%) GitHub
16 9 (2.23%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.46%) Broadband
2 3 (0.74%) Intranet
3 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (19.55%) Power BI
2 31 (7.67%) Data Lake
2 31 (7.67%) Tableau
3 29 (7.18%) BigQuery
4 27 (6.68%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (5.45%) Relational Database
6 19 (4.70%) Metadata
7 18 (4.46%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (4.46%) SQL Server
8 17 (4.21%) Data Vault
9 15 (3.71%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (3.47%) Star Schema
11 13 (3.22%) MySQL
12 12 (2.97%) SAP BW
12 12 (2.97%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (2.72%) Oracle Reports
14 9 (2.23%) NoSQL
14 9 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 8 (1.98%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (5.69%) Git
2 8 (1.98%) ERwin
2 8 (1.98%) GitLab
2 8 (1.98%) JIRA
3 6 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.24%) Postman
5 3 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.50%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.50%) MLflow
7 1 (0.25%) CMake
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 (41.09%) Finance
2 156 (38.61%) Social Skills
3 70 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.17%) Law
5 21 (5.20%) Banking
6 20 (4.95%) Front Office
6 20 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (4.70%) Retail
8 18 (4.46%) Legal
9 15 (3.71%) Billing
10 13 (3.22%) Marketing
11 12 (2.97%) Financial Institution
12 11 (2.72%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.48%) Public Sector
14 9 (2.23%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.73%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.49%) General Ledger
16 6 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (1.24%) German Language
17 5 (1.24%) Military
Job Titles
1 96 (23.76%) Analyst
2 89 (22.03%) Senior
3 66 (16.34%) Developer
4 43 (10.64%) Consultant
5 40 (9.90%) Data Analyst
6 38 (9.41%) Software Engineer
7 37 (9.16%) Senior Developer
8 30 (7.43%) Architect
9 28 (6.93%) Administrator
10 24 (5.94%) Data Engineer
11 23 (5.69%) Systems Administrator
11 23 (5.69%) Systems Analyst
12 22 (5.45%) Data Architect
12 22 (5.45%) Python Developer
13 18 (4.46%) Data Consultant
14 17 (4.21%) Backend Developer
14 17 (4.21%) C++ Developer
14 17 (4.21%) Lead
14 17 (4.21%) Senior C++ Developer
14 17 (4.21%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.69%) JSON
2 21 (5.20%) REST
3 19 (4.70%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 19 (4.70%) Kafka
3 19 (4.70%) RESTful
3 19 (4.70%) XML
4 18 (4.46%) Django
5 16 (3.96%) Oracle Fusion
6 15 (3.71%) PySpark
6 15 (3.71%) React
7 9 (2.23%) .NET
7 9 (2.23%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (2.23%) Flask
8 7 (1.73%) FastAPI
8 7 (1.73%) FpML
8 7 (1.73%) Middleware
8 7 (1.73%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.73%) XML Schema
9 6 (1.49%) CSS
9 6 (1.49%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 87 (21.53%) Algorithms
2 43 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (7.43%) Management Information System
4 21 (5.20%) Hedge funds
5 19 (4.70%) Greenfield Project
5 19 (4.70%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.46%) Social Media
7 16 (3.96%) Cloud Native
7 16 (3.96%) Equities
8 11 (2.72%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.98%) Client/Server
9 8 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.73%) e-Learning
11 6 (1.49%) Anti-Piracy
12 5 (1.24%) PKI
12 5 (1.24%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.24%) Taxonomies
13 4 (0.99%) Credit Risk
13 4 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.94%) Linux
2 7 (1.73%) Windows
3 2 (0.50%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (30.69%) Data Modelling
2 101 (25.00%) Analytics
3 100 (24.75%) Business Intelligence
4 97 (24.01%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (20.79%) Agile
5 84 (20.79%) Software Engineering
6 74 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 70 (17.33%) Data Engineering
8 67 (16.58%) Decision-Making
9 66 (16.34%) AI
10 64 (15.84%) Computer Science
11 62 (15.35%) ERP
11 62 (15.35%) Validation
12 59 (14.60%) Data Pipeline
13 58 (14.36%) Data Governance
14 57 (14.11%) CI/CD
15 49 (12.13%) DevOps
15 49 (12.13%) ETL
16 48 (11.88%) Data Analysis
16 48 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 175 (43.32%) Python
2 171 (42.33%) SQL
3 47 (11.63%) C++
4 41 (10.15%) Java
5 26 (6.44%) JavaScript
6 19 (4.70%) Rust
7 13 (3.22%) T-SQL
7 13 (3.22%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.72%) C#
9 10 (2.48%) Go
9 10 (2.48%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.48%) Scala
10 8 (1.98%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.49%) C
12 5 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.99%) R
14 3 (0.74%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.74%) VBA
15 2 (0.50%) Bash
15 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 79 (19.55%) Degree
2 38 (9.41%) Security Cleared
3 33 (8.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (5.69%) SC Cleared
5 20 (4.95%) ACCA
5 20 (4.95%) CIMA
6 9 (2.23%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.74%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.74%) HND
9 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.50%) PhD
11 1 (0.25%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (21.04%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.21%) GDPR
3 16 (3.96%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.96%) QA
4 9 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.99%) IFRS
5 4 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.74%) CDISC
6 3 (0.74%) GAAP
6 3 (0.74%) GRC
7 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.25%) MiFID
8 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (7.18%) Docker
2 18 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 21 (5.20%) Terraform
2 20 (4.95%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.24%) Ansible
4 4 (0.99%) Packer
5 3 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.25%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 57 (14.11%) Microsoft
2 45 (11.14%) SAP
3 43 (10.64%) Oracle
4 22 (5.45%) Google
5 21 (5.20%) Sage
6 16 (3.96%) Salesforce
7 15 (3.71%) Databricks
8 9 (2.23%) Workday
9 7 (1.73%) Sparx
10 6 (1.49%) Foundry
11 5 (1.24%) Palantir
11 5 (1.24%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.99%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.99%) Informatica
12 4 (0.99%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.99%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.99%) Talend
13 3 (0.74%) Avaya
13 3 (0.74%) Cisco
13 3 (0.74%) TOWER Software