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 30 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 370 280
Rank change year-on-year +13 -90 +10
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 389 284 857
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.73% 0.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.72% 1.70% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 242 112 431
10th Percentile £42,043 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,996 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% +1.42% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,996 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.12% +1.42% +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 22,631 16,710 29,909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.22% 43.19% 34.10%
Number of salaries quoted 13,154 7,938 20,900
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,857 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.24% +8.83% -15.38%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +61 237 £85,000 -6.08% 99
North of England -22 57 £57,500 -11.54% 26
Yorkshire -14 35 £63,005 -17.10% 7
South East -36 33 £56,000 +12.00% 36
East of England -4 21 £62,000 -10.14% 6
Midlands -49 14 £42,500 -12.37% 16
North West -6 12 £46,250 -11.90% 13
South West -83 11 £62,500 -10.71% 17
North East -36 10 £57,500 -50.00% 7
West Midlands -38 9 £42,750 -22.27% 10
East Midlands -30 5 £42,500 -12.37% 6
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 13 (3.34%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.31%) Apache
4 8 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.80%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (1.54%) Confluence
6 6 (1.54%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.77%) Oracle Application Server
7 3 (0.77%) SAS
7 3 (0.77%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 29 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (3.08%) NetSuite
1 12 (3.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (1.54%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.77%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.77%) FLEXCUBE
5 3 (0.77%) Misys Opics
5 3 (0.77%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.51%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.51%) Shopify
6 2 (0.51%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.26%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.26%) Magento
7 1 (0.26%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.26%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.26%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.26%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.26%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 112 (28.79%) Azure
2 101 (25.96%) AWS
3 69 (17.74%) Power Platform
4 48 (12.34%) GCP
5 19 (4.88%) Entra ID
6 18 (4.63%) Amazon S3
7 17 (4.37%) SaaS
7 17 (4.37%) Serverless
8 15 (3.86%) dbt
8 15 (3.86%) GitHub
9 14 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (3.34%) Power Automate
10 13 (3.34%) PowerApps
11 12 (3.08%) Snowflake
12 10 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (2.06%) Boomi
14 8 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.63%) Broadband
2 3 (0.77%) Network Security
3 2 (0.51%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (15.42%) Power BI
2 38 (9.77%) BigQuery
3 31 (7.97%) Metadata
4 30 (7.71%) Tableau
5 26 (6.68%) Data Lake
6 25 (6.43%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (5.91%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (5.14%) SQL Server
9 19 (4.88%) NoSQL
10 18 (4.63%) Relational Database
11 17 (4.37%) DynamoDB
12 15 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
13 13 (3.34%) Data Vault
14 12 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
14 12 (3.08%) SAP BW
14 12 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (3.08%) Star Schema
15 11 (2.83%) MySQL
15 11 (2.83%) Snowflake Schema
16 9 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 25 (6.43%) Git
2 13 (3.34%) Postman
3 9 (2.31%) Eclipse
3 9 (2.31%) ERwin
4 7 (1.80%) JIRA
5 4 (1.03%) GitLab
6 3 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.51%) Storybook
8 1 (0.26%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.26%) CMake
8 1 (0.26%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.26%) Maven
8 1 (0.26%) Toad
8 1 (0.26%) utPLSQL
8 1 (0.26%) Valgrind
8 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 156 (40.10%) Finance
2 133 (34.19%) Social Skills
3 76 (19.54%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.00%) Law
5 28 (7.20%) Front Office
6 27 (6.94%) Retail
7 18 (4.63%) Public Sector
8 17 (4.37%) Marketing
9 16 (4.11%) Banking
10 12 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (2.83%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.83%) Legal
12 10 (2.57%) Billing
13 8 (2.06%) Publishing
14 6 (1.54%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.29%) Investment Banking
16 4 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.03%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
17 3 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (23.14%) Analyst
2 81 (20.82%) Senior
3 65 (16.71%) Developer
4 52 (13.37%) Data Analyst
5 41 (10.54%) Software Engineer
6 40 (10.28%) Senior Developer
7 39 (10.03%) Consultant
8 31 (7.97%) Architect
9 30 (7.71%) Python Developer
10 28 (7.20%) Data Architect
11 22 (5.66%) C++ Developer
11 22 (5.66%) Quantitative Developer
12 21 (5.40%) Administrator
12 21 (5.40%) Lead
12 21 (5.40%) Senior C++ Developer
12 21 (5.40%) Senior Python Developer
13 20 (5.14%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 20 (5.14%) Linux Developer
13 20 (5.14%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
13 20 (5.14%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.97%) Django
1 31 (7.97%) RESTful
2 24 (6.17%) JSON
3 20 (5.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 17 (4.37%) XML
5 16 (4.11%) OpenAPI
5 16 (4.11%) Oracle Fusion
5 16 (4.11%) Swagger
6 15 (3.86%) REST
7 14 (3.60%) Kafka
8 12 (3.08%) React
9 10 (2.57%) Flask
9 10 (2.57%) PySpark
10 9 (2.31%) CSS
10 9 (2.31%) FIX Protocol
10 9 (2.31%) HTML
11 8 (2.06%) FastAPI
12 7 (1.80%) .NET
12 7 (1.80%) FpML
12 7 (1.80%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 89 (22.88%) Algorithms
2 43 (11.05%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (8.48%) Greenfield Project
4 31 (7.97%) Management Information System
5 24 (6.17%) Hedge funds
6 22 (5.66%) Equities
7 18 (4.63%) Social Media
8 14 (3.60%) Onboarding
8 14 (3.60%) Product Ownership
9 13 (3.34%) Cloud Native
10 10 (2.57%) Reinsurance
11 8 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (2.06%) FMCG
11 8 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.80%) e-Learning
12 7 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.54%) Anti-Piracy
13 6 (1.54%) Client/Server
14 5 (1.29%) PKI
14 5 (1.29%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.91%) Linux
2 2 (0.51%) Windows
3 1 (0.26%) Android
3 1 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (30.33%) Data Modelling
2 94 (24.16%) Agile
3 91 (23.39%) Analytics
4 86 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 82 (21.08%) Software Engineering
7 81 (20.82%) Business Intelligence
8 73 (18.77%) Computer Science
9 67 (17.22%) Data Governance
10 55 (14.14%) CI/CD
11 53 (13.62%) ETL
12 52 (13.37%) Decision-Making
13 51 (13.11%) DevOps
14 50 (12.85%) Data Engineering
14 50 (12.85%) Validation
15 48 (12.34%) OO
16 46 (11.83%) AI
16 46 (11.83%) Data Analysis
17 43 (11.05%) ERP
17 43 (11.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 180 (46.27%) Python
2 168 (43.19%) SQL
3 44 (11.31%) C++
4 35 (9.00%) Java
5 21 (5.40%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.63%) Rust
7 12 (3.08%) T-SQL
8 10 (2.57%) Scala
8 10 (2.57%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.31%) C#
10 8 (2.06%) Go
10 8 (2.06%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.29%) R
12 3 (0.77%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.77%) VBA
13 2 (0.51%) C
13 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.26%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 88 (22.62%) Degree
2 45 (11.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (10.03%) Security Cleared
4 24 (6.17%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.08%) ACCA
5 12 (3.08%) CIMA
6 7 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.29%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.29%) PhD
9 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.03%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.77%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.77%) IIBA
10 3 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (20.57%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.14%) QA
3 16 (4.11%) GDPR
4 14 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (3.08%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.29%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.29%) IFRS
7 5 (1.29%) NIST
8 3 (0.77%) GAAP
8 3 (0.77%) GRC
9 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.51%) WCAG
10 1 (0.26%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.26%) MiFID
10 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 23 (5.91%) Docker
2 19 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.11%) Terraform
3 3 (0.77%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.26%) Grafana
4 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 41 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.74%) Oracle
3 30 (7.71%) Google
3 30 (7.71%) SAP
4 19 (4.88%) Salesforce
5 13 (3.34%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.57%) Databricks
6 10 (2.57%) Foundry
7 9 (2.31%) Sage
8 8 (2.06%) Informatica
8 8 (2.06%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.06%) Sparx
8 8 (2.06%) Talend
9 7 (1.80%) Palantir
9 7 (1.80%) Workday
10 3 (0.77%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.77%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.51%) Intapp
11 2 (0.51%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.51%) SendGrid