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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 368 319
Rank change year-on-year +1 -49 -4
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 405 323 692
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.75% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.79% 1.79% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 267 124 294
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,125 £41,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,625 £93,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £125,000 £116,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +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 22,647 18,071 27,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.54% 41.69% 33.32%
Number of salaries quoted 14,985 9,074 17,742
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £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 £110,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.87% +4.55% -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 21 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 21 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 +44 223 £85,000 -0.58% 126
North of England +15 63 £56,250 -16.67% 37
South East -34 59 £60,000 +20.00% 28
North West +3 26 £60,000 +20.00% 14
Yorkshire -15 23 £57,500 -25.81% 11
East of England -5 19 £37,500 -42.31% 8
Midlands -49 16 £42,500 -12.37% 16
South West -79 15 £75,000 +42.86% 13
North East -36 14 £55,000 -52.17% 13
West Midlands -22 13 £43,000 +33.33% 8
East Midlands -36 3 £42,500 -12.37% 8
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 18 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.70%) Apache
3 14 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (2.22%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.22%) SAS
6 8 (1.98%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.48%) Confluence
8 5 (1.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.96%) 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 (1.48%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (1.23%) NetSuite
5 5 (1.23%) 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 (0.49%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.49%) Shopify
8 1 (0.25%) FastStats
8 1 (0.25%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.25%) Magento
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle iProcurement
8 1 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 103 (25.43%) AWS
2 102 (25.19%) Azure
3 92 (22.72%) Power Platform
4 48 (11.85%) GCP
5 29 (7.16%) SaaS
6 26 (6.42%) Amazon S3
7 23 (5.68%) Entra ID
8 20 (4.94%) PowerApps
9 19 (4.69%) dbt
9 19 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (4.44%) Power Automate
11 17 (4.20%) Serverless
12 16 (3.95%) Snowflake
13 12 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (2.72%) GitHub
15 10 (2.47%) Amazon EMR
16 9 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (2.22%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.44%) Broadband
2 3 (0.74%) Intranet
3 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (19.26%) Power BI
2 31 (7.65%) BigQuery
2 31 (7.65%) Data Lake
2 31 (7.65%) Tableau
3 27 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (5.19%) Relational Database
5 19 (4.69%) Metadata
5 19 (4.69%) SQL Server
6 18 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (4.20%) Amazon Athena
7 17 (4.20%) Data Vault
7 17 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (3.46%) MySQL
8 14 (3.46%) Star Schema
9 12 (2.96%) SAP BW
9 12 (2.96%) Snowflake Schema
10 11 (2.72%) NoSQL
10 11 (2.72%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (2.22%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (6.17%) Git
2 8 (1.98%) ERwin
2 8 (1.98%) JIRA
3 7 (1.73%) GitLab
4 6 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.23%) Postman
6 3 (0.74%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.49%) MLflow
8 1 (0.25%) CMake
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.25%) Toad
8 1 (0.25%) utPLSQL
8 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 166 (40.99%) Finance
2 158 (39.01%) Social Skills
3 67 (16.54%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.15%) Law
5 20 (4.94%) Front Office
6 19 (4.69%) Banking
7 18 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (4.44%) Legal
7 18 (4.44%) Retail
8 15 (3.70%) Billing
9 13 (3.21%) Marketing
10 12 (2.96%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.72%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.47%) Public Sector
13 9 (2.22%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.48%) General Ledger
14 6 (1.48%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.23%) German Language
15 5 (1.23%) Military
Job Titles
1 96 (23.70%) Analyst
2 90 (22.22%) Senior
3 64 (15.80%) Developer
4 44 (10.86%) Consultant
5 41 (10.12%) Data Analyst
6 39 (9.63%) Software Engineer
7 37 (9.14%) Senior Developer
8 30 (7.41%) Architect
9 28 (6.91%) Administrator
10 24 (5.93%) Data Engineer
11 23 (5.68%) Systems Administrator
12 22 (5.43%) Data Architect
12 22 (5.43%) Python Developer
12 22 (5.43%) Systems Analyst
13 18 (4.44%) Data Consultant
13 18 (4.44%) Lead
14 17 (4.20%) Backend Developer
14 17 (4.20%) C++ Developer
14 17 (4.20%) Senior C++ Developer
14 17 (4.20%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.68%) JSON
2 20 (4.94%) Django
2 20 (4.94%) REST
2 20 (4.94%) RESTful
2 20 (4.94%) XML
3 19 (4.69%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 18 (4.44%) Kafka
5 16 (3.95%) Oracle Fusion
6 14 (3.46%) PySpark
6 14 (3.46%) React
7 9 (2.22%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (2.22%) Flask
8 8 (1.98%) .NET
9 7 (1.73%) FastAPI
9 7 (1.73%) FpML
9 7 (1.73%) Middleware
9 7 (1.73%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.73%) XML Schema
10 6 (1.48%) OpenAPI
10 6 (1.48%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 87 (21.48%) Algorithms
2 43 (10.62%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (7.16%) Management Information System
4 22 (5.43%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (5.19%) Hedge funds
6 20 (4.94%) Onboarding
7 18 (4.44%) Social Media
8 17 (4.20%) Cloud Native
9 16 (3.95%) Equities
10 11 (2.72%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.98%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.73%) e-Learning
13 6 (1.48%) Anti-Piracy
14 5 (1.23%) PKI
14 5 (1.23%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.23%) Taxonomies
15 4 (0.99%) Credit Risk
15 4 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.68%) Linux
2 7 (1.73%) Windows
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (29.38%) Data Modelling
2 101 (24.94%) Analytics
3 99 (24.44%) Business Intelligence
4 92 (22.72%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (20.99%) Agile
5 85 (20.99%) Software Engineering
6 74 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 69 (17.04%) Data Engineering
8 66 (16.30%) Computer Science
9 65 (16.05%) Decision-Making
10 64 (15.80%) AI
10 64 (15.80%) Validation
11 62 (15.31%) ERP
12 57 (14.07%) CI/CD
12 57 (14.07%) Data Governance
12 57 (14.07%) Data Pipeline
13 50 (12.35%) DevOps
14 49 (12.10%) ETL
15 48 (11.85%) Stakeholder Management
16 47 (11.60%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 179 (44.20%) Python
2 174 (42.96%) SQL
3 46 (11.36%) C++
4 41 (10.12%) Java
5 26 (6.42%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.44%) Rust
7 14 (3.46%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.96%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.72%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.47%) C#
10 10 (2.47%) Go
10 10 (2.47%) Scala
11 8 (1.98%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.23%) C
12 5 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.99%) R
14 3 (0.74%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.74%) VBA
15 1 (0.25%) ABAP
15 1 (0.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 80 (19.75%) Degree
2 36 (8.89%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (5.19%) SC Cleared
5 20 (4.94%) ACCA
5 20 (4.94%) CIMA
6 8 (1.98%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.23%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.99%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.74%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.74%) HND
10 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.49%) PhD
12 1 (0.25%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (20.74%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.95%) GDPR
2 16 (3.95%) QA
3 15 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.47%) 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 (0.49%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.25%) MiFID
8 1 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (7.16%) Docker
2 19 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (4.94%) Kubernetes
1 20 (4.94%) Terraform
2 5 (1.23%) Ansible
3 4 (0.99%) Packer
3 4 (0.99%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.49%) Grafana
5 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 55 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 45 (11.11%) SAP
3 43 (10.62%) Oracle
4 24 (5.93%) Google
5 21 (5.19%) Sage
6 17 (4.20%) Salesforce
7 15 (3.70%) Databricks
8 9 (2.22%) Workday
9 7 (1.73%) Sparx
10 6 (1.48%) Foundry
10 6 (1.48%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.23%) Palantir
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