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 10 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 334 323
Rank change year-on-year -13 -11 -60
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 293 391 545
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 0.87% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.52% 2.30% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 191 123 448
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,740 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,991 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +2.01% +0.82%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £129,500 £110,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £71,991 £69,250
% change year-on-year -2.77% +3.96% -0.50%

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 19,237 17,020 23,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.22% 37.78% 35.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,841 7,903 17,868
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £56,011
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +11.59% -13.83%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £56,021
% change year-on-year -11.29% +10.67% -13.81%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +81 195 £75,000 -18.92% 74
North of England +1 37 £75,000 +27.66% 20
Yorkshire -20 26 £75,000 +66.67% 4
Midlands +8 18 £50,000 -20.00% 16
South East -5 15 £42,500 - 38
East Midlands -2 12 £49,250 -24.23% 6
East of England +14 10 £75,000 -16.67% 14
North West +12 10 £75,000 +25.00% 10
West Midlands +5 6 £65,000 +8.33% 10
South West -123 2 £43,953 -38.95% 8
North East -4 1 - - 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 10 (3.41%) Palantir Foundry
2 7 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.71%) CMS
3 5 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.02%) Apache
4 3 (1.02%) SAS
5 2 (0.68%) Luigi
5 2 (0.68%) Mendix
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 9 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.02%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 15 (5.12%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.37%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.02%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.68%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (0.68%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.68%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.68%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.34%) Misys Opics
5 1 (0.34%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 73 (24.91%) Azure
2 72 (24.57%) AWS
3 42 (14.33%) Power Platform
4 30 (10.24%) GCP
5 24 (8.19%) GitHub
5 24 (8.19%) Serverless
6 16 (5.46%) SaaS
7 11 (3.75%) Boomi
8 10 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.39%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.39%) Power Automate
10 7 (2.39%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.05%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.05%) Matillion
12 5 (1.71%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (1.71%) AWS KMS
12 5 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.71%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.37%) Network Security
2 1 (0.34%) Broadband
2 1 (0.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (14.33%) Power BI
2 35 (11.95%) NoSQL
3 33 (11.26%) SQL Server
4 21 (7.17%) BigQuery
4 21 (7.17%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (6.83%) Metadata
5 20 (6.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 17 (5.80%) DynamoDB
6 17 (5.80%) Tableau
7 16 (5.46%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (4.44%) Data Lake
9 13 (4.44%) Relational Database
10 12 (4.10%) MySQL
10 12 (4.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (2.39%) Redis
12 7 (2.39%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.05%) Pentaho
14 5 (1.71%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 20 (6.83%) Postman
2 18 (6.14%) Git
3 11 (3.75%) ERwin
4 9 (3.07%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.68%) JConsole
5 2 (0.68%) JIRA
5 2 (0.68%) Storybook
5 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.68%) VisualVM
6 1 (0.34%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.34%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
General
1 104 (35.49%) Social Skills
2 83 (28.33%) Finance
3 77 (26.28%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (11.26%) Law
5 29 (9.90%) Front Office
6 22 (7.51%) Public Sector
7 20 (6.83%) Retail
8 16 (5.46%) Marketing
9 12 (4.10%) Banking
10 11 (3.75%) Publishing
11 10 (3.41%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.37%) Legal
14 2 (0.68%) Billing
14 2 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.34%) Digital Economy
15 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.34%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 84 (28.67%) Developer
2 55 (18.77%) Analyst
3 51 (17.41%) Senior
4 41 (13.99%) Data Analyst
5 36 (12.29%) Python Developer
6 35 (11.95%) Lead
7 33 (11.26%) Senior Developer
8 28 (9.56%) Architect
9 27 (9.22%) Software Engineer
10 24 (8.19%) Data Architect
11 22 (7.51%) C++ Developer
12 21 (7.17%) Quantitative Developer
12 21 (7.17%) Senior Python Developer
13 19 (6.48%) Consultant
14 18 (6.14%) C++ Quantitative Developer
15 17 (5.80%) Linux Developer
15 17 (5.80%) Low Latency C++ Developer
15 17 (5.80%) Senior C++ Developer
15 17 (5.80%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
15 17 (5.80%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.63%) Django
2 25 (8.53%) Flask
2 25 (8.53%) RESTful
3 23 (7.85%) FastAPI
4 22 (7.51%) JSON
5 21 (7.17%) CSS
5 21 (7.17%) HTML
6 20 (6.83%) React
7 19 (6.48%) OpenAPI
7 19 (6.48%) Swagger
8 18 (6.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 17 (5.80%) Kafka
9 17 (5.80%) REST
10 15 (5.12%) Vue
11 13 (4.44%) XML
12 8 (2.73%) .NET
12 8 (2.73%) Web Services
13 6 (2.05%) OAuth
13 6 (2.05%) PySpark
14 5 (1.71%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 60 (20.48%) Algorithms
2 34 (11.60%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (9.56%) Greenfield Project
4 26 (8.87%) Management Information System
5 22 (7.51%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (6.83%) Hedge funds
7 19 (6.48%) Equities
8 14 (4.78%) Onboarding
9 13 (4.44%) Product Ownership
10 11 (3.75%) Cloud Native
11 10 (3.41%) FMCG
11 10 (3.41%) Reinsurance
12 9 (3.07%) Low-Code
12 9 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.71%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.71%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (1.37%) Blockchain
14 4 (1.37%) Derivative
14 4 (1.37%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.48%) Linux
2 2 (0.68%) Android
3 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (29.01%) Data Modelling
2 69 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (22.87%) Agile
4 60 (20.48%) Continuous Improvement
5 59 (20.14%) Analytics
6 58 (19.80%) Computer Science
7 51 (17.41%) Data Governance
7 51 (17.41%) ETL
8 50 (17.06%) Business Intelligence
8 50 (17.06%) Data Analysis
8 50 (17.06%) OOP
9 47 (16.04%) AI
10 45 (15.36%) Mentoring
10 45 (15.36%) Software Engineering
11 42 (14.33%) CI/CD
12 40 (13.65%) Data Integration
13 37 (12.63%) Decision-Making
14 36 (12.29%) Microservices
14 36 (12.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (11.60%) OO
Programming Languages
1 146 (49.83%) Python
2 135 (46.08%) SQL
3 34 (11.60%) JavaScript
4 30 (10.24%) C++
5 22 (7.51%) Java
6 14 (4.78%) T-SQL
7 9 (3.07%) Scala
8 8 (2.73%) C#
9 7 (2.39%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.05%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.05%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.37%) Go
11 4 (1.37%) Rust
12 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.02%) R
13 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.34%) PHP
14 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 69 (23.55%) Degree
2 36 (12.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (8.87%) Security Cleared
4 20 (6.83%) SC Cleared
5 11 (3.75%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.41%) ACCA
6 10 (3.41%) CIMA
7 7 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.71%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.71%) PhD
9 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.37%) Postgraduate
10 3 (1.02%) IIBA
11 2 (0.68%) HNC
11 2 (0.68%) HND
11 2 (0.68%) MCSA
11 2 (0.68%) MCSE
11 2 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (17.06%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.48%) GDPR
3 12 (4.10%) Accessibility
3 12 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.71%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.71%) NIST
4 5 (1.71%) QA
4 5 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.68%) GRC
5 2 (0.68%) WCAG
6 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (7.51%) Docker
2 7 (2.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (6.14%) Terraform
2 7 (2.39%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.68%) Ansible
4 2 (0.68%) logstash
4 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.68%) Puppet
5 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 33 (11.26%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.85%) Salesforce
3 17 (5.80%) Google
4 16 (5.46%) Oracle
5 13 (4.44%) Foundry
6 10 (3.41%) Palantir
6 10 (3.41%) ServiceNow
7 9 (3.07%) SAP
7 9 (3.07%) Talend
8 8 (2.73%) Informatica
9 6 (2.05%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.71%) Databricks
11 4 (1.37%) HubSpot
11 4 (1.37%) Intapp
11 4 (1.37%) Workday
12 3 (1.02%) Alteryx
12 3 (1.02%) Temenos
13 2 (0.68%) Dataiku
13 2 (0.68%) OutSystems
13 2 (0.68%) SendGrid