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 23 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 341 331
Rank change year-on-year -50 -10 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 396 336 570
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.77% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.61% 1.83% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 264 126 224
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,938 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,813 £94,563 £96,563
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £124,875
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +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 24,574 18,363 23,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.64% 41.98% 32.28%
Number of salaries quoted 16,136 9,344 14,036
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,781
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,981 £42,139
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.73%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -5 196 £85,000 -0.58% 71
North of England -3 75 £55,000 -21.43% 21
South East -27 56 £67,500 +42.11% 27
North West -3 32 £60,000 -7.69% 9
Yorkshire -21 26 £55,000 -29.03% 3
Midlands -45 24 £51,250 +5.67% 21
South West -84 19 £62,500 +6.38% 12
East of England -16 17 £37,500 -10.23% 21
North East -43 17 £55,000 -52.17% 9
West Midlands -29 16 £52,500 +2.94% 13
East Midlands -42 8 £44,241 -8.78% 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 15 (3.79%) Apache
2 14 (3.54%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.78%) Jupyter
4 10 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.27%) SharePoint
6 8 (2.02%) SAS
7 6 (1.52%) Confluence
8 5 (1.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.51%) IIS
10 2 (0.51%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 37 (9.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (3.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.77%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.26%) SAP SCM
4 5 (1.26%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.76%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.76%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.51%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.51%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.51%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.51%) Misys Opics
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.51%) Shopify
7 1 (0.25%) FastStats
7 1 (0.25%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.25%) Magento
7 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 93 (23.48%) AWS
2 88 (22.22%) Azure
3 87 (21.97%) Power Platform
4 35 (8.84%) GCP
5 23 (5.81%) Amazon S3
5 23 (5.81%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (5.56%) PowerApps
7 21 (5.30%) Power Automate
7 21 (5.30%) SaaS
8 18 (4.55%) Entra ID
9 17 (4.29%) Snowflake
10 14 (3.54%) dbt
11 13 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.28%) Serverless
12 12 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (2.53%) GitHub
14 9 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (2.27%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.03%) Broadband
2 3 (0.76%) Intranet
3 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (18.18%) Power BI
2 29 (7.32%) Data Lake
3 27 (6.82%) Tableau
4 23 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (5.05%) Relational Database
6 18 (4.55%) BigQuery
7 15 (3.79%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.79%) Data Vault
8 14 (3.54%) Star Schema
9 13 (3.28%) Metadata
9 13 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (3.28%) Snowflake Schema
9 13 (3.28%) SQL Server
10 12 (3.03%) SAP BW
11 11 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (2.02%) DynamoDB
13 8 (2.02%) NoSQL
14 7 (1.77%) Big Data
15 6 (1.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 29 (7.32%) Git
2 9 (2.27%) GitLab
3 8 (2.02%) JIRA
4 6 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.26%) ERwin
6 3 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.51%) 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
1 162 (40.91%) Finance
2 151 (38.13%) Social Skills
3 75 (18.94%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (5.81%) Banking
6 22 (5.56%) Law
7 19 (4.80%) Retail
8 18 (4.55%) Legal
9 15 (3.79%) Billing
9 15 (3.79%) Front Office
10 14 (3.54%) Financial Institution
11 12 (3.03%) Manufacturing
11 12 (3.03%) Marketing
12 9 (2.27%) Public Sector
12 9 (2.27%) Telecoms
13 8 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.77%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.52%) General Ledger
16 5 (1.26%) German Language
16 5 (1.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 92 (23.23%) Analyst
2 81 (20.45%) Senior
3 63 (15.91%) Developer
4 44 (11.11%) Consultant
5 43 (10.86%) Software Engineer
6 30 (7.58%) Senior Developer
7 28 (7.07%) Administrator
8 27 (6.82%) Data Analyst
9 26 (6.57%) Architect
9 26 (6.57%) Systems Analyst
10 23 (5.81%) Systems Administrator
11 19 (4.80%) Data Architect
12 17 (4.29%) Data Engineer
12 17 (4.29%) Python Developer
13 16 (4.04%) Business Analyst
13 16 (4.04%) Data Consultant
14 15 (3.79%) Backend Developer
15 13 (3.28%) Senior Backend Developer
15 13 (3.28%) Senior C++ Developer
15 13 (3.28%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.56%) Terraform
2 21 (5.30%) React
3 17 (4.29%) REST
4 16 (4.04%) .NET
5 15 (3.79%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 15 (3.79%) PySpark
6 14 (3.54%) Django
6 14 (3.54%) Kafka
6 14 (3.54%) Oracle Fusion
7 12 (3.03%) RESTful
8 11 (2.78%) JSON
9 9 (2.27%) XML
10 8 (2.02%) Flask
10 8 (2.02%) Vue
11 7 (1.77%) CSS
11 7 (1.77%) HTML
11 7 (1.77%) Middleware
11 7 (1.77%) Spring Boot
12 6 (1.52%) .NET Framework
12 6 (1.52%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 86 (21.72%) Algorithms
2 34 (8.59%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (8.59%) Management Information System
3 18 (4.55%) Hedge funds
4 16 (4.04%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.03%) Equities
5 12 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.03%) Social Media
6 9 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.02%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.26%) Clustering
8 5 (1.26%) Credit Risk
8 5 (1.26%) PKI
8 5 (1.26%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.01%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.06%) Linux
2 12 (3.03%) Windows
3 3 (0.76%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
2 109 (27.53%) Data Modelling
3 98 (24.75%) Analytics
4 90 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
5 86 (21.72%) Agile
6 83 (20.96%) Software Engineering
7 79 (19.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 70 (17.68%) AI
9 67 (16.92%) Decision-Making
10 65 (16.41%) CI/CD
11 64 (16.16%) Data Engineering
12 63 (15.91%) Computer Science
12 63 (15.91%) ERP
13 58 (14.65%) Data Pipeline
14 57 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
15 54 (13.64%) Validation
16 53 (13.38%) Data Governance
17 52 (13.13%) DevOps
18 49 (12.37%) Data Analysis
18 49 (12.37%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 151 (38.13%) SQL
2 148 (37.37%) Python
3 41 (10.35%) Java
4 39 (9.85%) C++
5 29 (7.32%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.56%) C#
7 18 (4.55%) Rust
8 16 (4.04%) TypeScript
9 14 (3.54%) Go
10 8 (2.02%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.77%) C
11 7 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.77%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.26%) VBA
13 4 (1.01%) Scala
14 3 (0.76%) Bash
14 3 (0.76%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.76%) R
14 3 (0.76%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (20.71%) Degree
2 44 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 32 (8.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (6.82%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.55%) ACCA
5 18 (4.55%) CIMA
6 11 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.77%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.26%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (1.01%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.01%) PhD
11 3 (0.76%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.76%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.76%) HND
11 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (20.96%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.80%) GDPR
2 19 (4.80%) QA
3 17 (4.29%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.01%) IFRS
5 3 (0.76%) CDISC
5 3 (0.76%) GAAP
5 3 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 34 (8.59%) Docker
2 11 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.26%) Ansible
3 4 (1.01%) Packer
4 3 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.25%) Grafana
5 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 59 (14.90%) Microsoft
2 48 (12.12%) SAP
3 41 (10.35%) Oracle
4 21 (5.30%) Sage
5 18 (4.55%) Google
6 16 (4.04%) Databricks
7 13 (3.28%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.78%) Workday
9 5 (1.26%) Foundry
9 5 (1.26%) Palantir
10 4 (1.01%) HubSpot
10 4 (1.01%) Sparx
11 3 (0.76%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.76%) Avaya
11 3 (0.76%) Cisco
11 3 (0.76%) Genesys
11 3 (0.76%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.76%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.76%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.51%) Informatica