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 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 365 288
Rank change year-on-year +14 -77 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 398 301 858
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.76% 0.91%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 1.76% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 253 113 426
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +4.29% +5.21%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £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 20,847 17,099 31,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.20% 43.30% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 13,666 8,204 21,237
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +60 232 £85,000 -5.56% 86
North of England -5 59 £57,500 -22.82% 29
South East -31 44 £60,000 +26.32% 45
Yorkshire -13 34 £57,500 -25.57% 7
East of England -13 21 £62,000 -4.62% 8
Midlands -35 16 £42,500 -12.37% 21
North West -14 14 £46,250 -9.76% 13
West Midlands -23 12 £42,750 -14.50% 12
North East -35 11 £55,000 -52.17% 10
South West -83 11 £75,000 +7.14% 17
East Midlands -35 4 £42,500 -12.37% 9
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 14 (3.52%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.76%) Apache
4 9 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.76%) Jupyter
5 7 (1.76%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (1.51%) Confluence
7 5 (1.26%) SharePoint
8 4 (1.01%) SAS
9 3 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 29 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.02%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (2.51%) NetSuite
3 8 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.75%) FLEXCUBE
6 3 (0.75%) Misys Opics
6 3 (0.75%) SAP SCM
6 3 (0.75%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.50%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.50%) Shopify
7 2 (0.50%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.25%) FastStats
8 1 (0.25%) Magento
8 1 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 113 (28.39%) Azure
2 104 (26.13%) AWS
3 72 (18.09%) Power Platform
4 48 (12.06%) GCP
5 20 (5.03%) Amazon S3
5 20 (5.03%) Entra ID
6 19 (4.77%) SaaS
7 16 (4.02%) dbt
7 16 (4.02%) Serverless
8 14 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (3.52%) Dynamics 365
8 14 (3.52%) GitHub
8 14 (3.52%) Power Automate
8 14 (3.52%) PowerApps
9 12 (3.02%) Snowflake
10 9 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.26%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (2.01%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.52%) Broadband
2 2 (0.50%) Intranet
2 2 (0.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (15.58%) Power BI
2 35 (8.79%) BigQuery
3 32 (8.04%) Tableau
4 30 (7.54%) Metadata
5 25 (6.28%) Data Lake
6 24 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (5.28%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (5.28%) NoSQL
8 20 (5.03%) Relational Database
9 17 (4.27%) DynamoDB
9 17 (4.27%) SQL Server
10 16 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
11 14 (3.52%) Data Vault
12 13 (3.27%) MySQL
12 13 (3.27%) Star Schema
13 12 (3.02%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (3.02%) SAP BW
13 12 (3.02%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (2.76%) Oracle Reports
15 10 (2.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (6.78%) Git
2 13 (3.27%) Postman
3 9 (2.26%) Eclipse
3 9 (2.26%) ERwin
4 8 (2.01%) JIRA
5 5 (1.26%) GitLab
6 3 (0.75%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.25%) CMake
8 1 (0.25%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) Storybook
8 1 (0.25%) Toad
8 1 (0.25%) utPLSQL
8 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 154 (38.69%) Finance
2 140 (35.18%) Social Skills
3 74 (18.59%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.79%) Law
5 27 (6.78%) Front Office
6 24 (6.03%) Retail
7 17 (4.27%) Marketing
7 17 (4.27%) Public Sector
8 16 (4.02%) Banking
9 13 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.76%) Billing
10 11 (2.76%) Legal
11 10 (2.51%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.26%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.76%) Publishing
14 5 (1.26%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
16 3 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (24.37%) Analyst
2 84 (21.11%) Senior
3 63 (15.83%) Developer
4 52 (13.07%) Data Analyst
5 41 (10.30%) Software Engineer
6 40 (10.05%) Consultant
7 39 (9.80%) Senior Developer
8 31 (7.79%) Architect
9 28 (7.04%) Data Architect
10 27 (6.78%) Python Developer
11 24 (6.03%) Administrator
12 21 (5.28%) Lead
12 21 (5.28%) Quantitative Developer
13 20 (5.03%) C++ Developer
13 20 (5.03%) Data Engineer
13 20 (5.03%) Senior C++ Developer
13 20 (5.03%) Senior Python Developer
14 19 (4.77%) C++ Quantitative Developer
14 19 (4.77%) Senior Quantitative Developer
14 19 (4.77%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.29%) RESTful
2 27 (6.78%) Django
3 24 (6.03%) JSON
4 20 (5.03%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 18 (4.52%) XML
6 17 (4.27%) Oracle Fusion
6 17 (4.27%) REST
7 16 (4.02%) OpenAPI
7 16 (4.02%) Swagger
8 15 (3.77%) Kafka
9 13 (3.27%) React
10 11 (2.76%) Flask
10 11 (2.76%) PySpark
11 9 (2.26%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (2.01%) FastAPI
13 7 (1.76%) .NET
13 7 (1.76%) CSS
13 7 (1.76%) FpML
13 7 (1.76%) HTML
13 7 (1.76%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 89 (22.36%) Algorithms
2 45 (11.31%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (8.04%) Management Information System
4 30 (7.54%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (5.78%) Hedge funds
6 21 (5.28%) Equities
7 18 (4.52%) Social Media
8 14 (3.52%) Onboarding
9 13 (3.27%) Cloud Native
9 13 (3.27%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.51%) Reinsurance
11 8 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.76%) e-Learning
12 7 (1.76%) FMCG
13 6 (1.51%) Anti-Piracy
13 6 (1.51%) Client/Server
13 6 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.26%) PKI
14 5 (1.26%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.03%) Linux
2 4 (1.01%) Windows
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (30.40%) Data Modelling
2 93 (23.37%) Agile
3 91 (22.86%) Analytics
4 86 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (21.36%) Business Intelligence
6 82 (20.60%) Software Engineering
7 79 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 70 (17.59%) Computer Science
9 69 (17.34%) Data Governance
10 58 (14.57%) Decision-Making
11 57 (14.32%) Data Engineering
12 56 (14.07%) CI/CD
13 54 (13.57%) Validation
14 53 (13.32%) AI
14 53 (13.32%) ETL
15 51 (12.81%) DevOps
16 48 (12.06%) Data Analysis
17 46 (11.56%) ERP
18 44 (11.06%) OO
19 43 (10.80%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 185 (46.48%) Python
2 173 (43.47%) SQL
3 45 (11.31%) C++
4 37 (9.30%) Java
5 22 (5.53%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.52%) Rust
7 12 (3.02%) T-SQL
8 11 (2.76%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.51%) Go
10 9 (2.26%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.26%) Scala
11 8 (2.01%) C#
12 7 (1.76%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.26%) R
14 3 (0.75%) C
14 3 (0.75%) VBA
15 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.25%) Bash
16 1 (0.25%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 88 (22.11%) Degree
2 43 (10.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (10.55%) Security Cleared
4 26 (6.53%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.52%) ACCA
5 14 (3.52%) CIMA
6 8 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.76%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.26%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.01%) PhD
10 3 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.75%) IIBA
10 3 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.75%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.25%) HND
12 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (21.61%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.52%) QA
3 17 (4.27%) GDPR
4 14 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (3.02%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.26%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.26%) IFRS
7 5 (1.26%) NIST
8 3 (0.75%) GAAP
8 3 (0.75%) GRC
9 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.25%) CDISC
10 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.25%) MiFID
10 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (6.78%) Docker
2 19 (4.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (4.77%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.27%) Terraform
3 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.50%) Ansible
4 2 (0.50%) Packer
5 1 (0.25%) Grafana
5 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 45 (11.31%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.05%) Oracle
2 36 (9.05%) SAP
3 29 (7.29%) Google
4 21 (5.28%) Salesforce
5 15 (3.77%) Sage
6 13 (3.27%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.51%) Databricks
7 10 (2.51%) Foundry
8 8 (2.01%) Informatica
8 8 (2.01%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.01%) Sparx
8 8 (2.01%) Talend
9 7 (1.76%) Palantir
9 7 (1.76%) Workday
10 4 (1.01%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.75%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.75%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.50%) Intapp
13 1 (0.25%) WooCommerce