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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 377 279
Rank change year-on-year +15 -98 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 382 276 854
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.73% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.70% 1.68% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 235 112 431
10th Percentile £42,196 £42,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,313 £46,903
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +2.84% +3.70%
75th Percentile £93,750 £98,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £71,991 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.71% +2.84% +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 22,425 16,424 29,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.04% 43.26% 34.38%
Number of salaries quoted 13,027 7,749 20,875
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 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 27 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 27 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 +75 235 £85,000 -7.10% 114
North of England +3 54 £57,500 -11.54% 38
Yorkshire -8 36 £63,005 -17.10% 8
South East -31 33 £56,000 +12.00% 35
East of England -15 21 £62,000 -15.07% 8
Midlands -46 12 £42,500 -12.37% 16
South West -86 11 £62,500 -10.71% 19
North West -20 10 £45,000 -21.74% 22
North East -33 8 £57,500 -50.00% 9
West Midlands -42 7 £43,000 -28.33% 9
East Midlands -43 5 £42,500 -12.37% 7
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 (2.62%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.83%) Palantir Foundry
5 6 (1.57%) Apache
5 6 (1.57%) Confluence
6 4 (1.05%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.79%) Oracle Application Server
7 3 (0.79%) SAS
7 3 (0.79%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 29 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (3.14%) NetSuite
1 12 (3.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (1.57%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.05%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.79%) FLEXCUBE
5 3 (0.79%) Misys Opics
5 3 (0.79%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.52%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.52%) Shopify
6 2 (0.52%) 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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 109 (28.53%) Azure
2 96 (25.13%) AWS
3 69 (18.06%) Power Platform
4 46 (12.04%) GCP
5 19 (4.97%) Entra ID
6 17 (4.45%) SaaS
6 17 (4.45%) Serverless
7 15 (3.93%) Amazon S3
7 15 (3.93%) GitHub
8 14 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (3.40%) dbt
9 13 (3.40%) Power Automate
9 13 (3.40%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.62%) Snowflake
11 9 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (2.09%) Boomi
12 8 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.57%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.71%) Broadband
2 4 (1.05%) Network Security
3 1 (0.26%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (15.71%) Power BI
2 38 (9.95%) BigQuery
3 31 (8.12%) Metadata
4 30 (7.85%) Tableau
5 25 (6.54%) Data Lake
6 24 (6.28%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (5.24%) SQL Server
9 19 (4.97%) NoSQL
9 19 (4.97%) Relational Database
10 16 (4.19%) DynamoDB
11 15 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (3.14%) Oracle Reports
12 12 (3.14%) SAP BW
12 12 (3.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (2.88%) Data Vault
13 11 (2.88%) MySQL
14 10 (2.62%) Star Schema
15 9 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
16 7 (1.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (6.54%) Git
2 14 (3.66%) Postman
3 9 (2.36%) Eclipse
3 9 (2.36%) ERwin
4 7 (1.83%) JIRA
5 3 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.52%) GitLab
6 2 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.52%) Storybook
7 1 (0.26%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.26%) CMake
7 1 (0.26%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.26%) Maven
7 1 (0.26%) Toad
7 1 (0.26%) utPLSQL
7 1 (0.26%) Valgrind
7 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 155 (40.58%) Finance
2 128 (33.51%) Social Skills
3 74 (19.37%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.90%) Law
5 27 (7.07%) Front Office
6 26 (6.81%) Retail
7 17 (4.45%) Marketing
7 17 (4.45%) Public Sector
8 16 (4.19%) Banking
9 11 (2.88%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.62%) Billing
10 10 (2.62%) Legal
11 8 (2.09%) Publishing
12 6 (1.57%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.31%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.05%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (23.56%) Analyst
2 80 (20.94%) Senior
3 65 (17.02%) Developer
4 54 (14.14%) Data Analyst
5 41 (10.73%) Software Engineer
6 39 (10.21%) Consultant
6 39 (10.21%) Senior Developer
7 29 (7.59%) Architect
7 29 (7.59%) Python Developer
8 26 (6.81%) Data Architect
9 21 (5.50%) Administrator
9 21 (5.50%) C++ Developer
9 21 (5.50%) Quantitative Developer
10 20 (5.24%) Lead
10 20 (5.24%) Senior C++ Developer
10 20 (5.24%) Senior Python Developer
11 19 (4.97%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 19 (4.97%) Linux Developer
11 19 (4.97%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 19 (4.97%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.38%) RESTful
2 31 (8.12%) Django
3 24 (6.28%) JSON
4 19 (4.97%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 17 (4.45%) OpenAPI
5 17 (4.45%) Swagger
5 17 (4.45%) XML
6 16 (4.19%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (3.93%) REST
8 14 (3.66%) Kafka
9 12 (3.14%) React
10 10 (2.62%) Flask
11 9 (2.36%) CSS
11 9 (2.36%) FIX Protocol
11 9 (2.36%) HTML
12 8 (2.09%) FastAPI
12 8 (2.09%) PySpark
13 7 (1.83%) .NET
13 7 (1.83%) FpML
13 7 (1.83%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 89 (23.30%) Algorithms
2 43 (11.26%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (8.64%) Greenfield Project
4 28 (7.33%) Management Information System
5 23 (6.02%) Hedge funds
6 21 (5.50%) Equities
7 18 (4.71%) Social Media
8 14 (3.66%) Onboarding
8 14 (3.66%) Product Ownership
9 13 (3.40%) Cloud Native
10 10 (2.62%) Reinsurance
11 8 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (2.09%) FMCG
11 8 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.83%) e-Learning
13 6 (1.57%) Anti-Piracy
13 6 (1.57%) Client/Server
13 6 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (1.31%) PKI
14 5 (1.31%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.76%) Linux
2 2 (0.52%) Windows
3 1 (0.26%) Android
3 1 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (29.84%) Data Modelling
2 91 (23.82%) Agile
3 87 (22.77%) Analytics
4 83 (21.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 83 (21.73%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (21.47%) Software Engineering
6 80 (20.94%) Business Intelligence
7 73 (19.11%) Computer Science
8 66 (17.28%) Data Governance
9 53 (13.87%) CI/CD
9 53 (13.87%) ETL
10 50 (13.09%) Decision-Making
11 49 (12.83%) DevOps
12 48 (12.57%) Validation
13 47 (12.30%) OO
14 45 (11.78%) Data Analysis
15 44 (11.52%) Data Engineering
15 44 (11.52%) ERP
16 43 (11.26%) AI
16 43 (11.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 175 (45.81%) Python
2 163 (42.67%) SQL
3 43 (11.26%) C++
4 35 (9.16%) Java
5 20 (5.24%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.71%) Rust
7 12 (3.14%) T-SQL
8 10 (2.62%) TypeScript
9 9 (2.36%) C#
9 9 (2.36%) Scala
10 8 (2.09%) Go
10 8 (2.09%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.09%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.31%) R
12 3 (0.79%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.79%) VBA
13 2 (0.52%) C
13 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 87 (22.77%) Degree
2 45 (11.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (9.69%) Security Cleared
4 22 (5.76%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.14%) ACCA
5 12 (3.14%) CIMA
6 6 (1.57%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.57%) Master's Degree
6 6 (1.57%) PhD
7 5 (1.31%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.31%) Postgraduate
8 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.79%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.79%) IIBA
9 3 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (19.63%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.24%) QA
3 14 (3.66%) GDPR
3 14 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.14%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.31%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.31%) IFRS
6 5 (1.31%) NIST
7 3 (0.79%) GAAP
7 3 (0.79%) GRC
8 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.52%) WCAG
9 1 (0.26%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.26%) MiFID
9 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (5.50%) Docker
2 19 (4.97%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (4.45%) Kubernetes
2 14 (3.66%) Terraform
3 3 (0.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.26%) Grafana
4 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 40 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.90%) Oracle
3 30 (7.85%) Google
4 28 (7.33%) SAP
5 19 (4.97%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.40%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.62%) Foundry
8 9 (2.36%) Databricks
8 9 (2.36%) Sage
9 8 (2.09%) Informatica
9 8 (2.09%) MuleSoft
9 8 (2.09%) Sparx
9 8 (2.09%) Talend
10 7 (1.83%) Palantir
10 7 (1.83%) Workday
11 3 (0.79%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.79%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.52%) Intapp
12 2 (0.52%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.52%) SendGrid