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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 373 270
Rank change year-on-year +8 -103 +16
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 361 283 863
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.72% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 1.68% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 221 127 440
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +2.84% +1.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £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% +3.70%

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 21,809 16,800 29,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.82% 42.90% 35.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,469 8,291 20,820
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,800 £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 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 16 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 16 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 +82 230 £85,000 -5.56% 94
North of England -10 47 £57,500 -4.17% 33
Yorkshire -27 32 £57,500 -7.64% 10
South East -44 28 £55,500 +23.33% 45
East of England -4 20 £65,000 -15.03% 17
Midlands -37 12 £42,500 -12.37% 18
North West -5 9 £47,500 -17.39% 17
South West -77 9 £43,953 -37.21% 23
West Midlands -43 7 £43,000 -28.33% 10
North East -39 6 £46,250 -55.42% 7
East Midlands -36 5 £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 8 (2.22%) Apache Spark
1 8 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.66%) Palantir Foundry
4 5 (1.39%) Confluence
5 4 (1.11%) Apache
5 4 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.83%) Oracle Application Server
6 3 (0.83%) SAS
7 2 (0.55%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 29 (8.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.32%) NetSuite
1 12 (3.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (1.66%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.11%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.83%) FLEXCUBE
5 3 (0.83%) Misys Opics
5 3 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.83%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.83%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.55%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.55%) Shopify
6 2 (0.55%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.28%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.28%) Magento
7 1 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.28%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.28%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 108 (29.92%) Azure
2 89 (24.65%) AWS
3 70 (19.39%) Power Platform
4 50 (13.85%) GCP
5 18 (4.99%) Entra ID
6 17 (4.71%) Serverless
7 16 (4.43%) SaaS
8 15 (4.16%) GitHub
9 14 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (3.60%) Power Automate
10 13 (3.60%) PowerApps
11 11 (3.05%) dbt
12 9 (2.49%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (2.22%) Snowflake
14 7 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (1.94%) Boomi
15 6 (1.66%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.99%) Broadband
2 4 (1.11%) Network Security
3 1 (0.28%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (17.17%) Power BI
2 42 (11.63%) BigQuery
3 31 (8.59%) Metadata
4 30 (8.31%) Tableau
5 25 (6.93%) Elasticsearch
6 24 (6.65%) Data Lake
6 24 (6.65%) SQL Server
7 23 (6.37%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (5.26%) NoSQL
9 16 (4.43%) Relational Database
10 15 (4.16%) DynamoDB
11 14 (3.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 12 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (3.32%) SAP BW
13 11 (3.05%) Oracle Reports
14 10 (2.77%) MySQL
15 9 (2.49%) Data Vault
16 8 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
16 8 (2.22%) Star Schema
17 7 (1.94%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (5.82%) Git
2 15 (4.16%) Postman
3 9 (2.49%) Eclipse
3 9 (2.49%) ERwin
4 6 (1.66%) JIRA
5 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.55%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.55%) Storybook
5 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.28%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.28%) Maven
6 1 (0.28%) Toad
6 1 (0.28%) utPLSQL
General
1 139 (38.50%) Finance
2 116 (32.13%) Social Skills
3 70 (19.39%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.97%) Law
5 26 (7.20%) Front Office
6 23 (6.37%) Retail
7 21 (5.82%) Marketing
8 15 (4.16%) Banking
8 15 (4.16%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.77%) Legal
9 10 (2.77%) Publishing
10 9 (2.49%) Financial Institution
11 8 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.94%) Billing
13 4 (1.11%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.83%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.83%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (23.82%) Analyst
2 72 (19.94%) Senior
3 67 (18.56%) Developer
4 54 (14.96%) Data Analyst
5 42 (11.63%) Software Engineer
6 37 (10.25%) Senior Developer
7 35 (9.70%) Consultant
8 27 (7.48%) Python Developer
9 26 (7.20%) Architect
10 23 (6.37%) Data Architect
11 20 (5.54%) Administrator
11 20 (5.54%) C++ Developer
11 20 (5.54%) Quantitative Developer
12 18 (4.99%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 18 (4.99%) Linux Developer
12 18 (4.99%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 18 (4.99%) Senior C++ Developer
12 18 (4.99%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
12 18 (4.99%) Senior Python Developer
12 18 (4.99%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.14%) Django
2 31 (8.59%) RESTful
3 24 (6.65%) JSON
4 18 (4.99%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 18 (4.99%) OpenAPI
4 18 (4.99%) Swagger
5 16 (4.43%) Oracle Fusion
5 16 (4.43%) XML
6 14 (3.88%) Kafka
6 14 (3.88%) REST
7 11 (3.05%) React
8 9 (2.49%) .NET
8 9 (2.49%) CSS
8 9 (2.49%) FIX Protocol
8 9 (2.49%) HTML
9 8 (2.22%) Flask
10 7 (1.94%) FpML
10 7 (1.94%) XML Schema
11 6 (1.66%) PySpark
11 6 (1.66%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 87 (24.10%) Algorithms
2 46 (12.74%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (10.25%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (6.93%) Management Information System
5 22 (6.09%) Hedge funds
6 20 (5.54%) Equities
7 18 (4.99%) Social Media
8 14 (3.88%) Onboarding
8 14 (3.88%) Product Ownership
9 11 (3.05%) Cloud Native
10 10 (2.77%) FMCG
10 10 (2.77%) Reinsurance
11 8 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.94%) e-Learning
12 7 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.66%) Anti-Piracy
13 6 (1.66%) Client/Server
14 5 (1.39%) PKI
14 5 (1.39%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Android
2 1 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (30.19%) Data Modelling
2 86 (23.82%) Agile
3 83 (22.99%) Software Engineering
4 81 (22.44%) Analytics
5 79 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
6 78 (21.61%) Business Intelligence
6 78 (21.61%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (19.39%) Computer Science
8 58 (16.07%) Data Governance
9 52 (14.40%) ETL
10 48 (13.30%) Decision-Making
11 46 (12.74%) DevOps
12 45 (12.47%) OO
13 44 (12.19%) CI/CD
14 43 (11.91%) Validation
15 40 (11.08%) Mentoring
16 39 (10.80%) Data Analysis
17 38 (10.53%) Migration
18 37 (10.25%) ERP
18 37 (10.25%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 165 (45.71%) Python
2 152 (42.11%) SQL
3 42 (11.63%) C++
4 33 (9.14%) Java
5 18 (4.99%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.43%) Rust
7 12 (3.32%) T-SQL
8 10 (2.77%) C#
9 9 (2.49%) Scala
9 9 (2.49%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.22%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.94%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.66%) Go
13 5 (1.39%) R
14 3 (0.83%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.83%) VBA
15 2 (0.55%) C
15 2 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.28%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 86 (23.82%) Degree
2 45 (12.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (9.14%) Security Cleared
4 20 (5.54%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.32%) ACCA
5 12 (3.32%) CIMA
6 6 (1.66%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.39%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.39%) PhD
8 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.11%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.83%) IIBA
9 3 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (18.56%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.71%) QA
3 14 (3.88%) GDPR
3 14 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.77%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.39%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.39%) IFRS
6 5 (1.39%) NIST
7 3 (0.83%) GAAP
7 3 (0.83%) GRC
8 2 (0.55%) WCAG
9 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 18 (4.99%) Active Directory
2 16 (4.43%) Docker
3 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (3.60%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.32%) Terraform
3 3 (0.83%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.28%) Grafana
4 1 (0.28%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 41 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.86%) Google
2 32 (8.86%) Oracle
3 27 (7.48%) SAP
4 18 (4.99%) Salesforce
5 13 (3.60%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.49%) Foundry
6 9 (2.49%) Informatica
6 9 (2.49%) Talend
7 8 (2.22%) Sparx
8 7 (1.94%) Databricks
8 7 (1.94%) MuleSoft
8 7 (1.94%) Workday
9 6 (1.66%) Palantir
10 3 (0.83%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.83%) Sage
10 3 (0.83%) Temenos
11 2 (0.55%) Ariba
11 2 (0.55%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.55%) TOWER Software