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 25 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 305 297
Rank change year-on-year -53 -8 -34
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 324 352 715
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.96% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% 2.45% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 214 126 450
10th Percentile £44,110 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,870 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,031 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.65% +2.90% +0.80%
75th Percentile £95,000 £99,688 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,070 £69,750
% change year-on-year +0.60% +3.33% +1.35%

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 21,027 14,348 27,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.85% 38.98% 35.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10,817 8,071 19,981
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,114 £28,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +80 218 £80,000 -13.51% 110
North of England -39 41 £57,500 -2.13% 51
Yorkshire -15 33 £75,000 +54.62% 26
South East -38 21 £47,500 +5.56% 67
Midlands -48 12 £48,500 -19.17% 19
East of England -20 11 £75,000 -6.25% 19
East Midlands -42 7 £48,500 - 15
North West -36 6 £42,500 -26.09% 17
West Midlands -15 5 £47,500 -20.83% 4
South West -144 5 £43,953 -38.95% 20
North East -27 2 £30,500 -60.00% 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 9 (2.78%) Palantir Foundry
2 8 (2.47%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.23%) SAS
5 3 (0.93%) Apache
5 3 (0.93%) Confluence
5 3 (0.93%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.62%) Mendix
7 1 (0.31%) CMS
7 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.93%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (3.40%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.54%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.23%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.93%) FLEXCUBE
4 3 (0.93%) Misys Opics
4 3 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.93%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.62%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.62%) Shopify
5 2 (0.62%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.31%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.31%) Magento
6 1 (0.31%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.31%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.31%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 90 (27.78%) AWS
2 89 (27.47%) Azure
3 46 (14.20%) Power Platform
4 42 (12.96%) GCP
5 27 (8.33%) GitHub
5 27 (8.33%) Serverless
6 16 (4.94%) SaaS
7 13 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.40%) Boomi
9 9 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.78%) Power Automate
10 8 (2.47%) dbt
10 8 (2.47%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.16%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.16%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.85%) Cloud Composer
12 6 (1.85%) Dagster
12 6 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.85%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.85%) Broadband
2 4 (1.23%) Network Security
3 1 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (14.20%) Power BI
2 34 (10.49%) BigQuery
2 34 (10.49%) SQL Server
3 32 (9.88%) Metadata
4 28 (8.64%) NoSQL
5 22 (6.79%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (6.79%) Elasticsearch
6 19 (5.86%) Tableau
7 18 (5.56%) DynamoDB
7 18 (5.56%) Relational Database
7 18 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (4.01%) Data Lake
8 13 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (3.40%) MySQL
10 9 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.16%) RDBMS
12 6 (1.85%) Pentaho
12 6 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (5.86%) Postman
2 18 (5.56%) Git
3 9 (2.78%) Eclipse
3 9 (2.78%) ERwin
4 4 (1.23%) JIRA
5 2 (0.62%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.62%) Storybook
5 2 (0.62%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.31%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.31%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.31%) Toad
6 1 (0.31%) utPLSQL
General
1 104 (32.10%) Finance
1 104 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 85 (26.23%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (12.96%) Law
4 27 (8.33%) Front Office
5 21 (6.48%) Public Sector
6 20 (6.17%) Retail
7 13 (4.01%) Banking
7 13 (4.01%) Marketing
8 11 (3.40%) Publishing
9 8 (2.47%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.16%) Legal
11 5 (1.54%) Billing
11 5 (1.54%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.93%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 86 (26.54%) Developer
2 72 (22.22%) Senior
3 67 (20.68%) Analyst
4 51 (15.74%) Data Analyst
5 39 (12.04%) Python Developer
6 38 (11.73%) Senior Developer
7 36 (11.11%) Software Engineer
8 25 (7.72%) Consultant
9 24 (7.41%) Architect
10 22 (6.79%) C++ Developer
10 22 (6.79%) Lead
10 22 (6.79%) Quantitative Developer
10 22 (6.79%) Senior Python Developer
11 20 (6.17%) Data Architect
12 19 (5.86%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (5.86%) Linux Developer
12 19 (5.86%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 19 (5.86%) Senior C++ Developer
12 19 (5.86%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (5.86%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (12.96%) Django
2 32 (9.88%) RESTful
3 30 (9.26%) JSON
4 23 (7.10%) CSS
4 23 (7.10%) Flask
4 23 (7.10%) HTML
5 22 (6.79%) OpenAPI
5 22 (6.79%) REST
5 22 (6.79%) Swagger
6 21 (6.48%) XML
7 20 (6.17%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 20 (6.17%) React
8 19 (5.86%) FastAPI
9 18 (5.56%) Vue
10 15 (4.63%) Kafka
11 10 (3.09%) FIX Protocol
12 9 (2.78%) .NET
13 7 (2.16%) FpML
13 7 (2.16%) SOAP
13 7 (2.16%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 77 (23.77%) Algorithms
2 42 (12.96%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (11.42%) Greenfield Project
4 27 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 21 (6.48%) Equities
5 21 (6.48%) Hedge funds
6 16 (4.94%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.70%) Cloud Native
7 12 (3.70%) Product Ownership
8 11 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (3.09%) FMCG
9 10 (3.09%) Reinsurance
10 9 (2.78%) Low-Code
11 8 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (2.16%) e-Learning
13 6 (1.85%) Anti-Piracy
13 6 (1.85%) Social Media
14 5 (1.54%) PKI
14 5 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.86%) Linux
2 2 (0.62%) Android
3 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (29.63%) Data Modelling
2 83 (25.62%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (25.31%) Agile
4 68 (20.99%) Analytics
5 67 (20.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 66 (20.37%) Computer Science
7 64 (19.75%) Software Engineering
8 61 (18.83%) ETL
9 59 (18.21%) Business Intelligence
10 58 (17.90%) Data Governance
11 49 (15.12%) Mentoring
11 49 (15.12%) OOP
12 48 (14.81%) Data Analysis
13 47 (14.51%) Decision-Making
14 46 (14.20%) OO
15 42 (12.96%) CI/CD
16 40 (12.35%) AI
16 40 (12.35%) Validation
17 37 (11.42%) Microservices
17 37 (11.42%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 169 (52.16%) Python
2 151 (46.60%) SQL
3 41 (12.65%) C++
4 34 (10.49%) JavaScript
5 28 (8.64%) Java
6 15 (4.63%) T-SQL
7 12 (3.70%) Scala
8 10 (3.09%) C#
8 10 (3.09%) Rust
9 8 (2.47%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.85%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.54%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.54%) R
11 5 (1.54%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.93%) Go
13 2 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.62%) VBA
14 1 (0.31%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 74 (22.84%) Degree
2 42 (12.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 19 (5.86%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.70%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.09%) ACCA
6 10 (3.09%) CIMA
7 7 (2.16%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.85%) PhD
9 5 (1.54%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.23%) Postgraduate
11 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.93%) IIBA
12 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (16.98%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.01%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.09%) GDPR
4 8 (2.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.54%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.54%) NIST
5 5 (1.54%) QA
6 4 (1.23%) IFRS
7 3 (0.93%) GAAP
7 3 (0.93%) GRC
8 2 (0.62%) WCAG
9 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (6.17%) Docker
2 8 (2.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.86%) Terraform
2 6 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.31%) Grafana
4 1 (0.31%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 36 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.41%) Google
3 19 (5.86%) Oracle
4 18 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 13 (4.01%) Foundry
6 11 (3.40%) ServiceNow
7 10 (3.09%) SAP
7 10 (3.09%) Talend
8 9 (2.78%) Informatica
8 9 (2.78%) Palantir
9 8 (2.47%) Sparx
10 7 (2.16%) Workday
11 6 (1.85%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.54%) Databricks
13 4 (1.23%) Alteryx
13 4 (1.23%) Intapp
14 3 (0.93%) Temenos
15 2 (0.62%) OutSystems
15 2 (0.62%) Sage
15 2 (0.62%) SendGrid