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 17 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 349 357
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 -131
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 292 433 384
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.64% 0.72% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.72% 2.15% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 148 165 319
10th Percentile £42,125 £38,450 £37,775
25th Percentile £54,688 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £107,500 £85,625
90th Percentile £114,875 £132,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 17,025 20,155 18,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 37.44% 33.42% 38.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9,610 9,635 13,559
10th Percentile £27,707 £34,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,987 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% -4.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% -4.00% -

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 +91 173 £80,000 -15.79% 248
Midlands +81 34 £51,000 -18.40% 23
North of England +24 32 £75,000 +36.36% 44
East Midlands +36 19 £50,000 -23.08% 13
South East +27 19 £58,750 +38.24% 61
North West +35 17 £70,000 +16.67% 27
West Midlands +51 15 £56,250 -6.25% 10
Yorkshire +6 14 £77,500 +210.00% 9
East of England +22 12 £45,000 - 24
South West -99 11 £35,532 -49.24% 9
North East - 1 - - 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 14 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (4.79%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.71%) CMS
4 4 (1.37%) Apache
4 4 (1.37%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.68%) Luigi
5 2 (0.68%) Mendix
6 1 (0.34%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (10.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.03%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.34%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.34%) Blender
5 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.74%) PeopleSoft Financials
2 7 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.37%) NetSuite
3 4 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.68%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (0.68%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.68%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.34%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.34%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 69 (23.63%) AWS
2 60 (20.55%) Azure
3 55 (18.84%) Power Platform
4 28 (9.59%) GCP
5 20 (6.85%) GitHub
6 15 (5.14%) Serverless
7 10 (3.42%) SaaS
8 9 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (2.40%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.05%) Power Automate
10 6 (2.05%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.71%) Boomi
11 5 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.37%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (1.37%) Figma
12 4 (1.37%) Google Analytics
12 4 (1.37%) Slack
12 4 (1.37%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (17.12%) Power BI
2 35 (11.99%) NoSQL
3 28 (9.59%) Relational Database
4 20 (6.85%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (6.85%) SQL Server
5 18 (6.16%) MySQL
6 17 (5.82%) Data Lake
7 13 (4.45%) Metadata
8 12 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (4.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (3.42%) Redis
11 9 (3.08%) BigQuery
11 9 (3.08%) Tableau
12 8 (2.74%) Flink
12 8 (2.74%) MongoDB
13 7 (2.40%) CockroachDB
14 6 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (1.71%) BusinessObjects
15 5 (1.71%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (7.53%) Git
2 11 (3.77%) ERwin
3 8 (2.74%) Postman
4 4 (1.37%) JIRA
4 4 (1.37%) JUnit
4 4 (1.37%) Mockito
4 4 (1.37%) Terragrunt
5 3 (1.03%) MLflow
6 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.68%) JConsole
6 2 (0.68%) Selenium
6 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.68%) VisualVM
6 2 (0.68%) Xcode
7 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.34%) GitLab
7 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 114 (39.04%) Finance
2 110 (37.67%) Social Skills
3 62 (21.23%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (17.47%) Law
5 31 (10.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (9.93%) Banking
7 26 (8.90%) Front Office
8 25 (8.56%) Marketing
9 18 (6.16%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.42%) Investment Banking
10 10 (3.42%) Legal
11 6 (2.05%) Retail
12 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.37%) Wholesale Banking
13 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.03%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.68%) Publishing
15 1 (0.34%) Advertising
15 1 (0.34%) Electronics
15 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (27.05%) Developer
2 58 (19.86%) Senior
3 56 (19.18%) Analyst
4 39 (13.36%) Software Engineer
5 35 (11.99%) Lead
6 34 (11.64%) Senior Developer
7 33 (11.30%) Python Developer
8 26 (8.90%) Data Engineer
9 24 (8.22%) C++ Developer
9 24 (8.22%) Senior Python Developer
10 21 (7.19%) Quantitative Developer
11 20 (6.85%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (6.51%) Linux Developer
12 19 (6.51%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 19 (6.51%) Senior C++ Developer
12 19 (6.51%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (6.51%) Senior Quantitative Developer
13 16 (5.48%) Architect
14 15 (5.14%) Data Architect
15 14 (4.79%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.70%) Kafka
2 34 (11.64%) React
3 26 (8.90%) REST
4 24 (8.22%) Flask
5 21 (7.19%) Django
6 20 (6.85%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 20 (6.85%) FastAPI
7 19 (6.51%) CSS
7 19 (6.51%) HTML
8 13 (4.45%) OAuth
8 13 (4.45%) Spring
8 13 (4.45%) Vue
9 12 (4.11%) OpenID
10 11 (3.77%) RESTful
11 10 (3.42%) JSON
11 10 (3.42%) Spring Boot
12 8 (2.74%) .NET
12 8 (2.74%) SwiftUI
12 8 (2.74%) Web Services
13 7 (2.40%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 71 (24.32%) Algorithms
2 35 (11.99%) Management Information System
3 30 (10.27%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (9.25%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (8.22%) Hedge funds
6 20 (6.85%) Equities
6 20 (6.85%) Public Cloud
7 18 (6.16%) Product Ownership
8 14 (4.79%) Cloud Native
9 13 (4.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (3.42%) Client/Server
11 8 (2.74%) Low-Code
11 8 (2.74%) Private Cloud
12 6 (2.05%) Mobile App
12 6 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (1.37%) Legacy Code
14 4 (1.37%) Onboarding
14 4 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.59%) Linux
2 9 (3.08%) Apple iOS
2 9 (3.08%) Unix
3 2 (0.68%) Android
4 1 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (28.08%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (25.68%) Agile
3 65 (22.26%) Software Engineering
4 58 (19.86%) CI/CD
5 54 (18.49%) Computer Science
6 53 (18.15%) Business Intelligence
7 52 (17.81%) Data Modelling
7 52 (17.81%) Test Automation
8 51 (17.47%) AI
9 50 (17.12%) OOP
10 47 (16.10%) Analytics
11 46 (15.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (15.75%) Mentoring
12 42 (14.38%) Mathematics
13 41 (14.04%) Data Analysis
14 38 (13.01%) ETL
14 38 (13.01%) Low Latency
14 38 (13.01%) SDLC
15 37 (12.67%) OO
16 34 (11.64%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 144 (49.32%) SQL
2 139 (47.60%) Python
3 40 (13.70%) C++
4 38 (13.01%) JavaScript
5 35 (11.99%) Java
6 14 (4.79%) C#
7 13 (4.45%) T-SQL
7 13 (4.45%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.08%) Scala
9 8 (2.74%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.74%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.74%) Swift
10 7 (2.40%) Go
10 7 (2.40%) VBA
11 5 (1.71%) Rust
12 4 (1.37%) Objective-C
12 4 (1.37%) R
13 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.34%) ABAP
14 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 74 (25.34%) Degree
2 20 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (6.16%) Master's Degree
4 13 (4.45%) Security Cleared
5 10 (3.42%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.08%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.08%) PhD
7 8 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.68%) HNC
8 2 (0.68%) HND
8 2 (0.68%) MCSA
8 2 (0.68%) MCSE
8 2 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.34%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.96%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.82%) GDPR
3 14 (4.79%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.05%) QA
5 2 (0.68%) GAAP
5 2 (0.68%) IFRS
5 2 (0.68%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.68%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 48 (16.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (9.25%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.90%) Terraform
3 11 (3.77%) Ansible
4 3 (1.03%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.68%) logstash
5 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.68%) Puppet
6 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 46 (15.75%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.56%) Google
3 15 (5.14%) Oracle
4 13 (4.45%) Salesforce
5 12 (4.11%) Intapp
6 11 (3.77%) Foundry
7 10 (3.42%) Palantir
7 10 (3.42%) SAP
8 9 (3.08%) Workday
9 8 (2.74%) PeopleSoft
9 8 (2.74%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.40%) Databricks
11 5 (1.71%) HubSpot
12 4 (1.37%) Facebook
13 2 (0.68%) Alteryx
13 2 (0.68%) Dataiku
13 2 (0.68%) IBM
13 2 (0.68%) OutSystems
14 1 (0.34%) Cognos
14 1 (0.34%) Huawei