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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 344 352
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 -122
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 296 438 381
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.65% 0.73% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.67% 2.19% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 143 163 316
10th Percentile £41,500 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,500 £51,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £108,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £116,750 £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 17,730 20,031 18,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 38.93% 33.18% 38.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9,651 9,575 13,577
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,285 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.53% -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 12 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 12 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 +63 176 £80,000 -15.79% 241
Midlands +69 33 £51,750 -17.20% 24
North of England -5 33 £75,000 +36.36% 42
South East +25 20 £65,000 +52.94% 69
East Midlands +41 18 £50,000 -23.08% 11
North West +11 18 £70,000 +16.67% 23
West Midlands +44 15 £56,250 -6.25% 13
Yorkshire +6 14 £77,500 +210.00% 10
South West -95 12 £35,532 -49.24% 12
East of England +11 11 £45,000 - 19
North East - 1 - - 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 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (4.73%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.69%) CMS
4 4 (1.35%) Apache
4 4 (1.35%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.68%) Luigi
5 2 (0.68%) Mendix
6 1 (0.34%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 33 (11.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.34%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.34%) Blender
5 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.38%) PeopleSoft Financials
2 7 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.35%) NetSuite
3 4 (1.35%) 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 (23.31%) AWS
2 64 (21.62%) Azure
3 57 (19.26%) Power Platform
4 28 (9.46%) GCP
5 20 (6.76%) GitHub
6 15 (5.07%) Serverless
7 10 (3.38%) SaaS
8 9 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (2.36%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.03%) Power Automate
10 6 (2.03%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.69%) Boomi
11 5 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.35%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (1.35%) Figma
12 4 (1.35%) Google Analytics
12 4 (1.35%) Slack
12 4 (1.35%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.01%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (17.57%) Power BI
2 38 (12.84%) NoSQL
3 27 (9.12%) Relational Database
4 20 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (6.42%) SQL Server
6 18 (6.08%) MySQL
7 16 (5.41%) Data Lake
7 16 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (4.39%) Metadata
9 12 (4.05%) MongoDB
10 11 (3.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (3.38%) Redis
11 10 (3.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (3.04%) BigQuery
12 9 (3.04%) Tableau
13 8 (2.70%) Flink
14 7 (2.36%) BusinessObjects
14 7 (2.36%) CockroachDB
15 6 (2.03%) Data Mining
16 5 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 20 (6.76%) Git
2 11 (3.72%) ERwin
3 7 (2.36%) Postman
4 4 (1.35%) JIRA
4 4 (1.35%) JUnit
4 4 (1.35%) Mockito
4 4 (1.35%) Terragrunt
5 3 (1.01%) 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
1 116 (39.19%) Finance
2 111 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 63 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (16.55%) Law
5 35 (11.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (9.80%) Banking
7 26 (8.78%) Front Office
8 25 (8.45%) Marketing
9 22 (7.43%) Public Sector
10 12 (4.05%) Legal
11 10 (3.38%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.70%) Retail
13 4 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.35%) Wholesale Banking
14 3 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.01%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.68%) Publishing
16 1 (0.34%) Advertising
16 1 (0.34%) Electronics
16 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 78 (26.35%) Developer
2 59 (19.93%) Senior
3 57 (19.26%) Analyst
4 39 (13.18%) Software Engineer
5 35 (11.82%) Lead
6 33 (11.15%) Python Developer
6 33 (11.15%) Senior Developer
7 26 (8.78%) Data Engineer
8 24 (8.11%) Senior Python Developer
9 23 (7.77%) C++ Developer
10 21 (7.09%) Quantitative Developer
11 20 (6.76%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (6.42%) Linux Developer
12 19 (6.42%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 19 (6.42%) Senior C++ Developer
12 19 (6.42%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (6.42%) Senior Quantitative Developer
13 16 (5.41%) Architect
14 15 (5.07%) Data Architect
15 14 (4.73%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.51%) Kafka
2 38 (12.84%) React
3 25 (8.45%) REST
4 23 (7.77%) Flask
5 20 (6.76%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 20 (6.76%) Django
6 19 (6.42%) FastAPI
7 18 (6.08%) CSS
7 18 (6.08%) HTML
8 13 (4.39%) OAuth
8 13 (4.39%) Spring
9 12 (4.05%) OpenID
9 12 (4.05%) Vue
10 10 (3.38%) JSON
10 10 (3.38%) RESTful
10 10 (3.38%) Spring Boot
11 8 (2.70%) .NET
11 8 (2.70%) SwiftUI
12 7 (2.36%) gRPC
12 7 (2.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 76 (25.68%) Algorithms
2 35 (11.82%) Management Information System
3 30 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (8.78%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (8.11%) Hedge funds
6 20 (6.76%) Equities
6 20 (6.76%) Public Cloud
7 17 (5.74%) Product Ownership
8 14 (4.73%) Cloud Native
9 13 (4.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (3.38%) Client/Server
11 8 (2.70%) Private Cloud
12 7 (2.36%) Low-Code
13 6 (2.03%) Mobile App
14 5 (1.69%) Fixed Income
14 5 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 5 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
15 4 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.81%) Linux
2 13 (4.39%) Apple iOS
3 9 (3.04%) Unix
4 6 (2.03%) Android
5 5 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (27.03%) Agile
1 80 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (21.96%) Software Engineering
3 56 (18.92%) CI/CD
4 54 (18.24%) Computer Science
5 53 (17.91%) AI
5 53 (17.91%) Business Intelligence
6 52 (17.57%) Mentoring
6 52 (17.57%) Test Automation
7 50 (16.89%) Data Modelling
8 49 (16.55%) OOP
9 46 (15.54%) Analytics
10 44 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (14.19%) Data Analysis
11 42 (14.19%) Mathematics
12 38 (12.84%) Low Latency
12 38 (12.84%) SDLC
13 36 (12.16%) ETL
13 36 (12.16%) OO
14 34 (11.49%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 146 (49.32%) SQL
2 136 (45.95%) Python
3 39 (13.18%) C++
4 37 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 35 (11.82%) Java
6 14 (4.73%) C#
7 13 (4.39%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.05%) T-SQL
9 9 (3.04%) Scala
9 9 (3.04%) VBA
10 8 (2.70%) Kotlin
10 8 (2.70%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.70%) Swift
11 7 (2.36%) Go
12 5 (1.69%) Rust
13 4 (1.35%) Objective-C
13 4 (1.35%) R
14 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.34%) ABAP
15 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 74 (25.00%) Degree
2 20 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (6.08%) Master's Degree
4 13 (4.39%) Security Cleared
5 10 (3.38%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.04%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.04%) PhD
7 8 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.70%) 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 31 (10.47%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.74%) GDPR
3 14 (4.73%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.36%) 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 (16.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (9.12%) Kubernetes
2 26 (8.78%) Terraform
3 11 (3.72%) Ansible
4 3 (1.01%) 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 49 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.45%) Google
3 15 (5.07%) Oracle
4 14 (4.73%) Intapp
5 13 (4.39%) Salesforce
6 11 (3.72%) Foundry
6 11 (3.72%) Workday
7 10 (3.38%) Palantir
7 10 (3.38%) PeopleSoft
7 10 (3.38%) SAP
7 10 (3.38%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.36%) Databricks
9 6 (2.03%) Facebook
9 6 (2.03%) IBM
10 5 (1.69%) HubSpot
11 4 (1.35%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.68%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.68%) Dataiku
12 2 (0.68%) OutSystems
13 1 (0.34%) Talend