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 31 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 330 316
Rank change year-on-year -24 -14 -52
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 299 386 541
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 0.82% 0.87%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.57% 2.21% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 180 120 445
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +2.84% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £96,875 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £127,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £71,991 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.77% +6.65% -3.57%

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 19,004 17,491 22,277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.86% 37.36% 35.92%
Number of salaries quoted 9,663 8,160 16,888
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,981 £101,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.84% +6.09% -11.54%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +80 187 £72,500 -19.44% 74
North of England +10 44 £75,000 +27.66% 21
Yorkshire +6 28 £75,000 +66.67% 6
Midlands +19 24 £50,000 -20.00% 16
East Midlands +9 16 £49,250 -24.23% 8
North West +17 15 £75,000 +25.00% 12
South East +11 14 £52,500 +23.53% 42
East of England +20 11 £70,000 -22.22% 14
West Midlands +15 8 £65,000 +8.33% 8
South West -115 3 £43,953 -38.95% 11
North East -2 1 - - 3
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 11 (3.68%) Palantir Foundry
2 5 (1.67%) CMS
2 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.34%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.67%) Luigi
4 2 (0.67%) Mendix
4 2 (0.67%) SAS
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 30 (10.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.00%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (4.68%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.34%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.00%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.67%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (0.67%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.67%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.67%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.33%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.33%) Misys Opics
5 1 (0.33%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 66 (22.07%) Azure
2 65 (21.74%) AWS
3 57 (19.06%) Power Platform
4 25 (8.36%) GitHub
5 24 (8.03%) GCP
5 24 (8.03%) Serverless
6 12 (4.01%) SaaS
7 10 (3.34%) Boomi
8 9 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.34%) Power Automate
9 7 (2.34%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.67%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.67%) Firebase
11 5 (1.67%) Matillion
11 5 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (1.34%) Slack
12 4 (1.34%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.34%) Network Security
2 1 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (19.06%) Power BI
2 36 (12.04%) NoSQL
3 29 (9.70%) SQL Server
4 19 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (6.02%) BigQuery
6 17 (5.69%) DynamoDB
6 17 (5.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (5.35%) Metadata
8 15 (5.02%) Tableau
9 14 (4.68%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (4.01%) Relational Database
10 12 (4.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (3.68%) Data Lake
11 11 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (3.01%) MySQL
13 8 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (2.34%) Redis
15 6 (2.01%) Snowflake Schema
16 5 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
16 5 (1.67%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 20 (6.69%) Git
2 19 (6.35%) Postman
3 10 (3.34%) ERwin
4 8 (2.68%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.67%) JConsole
5 2 (0.67%) JIRA
5 2 (0.67%) Storybook
5 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.67%) VisualVM
6 1 (0.33%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.33%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
General
1 102 (34.11%) Social Skills
2 79 (26.42%) Finance
3 75 (25.08%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.03%) Front Office
5 29 (9.70%) Law
6 22 (7.36%) Public Sector
6 22 (7.36%) Retail
7 15 (5.02%) Marketing
8 12 (4.01%) Banking
9 11 (3.68%) Publishing
10 10 (3.34%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.67%) Billing
12 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Legal
13 1 (0.33%) Advertising
13 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.33%) Local Government
13 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (28.09%) Developer
2 69 (23.08%) Analyst
3 51 (17.06%) Senior
4 36 (12.04%) Python Developer
5 35 (11.71%) Data Analyst
6 34 (11.37%) Senior Developer
7 32 (10.70%) Lead
8 25 (8.36%) Architect
9 24 (8.03%) Software Engineer
10 23 (7.69%) C++ Developer
11 22 (7.36%) Data Architect
11 22 (7.36%) Quantitative Developer
11 22 (7.36%) Senior Python Developer
12 19 (6.35%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (6.35%) Consultant
13 18 (6.02%) Linux Developer
13 18 (6.02%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 18 (6.02%) Senior C++ Developer
13 18 (6.02%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
13 18 (6.02%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.04%) Django
2 25 (8.36%) Flask
3 24 (8.03%) RESTful
4 23 (7.69%) FastAPI
5 21 (7.02%) CSS
5 21 (7.02%) HTML
6 20 (6.69%) React
7 19 (6.35%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 18 (6.02%) OpenAPI
8 18 (6.02%) Swagger
9 17 (5.69%) JSON
10 16 (5.35%) Kafka
10 16 (5.35%) REST
11 15 (5.02%) Vue
12 9 (3.01%) XML
13 8 (2.68%) .NET
13 8 (2.68%) Web Services
14 7 (2.34%) OAuth
15 5 (1.67%) Memcached
15 5 (1.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 55 (18.39%) Algorithms
2 29 (9.70%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (9.36%) Management Information System
4 25 (8.36%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (7.36%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (7.02%) Hedge funds
7 20 (6.69%) Equities
8 13 (4.35%) Product Ownership
9 10 (3.34%) Onboarding
9 10 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (3.01%) Cloud Native
10 9 (3.01%) FMCG
10 9 (3.01%) Low-Code
10 9 (3.01%) Reinsurance
11 6 (2.01%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.67%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.34%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.34%) Derivative
13 4 (1.34%) PKI
14 3 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.69%) Linux
2 2 (0.67%) Android
2 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (25.75%) Data Modelling
2 71 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (22.07%) Agile
4 62 (20.74%) Business Intelligence
5 61 (20.40%) Continuous Improvement
6 56 (18.73%) Analytics
7 53 (17.73%) Computer Science
8 52 (17.39%) Data Analysis
8 52 (17.39%) OOP
9 47 (15.72%) Data Governance
10 46 (15.38%) AI
11 45 (15.05%) ETL
12 44 (14.72%) CI/CD
13 43 (14.38%) Mentoring
14 41 (13.71%) Data Integration
15 40 (13.38%) Software Engineering
16 37 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
17 35 (11.71%) Decision-Making
17 35 (11.71%) Microservices
17 35 (11.71%) OO
Programming Languages
1 154 (51.51%) Python
2 146 (48.83%) SQL
3 34 (11.37%) JavaScript
4 26 (8.70%) C++
5 21 (7.02%) Java
6 11 (3.68%) T-SQL
7 8 (2.68%) C#
7 8 (2.68%) Scala
8 6 (2.01%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.01%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.34%) Go
9 4 (1.34%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.34%) VBA
10 3 (1.00%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.67%) R
11 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.33%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.33%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 85 (28.43%) Degree
2 35 (11.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (8.36%) Security Cleared
4 19 (6.35%) SC Cleared
5 11 (3.68%) Master's Degree
6 9 (3.01%) ACCA
6 9 (3.01%) CIMA
7 8 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.67%) PhD
9 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.34%) Postgraduate
10 3 (1.00%) IIBA
11 2 (0.67%) HNC
11 2 (0.67%) HND
11 2 (0.67%) MCSA
11 2 (0.67%) MCSE
11 2 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (14.72%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.02%) GDPR
3 14 (4.68%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.67%) QA
6 4 (1.34%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.34%) NIST
6 4 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.67%) WCAG
8 1 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.33%) GRC
8 1 (0.33%) IFRS
8 1 (0.33%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (7.36%) Docker
2 4 (1.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (6.02%) Terraform
2 7 (2.34%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.67%) Ansible
4 2 (0.67%) logstash
4 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.67%) Puppet
5 1 (0.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 36 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.69%) Salesforce
3 15 (5.02%) Google
3 15 (5.02%) Oracle
4 14 (4.68%) Foundry
5 11 (3.68%) Palantir
6 9 (3.01%) SAP
6 9 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.34%) Talend
8 6 (2.01%) Informatica
9 5 (1.67%) Databricks
9 5 (1.67%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.34%) Facebook
10 4 (1.34%) HubSpot
10 4 (1.34%) Intapp
10 4 (1.34%) Workday
11 3 (1.00%) Temenos
12 2 (0.67%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.67%) Dataiku
12 2 (0.67%) SendGrid