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 3 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 331 326
Rank change year-on-year -19 -5 -60
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 300 388 556
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 0.84% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 2.24% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 181 118 459
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 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +4.33% -3.01%
75th Percentile £87,500 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £128,250 £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 19,018 17,310 23,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.65% 37.36% 35.79%
Number of salaries quoted 9,666 7,999 17,766
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,500 £29,000
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 £113,796 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,206 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.14% +6.45% -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 3 February 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 3 February 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 +88 187 £72,500 -19.44% 111
North of England +4 44 £75,000 +30.43% 25
Yorkshire -4 28 £75,000 +66.67% 8
Midlands +18 24 £50,000 -20.00% 16
East Midlands +15 16 £49,250 -24.23% 7
North West +18 15 £75,000 +25.00% 12
South East +7 15 £52,500 +23.53% 46
East of England +13 11 £70,000 -22.22% 17
West Midlands +15 8 £65,000 +8.33% 9
South West -114 3 £43,953 -38.95% 10
North East -5 1 - - 5
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 (3.67%) Palantir Foundry
2 5 (1.67%) CMS
2 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.67%) Apache
4 2 (0.67%) Luigi
4 2 (0.67%) Mendix
4 2 (0.67%) SAS
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 30 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.00%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 15 (5.00%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.33%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.33%) 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 68 (22.67%) Azure
2 66 (22.00%) AWS
3 59 (19.67%) Power Platform
4 25 (8.33%) GCP
4 25 (8.33%) GitHub
5 24 (8.00%) Serverless
6 13 (4.33%) SaaS
7 10 (3.33%) Boomi
8 9 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (2.33%) Power Automate
9 7 (2.33%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.67%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (1.67%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.67%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.67%) Firebase
11 5 (1.67%) Matillion
12 4 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.33%) Network Security
2 1 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (19.67%) Power BI
2 36 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 30 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 19 (6.33%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (6.00%) BigQuery
5 18 (6.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 17 (5.67%) DynamoDB
6 17 (5.67%) Metadata
7 16 (5.33%) Tableau
8 14 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (4.00%) Data Lake
9 12 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (4.00%) Relational Database
9 12 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (3.33%) MySQL
11 8 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (2.33%) Redis
13 6 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (1.67%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 20 (6.67%) Git
2 19 (6.33%) Postman
3 10 (3.33%) ERwin
4 8 (2.67%) 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 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 78 (26.00%) Finance
3 77 (25.67%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.00%) Front Office
5 29 (9.67%) Law
6 23 (7.67%) Retail
7 22 (7.33%) Public Sector
8 16 (5.33%) Marketing
9 12 (4.00%) Publishing
10 11 (3.67%) Banking
11 9 (3.00%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.67%) Billing
13 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.67%) Legal
14 1 (0.33%) Advertising
14 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.33%) Local Government
14 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (28.00%) Developer
2 71 (23.67%) Analyst
3 51 (17.00%) Senior
4 37 (12.33%) Data Analyst
5 36 (12.00%) Python Developer
6 34 (11.33%) Senior Developer
7 32 (10.67%) Lead
8 26 (8.67%) Architect
9 24 (8.00%) Software Engineer
10 23 (7.67%) C++ Developer
10 23 (7.67%) Data Architect
11 22 (7.33%) Quantitative Developer
11 22 (7.33%) Senior Python Developer
12 19 (6.33%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (6.33%) Consultant
13 18 (6.00%) Linux Developer
13 18 (6.00%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 18 (6.00%) Senior C++ Developer
13 18 (6.00%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
13 18 (6.00%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.00%) Django
2 25 (8.33%) Flask
3 24 (8.00%) RESTful
4 23 (7.67%) FastAPI
5 21 (7.00%) CSS
5 21 (7.00%) HTML
6 20 (6.67%) React
7 19 (6.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 18 (6.00%) JSON
8 18 (6.00%) OpenAPI
8 18 (6.00%) Swagger
9 16 (5.33%) Kafka
9 16 (5.33%) REST
10 15 (5.00%) Vue
11 10 (3.33%) XML
12 8 (2.67%) .NET
12 8 (2.67%) Web Services
13 7 (2.33%) OAuth
14 5 (1.67%) Memcached
14 5 (1.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 55 (18.33%) Algorithms
2 29 (9.67%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (9.00%) Management Information System
4 26 (8.67%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (7.00%) Hedge funds
5 21 (7.00%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (6.67%) Equities
7 13 (4.33%) Product Ownership
8 11 (3.67%) Onboarding
9 10 (3.33%) Cloud Native
9 10 (3.33%) FMCG
10 9 (3.00%) Low-Code
10 9 (3.00%) Reinsurance
10 9 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (2.00%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.67%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.33%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.33%) Derivative
13 4 (1.33%) PKI
14 3 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.67%) 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 80 (26.67%) Data Modelling
2 71 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (22.00%) Agile
4 65 (21.67%) Business Intelligence
5 60 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 56 (18.67%) Analytics
7 53 (17.67%) Computer Science
8 52 (17.33%) Data Analysis
8 52 (17.33%) OOP
9 48 (16.00%) Data Governance
10 46 (15.33%) ETL
11 45 (15.00%) AI
12 44 (14.67%) CI/CD
12 44 (14.67%) Mentoring
13 41 (13.67%) Data Integration
14 40 (13.33%) Software Engineering
15 36 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
16 35 (11.67%) Decision-Making
16 35 (11.67%) Microservices
16 35 (11.67%) OO
Programming Languages
1 156 (52.00%) Python
2 149 (49.67%) SQL
3 34 (11.33%) JavaScript
4 26 (8.67%) C++
5 21 (7.00%) Java
6 12 (4.00%) T-SQL
7 8 (2.67%) C#
7 8 (2.67%) Scala
8 6 (2.00%) Kotlin
8 6 (2.00%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.67%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.33%) Go
10 4 (1.33%) VBA
11 3 (1.00%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.67%) R
12 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.33%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.33%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 85 (28.33%) Degree
2 35 (11.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 19 (6.33%) SC Cleared
5 11 (3.67%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.33%) ACCA
6 10 (3.33%) CIMA
7 8 (2.67%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.67%) PhD
9 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.33%) 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 45 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.00%) GDPR
3 14 (4.67%) Accessibility
4 9 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.67%) QA
6 4 (1.33%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.33%) NIST
6 4 (1.33%) 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 (7.33%) Docker
2 5 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (6.00%) Terraform
2 7 (2.33%) 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 35 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.67%) Salesforce
3 15 (5.00%) Google
3 15 (5.00%) Oracle
4 14 (4.67%) Foundry
5 11 (3.67%) Palantir
6 9 (3.00%) SAP
6 9 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.33%) Talend
8 6 (2.00%) Informatica
9 5 (1.67%) Databricks
9 5 (1.67%) MuleSoft
10 4 (1.33%) Facebook
10 4 (1.33%) HubSpot
10 4 (1.33%) Intapp
10 4 (1.33%) Workday
11 3 (1.00%) Temenos
12 2 (0.67%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.67%) Dataiku
12 2 (0.67%) SendGrid