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 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 368 310
Rank change year-on-year +3 -58 -12
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 408 318 791
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.74% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.82% 1.77% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 269 125 373
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £125,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +9.38%

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 22,399 17,951 30,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.82% 41.68% 33.54%
Number of salaries quoted 14,797 8,935 20,285
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,125 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.40%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 +50 231 £85,000 -5.56% 105
South East -35 60 £60,000 +26.32% 41
North of England -4 57 £57,500 -22.82% 28
Yorkshire -14 23 £57,500 -25.81% 9
North West 0 22 £60,000 +20.00% 12
East of England -11 19 £37,500 -42.31% 7
Midlands -46 16 £42,500 -12.37% 20
South West -83 14 £68,750 +30.95% 13
West Midlands -26 13 £43,000 -6.78% 11
North East -35 12 £55,000 -52.17% 8
East Midlands -42 3 £42,500 -12.37% 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 17 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.43%) Apache
3 13 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (2.21%) SAS
6 8 (1.96%) Jupyter
7 7 (1.72%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (1.72%) SharePoint
8 6 (1.47%) Confluence
9 3 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 34 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (1.72%) NetSuite
4 7 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (1.23%) SAP SCM
7 4 (0.98%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.74%) FLEXCUBE
8 3 (0.74%) Misys Opics
8 3 (0.74%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.49%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.49%) Shopify
10 1 (0.25%) FastStats
10 1 (0.25%) JDE EnterpriseOne
10 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
10 1 (0.25%) Magento
10 1 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
10 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
10 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 107 (26.23%) Azure
2 97 (23.77%) AWS
3 94 (23.04%) Power Platform
4 48 (11.76%) GCP
5 30 (7.35%) SaaS
6 22 (5.39%) Amazon S3
6 22 (5.39%) Entra ID
7 19 (4.66%) PowerApps
8 18 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
9 17 (4.17%) dbt
9 17 (4.17%) Power Automate
10 15 (3.68%) Serverless
11 13 (3.19%) Snowflake
12 11 (2.70%) GitHub
12 11 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (2.21%) Amazon EMR
14 9 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (2.21%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.41%) Broadband
2 2 (0.49%) Intranet
3 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (19.61%) Power BI
2 34 (8.33%) Tableau
3 31 (7.60%) BigQuery
4 28 (6.86%) Data Lake
5 25 (6.13%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (5.15%) Relational Database
7 20 (4.90%) Metadata
7 20 (4.90%) SQL Server
8 18 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
10 15 (3.68%) Data Vault
11 14 (3.43%) MySQL
12 13 (3.19%) Star Schema
13 12 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
13 12 (2.94%) SAP BW
14 11 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
15 10 (2.45%) NoSQL
15 10 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 8 (1.96%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (6.13%) Git
2 9 (2.21%) Postman
3 8 (1.96%) ERwin
3 8 (1.96%) JIRA
4 6 (1.47%) GitLab
5 4 (0.98%) Eclipse
5 4 (0.98%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.49%) MLflow
8 1 (0.25%) CMake
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.25%) Toad
8 1 (0.25%) utPLSQL
8 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 168 (41.18%) Finance
2 161 (39.46%) Social Skills
3 68 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (8.82%) Law
5 23 (5.64%) Front Office
6 19 (4.66%) Banking
7 18 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (4.41%) Retail
8 17 (4.17%) Legal
9 14 (3.43%) Billing
9 14 (3.43%) Marketing
10 13 (3.19%) Public Sector
11 11 (2.70%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.45%) Financial Institution
13 9 (2.21%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.72%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.47%) General Ledger
16 5 (1.23%) German Language
16 5 (1.23%) Military
16 5 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (24.75%) Analyst
2 90 (22.06%) Senior
3 65 (15.93%) Developer
4 47 (11.52%) Data Analyst
5 46 (11.27%) Consultant
6 38 (9.31%) Senior Developer
7 37 (9.07%) Software Engineer
8 28 (6.86%) Administrator
9 27 (6.62%) Architect
10 24 (5.88%) Python Developer
11 23 (5.64%) Data Engineer
11 23 (5.64%) Systems Administrator
12 20 (4.90%) Data Architect
13 19 (4.66%) Data Consultant
13 19 (4.66%) Lead
13 19 (4.66%) Systems Analyst
14 18 (4.41%) C++ Developer
14 18 (4.41%) Quantitative Developer
14 18 (4.41%) Senior C++ Developer
14 18 (4.41%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.88%) JSON
1 24 (5.88%) RESTful
2 20 (4.90%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 20 (4.90%) Django
2 20 (4.90%) REST
2 20 (4.90%) XML
3 17 (4.17%) Kafka
3 17 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (3.43%) PySpark
4 14 (3.43%) React
5 10 (2.45%) OpenAPI
5 10 (2.45%) Swagger
6 9 (2.21%) FIX Protocol
6 9 (2.21%) Flask
7 7 (1.72%) .NET
7 7 (1.72%) FastAPI
7 7 (1.72%) FpML
7 7 (1.72%) Middleware
7 7 (1.72%) XML Schema
8 6 (1.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 85 (20.83%) Algorithms
2 43 (10.54%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (6.86%) Management Information System
4 24 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (5.15%) Hedge funds
6 19 (4.66%) Onboarding
7 18 (4.41%) Equities
7 18 (4.41%) Social Media
8 17 (4.17%) Cloud Native
9 12 (2.94%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.96%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.72%) e-Learning
11 7 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.47%) Anti-Piracy
13 5 (1.23%) PKI
13 5 (1.23%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.23%) Taxonomies
14 4 (0.98%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.64%) Linux
2 5 (1.23%) Windows
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (28.92%) Data Modelling
2 102 (25.00%) Analytics
3 101 (24.75%) Business Intelligence
4 89 (21.81%) Problem-Solving
5 82 (20.10%) Agile
5 82 (20.10%) Software Engineering
6 74 (18.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 67 (16.42%) Data Engineering
7 67 (16.42%) Decision-Making
8 65 (15.93%) Validation
9 64 (15.69%) Computer Science
10 62 (15.20%) AI
11 61 (14.95%) ERP
12 59 (14.46%) Data Governance
13 55 (13.48%) CI/CD
13 55 (13.48%) ETL
14 54 (13.24%) Data Pipeline
15 48 (11.76%) DevOps
16 45 (11.03%) Data Analysis
16 45 (11.03%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 182 (44.61%) Python
2 179 (43.87%) SQL
3 45 (11.03%) C++
4 40 (9.80%) Java
5 26 (6.37%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.41%) Rust
7 14 (3.43%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.94%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.70%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.45%) Go
10 10 (2.45%) Scala
11 9 (2.21%) C#
12 8 (1.96%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.47%) R
14 5 (1.23%) C
14 5 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.74%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.74%) VBA
16 1 (0.25%) ABAP
16 1 (0.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 80 (19.61%) Degree
2 37 (9.07%) Security Cleared
3 36 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (5.15%) ACCA
4 21 (5.15%) CIMA
4 21 (5.15%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.98%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.98%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.74%) HND
8 3 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (0.49%) PhD
10 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (21.32%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.17%) QA
3 15 (3.68%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.43%) GDPR
5 11 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.98%) IFRS
8 3 (0.74%) CDISC
8 3 (0.74%) GAAP
8 3 (0.74%) GRC
9 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.49%) NIST
9 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 28 (6.86%) Docker
2 19 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (4.90%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.17%) Terraform
3 4 (0.98%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.74%) Ansible
4 3 (0.74%) Packer
5 2 (0.49%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 57 (13.97%) Microsoft
2 44 (10.78%) Oracle
3 43 (10.54%) SAP
4 24 (5.88%) Google
5 21 (5.15%) Sage
5 21 (5.15%) Salesforce
6 15 (3.68%) Databricks
7 10 (2.45%) Foundry
8 9 (2.21%) Workday
9 8 (1.96%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.72%) Palantir
10 7 (1.72%) Sparx
11 6 (1.47%) Informatica
11 6 (1.47%) Talend
12 5 (1.23%) Alteryx
12 5 (1.23%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.98%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.74%) TOWER Software
15 2 (0.49%) Cisco
15 2 (0.49%) Genesys