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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 311 293
Rank change year-on-year -53 -18 -32
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 325 355 719
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.97% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.53% 2.51% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 214 123 453
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% +0.80%
75th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £69,500
% change year-on-year - +4.32% +0.98%

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 21,292 14,171 27,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.39% 38.70% 35.55%
Number of salaries quoted 11,017 8,075 20,231
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -15.38%

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 March 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 March 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 +72 219 £80,000 -13.51% 111
North of England -40 42 £57,500 -2.13% 53
Yorkshire -17 35 £75,000 +54.62% 25
South East -39 22 £52,500 +16.67% 65
East of England -31 11 £75,000 -1.96% 19
Midlands -42 11 £48,500 -13.78% 19
East Midlands -47 6 £48,500 - 15
West Midlands -23 5 £47,500 -20.83% 4
North West -27 5 £41,750 -27.39% 17
South West -140 5 £43,953 -38.95% 20
North East -22 2 £30,500 -67.03% 12
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 8 (2.46%) Apache Spark
1 8 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (2.46%) Palantir Foundry
1 8 (2.46%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.23%) Confluence
3 4 (1.23%) SAS
4 3 (0.92%) Apache
4 3 (0.92%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (0.62%) Mendix
6 1 (0.31%) CMS
6 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.92%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (3.38%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.54%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.23%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.92%) FLEXCUBE
4 3 (0.92%) Misys Opics
4 3 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.92%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.92%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.62%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.62%) Shopify
5 2 (0.62%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.31%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.31%) Magento
6 1 (0.31%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.31%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.31%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 91 (28.00%) AWS
2 89 (27.38%) Azure
3 45 (13.85%) Power Platform
4 43 (13.23%) GCP
5 27 (8.31%) GitHub
5 27 (8.31%) Serverless
6 17 (5.23%) SaaS
7 13 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.38%) Boomi
9 10 (3.08%) Power Automate
10 9 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.46%) dbt
11 8 (2.46%) Entra ID
12 7 (2.15%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (2.15%) Snowflake
13 6 (1.85%) Cloud Composer
13 6 (1.85%) Matillion
13 6 (1.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.85%) Broadband
2 4 (1.23%) Network Security
3 1 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (13.85%) Power BI
2 35 (10.77%) BigQuery
3 33 (10.15%) SQL Server
4 32 (9.85%) Metadata
5 28 (8.62%) NoSQL
6 22 (6.77%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (6.77%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (5.54%) DynamoDB
7 18 (5.54%) Relational Database
7 18 (5.54%) Tableau
8 17 (5.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 13 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (3.69%) Data Lake
11 11 (3.38%) MySQL
12 9 (2.77%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (2.15%) RDBMS
15 6 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (1.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (5.85%) Postman
2 18 (5.54%) Git
3 9 (2.77%) Eclipse
3 9 (2.77%) ERwin
4 5 (1.54%) JIRA
5 2 (0.62%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.62%) Storybook
5 2 (0.62%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.31%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.31%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.31%) Toad
6 1 (0.31%) utPLSQL
General
1 105 (32.31%) Finance
2 101 (31.08%) Social Skills
3 84 (25.85%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.92%) Law
5 28 (8.62%) Front Office
6 20 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 20 (6.15%) Retail
7 14 (4.31%) Marketing
8 12 (3.69%) Banking
9 11 (3.38%) Publishing
10 8 (2.46%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.46%) Legal
11 7 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.54%) Billing
13 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.92%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.31%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 86 (26.46%) Developer
2 72 (22.15%) Senior
3 67 (20.62%) Analyst
4 51 (15.69%) Data Analyst
5 39 (12.00%) Python Developer
6 38 (11.69%) Senior Developer
7 37 (11.38%) Software Engineer
8 24 (7.38%) Architect
8 24 (7.38%) Consultant
9 23 (7.08%) C++ Developer
9 23 (7.08%) Quantitative Developer
10 22 (6.77%) Senior Python Developer
11 20 (6.15%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 20 (6.15%) Data Architect
11 20 (6.15%) Lead
11 20 (6.15%) Linux Developer
11 20 (6.15%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 20 (6.15%) Senior C++ Developer
11 20 (6.15%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
11 20 (6.15%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (12.92%) Django
2 32 (9.85%) RESTful
3 30 (9.23%) JSON
4 23 (7.08%) CSS
4 23 (7.08%) Flask
4 23 (7.08%) HTML
5 22 (6.77%) OpenAPI
5 22 (6.77%) REST
5 22 (6.77%) Swagger
6 21 (6.46%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 21 (6.46%) XML
7 20 (6.15%) React
8 19 (5.85%) FastAPI
8 19 (5.85%) Vue
9 15 (4.62%) Kafka
10 10 (3.08%) FIX Protocol
11 9 (2.77%) .NET
12 7 (2.15%) FpML
12 7 (2.15%) SOAP
12 7 (2.15%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 77 (23.69%) Algorithms
2 41 (12.62%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (11.38%) Greenfield Project
4 26 (8.00%) Management Information System
5 22 (6.77%) Equities
5 22 (6.77%) Hedge funds
6 17 (5.23%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.69%) Product Ownership
8 11 (3.38%) Cloud Native
9 10 (3.08%) FMCG
9 10 (3.08%) Reinsurance
10 9 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.77%) Low-Code
11 8 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (2.15%) e-Learning
13 6 (1.85%) Anti-Piracy
13 6 (1.85%) Social Media
14 5 (1.54%) PKI
14 5 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.46%) Linux
2 2 (0.62%) Android
3 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (29.54%) Data Modelling
2 84 (25.85%) Agile
3 83 (25.54%) Problem-Solving
4 67 (20.62%) Analytics
5 66 (20.31%) Software Engineering
6 65 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 65 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 60 (18.46%) ETL
8 59 (18.15%) Business Intelligence
9 57 (17.54%) Data Governance
10 50 (15.38%) OOP
11 48 (14.77%) Mentoring
11 48 (14.77%) OO
12 47 (14.46%) Data Analysis
12 47 (14.46%) Decision-Making
13 44 (13.54%) CI/CD
14 41 (12.62%) Validation
15 39 (12.00%) AI
16 36 (11.08%) Microservices
16 36 (11.08%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 171 (52.62%) Python
2 151 (46.46%) SQL
3 43 (13.23%) C++
4 34 (10.46%) JavaScript
5 28 (8.62%) Java
6 14 (4.31%) T-SQL
7 12 (3.69%) Rust
7 12 (3.69%) Scala
8 10 (3.08%) C#
9 8 (2.46%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.85%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.54%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.54%) R
11 5 (1.54%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.92%) Go
12 3 (0.92%) VBA
13 2 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.31%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 73 (22.46%) Degree
2 41 (12.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (8.62%) Security Cleared
4 20 (6.15%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.69%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.08%) ACCA
6 10 (3.08%) CIMA
7 6 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.85%) PhD
8 5 (1.54%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.23%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.92%) IIBA
11 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (16.62%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.69%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.08%) GDPR
5 8 (2.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.54%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.54%) NIST
6 5 (1.54%) QA
7 4 (1.23%) IFRS
8 3 (0.92%) GAAP
8 3 (0.92%) GRC
9 2 (0.62%) WCAG
10 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (6.15%) Docker
2 8 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (5.85%) Terraform
2 6 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.31%) Grafana
4 1 (0.31%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 33 (10.15%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.69%) Google
3 19 (5.85%) Oracle
4 17 (5.23%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.69%) Foundry
6 11 (3.38%) SAP
6 11 (3.38%) ServiceNow
7 10 (3.08%) Talend
8 9 (2.77%) Informatica
9 8 (2.46%) Palantir
9 8 (2.46%) Sparx
10 7 (2.15%) Workday
11 6 (1.85%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.23%) Databricks
12 4 (1.23%) Intapp
13 3 (0.92%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.92%) Temenos
14 2 (0.62%) OutSystems
14 2 (0.62%) Sage
14 2 (0.62%) SendGrid