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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 318 317
Rank change year-on-year -33 -1 -58
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 327 354 633
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.92% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.58% 2.35% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 218 120 448
10th Percentile £44,590 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,433 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,285 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% +2.84% +1.21%
75th Percentile £93,750 £99,063 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £127,500 £110,375
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% +1.71%

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 20,654 15,088 26,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.23% 39.10% 35.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,631 8,084 19,720
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £28,290
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £38,572
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 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,875 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% +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 17 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 17 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 +99 220 £80,000 -13.51% 89
North of England -22 40 £57,500 -2.13% 43
Yorkshire -16 31 £75,000 +54.62% 19
South East -19 20 £42,500 -5.56% 41
Midlands -25 14 £48,500 -19.17% 15
East of England -18 11 £75,000 -6.25% 13
East Midlands -27 9 £48,500 -14.54% 11
North West -23 7 £44,237 -24.70% 18
West Midlands -3 5 £47,500 -20.83% 3
South West -131 4 £43,953 -38.95% 15
North East -24 2 £30,500 -49.17% 7
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 12 (3.67%) Palantir Foundry
2 8 (2.45%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.14%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.22%) SAS
5 3 (0.92%) Apache
5 3 (0.92%) Confluence
5 3 (0.92%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.61%) CMS
6 2 (0.61%) Mendix
7 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.92%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (3.67%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.53%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.22%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.92%) FLEXCUBE
4 3 (0.92%) Misys Opics
4 3 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.92%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.61%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.61%) Shopify
5 2 (0.61%) 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 87 (26.61%) AWS
1 87 (26.61%) Azure
2 45 (13.76%) Power Platform
3 40 (12.23%) GCP
4 27 (8.26%) GitHub
5 26 (7.95%) Serverless
6 17 (5.20%) SaaS
7 13 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (3.36%) Boomi
9 9 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.75%) Power Automate
10 8 (2.45%) dbt
10 8 (2.45%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.14%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.14%) Cloud Composer
11 7 (2.14%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.83%) Dagster
12 6 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (1.83%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.83%) Broadband
2 4 (1.22%) Network Security
3 1 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (13.76%) Power BI
2 36 (11.01%) SQL Server
3 33 (10.09%) BigQuery
4 30 (9.17%) Metadata
4 30 (9.17%) NoSQL
5 23 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (6.42%) Elasticsearch
7 20 (6.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 18 (5.50%) DynamoDB
8 18 (5.50%) Tableau
9 17 (5.20%) Relational Database
10 15 (4.59%) Data Lake
11 14 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (3.67%) MySQL
13 11 (3.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (2.75%) Oracle Reports
15 8 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (1.83%) Pentaho
16 6 (1.83%) RDBMS
16 6 (1.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (6.12%) Git
1 20 (6.12%) Postman
2 9 (2.75%) Eclipse
3 7 (2.14%) ERwin
4 5 (1.53%) JIRA
5 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.61%) Storybook
5 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.31%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.31%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.31%) JConsole
6 1 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.31%) Toad
6 1 (0.31%) utPLSQL
6 1 (0.31%) VisualVM
General
1 107 (32.72%) Social Skills
2 103 (31.50%) Finance
3 87 (26.61%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.84%) Law
5 28 (8.56%) Front Office
6 23 (7.03%) Public Sector
7 19 (5.81%) Retail
8 15 (4.59%) Banking
9 14 (4.28%) Marketing
10 11 (3.36%) Publishing
11 7 (2.14%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.14%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.14%) Legal
12 5 (1.53%) Billing
13 3 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.92%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.31%) German Language
15 1 (0.31%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (26.91%) Developer
2 73 (22.32%) Senior
3 65 (19.88%) Analyst
4 50 (15.29%) Data Analyst
5 40 (12.23%) Senior Developer
6 39 (11.93%) Python Developer
7 35 (10.70%) Software Engineer
8 27 (8.26%) Consultant
9 25 (7.65%) Architect
10 24 (7.34%) Lead
11 23 (7.03%) Senior Python Developer
12 22 (6.73%) C++ Developer
12 22 (6.73%) Quantitative Developer
13 21 (6.42%) Data Architect
14 19 (5.81%) C++ Quantitative Developer
14 19 (5.81%) Linux Developer
14 19 (5.81%) Low Latency C++ Developer
14 19 (5.81%) Senior C++ Developer
14 19 (5.81%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
14 19 (5.81%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (12.84%) Django
2 31 (9.48%) RESTful
3 30 (9.17%) JSON
4 24 (7.34%) Flask
4 24 (7.34%) REST
5 22 (6.73%) CSS
5 22 (6.73%) HTML
5 22 (6.73%) OpenAPI
5 22 (6.73%) Swagger
6 21 (6.42%) FastAPI
7 20 (6.12%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 20 (6.12%) React
7 20 (6.12%) XML
8 16 (4.89%) Kafka
8 16 (4.89%) Vue
9 10 (3.06%) .NET
10 9 (2.75%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (2.45%) SOAP
12 7 (2.14%) Web Services
13 6 (1.83%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 75 (22.94%) Algorithms
2 43 (13.15%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (10.70%) Greenfield Project
4 28 (8.56%) Management Information System
5 21 (6.42%) Equities
5 21 (6.42%) Hedge funds
6 16 (4.89%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.98%) Product Ownership
8 12 (3.67%) Cloud Native
8 12 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (3.06%) FMCG
9 10 (3.06%) Reinsurance
10 9 (2.75%) Low-Code
11 8 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.83%) Anti-Piracy
12 6 (1.83%) e-Learning
12 6 (1.83%) Social Media
13 5 (1.53%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.22%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.81%) Linux
2 2 (0.61%) Android
3 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (29.66%) Data Modelling
2 84 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (23.85%) Agile
4 72 (22.02%) Analytics
5 68 (20.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 67 (20.49%) Computer Science
7 64 (19.57%) ETL
8 61 (18.65%) Software Engineering
9 60 (18.35%) Business Intelligence
10 59 (18.04%) Data Governance
11 51 (15.60%) Mentoring
12 50 (15.29%) OOP
13 46 (14.07%) Data Analysis
14 45 (13.76%) AI
15 44 (13.46%) Decision-Making
16 43 (13.15%) CI/CD
16 43 (13.15%) OO
17 39 (11.93%) Migration
17 39 (11.93%) Validation
18 37 (11.31%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 171 (52.29%) Python
2 155 (47.40%) SQL
3 41 (12.54%) C++
4 34 (10.40%) JavaScript
5 29 (8.87%) Java
6 16 (4.89%) T-SQL
7 12 (3.67%) Scala
8 10 (3.06%) C#
8 10 (3.06%) Rust
9 8 (2.45%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.83%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.83%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.53%) R
11 5 (1.53%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.92%) Go
13 2 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.61%) VBA
14 1 (0.31%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 73 (22.32%) Degree
2 41 (12.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (8.56%) Security Cleared
4 20 (6.12%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.67%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.06%) ACCA
6 10 (3.06%) CIMA
7 9 (2.75%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.83%) PhD
9 5 (1.53%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.22%) Postgraduate
11 3 (0.92%) IIBA
11 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.31%) HNC
13 1 (0.31%) HND
13 1 (0.31%) MCSA
13 1 (0.31%) MCSE
13 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (17.13%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.28%) Accessibility
3 13 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (3.36%) GDPR
5 8 (2.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.53%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.53%) NIST
6 5 (1.53%) QA
7 4 (1.22%) IFRS
8 3 (0.92%) GAAP
9 2 (0.61%) GRC
9 2 (0.61%) WCAG
10 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (6.42%) Docker
2 8 (2.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.81%) Terraform
2 6 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.31%) Grafana
4 1 (0.31%) logstash
Vendors
1 38 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.03%) Google
3 21 (6.42%) Oracle
4 20 (6.12%) Salesforce
5 16 (4.89%) Foundry
6 12 (3.67%) Palantir
7 10 (3.06%) SAP
7 10 (3.06%) ServiceNow
7 10 (3.06%) Talend
8 9 (2.75%) Informatica
9 7 (2.14%) Sparx
9 7 (2.14%) Workday
10 6 (1.83%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.53%) Databricks
12 4 (1.22%) Alteryx
12 4 (1.22%) Intapp
13 3 (0.92%) Temenos
14 2 (0.61%) OpenAI
14 2 (0.61%) Sage
14 2 (0.61%) SendGrid