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 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 313 336
Rank change year-on-year -40 +23 -117
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 315 509 444
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.74% 0.81% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.80% 2.49% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 133 167 366
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -8.63%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,250 £132,500 £108,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 17,452 20,453 19,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 41.02% 32.71% 39.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9,210 10,086 14,859
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,750 £34,038
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,979 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025. 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 +52 173 £80,000 -15.79% 125
Midlands +30 32 £52,500 -7.08% 21
North of England -15 32 £70,000 +26.13% 44
South East +11 30 £90,000 +111.76% 102
South West -55 28 £70,000 - 13
North West -16 24 £70,000 +12.45% 22
East Midlands -1 18 £51,250 - 4
West Midlands +48 14 £52,500 -7.08% 17
East of England +7 12 £43,387 -27.69% 15
Yorkshire +6 7 £78,750 +215.00% 15
North East - 1 - - 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 17 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.13%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.59%) Apache
3 5 (1.59%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.27%) Apache Pulsar
4 4 (1.27%) CMS
5 2 (0.63%) Luigi
6 1 (0.32%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.32%) Mendix
Applications
1 54 (17.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (8.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.32%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.32%) Blender
4 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.17%) Oracle EBS
1 10 (3.17%) PeopleSoft Financials
2 7 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.27%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.63%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 2 (0.63%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.63%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.32%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.32%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 84 (26.67%) Azure
2 70 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 60 (19.05%) AWS
4 26 (8.25%) GCP
5 11 (3.49%) GitHub
6 10 (3.17%) SaaS
6 10 (3.17%) Snowflake
7 8 (2.54%) Serverless
8 7 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (1.90%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.59%) Google Analytics
10 5 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.27%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.27%) Figma
11 4 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (1.27%) Slack
11 4 (1.27%) Zapier
12 3 (0.95%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.95%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (20.63%) Power BI
2 42 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 29 (9.21%) Relational Database
4 24 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (6.67%) MongoDB
6 20 (6.35%) BusinessObjects
6 20 (6.35%) Data Mining
7 18 (5.71%) MySQL
8 16 (5.08%) Data Lake
9 13 (4.13%) Metadata
9 13 (4.13%) SQL Server
10 12 (3.81%) DB2
10 12 (3.81%) Oracle ODI
11 10 (3.17%) Tableau
12 9 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (2.54%) Flink
13 8 (2.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (2.22%) BigQuery
14 7 (2.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (6.35%) Git
2 11 (3.49%) ERwin
3 4 (1.27%) JIRA
3 4 (1.27%) JUnit
3 4 (1.27%) Mockito
3 4 (1.27%) Postman
3 4 (1.27%) Terragrunt
4 3 (0.95%) MLflow
4 3 (0.95%) Subversion
5 2 (0.63%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.63%) GitLab
5 2 (0.63%) JConsole
5 2 (0.63%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.63%) Selenium
5 2 (0.63%) VisualVM
5 2 (0.63%) Xcode
6 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
General
1 116 (36.83%) Finance
2 101 (32.06%) Social Skills
3 67 (21.27%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (13.97%) Law
5 41 (13.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (9.21%) Public Sector
7 28 (8.89%) Banking
8 25 (7.94%) Front Office
8 25 (7.94%) Marketing
9 23 (7.30%) Retail
10 14 (4.44%) Legal
11 10 (3.17%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.27%) Wholesale Banking
13 3 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.95%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.95%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.63%) Publishing
15 1 (0.32%) Advertising
15 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 88 (27.94%) Developer
2 59 (18.73%) Senior
3 53 (16.83%) Analyst
4 37 (11.75%) Software Engineer
5 34 (10.79%) Lead
6 30 (9.52%) Senior Developer
7 26 (8.25%) Data Engineer
8 24 (7.62%) Python Developer
9 22 (6.98%) C++ Developer
10 21 (6.67%) Junior
10 21 (6.67%) Senior Python Developer
11 20 (6.35%) Quantitative Developer
12 19 (6.03%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (6.03%) Linux Developer
13 18 (5.71%) Junior Developer
13 18 (5.71%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 18 (5.71%) Senior C++ Developer
13 18 (5.71%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
13 18 (5.71%) Senior Quantitative Developer
14 17 (5.40%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.06%) Kafka
1 38 (12.06%) React
2 21 (6.67%) REST
3 19 (6.03%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 15 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 13 (4.13%) Flask
5 13 (4.13%) jQuery
6 12 (3.81%) Backbone.js
6 12 (3.81%) Bootstrap
6 12 (3.81%) Ember.js
6 12 (3.81%) OAuth
6 12 (3.81%) Oracle Fusion
7 11 (3.49%) Django
7 11 (3.49%) FastAPI
7 11 (3.49%) OpenID
7 11 (3.49%) Spring
7 11 (3.49%) Spring Boot
8 9 (2.86%) CSS
8 9 (2.86%) HTML
9 8 (2.54%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 86 (27.30%) Algorithms
2 38 (12.06%) Legacy Systems
3 33 (10.48%) Management Information System
4 28 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (7.30%) Hedge funds
6 20 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (6.35%) Public Cloud
7 19 (6.03%) Equities
8 15 (4.76%) Product Ownership
9 13 (4.13%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (4.13%) Cloud Native
10 11 (3.49%) e-Learning
11 9 (2.86%) Client/Server
12 8 (2.54%) Private Cloud
13 7 (2.22%) Fixed Income
13 7 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (2.22%) Mobile App
14 6 (1.90%) Robotics
15 5 (1.59%) Legacy Code
16 4 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 42 (13.33%) Linux
2 21 (6.67%) Apple iOS
3 14 (4.44%) Android
4 13 (4.13%) Windows
5 9 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (26.67%) Agile
2 68 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 60 (19.05%) AI
5 59 (18.73%) Coaching
6 56 (17.78%) Mentoring
7 55 (17.46%) Business Intelligence
8 48 (15.24%) Analytics
8 48 (15.24%) Computer Science
8 48 (15.24%) Data Modelling
9 47 (14.92%) Test Automation
10 44 (13.97%) CI/CD
10 44 (13.97%) Data Analysis
10 44 (13.97%) Data Management
10 44 (13.97%) ETL
11 40 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (12.38%) Mathematics
13 37 (11.75%) SDLC
14 36 (11.43%) Data Governance
15 35 (11.11%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 161 (51.11%) SQL
2 124 (39.37%) Python
3 42 (13.33%) C++
4 37 (11.75%) Java
5 25 (7.94%) JavaScript
5 25 (7.94%) VBA
6 14 (4.44%) PL/SQL
7 13 (4.13%) C#
7 13 (4.13%) T-SQL
7 13 (4.13%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.86%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.54%) Go
9 8 (2.54%) Swift
10 7 (2.22%) Rust
11 6 (1.90%) R
11 6 (1.90%) Scala
12 5 (1.59%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.27%) Objective-C
14 3 (0.95%) Julia
15 2 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 70 (22.22%) Degree
2 17 (5.40%) Master's Degree
3 15 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (4.44%) Security Cleared
5 10 (3.17%) PhD
5 10 (3.17%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.63%) HNC
8 2 (0.63%) HND
8 2 (0.63%) MCSA
8 2 (0.63%) MCSE
8 2 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.32%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.08%) GDPR
3 15 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 10 (3.17%) QA
5 2 (0.63%) GAAP
5 2 (0.63%) IFRS
5 2 (0.63%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.63%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 43 (13.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.35%) Terraform
3 12 (3.81%) Ansible
4 3 (0.95%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.95%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.63%) logstash
5 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.63%) Puppet
6 1 (0.32%) Grafana
6 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (18.73%) Microsoft
2 25 (7.94%) Google
3 24 (7.62%) Oracle
4 20 (6.35%) Facebook
4 20 (6.35%) IBM
5 19 (6.03%) Red Hat
6 13 (4.13%) Salesforce
6 13 (4.13%) Workday
7 12 (3.81%) ServiceNow
8 11 (3.49%) Intapp
9 10 (3.17%) Foundry
9 10 (3.17%) Palantir
9 10 (3.17%) PeopleSoft
10 8 (2.54%) SAP
11 7 (2.22%) Databricks
12 5 (1.59%) HubSpot
13 2 (0.63%) Alteryx
13 2 (0.63%) Dataiku
14 1 (0.32%) OutSystems
14 1 (0.32%) Ping Identity