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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 366 280
Rank change year-on-year -7 -86 -9
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 340 265 824
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.71% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.50% 1.80% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 211 136 449
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £46,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +2.84% +1.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £71,991 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.71% +2.84% +3.70%

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 22,636 14,716 29,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.88% 39.37% 35.16%
Number of salaries quoted 11,779 8,339 20,746
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +77 226 £85,000 -5.82% 79
North of England -41 45 £58,750 -2.08% 31
Yorkshire -35 33 £57,500 -7.64% 10
South East -61 23 £49,000 +8.89% 54
East of England -39 12 £70,000 -8.50% 16
Midlands -55 12 £48,500 - 17
North West -35 7 £52,500 -8.70% 16
South West -73 7 £60,727 -15.65% 16
West Midlands -26 6 £48,750 -18.75% 11
East Midlands -66 6 £48,500 - 6
North East -36 5 £60,000 -42.17% 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 8 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.47%) Confluence
4 5 (1.47%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.88%) Apache
5 3 (0.88%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (0.88%) SAS
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 26 (7.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (3.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (3.24%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (1.18%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.88%) FLEXCUBE
6 3 (0.88%) Misys Opics
6 3 (0.88%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.88%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.59%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.59%) Shopify
7 2 (0.59%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.29%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.29%) Magento
8 1 (0.29%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.29%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.29%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 97 (28.53%) Azure
2 90 (26.47%) AWS
3 58 (17.06%) Power Platform
4 52 (15.29%) GCP
5 20 (5.88%) Serverless
6 19 (5.59%) GitHub
7 14 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (4.12%) SaaS
8 10 (2.94%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.65%) dbt
9 9 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (2.35%) Boomi
10 8 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (2.06%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.06%) Power Automate
11 7 (2.06%) Snowflake
12 6 (1.76%) Cloud Composer
12 6 (1.76%) Dagster
12 6 (1.76%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.29%) Broadband
2 4 (1.18%) Network Security
3 1 (0.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (17.06%) Power BI
2 44 (12.94%) BigQuery
3 32 (9.41%) Metadata
4 30 (8.82%) Tableau
5 27 (7.94%) SQL Server
6 26 (7.65%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (6.76%) Data Lake
8 22 (6.47%) NoSQL
9 20 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (5.00%) DynamoDB
11 16 (4.71%) Relational Database
11 16 (4.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (3.53%) SAP BW
14 10 (2.94%) MySQL
15 9 (2.65%) Oracle Reports
16 7 (2.06%) Data Vault
16 7 (2.06%) RDBMS
17 6 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
17 6 (1.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (5.59%) Git
1 19 (5.59%) Postman
2 9 (2.65%) Eclipse
2 9 (2.65%) ERwin
3 6 (1.76%) JIRA
4 2 (0.59%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.59%) Storybook
4 2 (0.59%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.29%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.29%) Maven
5 1 (0.29%) Toad
5 1 (0.29%) utPLSQL
5 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 118 (34.71%) Finance
2 110 (32.35%) Social Skills
3 73 (21.47%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.35%) Law
5 26 (7.65%) Front Office
6 21 (6.18%) Retail
7 19 (5.59%) Marketing
8 15 (4.41%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.53%) Banking
10 10 (2.94%) Legal
10 10 (2.94%) Publishing
11 8 (2.35%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.06%) Billing
12 7 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.18%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.88%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.88%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (24.41%) Analyst
2 75 (22.06%) Developer
3 73 (21.47%) Senior
4 56 (16.47%) Data Analyst
5 39 (11.47%) Senior Developer
5 39 (11.47%) Software Engineer
6 31 (9.12%) Python Developer
7 27 (7.94%) Consultant
8 24 (7.06%) Architect
9 22 (6.47%) C++ Developer
10 21 (6.18%) Data Architect
10 21 (6.18%) Quantitative Developer
11 20 (5.88%) Senior Python Developer
12 19 (5.59%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (5.59%) Linux Developer
12 19 (5.59%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 19 (5.59%) Senior C++ Developer
12 19 (5.59%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (5.59%) Senior Quantitative Developer
13 16 (4.71%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.18%) Django
2 35 (10.29%) RESTful
3 28 (8.24%) JSON
4 22 (6.47%) OpenAPI
4 22 (6.47%) Swagger
5 19 (5.59%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 19 (5.59%) XML
6 17 (5.00%) REST
7 15 (4.41%) Kafka
7 15 (4.41%) Oracle Fusion
8 14 (4.12%) CSS
8 14 (4.12%) Flask
8 14 (4.12%) HTML
9 11 (3.24%) FastAPI
9 11 (3.24%) React
10 10 (2.94%) Vue
11 9 (2.65%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (2.35%) .NET
13 7 (2.06%) FpML
13 7 (2.06%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 84 (24.71%) Algorithms
2 46 (13.53%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (11.47%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (7.35%) Management Information System
5 22 (6.47%) Hedge funds
6 21 (6.18%) Equities
7 18 (5.29%) Social Media
8 15 (4.41%) Onboarding
9 13 (3.82%) Product Ownership
10 11 (3.24%) Cloud Native
11 10 (2.94%) FMCG
11 10 (2.94%) Reinsurance
12 9 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (2.06%) e-Learning
15 6 (1.76%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (1.76%) PKI
16 5 (1.47%) Client/Server
16 5 (1.47%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (0.29%) Android
2 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (31.76%) Data Modelling
2 86 (25.29%) Agile
3 80 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (22.65%) Software Engineering
5 74 (21.76%) Business Intelligence
6 70 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (20.00%) Analytics
7 68 (20.00%) Computer Science
8 56 (16.47%) ETL
9 55 (16.18%) Data Governance
10 49 (14.41%) Decision-Making
11 47 (13.82%) OO
12 44 (12.94%) Mentoring
13 41 (12.06%) OOP
14 40 (11.76%) Data Analysis
14 40 (11.76%) Validation
15 39 (11.47%) CI/CD
15 39 (11.47%) Microservices
16 36 (10.59%) DevOps
17 34 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 165 (48.53%) Python
2 143 (42.06%) SQL
3 43 (12.65%) C++
4 29 (8.53%) Java
5 21 (6.18%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.12%) Rust
6 14 (4.12%) T-SQL
7 11 (3.24%) Scala
8 8 (2.35%) C#
8 8 (2.35%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.47%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.47%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.47%) R
9 5 (1.47%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.88%) VBA
11 2 (0.59%) C
11 2 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.59%) Go
11 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.29%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 82 (24.12%) Degree
2 44 (12.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (7.94%) Security Cleared
4 19 (5.59%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.94%) ACCA
5 10 (2.94%) CIMA
6 8 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.47%) PhD
8 4 (1.18%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.18%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.88%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.88%) IIBA
9 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (16.47%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.53%) GDPR
4 9 (2.65%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.35%) QA
5 8 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.47%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.47%) NIST
7 4 (1.18%) IFRS
8 3 (0.88%) GAAP
8 3 (0.88%) GRC
9 2 (0.59%) WCAG
10 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.29%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (4.41%) Docker
2 10 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (4.71%) Terraform
2 8 (2.35%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
4 1 (0.29%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 33 (9.71%) Google
2 32 (9.41%) Microsoft
3 28 (8.24%) Oracle
4 27 (7.94%) SAP
5 17 (5.00%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.82%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.94%) Talend
8 9 (2.65%) Foundry
8 9 (2.65%) Informatica
9 8 (2.35%) Sparx
10 6 (1.76%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.76%) Workday
11 5 (1.47%) Databricks
11 5 (1.47%) Palantir
12 4 (1.18%) Intapp
13 3 (0.88%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.88%) Temenos
14 2 (0.59%) Ariba
14 2 (0.59%) Sage
14 2 (0.59%) SendGrid