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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 363 313
Rank change year-on-year -11 -50 -11
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 406 320 760
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.46% 0.74% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.81% 1.78% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 268 124 352
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,313 £97,500 £92,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £125,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +11.11%

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 22,465 17,980 29,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.65% 41.49% 33.41%
Number of salaries quoted 14,849 8,985 19,732
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,300 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,445 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.64% +4.55% -14.60%

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 15 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 15 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 +19 226 £85,000 -3.41% 132
North of England +5 60 £56,250 -16.67% 79
South East -23 60 £60,000 +20.00% 67
North West -3 23 £60,000 +20.00% 39
Yorkshire -10 23 £57,500 -25.81% 28
East of England -15 19 £37,500 -42.31% 26
Midlands -45 16 £42,500 -12.37% 48
South West -85 15 £75,000 +42.86% 20
North East -46 14 £55,000 -52.17% 13
West Midlands -29 13 £43,000 +33.33% 26
East Midlands -38 3 £42,500 -12.37% 22
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 18 (4.43%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.69%) Apache
3 14 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (2.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (2.22%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.22%) SAS
6 7 (1.72%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (1.72%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.48%) Confluence
8 3 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 35 (8.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (1.48%) NetSuite
5 6 (1.48%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (1.23%) SAP SCM
7 3 (0.74%) FLEXCUBE
7 3 (0.74%) Misys Opics
7 3 (0.74%) SAP SD
7 3 (0.74%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.49%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.49%) Shopify
9 1 (0.25%) FastStats
9 1 (0.25%) JDE EnterpriseOne
9 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.25%) Magento
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle iProcurement
9 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 104 (25.62%) Azure
2 102 (25.12%) AWS
3 92 (22.66%) Power Platform
4 48 (11.82%) GCP
5 30 (7.39%) SaaS
6 24 (5.91%) Amazon S3
7 22 (5.42%) Entra ID
8 19 (4.68%) Dynamics 365
8 19 (4.68%) PowerApps
9 18 (4.43%) dbt
10 17 (4.19%) Power Automate
10 17 (4.19%) Serverless
11 14 (3.45%) Snowflake
12 11 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (2.71%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (2.71%) GitHub
12 11 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (2.46%) Amazon EMR
14 9 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (2.22%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.43%) Broadband
2 3 (0.74%) Intranet
3 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (19.21%) Power BI
2 32 (7.88%) Tableau
3 31 (7.64%) BigQuery
4 30 (7.39%) Data Lake
5 27 (6.65%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (5.17%) Relational Database
7 20 (4.93%) Metadata
8 19 (4.68%) SQL Server
9 18 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (4.19%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (3.94%) Data Vault
12 14 (3.45%) MySQL
12 14 (3.45%) Star Schema
13 12 (2.96%) SAP BW
13 12 (2.96%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (2.71%) NoSQL
14 11 (2.71%) Oracle Reports
15 10 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 9 (2.22%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (6.16%) Git
2 8 (1.97%) ERwin
2 8 (1.97%) JIRA
2 8 (1.97%) Postman
3 7 (1.72%) GitLab
4 5 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.74%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.49%) MLflow
7 1 (0.25%) CMake
7 1 (0.25%) Maven
7 1 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.25%) Toad
7 1 (0.25%) utPLSQL
7 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 167 (41.13%) Finance
2 160 (39.41%) Social Skills
3 67 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (8.87%) Law
5 20 (4.93%) Front Office
6 18 (4.43%) Banking
6 18 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (4.43%) Retail
7 17 (4.19%) Legal
8 15 (3.69%) Billing
9 14 (3.45%) Marketing
10 13 (3.20%) Public Sector
11 11 (2.71%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.71%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.22%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.48%) General Ledger
13 6 (1.48%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.23%) German Language
14 5 (1.23%) Military
14 5 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (24.88%) Analyst
2 90 (22.17%) Senior
3 64 (15.76%) Developer
4 46 (11.33%) Data Analyst
5 45 (11.08%) Consultant
6 38 (9.36%) Software Engineer
7 37 (9.11%) Senior Developer
8 28 (6.90%) Administrator
8 28 (6.90%) Architect
9 24 (5.91%) Data Engineer
10 23 (5.67%) Systems Administrator
11 22 (5.42%) Python Developer
12 21 (5.17%) Data Architect
13 20 (4.93%) Systems Analyst
14 19 (4.68%) Data Consultant
15 18 (4.43%) Lead
16 17 (4.19%) Backend Developer
16 17 (4.19%) C++ Developer
16 17 (4.19%) Senior C++ Developer
16 17 (4.19%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.91%) JSON
2 23 (5.67%) RESTful
3 21 (5.17%) REST
4 20 (4.93%) Django
4 20 (4.93%) XML
5 19 (4.68%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 18 (4.43%) Kafka
7 17 (4.19%) Oracle Fusion
8 15 (3.69%) PySpark
9 14 (3.45%) React
10 9 (2.22%) FIX Protocol
10 9 (2.22%) Flask
10 9 (2.22%) OpenAPI
10 9 (2.22%) Swagger
11 8 (1.97%) .NET
12 7 (1.72%) FastAPI
12 7 (1.72%) FpML
12 7 (1.72%) Middleware
12 7 (1.72%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.72%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 85 (20.94%) Algorithms
2 43 (10.59%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (6.65%) Management Information System
4 23 (5.67%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (5.17%) Hedge funds
6 20 (4.93%) Onboarding
7 18 (4.43%) Social Media
8 17 (4.19%) Cloud Native
9 16 (3.94%) Equities
10 12 (2.96%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.97%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.72%) e-Learning
13 6 (1.48%) Anti-Piracy
14 5 (1.23%) PKI
14 5 (1.23%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.23%) Taxonomies
15 4 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
15 4 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.67%) Linux
2 6 (1.48%) Windows
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (30.05%) Data Modelling
2 102 (25.12%) Analytics
3 99 (24.38%) Business Intelligence
4 92 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (20.69%) Agile
5 84 (20.69%) Software Engineering
6 76 (18.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 70 (17.24%) Data Engineering
8 67 (16.50%) Decision-Making
9 65 (16.01%) AI
9 65 (16.01%) Computer Science
9 65 (16.01%) Validation
10 61 (15.02%) ERP
11 59 (14.53%) Data Governance
12 58 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
13 56 (13.79%) CI/CD
14 53 (13.05%) ETL
15 49 (12.07%) DevOps
16 47 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
17 46 (11.33%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 183 (45.07%) Python
2 178 (43.84%) SQL
3 45 (11.08%) C++
4 41 (10.10%) Java
5 26 (6.40%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.43%) Rust
7 14 (3.45%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.96%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.71%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.46%) C#
10 10 (2.46%) Go
10 10 (2.46%) Scala
11 8 (1.97%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.23%) C
12 5 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.23%) R
13 3 (0.74%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.74%) VBA
14 1 (0.25%) ABAP
14 1 (0.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 80 (19.70%) Degree
2 39 (9.61%) Security Cleared
3 35 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (5.67%) SC Cleared
5 20 (4.93%) ACCA
5 20 (4.93%) CIMA
6 9 (2.22%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.23%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.99%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.74%) HND
10 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.49%) PhD
12 1 (0.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (21.92%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.19%) QA
3 16 (3.94%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.94%) GDPR
4 11 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.99%) IFRS
7 3 (0.74%) CDISC
7 3 (0.74%) GAAP
7 3 (0.74%) GRC
8 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.49%) NIST
8 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 29 (7.14%) Docker
2 19 (4.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (4.93%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.68%) Terraform
3 4 (0.99%) Ansible
3 4 (0.99%) Packer
3 4 (0.99%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.49%) Grafana
5 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 57 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 44 (10.84%) SAP
3 43 (10.59%) Oracle
4 24 (5.91%) Google
5 21 (5.17%) Sage
6 19 (4.68%) Salesforce
7 15 (3.69%) Databricks
8 9 (2.22%) Foundry
9 8 (1.97%) Workday
10 7 (1.72%) Palantir
10 7 (1.72%) Sparx
11 6 (1.48%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.23%) Informatica
12 5 (1.23%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.23%) Talend
13 4 (0.99%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.99%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.74%) Avaya
14 3 (0.74%) Cisco
14 3 (0.74%) TOWER Software