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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 366 289
Rank change year-on-year +11 -77 +4
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 414 311 850
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.78% 0.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.93% 1.81% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 271 120 418
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,750 £48,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.01% +6.79% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,625 £97,813 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £74,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.68% +6.43% +7.69%

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 21,415 17,228 31,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.41% 43.02% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14,112 8,372 21,271
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -14.69%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +47 237 £85,000 -5.56% 80
North of England +11 64 £57,500 -22.82% 27
South East -26 52 £60,000 +26.32% 44
Yorkshire -3 31 £68,510 -11.31% 10
North West +12 21 £53,750 +4.88% 11
East of England -11 20 £49,000 -24.62% 6
Midlands -52 17 £42,500 -12.37% 23
West Midlands -24 13 £43,000 -6.78% 13
North East -42 12 £55,000 -52.17% 7
South West -90 11 £75,000 +7.14% 13
East Midlands -36 4 £42,500 -12.37% 10
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 (4.11%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.38%) Apache
3 13 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.93%) Jupyter
6 7 (1.69%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (1.69%) SAS
7 6 (1.45%) Confluence
7 6 (1.45%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.72%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.48%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 33 (7.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (2.42%) NetSuite
3 9 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.21%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.97%) SAP SCM
7 3 (0.72%) FLEXCUBE
7 3 (0.72%) Misys Opics
7 3 (0.72%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.48%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.48%) Shopify
8 2 (0.48%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.24%) Exchequer
9 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.24%) Magento
9 1 (0.24%) Raiser’s Edge
9 1 (0.24%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.24%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 118 (28.50%) Azure
2 106 (25.60%) AWS
3 86 (20.77%) Power Platform
4 53 (12.80%) GCP
5 25 (6.04%) SaaS
6 21 (5.07%) Amazon S3
6 21 (5.07%) Entra ID
7 16 (3.86%) dbt
7 16 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (3.86%) Power Automate
7 16 (3.86%) PowerApps
8 14 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (3.38%) Serverless
9 13 (3.14%) Snowflake
10 12 (2.90%) GitHub
11 10 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (1.93%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (1.93%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.35%) Broadband
2 2 (0.48%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (18.12%) Power BI
2 36 (8.70%) BigQuery
3 34 (8.21%) Tableau
4 30 (7.25%) Metadata
5 26 (6.28%) Data Lake
6 25 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (5.07%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (5.07%) Relational Database
8 19 (4.59%) NoSQL
9 18 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (4.35%) SQL Server
10 17 (4.11%) DynamoDB
11 15 (3.62%) Data Vault
12 14 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (3.38%) MySQL
12 14 (3.38%) Star Schema
13 12 (2.90%) SAP BW
13 12 (2.90%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (2.66%) Oracle Reports
15 10 (2.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (6.28%) Git
2 12 (2.90%) Postman
3 9 (2.17%) Eclipse
3 9 (2.17%) ERwin
4 8 (1.93%) JIRA
5 6 (1.45%) GitLab
6 3 (0.72%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.48%) MLflow
7 2 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.24%) CMake
8 1 (0.24%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.24%) Maven
8 1 (0.24%) Storybook
8 1 (0.24%) Toad
8 1 (0.24%) utPLSQL
8 1 (0.24%) Valgrind
General
1 164 (39.61%) Finance
2 155 (37.44%) Social Skills
3 76 (18.36%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (9.66%) Law
5 25 (6.04%) Front Office
6 22 (5.31%) Retail
7 17 (4.11%) Marketing
8 16 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.86%) Legal
8 16 (3.86%) Public Sector
9 15 (3.62%) Banking
10 13 (3.14%) Billing
11 10 (2.42%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.42%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.17%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.69%) Publishing
14 5 (1.21%) General Ledger
14 5 (1.21%) Military
15 4 (0.97%) German Language
15 4 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (23.91%) Analyst
2 90 (21.74%) Senior
3 63 (15.22%) Developer
4 51 (12.32%) Data Analyst
5 42 (10.14%) Consultant
6 41 (9.90%) Software Engineer
7 38 (9.18%) Senior Developer
8 33 (7.97%) Architect
9 28 (6.76%) Data Architect
10 26 (6.28%) Administrator
10 26 (6.28%) Python Developer
11 22 (5.31%) Data Engineer
12 21 (5.07%) Lead
12 21 (5.07%) Systems Administrator
13 20 (4.83%) C++ Developer
13 20 (4.83%) Quantitative Developer
13 20 (4.83%) Senior C++ Developer
13 20 (4.83%) Senior Python Developer
14 19 (4.59%) Data Consultant
14 19 (4.59%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.00%) RESTful
2 24 (5.80%) Django
2 24 (5.80%) JSON
3 21 (5.07%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 20 (4.83%) XML
5 18 (4.35%) REST
6 17 (4.11%) Oracle Fusion
7 16 (3.86%) PySpark
8 14 (3.38%) Kafka
9 13 (3.14%) OpenAPI
9 13 (3.14%) Swagger
10 12 (2.90%) React
11 9 (2.17%) FIX Protocol
11 9 (2.17%) Flask
12 7 (1.69%) .NET
12 7 (1.69%) FastAPI
12 7 (1.69%) FpML
12 7 (1.69%) Middleware
12 7 (1.69%) XML Schema
13 6 (1.45%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 88 (21.26%) Algorithms
2 44 (10.63%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (7.73%) Management Information System
4 31 (7.49%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (5.56%) Hedge funds
6 20 (4.83%) Equities
7 18 (4.35%) Social Media
8 16 (3.86%) Onboarding
9 14 (3.38%) Cloud Native
9 14 (3.38%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.42%) Reinsurance
11 8 (1.93%) Client/Server
12 7 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.69%) e-Learning
12 7 (1.69%) FMCG
13 6 (1.45%) Anti-Piracy
13 6 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.21%) PKI
14 5 (1.21%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.80%) Linux
2 4 (0.97%) Windows
3 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (30.92%) Data Modelling
2 97 (23.43%) Analytics
3 95 (22.95%) Business Intelligence
4 89 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (21.26%) Agile
6 83 (20.05%) Software Engineering
7 76 (18.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 70 (16.91%) Computer Science
8 70 (16.91%) Data Governance
9 66 (15.94%) Decision-Making
10 64 (15.46%) Data Engineering
10 64 (15.46%) Validation
11 56 (13.53%) AI
12 55 (13.29%) ETL
13 54 (13.04%) ERP
14 53 (12.80%) CI/CD
14 53 (12.80%) DevOps
15 50 (12.08%) Data Architecture
15 50 (12.08%) Data Pipeline
16 49 (11.84%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 190 (45.89%) Python
2 185 (44.69%) SQL
3 46 (11.11%) C++
4 37 (8.94%) Java
5 24 (5.80%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.35%) Rust
7 13 (3.14%) T-SQL
8 11 (2.66%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.42%) Go
9 10 (2.42%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.42%) Scala
10 8 (1.93%) C#
11 7 (1.69%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.21%) R
13 4 (0.97%) C
14 3 (0.72%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.72%) VBA
15 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.24%) Bash
Qualifications
1 87 (21.01%) Degree
2 43 (10.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (10.14%) Security Cleared
4 26 (6.28%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.07%) ACCA
5 21 (5.07%) CIMA
6 8 (1.93%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.93%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.97%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.48%) HND
9 2 (0.48%) PhD
10 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.24%) PMP
10 1 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (22.71%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.35%) QA
3 17 (4.11%) GDPR
4 15 (3.62%) Accessibility
5 13 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.21%) IFRS
8 4 (0.97%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.97%) NIST
9 3 (0.72%) CDISC
9 3 (0.72%) GAAP
9 3 (0.72%) GRC
10 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.24%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.24%) MiFID
11 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (6.76%) Docker
2 19 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.86%) Terraform
3 4 (0.97%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.48%) Ansible
4 2 (0.48%) Grafana
4 2 (0.48%) Packer
5 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 54 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.66%) SAP
3 37 (8.94%) Oracle
4 29 (7.00%) Google
5 23 (5.56%) Salesforce
6 18 (4.35%) Sage
7 16 (3.86%) Databricks
8 13 (3.14%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.42%) Foundry
10 8 (1.93%) Sparx
11 7 (1.69%) Informatica
11 7 (1.69%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.69%) Palantir
11 7 (1.69%) Talend
11 7 (1.69%) Workday
12 4 (0.97%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.72%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.72%) TOWER Software
14 2 (0.48%) Concur
14 2 (0.48%) Intapp