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 18 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 329 322
Rank change year-on-year -17 -7 -52
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 290 398 466
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 0.83% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.56% 2.22% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 168 130 385
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £86,563 £98,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £130,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £69,500
% change year-on-year - +0.72% -4.14%

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 18,637 17,936 19,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 34.71% 37.39% 36.18%
Number of salaries quoted 9,441 8,422 14,261
10th Percentile £27,784 £34,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £46,250 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,454 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +0.76% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +83 180 £72,500 -19.44% 68
North of England +23 45 £75,000 +30.43% 42
Midlands +37 27 £50,500 -19.20% 31
Yorkshire +6 27 £76,250 +117.86% 16
North West +12 17 £72,500 +20.83% 19
East Midlands +6 17 £49,250 -24.23% 19
West Midlands +21 10 £56,250 -6.25% 12
East of England +21 10 £65,000 -27.78% 41
South East +19 9 £52,500 +23.53% 86
South West -116 3 £43,953 -38.95% 28
North East 0 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 5 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (1.72%) CMS
1 5 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.69%) Apache
3 2 (0.69%) Luigi
3 2 (0.69%) Mendix
3 2 (0.69%) SAS
Applications
1 30 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.03%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (4.14%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.38%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.03%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.69%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.69%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.69%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.34%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 62 (21.38%) AWS
2 56 (19.31%) Azure
3 53 (18.28%) Power Platform
4 23 (7.93%) GCP
4 23 (7.93%) GitHub
5 21 (7.24%) Serverless
6 9 (3.10%) Boomi
7 8 (2.76%) SaaS
7 8 (2.76%) Snowflake
8 7 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.41%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.72%) Firebase
10 4 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.38%) Matillion
10 4 (1.38%) Slack
10 4 (1.38%) Zapier
11 3 (1.03%) AWS KMS
11 3 (1.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.38%) Network Security
2 1 (0.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.28%) Power BI
2 36 (12.41%) NoSQL
3 25 (8.62%) SQL Server
4 20 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (6.55%) Metadata
6 16 (5.52%) BigQuery
7 15 (5.17%) DynamoDB
8 14 (4.83%) Tableau
9 13 (4.48%) Data Lake
9 13 (4.48%) Relational Database
9 13 (4.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (4.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (2.41%) Redis
13 6 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (1.72%) Couchbase
14 5 (1.72%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (6.55%) Git
2 16 (5.52%) Postman
3 12 (4.14%) ERwin
4 6 (2.07%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.69%) JConsole
5 2 (0.69%) JIRA
5 2 (0.69%) Storybook
5 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.69%) VisualVM
6 1 (0.34%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.34%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
General
1 94 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 82 (28.28%) Finance
3 68 (23.45%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (10.34%) Law
5 29 (10.00%) Front Office
6 20 (6.90%) Retail
7 19 (6.55%) Public Sector
8 13 (4.48%) Marketing
9 12 (4.14%) Banking
10 11 (3.79%) Investment Banking
11 9 (3.10%) Publishing
12 4 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.69%) Billing
13 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.69%) Legal
14 1 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.34%) Digital Economy
14 1 (0.34%) Local Government
14 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.34%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 86 (29.66%) Developer
2 57 (19.66%) Analyst
3 53 (18.28%) Senior
4 36 (12.41%) Python Developer
5 34 (11.72%) Senior Developer
6 32 (11.03%) Lead
7 28 (9.66%) Architect
8 25 (8.62%) Data Analyst
8 25 (8.62%) Data Architect
9 24 (8.28%) C++ Developer
9 24 (8.28%) Software Engineer
10 22 (7.59%) Quantitative Developer
10 22 (7.59%) Senior Python Developer
11 19 (6.55%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 18 (6.21%) Linux Developer
12 18 (6.21%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 18 (6.21%) Senior C++ Developer
12 18 (6.21%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
12 18 (6.21%) Senior Quantitative Developer
13 16 (5.52%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.07%) Django
2 26 (8.97%) Flask
3 24 (8.28%) FastAPI
4 21 (7.24%) CSS
4 21 (7.24%) HTML
5 20 (6.90%) React
5 20 (6.90%) RESTful
6 19 (6.55%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 17 (5.86%) Kafka
8 15 (5.17%) REST
8 15 (5.17%) Vue
9 14 (4.83%) OpenAPI
9 14 (4.83%) Swagger
10 11 (3.79%) JSON
11 8 (2.76%) .NET
11 8 (2.76%) Web Services
12 7 (2.41%) OAuth
13 5 (1.72%) Memcached
13 5 (1.72%) Spring
13 5 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (19.31%) Algorithms
2 30 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 28 (9.66%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (8.62%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (7.59%) Hedge funds
6 20 (6.90%) Equities
6 20 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (4.48%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (3.10%) Low-Code
10 7 (2.41%) Cloud Native
10 7 (2.41%) FMCG
10 7 (2.41%) Reinsurance
11 6 (2.07%) Client/Server
11 6 (2.07%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.72%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.38%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.38%) Derivative
13 4 (1.38%) PKI
14 3 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.24%) Linux
2 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.69%) Android
4 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (24.83%) Data Modelling
2 70 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (21.72%) Agile
4 58 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 57 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
6 56 (19.31%) Analytics
7 53 (18.28%) Data Analysis
7 53 (18.28%) OOP
8 51 (17.59%) Computer Science
9 49 (16.90%) Data Governance
10 44 (15.17%) AI
10 44 (15.17%) ETL
11 43 (14.83%) CI/CD
12 41 (14.14%) Data Integration
13 40 (13.79%) Mentoring
13 40 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
14 38 (13.10%) Software Engineering
15 35 (12.07%) Mathematics
15 35 (12.07%) Microservices
15 35 (12.07%) OO
Programming Languages
1 143 (49.31%) Python
2 134 (46.21%) SQL
3 33 (11.38%) JavaScript
4 29 (10.00%) C++
5 23 (7.93%) Java
6 10 (3.45%) Scala
7 8 (2.76%) C#
8 7 (2.41%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.07%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.07%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.38%) Go
10 4 (1.38%) VBA
11 2 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.69%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.69%) Swift
12 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.34%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.34%) PHP
12 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 81 (27.93%) Degree
2 32 (11.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (7.59%) Security Cleared
4 17 (5.86%) SC Cleared
5 11 (3.79%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.41%) ACCA
6 7 (2.41%) CIMA
6 7 (2.41%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.72%) PhD
8 4 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.38%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.69%) HNC
9 2 (0.69%) HND
9 2 (0.69%) IIBA
9 2 (0.69%) MCSA
9 2 (0.69%) MCSE
9 2 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.45%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.55%) GDPR
3 12 (4.14%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.72%) QA
5 3 (1.03%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.03%) NIST
5 3 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.69%) WCAG
7 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (7.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (6.21%) Terraform
2 6 (2.07%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.69%) Ansible
3 2 (0.69%) logstash
3 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (11.72%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 15 (5.17%) Google
3 15 (5.17%) Oracle
4 11 (3.79%) Foundry
5 9 (3.10%) Palantir
5 9 (3.10%) SAP
6 7 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.07%) Talend
8 5 (1.72%) Databricks
8 5 (1.72%) Informatica
9 4 (1.38%) Facebook
9 4 (1.38%) HubSpot
9 4 (1.38%) Intapp
9 4 (1.38%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.03%) Temenos
10 3 (1.03%) Workday
11 2 (0.69%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.69%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.69%) SendGrid