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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 378 276
Rank change year-on-year +18 -102 -6
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 346 265 824
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.71% 1.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.53% 1.80% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 214 136 450
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.84% +1.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,875 £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 22,632 14,733 29,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.93% 39.33% 35.19%
Number of salaries quoted 11,788 8,335 20,746
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,750
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 £98,750
UK median annual salary £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +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 23 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 23 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 +74 229 £85,000 -5.82% 84
North of England -42 48 £60,000 - 34
Yorkshire -22 36 £68,510 +10.05% 12
South East -57 23 £49,000 +8.89% 60
East of England -37 12 £70,000 -8.50% 23
Midlands -53 12 £48,500 - 25
North West -35 7 £52,500 -8.70% 14
South West -64 7 £60,727 -15.65% 20
West Midlands -34 6 £48,750 -18.75% 14
East Midlands -56 6 £48,500 - 11
North East -45 5 £60,000 -42.17% 8
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 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.73%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.45%) Confluence
4 5 (1.45%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.87%) Apache
5 3 (0.87%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (0.87%) SAS
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 26 (7.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (3.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (3.18%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (1.16%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.87%) FLEXCUBE
6 3 (0.87%) Misys Opics
6 3 (0.87%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.87%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.58%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.58%) Shopify
7 2 (0.58%) 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 SCM
8 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 97 (28.03%) Azure
2 95 (27.46%) AWS
3 58 (16.76%) Power Platform
4 52 (15.03%) GCP
5 23 (6.65%) GitHub
5 23 (6.65%) Serverless
6 14 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (4.05%) SaaS
7 10 (2.89%) Entra ID
8 9 (2.60%) dbt
8 9 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (2.31%) Boomi
9 8 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.02%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.02%) Power Automate
10 7 (2.02%) Snowflake
11 6 (1.73%) Cloud Composer
11 6 (1.73%) Dagster
11 6 (1.73%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.20%) Broadband
2 4 (1.16%) Network Security
3 1 (0.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (16.76%) Power BI
2 44 (12.72%) BigQuery
3 32 (9.25%) Metadata
4 30 (8.67%) Tableau
5 29 (8.38%) SQL Server
6 26 (7.51%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (6.65%) Data Lake
7 23 (6.65%) NoSQL
8 20 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (5.20%) DynamoDB
10 16 (4.62%) Relational Database
10 16 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (3.47%) SAP BW
13 10 (2.89%) MySQL
14 9 (2.60%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (2.02%) Data Vault
15 7 (2.02%) RDBMS
16 6 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
16 6 (1.73%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (5.49%) Git
1 19 (5.49%) Postman
2 9 (2.60%) Eclipse
2 9 (2.60%) ERwin
3 6 (1.73%) JIRA
4 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.58%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.58%) Storybook
4 2 (0.58%) 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
1 119 (34.39%) Finance
2 113 (32.66%) Social Skills
3 76 (21.97%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.14%) Law
5 26 (7.51%) Front Office
6 21 (6.07%) Retail
7 19 (5.49%) Marketing
8 16 (4.62%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.47%) Banking
10 10 (2.89%) Legal
10 10 (2.89%) Publishing
11 8 (2.31%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.02%) Billing
12 7 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.16%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.87%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (24.28%) Analyst
2 78 (22.54%) Developer
3 73 (21.10%) Senior
4 56 (16.18%) Data Analyst
5 41 (11.85%) Software Engineer
6 39 (11.27%) Senior Developer
7 34 (9.83%) Python Developer
8 27 (7.80%) Consultant
9 24 (6.94%) Architect
10 22 (6.36%) C++ Developer
11 21 (6.07%) Data Architect
11 21 (6.07%) Quantitative Developer
12 20 (5.78%) Senior Python Developer
13 19 (5.49%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 19 (5.49%) Linux Developer
13 19 (5.49%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 19 (5.49%) Senior C++ Developer
13 19 (5.49%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
13 19 (5.49%) Senior Quantitative Developer
14 17 (4.91%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (11.85%) Django
2 35 (10.12%) RESTful
3 28 (8.09%) JSON
4 22 (6.36%) OpenAPI
4 22 (6.36%) Swagger
5 19 (5.49%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 19 (5.49%) XML
6 17 (4.91%) CSS
6 17 (4.91%) Flask
6 17 (4.91%) HTML
6 17 (4.91%) REST
7 16 (4.62%) Kafka
8 15 (4.34%) Oracle Fusion
8 15 (4.34%) React
9 14 (4.05%) FastAPI
10 13 (3.76%) Vue
11 9 (2.60%) FIX Protocol
12 8 (2.31%) .NET
13 7 (2.02%) FpML
13 7 (2.02%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 85 (24.57%) Algorithms
2 47 (13.58%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (11.27%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (7.23%) Management Information System
5 22 (6.36%) Hedge funds
6 21 (6.07%) Equities
7 18 (5.20%) Social Media
8 15 (4.34%) Onboarding
9 14 (4.05%) Product Ownership
10 11 (3.18%) Cloud Native
11 10 (2.89%) FMCG
11 10 (2.89%) Reinsurance
12 9 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (2.02%) e-Learning
15 6 (1.73%) Anti-Piracy
15 6 (1.73%) PKI
16 5 (1.45%) Low-Code
16 5 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.78%) 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
1 109 (31.50%) Data Modelling
2 91 (26.30%) Agile
3 83 (23.99%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (23.12%) Software Engineering
5 74 (21.39%) Business Intelligence
6 72 (20.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 70 (20.23%) Computer Science
8 69 (19.94%) Analytics
9 56 (16.18%) ETL
10 55 (15.90%) Data Governance
11 50 (14.45%) OO
12 49 (14.16%) Decision-Making
13 47 (13.58%) Mentoring
14 45 (13.01%) OOP
15 43 (12.43%) CI/CD
15 43 (12.43%) Data Analysis
16 40 (11.56%) Microservices
16 40 (11.56%) Validation
17 37 (10.69%) DevOps
18 34 (9.83%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 169 (48.84%) Python
2 145 (41.91%) SQL
3 43 (12.43%) C++
4 30 (8.67%) Java
5 24 (6.94%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.05%) Rust
6 14 (4.05%) T-SQL
7 12 (3.47%) Scala
8 8 (2.31%) C#
8 8 (2.31%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.73%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.45%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.45%) R
10 5 (1.45%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.87%) Go
11 3 (0.87%) VBA
12 2 (0.58%) C
12 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.29%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (24.28%) Degree
2 45 (13.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (7.80%) Security Cleared
4 19 (5.49%) SC Cleared
5 10 (2.89%) ACCA
5 10 (2.89%) CIMA
6 9 (2.60%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.45%) PhD
8 4 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.16%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.87%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.87%) IIBA
9 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (16.18%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.47%) GDPR
4 9 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.31%) QA
5 8 (2.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.45%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.45%) NIST
7 4 (1.16%) IFRS
8 3 (0.87%) GAAP
8 3 (0.87%) GRC
9 2 (0.58%) WCAG
10 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.29%) Solvency II
System Software
1 18 (5.20%) Docker
2 10 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (5.49%) Terraform
2 8 (2.31%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.87%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
4 1 (0.29%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 33 (9.54%) Google
2 32 (9.25%) Microsoft
3 28 (8.09%) Oracle
4 27 (7.80%) SAP
5 17 (4.91%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.76%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.89%) Talend
8 9 (2.60%) Foundry
8 9 (2.60%) Informatica
9 8 (2.31%) Sparx
10 6 (1.73%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.73%) Workday
11 5 (1.45%) Databricks
11 5 (1.45%) Palantir
12 4 (1.16%) Intapp
13 3 (0.87%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.87%) Temenos
14 2 (0.58%) Ariba
14 2 (0.58%) Sage
14 2 (0.58%) SendGrid