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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 340 320
Rank change year-on-year -69 -20 +17
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 396 339 569
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.77% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.60% 1.85% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 263 126 215
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,063 £97,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £129,000
UK median annual salary £67,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.29% - +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 24,813 18,323 23,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.55% 41.86% 32.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,321 9,367 13,217
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.78% -9.23%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -19 193 £85,000 -0.58% 489
North of England -3 75 £55,000 -21.43% 69
South East -42 55 £67,500 +42.11% 59
North West -9 33 £57,500 -13.21% 43
Midlands -57 27 £52,500 +8.25% 52
Yorkshire -18 24 £55,000 -29.03% 10
East of England -13 19 £37,500 -10.23% 35
South West -86 19 £61,250 -12.50% 38
North East -46 18 £55,000 -52.17% 17
West Midlands -24 17 £52,500 - 39
East Midlands -33 10 £44,241 -8.78% 13
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 15 (3.79%) Apache
2 14 (3.54%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.78%) Jupyter
4 10 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (2.02%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.77%) SAS
7 6 (1.52%) Confluence
8 5 (1.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.76%) IIS
9 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.51%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 36 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.77%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.26%) SAP SCM
4 5 (1.26%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.76%) Infor M3
5 3 (0.76%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.51%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.51%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.51%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.51%) Misys Opics
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.51%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.25%) Dynamics SL
7 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 92 (23.23%) AWS
2 86 (21.72%) Azure
2 86 (21.72%) Power Platform
3 33 (8.33%) GCP
4 24 (6.06%) Amazon S3
5 22 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (5.30%) SaaS
7 20 (5.05%) PowerApps
8 19 (4.80%) Entra ID
8 19 (4.80%) Power Automate
9 18 (4.55%) Snowflake
10 15 (3.79%) dbt
11 13 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.28%) Serverless
12 12 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
13 11 (2.78%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (2.27%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.03%) Broadband
2 3 (0.76%) Intranet
3 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (17.93%) Power BI
2 30 (7.58%) Data Lake
3 26 (6.57%) Tableau
4 23 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.80%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.04%) BigQuery
6 16 (4.04%) Data Vault
7 15 (3.79%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.79%) Star Schema
8 14 (3.54%) Snowflake Schema
9 13 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (3.03%) Metadata
10 12 (3.03%) SAP BW
10 12 (3.03%) SQL Server
11 9 (2.27%) Big Data
11 9 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (2.02%) DynamoDB
12 8 (2.02%) NoSQL
12 8 (2.02%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (1.52%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (7.32%) Git
2 9 (2.27%) GitLab
3 7 (1.77%) JIRA
4 6 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.01%) ERwin
6 3 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.51%) MLflow
8 1 (0.25%) CMake
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.25%) Toad
8 1 (0.25%) utPLSQL
8 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 159 (40.15%) Finance
2 152 (38.38%) Social Skills
3 78 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (6.06%) Law
6 21 (5.30%) Banking
7 18 (4.55%) Legal
7 18 (4.55%) Retail
8 15 (3.79%) Billing
9 14 (3.54%) Financial Institution
9 14 (3.54%) Front Office
9 14 (3.54%) Manufacturing
10 13 (3.28%) Marketing
11 9 (2.27%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.27%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.77%) General Ledger
14 6 (1.52%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.26%) German Language
15 5 (1.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 93 (23.48%) Analyst
2 76 (19.19%) Senior
3 62 (15.66%) Developer
4 43 (10.86%) Software Engineer
5 42 (10.61%) Consultant
6 28 (7.07%) Systems Analyst
7 27 (6.82%) Architect
7 27 (6.82%) Senior Developer
8 26 (6.57%) Administrator
8 26 (6.57%) Data Analyst
9 22 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
10 20 (5.05%) Data Architect
11 18 (4.55%) Data Engineer
12 16 (4.04%) Business Analyst
12 16 (4.04%) Python Developer
13 15 (3.79%) Data Consultant
14 14 (3.54%) Lead
15 13 (3.28%) Backend Developer
15 13 (3.28%) Snowflake Architect
16 12 (3.03%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.56%) Terraform
2 21 (5.30%) React
3 19 (4.80%) .NET
4 17 (4.29%) REST
5 15 (3.79%) PySpark
6 14 (3.54%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 14 (3.54%) Kafka
6 14 (3.54%) Oracle Fusion
7 12 (3.03%) Django
8 11 (2.78%) RESTful
9 10 (2.53%) JSON
10 8 (2.02%) Flask
10 8 (2.02%) Vue
10 8 (2.02%) XML
11 7 (1.77%) CSS
11 7 (1.77%) HTML
11 7 (1.77%) Spring Boot
12 6 (1.52%) .NET Framework
12 6 (1.52%) Middleware
12 6 (1.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 83 (20.96%) Algorithms
2 37 (9.34%) Management Information System
3 30 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.29%) Hedge funds
6 12 (3.03%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.03%) Social Media
7 11 (2.78%) Equities
8 10 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.02%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.26%) Clustering
10 5 (1.26%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.26%) PKI
10 5 (1.26%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
12 3 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.81%) Linux
2 14 (3.54%) Windows
3 3 (0.76%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (30.05%) Problem-Solving
2 111 (28.03%) Data Modelling
3 97 (24.49%) Analytics
4 90 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
5 87 (21.97%) Agile
6 82 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 80 (20.20%) Software Engineering
8 72 (18.18%) AI
9 68 (17.17%) Decision-Making
10 67 (16.92%) Computer Science
11 65 (16.41%) CI/CD
11 65 (16.41%) Data Engineering
12 62 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
13 61 (15.40%) ERP
14 60 (15.15%) Data Pipeline
15 57 (14.39%) Validation
16 55 (13.89%) Data Governance
17 50 (12.63%) Data Architecture
17 50 (12.63%) Data Management
17 50 (12.63%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 154 (38.89%) SQL
2 145 (36.62%) Python
3 42 (10.61%) Java
4 38 (9.60%) C++
5 29 (7.32%) JavaScript
6 25 (6.31%) C#
7 17 (4.29%) Rust
8 16 (4.04%) TypeScript
9 14 (3.54%) Go
10 8 (2.02%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.77%) C
12 6 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.52%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.26%) VBA
14 4 (1.01%) Scala
15 3 (0.76%) Bash
15 3 (0.76%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.76%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 86 (21.72%) Degree
2 43 (10.86%) Security Cleared
3 30 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (6.82%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.55%) ACCA
5 18 (4.55%) CIMA
6 11 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.27%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.52%) PhD
9 5 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.26%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (1.01%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.01%) PMP
11 3 (0.76%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.76%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.76%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (21.72%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.30%) QA
3 19 (4.80%) GDPR
4 17 (4.29%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.76%) CDISC
5 3 (0.76%) IFRS
6 2 (0.51%) GAAP
6 2 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 34 (8.59%) Docker
2 11 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.26%) Ansible
3 4 (1.01%) Packer
4 3 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.25%) Grafana
5 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 59 (14.90%) Microsoft
2 49 (12.37%) SAP
3 40 (10.10%) Oracle
4 20 (5.05%) Sage
5 17 (4.29%) Databricks
6 16 (4.04%) Google
7 13 (3.28%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.53%) Workday
9 5 (1.26%) Foundry
9 5 (1.26%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.26%) Palantir
10 3 (0.76%) Avaya
10 3 (0.76%) Cisco
10 3 (0.76%) Genesys
10 3 (0.76%) Infor
10 3 (0.76%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.76%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.76%) Sparx
10 3 (0.76%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.51%) OpenAI