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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 342 319
Rank change year-on-year -55 -23 +2
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 397 336 580
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.77% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.62% 1.83% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 264 124 224
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% +3.21% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £96,563
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £124,875
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - +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 24,483 18,375 23,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.73% 42.02% 32.43%
Number of salaries quoted 16,024 9,315 14,202
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,385
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £106,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.16%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -20 199 £85,000 -0.58% 305
North of England +8 75 £55,000 -21.43% 58
South East -35 55 £67,500 +42.11% 48
North West -7 32 £60,000 -7.69% 28
Yorkshire -10 26 £55,000 -29.03% 11
Midlands -40 23 £50,000 +3.09% 31
South West -83 19 £62,500 +6.38% 24
East of England -15 17 £37,500 -10.23% 26
North East -46 17 £55,000 -52.17% 19
West Midlands -28 15 £51,250 +0.49% 19
East Midlands -40 8 £44,241 -8.78% 12
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 (3.78%) Apache
2 14 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.77%) Jupyter
4 10 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.27%) SharePoint
6 8 (2.02%) SAS
7 6 (1.51%) Confluence
8 5 (1.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.50%) IIS
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 36 (9.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (3.02%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (2.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.76%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.26%) SAP SCM
4 5 (1.26%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.76%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.76%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.50%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.50%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.50%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.50%) Misys Opics
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.50%) Shopify
7 1 (0.25%) FastStats
7 1 (0.25%) Infor M3
7 1 (0.25%) Magento
7 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 92 (23.17%) AWS
2 87 (21.91%) Azure
2 87 (21.91%) Power Platform
3 35 (8.82%) GCP
4 23 (5.79%) Amazon S3
4 23 (5.79%) Dynamics 365
5 22 (5.54%) PowerApps
6 21 (5.29%) Power Automate
6 21 (5.29%) SaaS
7 18 (4.53%) Entra ID
8 17 (4.28%) Snowflake
9 14 (3.53%) dbt
10 13 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (3.27%) Serverless
11 12 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.27%) Amazon ECR
13 9 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (2.27%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.02%) Broadband
2 3 (0.76%) Intranet
3 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (18.14%) Power BI
2 29 (7.30%) Data Lake
3 27 (6.80%) Tableau
4 25 (6.30%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (5.29%) Relational Database
6 18 (4.53%) BigQuery
7 17 (4.28%) Data Vault
8 15 (3.78%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (3.53%) Metadata
9 14 (3.53%) Star Schema
10 13 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (3.27%) SQL Server
11 12 (3.02%) SAP BW
11 12 (3.02%) Snowflake Schema
12 11 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (2.02%) DynamoDB
14 8 (2.02%) NoSQL
15 7 (1.76%) Big Data
16 6 (1.51%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (6.80%) Git
2 9 (2.27%) GitLab
3 8 (2.02%) JIRA
4 6 (1.51%) ERwin
4 6 (1.51%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.50%) 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
1 163 (41.06%) Finance
2 150 (37.78%) Social Skills
3 75 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (5.54%) Banking
5 22 (5.54%) Law
6 19 (4.79%) Retail
7 18 (4.53%) Legal
8 15 (3.78%) Billing
8 15 (3.78%) Financial Institution
8 15 (3.78%) Front Office
9 12 (3.02%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.77%) Marketing
11 9 (2.27%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.27%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.51%) General Ledger
13 6 (1.51%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.26%) German Language
14 5 (1.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 91 (22.92%) Analyst
2 80 (20.15%) Senior
3 63 (15.87%) Developer
4 45 (11.34%) Consultant
5 43 (10.83%) Software Engineer
6 30 (7.56%) Senior Developer
7 29 (7.30%) Architect
8 28 (7.05%) Administrator
9 27 (6.80%) Data Analyst
10 26 (6.55%) Systems Analyst
11 23 (5.79%) Systems Administrator
12 22 (5.54%) Data Architect
13 17 (4.28%) Data Consultant
13 17 (4.28%) Data Engineer
13 17 (4.28%) Python Developer
14 16 (4.03%) Business Analyst
15 15 (3.78%) Backend Developer
16 14 (3.53%) Lead
17 13 (3.27%) Senior Backend Developer
17 13 (3.27%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.54%) Terraform
2 20 (5.04%) React
3 18 (4.53%) REST
4 16 (4.03%) .NET
5 15 (3.78%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 15 (3.78%) Oracle Fusion
5 15 (3.78%) PySpark
6 14 (3.53%) Django
7 13 (3.27%) Kafka
8 12 (3.02%) JSON
8 12 (3.02%) RESTful
9 10 (2.52%) XML
10 8 (2.02%) Flask
10 8 (2.02%) Vue
11 7 (1.76%) FIX Protocol
11 7 (1.76%) Middleware
11 7 (1.76%) Spring Boot
12 6 (1.51%) .NET Framework
12 6 (1.51%) CSS
12 6 (1.51%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 86 (21.66%) Algorithms
2 35 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (8.56%) Management Information System
4 18 (4.53%) Hedge funds
5 16 (4.03%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.02%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.02%) Equities
6 12 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (3.02%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.02%) Social Media
7 9 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.02%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.26%) Clustering
10 5 (1.26%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.26%) e-Learning
10 5 (1.26%) PKI
10 5 (1.26%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.05%) Linux
2 12 (3.02%) Windows
3 3 (0.76%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (29.22%) Problem-Solving
2 112 (28.21%) Data Modelling
3 100 (25.19%) Analytics
4 91 (22.92%) Business Intelligence
5 86 (21.66%) Agile
6 83 (20.91%) Software Engineering
7 78 (19.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 70 (17.63%) AI
9 66 (16.62%) Decision-Making
10 64 (16.12%) CI/CD
10 64 (16.12%) Computer Science
11 63 (15.87%) ERP
12 62 (15.62%) Data Engineering
13 57 (14.36%) Data Pipeline
14 56 (14.11%) Data Governance
14 56 (14.11%) Stakeholder Management
15 55 (13.85%) Validation
16 52 (13.10%) DevOps
17 50 (12.59%) Data Architecture
18 49 (12.34%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 152 (38.29%) SQL
2 147 (37.03%) Python
3 40 (10.08%) Java
4 39 (9.82%) C++
5 28 (7.05%) JavaScript
6 21 (5.29%) C#
7 18 (4.53%) Rust
8 15 (3.78%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.27%) Go
10 8 (2.02%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.76%) C
11 7 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.76%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.26%) VBA
13 4 (1.01%) Scala
14 3 (0.76%) Bash
14 3 (0.76%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.76%) R
14 3 (0.76%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (20.65%) Degree
2 43 (10.83%) Security Cleared
3 32 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (6.80%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.53%) ACCA
5 18 (4.53%) CIMA
6 11 (2.77%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.76%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.51%) 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%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.01%) PhD
11 3 (0.76%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.76%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.76%) HND
11 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (20.65%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.79%) GDPR
3 18 (4.53%) QA
4 17 (4.28%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.01%) IFRS
6 3 (0.76%) CDISC
6 3 (0.76%) GAAP
6 3 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 33 (8.31%) Docker
2 11 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (5.04%) 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 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 48 (12.09%) SAP
3 42 (10.58%) Oracle
4 21 (5.29%) Sage
5 18 (4.53%) Google
6 16 (4.03%) Databricks
7 13 (3.27%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.77%) Workday
9 5 (1.26%) Foundry
9 5 (1.26%) Palantir
9 5 (1.26%) Sparx
10 3 (0.76%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.76%) Avaya
10 3 (0.76%) Cisco
10 3 (0.76%) Genesys
10 3 (0.76%) HubSpot
10 3 (0.76%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.76%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.76%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.50%) CA Agile Central