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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 381 277
Rank change year-on-year +25 -104 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 356 282 858
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.44% 0.72% 1.02%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.60% 1.74% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 218 134 445
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +2.84% +1.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 22,312 16,242 29,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.63% 41.69% 35.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,231 8,383 20,854
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £75,997
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +66 229 £85,000 -5.56% 106
North of England -46 44 £57,500 -4.17% 33
Yorkshire -27 31 £57,500 -7.64% 12
South East -43 26 £52,500 +16.67% 53
East of England 0 19 £57,000 -25.49% 18
Midlands -51 13 £42,750 -11.86% 19
South West -76 9 £43,953 -38.09% 15
North West -27 8 £52,500 -8.70% 15
West Midlands -40 7 £43,000 -28.33% 13
East Midlands -31 6 £42,500 -12.37% 6
North East -46 5 £60,000 -42.17% 6
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 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.69%) Palantir Foundry
4 5 (1.40%) Confluence
5 4 (1.12%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.84%) Apache
6 3 (0.84%) Oracle Application Server
6 3 (0.84%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 28 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.37%) NetSuite
1 12 (3.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.40%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.12%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.84%) FLEXCUBE
5 3 (0.84%) Misys Opics
5 3 (0.84%) SAP SD
5 3 (0.84%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.56%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.56%) Shopify
6 2 (0.56%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.28%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.28%) Magento
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.28%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.28%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.28%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 104 (29.21%) Azure
2 87 (24.44%) AWS
3 70 (19.66%) Power Platform
4 51 (14.33%) GCP
5 18 (5.06%) Serverless
6 17 (4.78%) Entra ID
7 16 (4.49%) GitHub
8 15 (4.21%) SaaS
9 14 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (3.37%) Power Automate
10 12 (3.37%) PowerApps
11 10 (2.81%) dbt
12 9 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (2.25%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (1.97%) Boomi
14 7 (1.97%) Snowflake
15 6 (1.69%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.06%) Broadband
2 4 (1.12%) Network Security
3 1 (0.28%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (17.70%) Power BI
2 43 (12.08%) BigQuery
3 31 (8.71%) Metadata
3 31 (8.71%) Tableau
4 26 (7.30%) SQL Server
5 25 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
6 24 (6.74%) Data Lake
7 21 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (5.62%) NoSQL
9 16 (4.49%) Relational Database
10 15 (4.21%) DynamoDB
10 15 (4.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 13 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (3.37%) SAP BW
13 11 (3.09%) MySQL
14 10 (2.81%) Oracle Reports
15 8 (2.25%) Data Vault
16 7 (1.97%) RDBMS
16 7 (1.97%) Snowflake Schema
16 7 (1.97%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (5.62%) Git
2 16 (4.49%) Postman
3 9 (2.53%) Eclipse
3 9 (2.53%) ERwin
4 6 (1.69%) JIRA
5 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.56%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.56%) Storybook
5 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.28%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.28%) Maven
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.28%) Toad
6 1 (0.28%) utPLSQL
General
1 130 (36.52%) Finance
2 112 (31.46%) Social Skills
3 71 (19.94%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.67%) Law
5 26 (7.30%) Front Office
6 22 (6.18%) Retail
7 21 (5.90%) Marketing
8 16 (4.49%) Public Sector
9 15 (4.21%) Banking
10 10 (2.81%) Legal
10 10 (2.81%) Publishing
11 8 (2.25%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.97%) Billing
12 7 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.12%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.12%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.84%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.84%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (24.44%) Analyst
2 73 (20.51%) Senior
3 71 (19.94%) Developer
4 57 (16.01%) Data Analyst
5 39 (10.96%) Senior Developer
6 38 (10.67%) Software Engineer
7 31 (8.71%) Consultant
8 28 (7.87%) Python Developer
9 25 (7.02%) Architect
10 22 (6.18%) C++ Developer
10 22 (6.18%) Data Architect
11 21 (5.90%) Quantitative Developer
12 20 (5.62%) Administrator
13 19 (5.34%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 19 (5.34%) Linux Developer
13 19 (5.34%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 19 (5.34%) Senior C++ Developer
13 19 (5.34%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
13 19 (5.34%) Senior Python Developer
13 19 (5.34%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.83%) Django
2 32 (8.99%) RESTful
3 25 (7.02%) JSON
4 19 (5.34%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 19 (5.34%) OpenAPI
4 19 (5.34%) Swagger
5 16 (4.49%) XML
6 15 (4.21%) Oracle Fusion
7 14 (3.93%) Kafka
7 14 (3.93%) REST
8 11 (3.09%) CSS
8 11 (3.09%) Flask
8 11 (3.09%) HTML
9 10 (2.81%) React
10 9 (2.53%) FastAPI
10 9 (2.53%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (2.25%) Vue
12 7 (1.97%) .NET
12 7 (1.97%) FpML
12 7 (1.97%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 85 (23.88%) Algorithms
2 47 (13.20%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (10.39%) Greenfield Project
4 27 (7.58%) Management Information System
5 22 (6.18%) Hedge funds
6 21 (5.90%) Equities
7 18 (5.06%) Social Media
8 14 (3.93%) Onboarding
8 14 (3.93%) Product Ownership
9 11 (3.09%) Cloud Native
10 10 (2.81%) FMCG
10 10 (2.81%) Reinsurance
11 9 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.97%) e-Learning
14 6 (1.69%) Anti-Piracy
15 5 (1.40%) PKI
15 5 (1.40%) Taxonomies
16 4 (1.12%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.62%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Android
2 1 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (30.62%) Data Modelling
2 84 (23.60%) Agile
3 79 (22.19%) Business Intelligence
3 79 (22.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 79 (22.19%) Software Engineering
4 78 (21.91%) Analytics
4 78 (21.91%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (18.26%) Computer Science
6 57 (16.01%) Data Governance
7 52 (14.61%) ETL
8 50 (14.04%) Decision-Making
9 48 (13.48%) OO
10 44 (12.36%) CI/CD
10 44 (12.36%) DevOps
11 42 (11.80%) Validation
12 40 (11.24%) Mentoring
13 38 (10.67%) Data Analysis
14 37 (10.39%) Microservices
15 36 (10.11%) ERP
15 36 (10.11%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 164 (46.07%) Python
2 149 (41.85%) SQL
3 43 (12.08%) C++
4 30 (8.43%) Java
5 18 (5.06%) JavaScript
6 15 (4.21%) Rust
7 13 (3.65%) T-SQL
8 9 (2.53%) Scala
9 8 (2.25%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.97%) C#
10 7 (1.97%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.69%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.40%) R
13 4 (1.12%) Go
14 3 (0.84%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.84%) VBA
15 2 (0.56%) C
15 2 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.28%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 81 (22.75%) Degree
2 42 (11.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (8.71%) Security Cleared
4 20 (5.62%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.37%) ACCA
5 12 (3.37%) CIMA
6 6 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.40%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.40%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.40%) PhD
8 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.12%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.84%) IIBA
9 3 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (18.54%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.49%) QA
3 14 (3.93%) GDPR
3 14 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (2.81%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.40%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.40%) IFRS
6 5 (1.40%) NIST
7 3 (0.84%) GAAP
7 3 (0.84%) GRC
8 2 (0.56%) WCAG
9 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 17 (4.78%) Active Directory
2 15 (4.21%) Docker
3 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (3.65%) Terraform
2 11 (3.09%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.84%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.28%) Grafana
4 1 (0.28%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 38 (10.67%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.99%) Google
3 30 (8.43%) Oracle
4 29 (8.15%) SAP
5 18 (5.06%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.65%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.53%) Foundry
7 9 (2.53%) Informatica
7 9 (2.53%) Talend
8 8 (2.25%) Sparx
9 7 (1.97%) MuleSoft
9 7 (1.97%) Workday
10 6 (1.69%) Databricks
10 6 (1.69%) Palantir
11 3 (0.84%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.84%) Sage
11 3 (0.84%) Temenos
12 2 (0.56%) Ariba
12 2 (0.56%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.56%) SendGrid