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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 353 291
Rank change year-on-year -4 -62 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 400 306 858
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.77% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.91% 1.78% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 258 115 425
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £91,875 £98,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £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 20,969 17,152 31,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.20% 43.37% 33.14%
Number of salaries quoted 13,780 8,236 21,248
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +44 233 £85,000 -5.56% 132
North of England +5 60 £57,500 -22.82% 85
South East -21 46 £60,000 +26.32% 111
Yorkshire -10 34 £57,500 -25.57% 29
East of England -6 20 £49,000 -24.62% 49
Midlands -36 16 £42,500 -12.37% 61
North West -4 15 £45,000 -12.20% 36
West Midlands -21 12 £42,750 -14.50% 30
North East -39 11 £55,000 -52.17% 21
South West -86 11 £75,000 +7.14% 37
East Midlands -41 4 £42,500 -12.37% 31
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 (3.75%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.00%) Apache
2 12 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.75%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.75%) Palantir Foundry
5 6 (1.50%) Confluence
6 5 (1.25%) SharePoint
7 4 (1.00%) SAS
8 3 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 29 (7.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (2.50%) NetSuite
3 8 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.75%) FLEXCUBE
6 3 (0.75%) Misys Opics
6 3 (0.75%) SAP SCM
6 3 (0.75%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.50%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.50%) Shopify
7 2 (0.50%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.25%) Magento
8 1 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 116 (29.00%) Azure
2 103 (25.75%) AWS
3 75 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 50 (12.50%) GCP
5 22 (5.50%) SaaS
6 21 (5.25%) Amazon S3
7 20 (5.00%) Entra ID
8 17 (4.25%) dbt
9 16 (4.00%) Serverless
10 14 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (3.50%) Power Automate
10 14 (3.50%) PowerApps
10 14 (3.50%) Snowflake
11 13 (3.25%) GitHub
12 9 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (2.00%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.50%) Broadband
2 2 (0.50%) Intranet
3 1 (0.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (16.25%) Power BI
2 36 (9.00%) BigQuery
3 33 (8.25%) Tableau
4 30 (7.50%) Metadata
5 26 (6.50%) Data Lake
6 24 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (5.25%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (5.25%) Relational Database
8 19 (4.75%) NoSQL
9 16 (4.00%) DynamoDB
9 16 (4.00%) SQL Server
10 15 (3.75%) Data Vault
10 15 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (3.25%) MySQL
11 13 (3.25%) Star Schema
12 12 (3.00%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (3.00%) SAP BW
12 12 (3.00%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (2.75%) Oracle Reports
14 10 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (6.50%) Git
2 13 (3.25%) Postman
3 9 (2.25%) Eclipse
3 9 (2.25%) ERwin
4 8 (2.00%) JIRA
5 5 (1.25%) GitLab
6 3 (0.75%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.50%) MLflow
7 2 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.25%) CMake
8 1 (0.25%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) Storybook
8 1 (0.25%) Toad
8 1 (0.25%) utPLSQL
8 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 155 (38.75%) Finance
2 144 (36.00%) Social Skills
3 72 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.75%) Law
5 26 (6.50%) Front Office
6 23 (5.75%) Retail
7 17 (4.25%) Marketing
8 16 (4.00%) Banking
8 16 (4.00%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (3.00%) Billing
11 11 (2.75%) Legal
12 10 (2.50%) Financial Institution
13 9 (2.25%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.75%) Publishing
15 5 (1.25%) Investment Banking
16 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.00%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.75%) German Language
17 3 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (24.75%) Analyst
2 84 (21.00%) Senior
3 61 (15.25%) Developer
4 52 (13.00%) Data Analyst
5 40 (10.00%) Consultant
5 40 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 38 (9.50%) Senior Developer
7 32 (8.00%) Architect
8 29 (7.25%) Data Architect
9 26 (6.50%) Python Developer
10 25 (6.25%) Administrator
11 21 (5.25%) Lead
12 20 (5.00%) C++ Developer
12 20 (5.00%) Data Engineer
12 20 (5.00%) Quantitative Developer
12 20 (5.00%) Senior C++ Developer
12 20 (5.00%) Senior Python Developer
12 20 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
13 19 (4.75%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 19 (4.75%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.25%) RESTful
2 25 (6.25%) Django
3 24 (6.00%) JSON
4 20 (5.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 18 (4.50%) XML
6 17 (4.25%) Oracle Fusion
6 17 (4.25%) REST
7 16 (4.00%) OpenAPI
7 16 (4.00%) Swagger
8 14 (3.50%) Kafka
9 13 (3.25%) React
10 10 (2.50%) Flask
10 10 (2.50%) PySpark
11 9 (2.25%) FIX Protocol
12 7 (1.75%) .NET
12 7 (1.75%) CSS
12 7 (1.75%) FpML
12 7 (1.75%) HTML
12 7 (1.75%) Middleware
12 7 (1.75%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 89 (22.25%) Algorithms
2 44 (11.00%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 31 (7.75%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (5.75%) Hedge funds
6 20 (5.00%) Equities
7 18 (4.50%) Social Media
8 14 (3.50%) Onboarding
9 13 (3.25%) Cloud Native
9 13 (3.25%) Product Ownership
10 10 (2.50%) Reinsurance
11 7 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.75%) e-Learning
11 7 (1.75%) FMCG
12 6 (1.50%) Anti-Piracy
12 6 (1.50%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.25%) PKI
13 5 (1.25%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.00%) Linux
2 4 (1.00%) Windows
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (30.75%) Data Modelling
2 93 (23.25%) Analytics
3 90 (22.50%) Agile
4 89 (22.25%) Business Intelligence
5 86 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (20.50%) Software Engineering
7 78 (19.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (17.25%) Computer Science
8 69 (17.25%) Data Governance
9 62 (15.50%) Decision-Making
10 60 (15.00%) Data Engineering
11 55 (13.75%) Validation
12 54 (13.50%) AI
12 54 (13.50%) ETL
13 53 (13.25%) CI/CD
14 51 (12.75%) DevOps
15 48 (12.00%) Data Analysis
15 48 (12.00%) ERP
16 47 (11.75%) Data Architecture
17 44 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 186 (46.50%) Python
2 176 (44.00%) SQL
3 45 (11.25%) C++
4 37 (9.25%) Java
5 24 (6.00%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.50%) Rust
7 12 (3.00%) T-SQL
8 11 (2.75%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.50%) Go
10 9 (2.25%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.25%) Scala
11 8 (2.00%) C#
12 7 (1.75%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.25%) R
14 3 (0.75%) C
14 3 (0.75%) VBA
15 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.50%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.25%) ABAP
16 1 (0.25%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 87 (21.75%) Degree
2 43 (10.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (10.25%) Security Cleared
4 25 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 15 (3.75%) ACCA
5 15 (3.75%) CIMA
6 8 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.50%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.25%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.75%) IIBA
10 3 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.75%) PhD
10 3 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.50%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.25%) HND
12 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (21.75%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.50%) QA
3 16 (4.00%) GDPR
4 13 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (3.00%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.25%) IFRS
8 4 (1.00%) HIPAA
8 4 (1.00%) NIST
9 3 (0.75%) GAAP
9 3 (0.75%) GRC
10 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.25%) CDISC
11 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.25%) MiFID
11 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (7.00%) Docker
2 19 (4.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (4.75%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.00%) Terraform
3 4 (1.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.50%) Ansible
4 2 (0.50%) Grafana
4 2 (0.50%) Packer
5 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 45 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.25%) Oracle
2 37 (9.25%) SAP
3 29 (7.25%) Google
4 22 (5.50%) Salesforce
5 17 (4.25%) Sage
6 14 (3.50%) Databricks
7 13 (3.25%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.50%) Foundry
9 8 (2.00%) Sparx
10 7 (1.75%) Informatica
10 7 (1.75%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.75%) Palantir
10 7 (1.75%) Talend
10 7 (1.75%) Workday
11 4 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.75%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.75%) TOWER Software
13 2 (0.50%) Concur
13 2 (0.50%) Intapp