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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 331 320
Rank change year-on-year -18 -11 -52
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 287 406 426
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.54% 0.84% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.55% 2.25% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 165 139 351
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £98,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £125,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -6.90%

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 18,545 18,027 17,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.09% 37.45% 36.27%
Number of salaries quoted 9,384 8,461 13,288
10th Percentile £27,750 £34,000 £31,592
25th Percentile £36,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +78 175 £75,000 -16.67% 63
North of England +14 45 £75,000 +30.43% 33
Midlands +30 27 £50,500 -19.20% 22
Yorkshire 0 27 £76,250 +205.00% 11
North West +16 17 £72,500 +16.47% 17
East Midlands +8 17 £49,250 -24.23% 9
East of England +19 10 £65,000 -27.78% 30
South East +16 10 £65,000 +52.94% 61
West Midlands +14 10 £56,250 -6.25% 13
South West -108 3 £43,953 -38.95% 17
North East +9 1 - - 5
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 5 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (1.74%) CMS
1 5 (1.74%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.39%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.70%) Apache
3 2 (0.70%) Luigi
3 2 (0.70%) Mendix
4 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 29 (10.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.05%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (3.83%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.39%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.05%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.70%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.70%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.70%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.35%) PeopleSoft Financials
5 1 (0.35%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 62 (21.60%) AWS
2 56 (19.51%) Azure
3 51 (17.77%) Power Platform
4 23 (8.01%) GCP
4 23 (8.01%) GitHub
5 21 (7.32%) Serverless
6 9 (3.14%) Boomi
7 8 (2.79%) SaaS
7 8 (2.79%) Snowflake
8 7 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (2.44%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.74%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.74%) Firebase
10 4 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.39%) Matillion
10 4 (1.39%) Slack
10 4 (1.39%) Zapier
11 3 (1.05%) AWS KMS
11 3 (1.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.39%) Network Security
2 1 (0.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (17.77%) Power BI
2 36 (12.54%) NoSQL
3 24 (8.36%) SQL Server
4 20 (6.97%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (6.62%) Metadata
6 16 (5.57%) BigQuery
7 15 (5.23%) DynamoDB
8 14 (4.88%) Data Lake
9 13 (4.53%) Relational Database
9 13 (4.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (4.18%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (4.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 12 (4.18%) Tableau
11 8 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (2.44%) Redis
13 6 (2.09%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (1.74%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (1.74%) Couchbase
14 5 (1.74%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (6.62%) Git
2 15 (5.23%) Postman
3 12 (4.18%) ERwin
4 6 (2.09%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.70%) JConsole
5 2 (0.70%) JIRA
5 2 (0.70%) Storybook
5 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.70%) VisualVM
6 1 (0.35%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.35%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.35%) Xcode
General
1 92 (32.06%) Social Skills
2 80 (27.87%) Finance
3 67 (23.34%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.10%) Law
5 27 (9.41%) Front Office
6 20 (6.97%) Public Sector
7 19 (6.62%) Retail
8 12 (4.18%) Banking
8 12 (4.18%) Marketing
9 11 (3.83%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.79%) Publishing
11 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.70%) Billing
12 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Legal
13 1 (0.35%) Advertising
13 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 85 (29.62%) Developer
2 55 (19.16%) Analyst
3 52 (18.12%) Senior
4 35 (12.20%) Python Developer
5 34 (11.85%) Senior Developer
6 33 (11.50%) Lead
7 29 (10.10%) Architect
8 26 (9.06%) Data Architect
9 25 (8.71%) Software Engineer
10 24 (8.36%) C++ Developer
10 24 (8.36%) Data Analyst
11 22 (7.67%) Senior Python Developer
12 21 (7.32%) Quantitative Developer
13 19 (6.62%) C++ Quantitative Developer
14 18 (6.27%) Linux Developer
14 18 (6.27%) Low Latency C++ Developer
14 18 (6.27%) Senior C++ Developer
14 18 (6.27%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
14 18 (6.27%) Senior Quantitative Developer
15 14 (4.88%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.20%) Django
2 26 (9.06%) Flask
3 24 (8.36%) FastAPI
4 21 (7.32%) CSS
4 21 (7.32%) HTML
5 20 (6.97%) React
6 19 (6.62%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 19 (6.62%) RESTful
7 17 (5.92%) Kafka
8 15 (5.23%) REST
8 15 (5.23%) Vue
9 13 (4.53%) OpenAPI
9 13 (4.53%) Swagger
10 11 (3.83%) JSON
11 8 (2.79%) .NET
11 8 (2.79%) Web Services
12 7 (2.44%) OAuth
13 5 (1.74%) Memcached
13 5 (1.74%) SOAP
13 5 (1.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (19.86%) Algorithms
2 32 (11.15%) Management Information System
3 28 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (9.06%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (7.67%) Hedge funds
6 19 (6.62%) Equities
6 19 (6.62%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (4.18%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.79%) Low-Code
10 7 (2.44%) Cloud Native
10 7 (2.44%) Reinsurance
11 6 (2.09%) Client/Server
11 6 (2.09%) FMCG
12 5 (1.74%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.74%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.39%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.39%) Derivative
13 4 (1.39%) PKI
14 3 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.32%) Linux
2 4 (1.39%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (24.74%) Data Modelling
2 69 (24.04%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (22.65%) Agile
4 57 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 55 (19.16%) Business Intelligence
6 53 (18.47%) Analytics
6 53 (18.47%) Computer Science
6 53 (18.47%) OOP
7 51 (17.77%) Data Analysis
8 48 (16.72%) Data Governance
9 44 (15.33%) AI
10 42 (14.63%) CI/CD
10 42 (14.63%) Data Integration
10 42 (14.63%) ETL
11 41 (14.29%) Mentoring
12 39 (13.59%) Software Engineering
12 39 (13.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 36 (12.54%) Mathematics
14 35 (12.20%) Microservices
14 35 (12.20%) OO
Programming Languages
1 139 (48.43%) Python
2 131 (45.64%) SQL
3 33 (11.50%) JavaScript
4 30 (10.45%) C++
5 22 (7.67%) Java
6 10 (3.48%) Scala
7 9 (3.14%) C#
8 8 (2.79%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.09%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.09%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.39%) Go
10 4 (1.39%) VBA
11 3 (1.05%) Swift
12 2 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.35%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.35%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 82 (28.57%) Degree
2 32 (11.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (7.67%) Security Cleared
4 17 (5.92%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.18%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.44%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.09%) ACCA
7 6 (2.09%) CIMA
7 6 (2.09%) PhD
8 4 (1.39%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.39%) Postgraduate
9 2 (0.70%) HNC
9 2 (0.70%) HND
9 2 (0.70%) IIBA
9 2 (0.70%) MCSA
9 2 (0.70%) MCSE
9 2 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (13.24%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.97%) GDPR
3 12 (4.18%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.39%) QA
5 3 (1.05%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.05%) NIST
5 3 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.70%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (7.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (6.27%) Terraform
2 6 (2.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.70%) Ansible
3 2 (0.70%) logstash
3 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
3 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.27%) Salesforce
3 15 (5.23%) Google
4 13 (4.53%) Oracle
5 11 (3.83%) Foundry
6 9 (3.14%) Palantir
6 9 (3.14%) SAP
7 8 (2.79%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.74%) Databricks
8 5 (1.74%) Intapp
8 5 (1.74%) Talend
9 4 (1.39%) Facebook
9 4 (1.39%) HubSpot
9 4 (1.39%) Informatica
9 4 (1.39%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.05%) Temenos
10 3 (1.05%) Workday
11 2 (0.70%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.70%) OutSystems
11 2 (0.70%) SendGrid