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 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 362 309
Rank change year-on-year -23 -53 -11
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 410 321 727
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.74% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.81% 1.78% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 272 124 324
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,750 £50,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,625 £93,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £125,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +11.11%

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 22,602 18,012 28,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.66% 41.67% 33.35%
Number of salaries quoted 14,957 9,021 18,807
10th Percentile £31,125 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,497 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.73% +4.55% -14.10%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +38 227 £85,000 -0.58% 90
North of England -8 63 £56,250 -16.67% 31
South East -24 59 £60,000 +20.00% 28
North West +9 26 £60,000 +20.00% 11
Yorkshire -11 23 £57,500 -25.81% 10
East of England -5 20 £37,500 -42.31% 9
Midlands -48 16 £42,500 -12.37% 16
South West -79 15 £75,000 +42.86% 13
North East -42 14 £55,000 -52.17% 11
West Midlands -23 13 £43,000 +33.33% 8
East Midlands -29 3 £42,500 -12.37% 8
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 18 (4.39%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.66%) Apache
3 14 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (2.20%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.20%) SAS
6 7 (1.71%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (1.71%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.46%) Confluence
8 3 (0.73%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (8.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (2.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.71%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.46%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (1.22%) SAP SCM
6 3 (0.73%) FLEXCUBE
6 3 (0.73%) Misys Opics
6 3 (0.73%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.73%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.49%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.49%) Shopify
8 1 (0.24%) FastStats
8 1 (0.24%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.24%) Magento
8 1 (0.24%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.24%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.24%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 104 (25.37%) AWS
1 104 (25.37%) Azure
2 93 (22.68%) Power Platform
3 48 (11.71%) GCP
4 30 (7.32%) SaaS
5 26 (6.34%) Amazon S3
6 22 (5.37%) Entra ID
7 19 (4.63%) dbt
7 19 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (4.63%) PowerApps
8 17 (4.15%) Power Automate
8 17 (4.15%) Serverless
9 16 (3.90%) Snowflake
10 11 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (2.68%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (2.68%) GitHub
10 11 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (2.44%) Amazon EMR
12 9 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 9 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.39%) Broadband
2 3 (0.73%) Intranet
3 1 (0.24%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (19.27%) Power BI
2 32 (7.80%) Tableau
3 31 (7.56%) BigQuery
3 31 (7.56%) Data Lake
4 28 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (5.12%) Relational Database
6 20 (4.88%) Metadata
7 19 (4.63%) SQL Server
8 18 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (4.15%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (4.15%) Data Vault
9 17 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (3.66%) Star Schema
11 14 (3.41%) MySQL
12 13 (3.17%) Snowflake Schema
13 12 (2.93%) SAP BW
14 11 (2.68%) NoSQL
14 11 (2.68%) Oracle Reports
15 10 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 9 (2.20%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (6.10%) Git
2 8 (1.95%) ERwin
2 8 (1.95%) JIRA
3 7 (1.71%) GitLab
3 7 (1.71%) Postman
4 6 (1.46%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.73%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.49%) MLflow
7 1 (0.24%) CMake
7 1 (0.24%) Maven
7 1 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.24%) Toad
7 1 (0.24%) utPLSQL
7 1 (0.24%) Valgrind
General
1 167 (40.73%) Finance
2 162 (39.51%) Social Skills
3 70 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.54%) Law
5 20 (4.88%) Front Office
6 18 (4.39%) Banking
6 18 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (4.39%) Legal
6 18 (4.39%) Retail
7 15 (3.66%) Billing
8 14 (3.41%) Marketing
9 13 (3.17%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.93%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.68%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.20%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.46%) General Ledger
13 6 (1.46%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.22%) German Language
14 5 (1.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 101 (24.63%) Analyst
2 90 (21.95%) Senior
3 64 (15.61%) Developer
4 46 (11.22%) Consultant
4 46 (11.22%) Data Analyst
5 39 (9.51%) Software Engineer
6 37 (9.02%) Senior Developer
7 30 (7.32%) Architect
8 28 (6.83%) Administrator
9 24 (5.85%) Data Engineer
10 23 (5.61%) Systems Administrator
11 22 (5.37%) Data Architect
11 22 (5.37%) Python Developer
11 22 (5.37%) Systems Analyst
12 20 (4.88%) Data Consultant
13 18 (4.39%) Lead
14 17 (4.15%) Backend Developer
14 17 (4.15%) C++ Developer
14 17 (4.15%) Senior C++ Developer
14 17 (4.15%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.85%) JSON
2 22 (5.37%) RESTful
3 21 (5.12%) REST
4 20 (4.88%) Django
4 20 (4.88%) XML
5 19 (4.63%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 18 (4.39%) Kafka
7 16 (3.90%) Oracle Fusion
8 15 (3.66%) PySpark
9 14 (3.41%) React
10 9 (2.20%) FIX Protocol
10 9 (2.20%) Flask
11 8 (1.95%) .NET
11 8 (1.95%) OpenAPI
11 8 (1.95%) Swagger
12 7 (1.71%) FastAPI
12 7 (1.71%) FpML
12 7 (1.71%) Middleware
12 7 (1.71%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.71%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 87 (21.22%) Algorithms
2 43 (10.49%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (7.07%) Management Information System
4 23 (5.61%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (5.12%) Hedge funds
6 20 (4.88%) Onboarding
7 18 (4.39%) Social Media
8 17 (4.15%) Cloud Native
9 16 (3.90%) Equities
10 11 (2.68%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.95%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.71%) e-Learning
13 6 (1.46%) Anti-Piracy
14 5 (1.22%) PKI
14 5 (1.22%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.22%) Taxonomies
15 4 (0.98%) Credit Risk
15 4 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.61%) Linux
2 7 (1.71%) Windows
3 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (30.00%) Data Modelling
2 104 (25.37%) Analytics
3 100 (24.39%) Business Intelligence
4 94 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (20.73%) Agile
5 85 (20.73%) Software Engineering
6 77 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 72 (17.56%) Data Engineering
8 67 (16.34%) AI
8 67 (16.34%) Computer Science
8 67 (16.34%) Decision-Making
9 64 (15.61%) Validation
10 62 (15.12%) ERP
11 59 (14.39%) Data Governance
11 59 (14.39%) Data Pipeline
12 57 (13.90%) CI/CD
13 52 (12.68%) ETL
14 50 (12.20%) DevOps
15 48 (11.71%) Data Analysis
15 48 (11.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 185 (45.12%) Python
2 180 (43.90%) SQL
3 46 (11.22%) C++
4 41 (10.00%) Java
5 26 (6.34%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.39%) Rust
7 14 (3.41%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.93%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.68%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.44%) C#
10 10 (2.44%) Go
10 10 (2.44%) Scala
11 8 (1.95%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.22%) C
12 5 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.22%) R
13 3 (0.73%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.73%) VBA
14 1 (0.24%) ABAP
14 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (20.00%) Degree
2 39 (9.51%) Security Cleared
3 35 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (5.61%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.12%) ACCA
5 21 (5.12%) CIMA
6 9 (2.20%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.22%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.73%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.73%) HND
10 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.49%) PhD
12 1 (0.24%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (20.98%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.15%) GDPR
3 16 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.90%) QA
4 11 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.98%) IFRS
7 3 (0.73%) CDISC
7 3 (0.73%) GAAP
7 3 (0.73%) GRC
8 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.49%) NIST
8 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.24%) MiFID
System Software
1 29 (7.07%) Docker
2 19 (4.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (4.88%) Kubernetes
1 20 (4.88%) Terraform
2 5 (1.22%) Ansible
3 4 (0.98%) Packer
3 4 (0.98%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.49%) Grafana
5 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 56 (13.66%) Microsoft
2 45 (10.98%) SAP
3 43 (10.49%) Oracle
4 24 (5.85%) Google
5 21 (5.12%) Sage
6 18 (4.39%) Salesforce
7 15 (3.66%) Databricks
8 9 (2.20%) Foundry
8 9 (2.20%) Workday
9 7 (1.71%) Palantir
9 7 (1.71%) Sparx
10 6 (1.46%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.22%) Informatica
11 5 (1.22%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.22%) Talend
12 4 (0.98%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.73%) Avaya
13 3 (0.73%) Cisco
13 3 (0.73%) Genesys