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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 350 319
Rank change year-on-year -62 -31 +25
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 394 312 544
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.73% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.42% 1.75% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 256 129 166
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £51,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £109,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £132,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +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 27,835 17,827 20,815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.65% 41.59% 32.69%
Number of salaries quoted 17,934 9,258 10,208
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,160 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,400 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £113,985
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -4.00%

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 October 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 October 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 -54 174 £82,000 +2.50% 397
North of England -19 72 £55,000 -23.88% 86
South East -11 58 £71,250 -20.83% 60
Midlands -41 42 £52,500 - 34
North West -14 38 £55,000 -21.43% 51
West Midlands -27 23 £60,000 +14.29% 25
South West -74 21 £58,000 -17.14% 26
East of England -21 19 £37,500 -10.23% 20
East Midlands -37 19 £47,500 -5.94% 9
Yorkshire -24 17 £47,500 -39.68% 18
North East -55 17 £55,000 - 17
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 16 (4.06%) Apache
1 16 (4.06%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.05%) Jupyter
3 11 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.03%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.78%) SAS
6 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.76%) IIS
7 3 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.51%) Confluence
9 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 34 (8.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.76%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.25%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 12 (3.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (2.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.78%) Infor M3
3 7 (1.78%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.27%) Workday HCM
5 4 (1.02%) SAP SCM
6 3 (0.76%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.51%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle iProcurement
8 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.25%) Dynamics SL
8 1 (0.25%) FastStats
8 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.25%) Primavera
8 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.25%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 93 (23.60%) Power Platform
2 79 (20.05%) AWS
3 77 (19.54%) Azure
4 25 (6.35%) Amazon S3
5 24 (6.09%) SaaS
6 21 (5.33%) Entra ID
7 20 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
7 20 (5.08%) GCP
7 20 (5.08%) Snowflake
8 18 (4.57%) PowerApps
9 17 (4.31%) Power Automate
10 16 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (3.81%) dbt
12 14 (3.55%) Amazon EMR
12 14 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (3.30%) SuccessFactors
14 12 (3.05%) Serverless
15 11 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (2.54%) Amazon ECR
16 10 (2.54%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.05%) Broadband
2 3 (0.76%) Intranet
3 2 (0.51%) Internet
4 1 (0.25%) DKIM
4 1 (0.25%) DMARC
4 1 (0.25%) Multicast
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.25%) Unicast
4 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (19.80%) Power BI
2 30 (7.61%) Data Lake
3 26 (6.60%) Relational Database
3 26 (6.60%) Tableau
4 22 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (4.57%) SQL Server
6 17 (4.31%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (4.06%) Data Vault
7 16 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (4.06%) Snowflake Schema
8 15 (3.81%) Star Schema
9 13 (3.30%) Big Data
10 12 (3.05%) SAP BW
11 10 (2.54%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.28%) Metadata
13 7 (1.78%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (1.52%) MySQL
15 5 (1.27%) MongoDB
15 5 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (7.11%) Git
2 10 (2.54%) GitLab
3 6 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.51%) ERwin
5 2 (0.51%) JIRA
5 2 (0.51%) MLflow
6 1 (0.25%) CMake
6 1 (0.25%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 165 (41.88%) Social Skills
2 142 (36.04%) Finance
3 84 (21.32%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (5.08%) Retail
6 19 (4.82%) Law
7 17 (4.31%) Banking
7 17 (4.31%) Manufacturing
8 15 (3.81%) Legal
9 12 (3.05%) Financial Institution
10 11 (2.79%) Billing
10 11 (2.79%) Marketing
11 10 (2.54%) Public Sector
12 9 (2.28%) Telecoms
13 8 (2.03%) Front Office
13 8 (2.03%) General Ledger
13 8 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.52%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.27%) Advertising
15 5 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 88 (22.34%) Analyst
2 65 (16.50%) Senior
3 54 (13.71%) Developer
4 35 (8.88%) Consultant
4 35 (8.88%) Software Engineer
5 33 (8.38%) Architect
6 27 (6.85%) Systems Analyst
7 25 (6.35%) Administrator
7 25 (6.35%) Data Engineer
8 24 (6.09%) Data Architect
8 24 (6.09%) Lead
9 21 (5.33%) Data Analyst
10 20 (5.08%) Systems Administrator
11 18 (4.57%) Business Analyst
11 18 (4.57%) Senior Developer
12 13 (3.30%) Snowflake Architect
13 11 (2.79%) C# Developer
14 10 (2.54%) Data Consultant
14 10 (2.54%) Financial Analyst
15 9 (2.28%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.09%) React
2 23 (5.84%) .NET
3 22 (5.58%) REST
4 19 (4.82%) Terraform
5 17 (4.31%) PySpark
6 14 (3.55%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (3.30%) Kafka
8 10 (2.54%) ASP.NET
8 10 (2.54%) FastAPI
8 10 (2.54%) Middleware
9 9 (2.28%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 9 (2.28%) Node.js
9 9 (2.28%) Spring Boot
10 8 (2.03%) HTML
11 7 (1.78%) CSS
11 7 (1.78%) Flask
11 7 (1.78%) RESTful
12 6 (1.52%) ASP.NET Core
12 6 (1.52%) Blazor
12 6 (1.52%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 72 (18.27%) Algorithms
2 37 (9.39%) Management Information System
3 19 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.57%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (3.55%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.30%) Cloud Native
7 12 (3.05%) Social Media
8 9 (2.28%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.78%) Equities
9 7 (1.78%) FMCG
10 6 (1.52%) Credit Risk
10 6 (1.52%) Educational Technology
11 5 (1.27%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.27%) Clustering
11 5 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.02%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.02%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.02%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.08%) Linux
2 14 (3.55%) Windows
3 3 (0.76%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (29.95%) Data Modelling
2 108 (27.41%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (22.84%) Analytics
3 90 (22.84%) Business Intelligence
4 88 (22.34%) AI
5 82 (20.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 78 (19.80%) Computer Science
7 73 (18.53%) Agile
7 73 (18.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 69 (17.51%) CI/CD
8 69 (17.51%) Decision-Making
9 67 (17.01%) Data Engineering
9 67 (17.01%) Software Engineering
10 65 (16.50%) Validation
11 62 (15.74%) Data Pipeline
12 60 (15.23%) Data Governance
13 58 (14.72%) ERP
14 57 (14.47%) Data Architecture
15 51 (12.94%) DevOps
16 50 (12.69%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 155 (39.34%) SQL
2 136 (34.52%) Python
3 48 (12.18%) Java
4 30 (7.61%) C#
5 28 (7.11%) C++
6 25 (6.35%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.08%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.55%) Go
9 11 (2.79%) Rust
10 7 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.52%) C
11 6 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.27%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.02%) Bash
13 4 (1.02%) Scala
14 3 (0.76%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.76%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.76%) VBA
14 3 (0.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 86 (21.83%) Degree
2 40 (10.15%) Security Cleared
3 27 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (6.60%) SC Cleared
5 20 (5.08%) ACCA
5 20 (5.08%) CIMA
6 13 (3.30%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.54%) PhD
8 9 (2.28%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.03%) DBS Check
9 8 (2.03%) PMI Certification
9 8 (2.03%) PMP
10 5 (1.27%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (1.02%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.76%) HND
12 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (24.62%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.09%) QA
3 21 (5.33%) GDPR
4 14 (3.55%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.76%) CDISC
6 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.25%) MiFID
7 1 (0.25%) PERC
7 1 (0.25%) PMBOK
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (7.36%) Docker
2 12 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 18 (4.57%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.52%) Ansible
3 5 (1.27%) Packer
4 3 (0.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.51%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 61 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 48 (12.18%) SAP
3 40 (10.15%) Oracle
4 19 (4.82%) Databricks
4 19 (4.82%) Sage
5 17 (4.31%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.28%) HubSpot
6 9 (2.28%) Workday
7 7 (1.78%) Infor
8 5 (1.27%) Google
9 3 (0.76%) Avaya
9 3 (0.76%) Cisco
9 3 (0.76%) Foundry
9 3 (0.76%) Genesys
9 3 (0.76%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.76%) Palantir
10 2 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.51%) Concur
10 2 (0.51%) JD Edwards
10 2 (0.51%) OpenAI