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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 352 318
Rank change year-on-year -37 -34 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 401 339 597
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.77% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.65% 1.84% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 265 127 226
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £99,500 £122,500 £123,125
UK median annual salary £68,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +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 24,311 18,431 23,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.81% 42.13% 32.65%
Number of salaries quoted 15,873 9,310 14,525
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,294 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.85%

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 August 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 August 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 -10 206 £85,000 -0.58% 236
North of England -2 73 £55,000 -21.43% 27
South East -33 54 £67,500 +42.11% 33
North West 0 30 £60,000 -7.69% 11
Yorkshire -13 26 £55,000 -29.03% 10
Midlands -42 21 £47,121 -2.84% 23
South West -75 19 £62,500 +6.38% 13
East of England -15 18 £37,500 -29.76% 15
North East -47 17 £55,000 -52.17% 6
West Midlands -26 14 £50,000 -1.96% 13
East Midlands -41 7 £44,241 -8.78% 10
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 19 (4.74%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (3.49%) Apache
4 10 (2.49%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.24%) SharePoint
6 8 (2.00%) SAS
7 6 (1.50%) Confluence
8 5 (1.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.25%) IIS
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (8.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (2.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.25%) SAP SCM
4 5 (1.25%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.75%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.75%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.50%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.50%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.50%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.50%) Misys Opics
6 2 (0.50%) Shopify
7 1 (0.25%) FastStats
7 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.25%) Magento
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle iProcurement
7 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 100 (24.94%) AWS
2 88 (21.95%) Azure
3 86 (21.45%) Power Platform
4 43 (10.72%) GCP
5 23 (5.74%) Amazon S3
5 23 (5.74%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (5.49%) PowerApps
7 20 (4.99%) Power Automate
7 20 (4.99%) SaaS
8 19 (4.74%) dbt
9 18 (4.49%) Snowflake
10 17 (4.24%) Entra ID
11 14 (3.49%) Serverless
12 13 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (2.99%) Amazon EMR
14 10 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (2.49%) GitHub
15 9 (2.24%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (2.24%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.24%) Broadband
2 3 (0.75%) Intranet
3 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (17.71%) Power BI
2 29 (7.23%) Data Lake
3 28 (6.98%) Tableau
4 26 (6.48%) BigQuery
5 24 (5.99%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (5.24%) Relational Database
7 19 (4.74%) Metadata
8 17 (4.24%) Data Vault
9 15 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (3.49%) Star Schema
11 13 (3.24%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (2.99%) SAP BW
12 12 (2.99%) Snowflake Schema
12 12 (2.99%) SQL Server
13 9 (2.24%) DynamoDB
13 9 (2.24%) NoSQL
13 9 (2.24%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (1.50%) Big Data
14 6 (1.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (6.73%) Git
2 9 (2.24%) GitLab
3 8 (2.00%) JIRA
4 6 (1.50%) ERwin
4 6 (1.50%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.50%) MLflow
7 1 (0.25%) CMake
7 1 (0.25%) Maven
7 1 (0.25%) Postman
7 1 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.25%) Toad
7 1 (0.25%) utPLSQL
7 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 163 (40.65%) Finance
2 153 (38.15%) Social Skills
3 71 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 27 (6.73%) Law
5 21 (5.24%) Banking
6 19 (4.74%) Retail
7 18 (4.49%) Legal
8 16 (3.99%) Front Office
9 15 (3.74%) Billing
10 14 (3.49%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.74%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.74%) Marketing
12 9 (2.24%) Public Sector
12 9 (2.24%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.50%) General Ledger
13 6 (1.50%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.25%) German Language
14 5 (1.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 90 (22.44%) Analyst
2 88 (21.95%) Senior
3 64 (15.96%) Developer
4 44 (10.97%) Software Engineer
5 43 (10.72%) Consultant
6 32 (7.98%) Senior Developer
7 29 (7.23%) Architect
8 28 (6.98%) Administrator
9 26 (6.48%) Data Analyst
9 26 (6.48%) Systems Analyst
10 23 (5.74%) Data Engineer
10 23 (5.74%) Systems Administrator
11 22 (5.49%) Data Architect
12 18 (4.49%) Python Developer
13 16 (3.99%) Backend Developer
13 16 (3.99%) Business Analyst
13 16 (3.99%) Data Consultant
14 14 (3.49%) Senior Backend Developer
14 14 (3.49%) Senior C++ Developer
14 14 (3.49%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.99%) React
2 18 (4.49%) Kafka
2 18 (4.49%) REST
3 16 (3.99%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 16 (3.99%) Django
4 15 (3.74%) .NET
4 15 (3.74%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (3.74%) PySpark
5 14 (3.49%) RESTful
6 13 (3.24%) JSON
7 10 (2.49%) XML
8 8 (2.00%) Flask
8 8 (2.00%) Vue
9 7 (1.75%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (1.75%) Middleware
9 7 (1.75%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.50%) CSS
10 6 (1.50%) FastAPI
10 6 (1.50%) HTML
10 6 (1.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 89 (22.19%) Algorithms
2 38 (9.48%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (8.23%) Management Information System
4 19 (4.74%) Hedge funds
5 17 (4.24%) Social Media
6 16 (3.99%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.49%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (3.24%) Cloud Native
8 13 (3.24%) Equities
9 12 (2.99%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.00%) Client/Server
10 8 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.25%) Anti-Piracy
12 5 (1.25%) Clustering
12 5 (1.25%) e-Learning
12 5 (1.25%) PKI
12 5 (1.25%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.00%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.99%) Linux
2 11 (2.74%) Windows
3 3 (0.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (28.93%) Data Modelling
2 114 (28.43%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (25.69%) Analytics
4 88 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
5 87 (21.70%) Software Engineering
6 86 (21.45%) Agile
7 78 (19.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 68 (16.96%) AI
9 67 (16.71%) Data Engineering
9 67 (16.71%) Decision-Making
10 65 (16.21%) Computer Science
11 64 (15.96%) CI/CD
12 62 (15.46%) Data Pipeline
13 61 (15.21%) ERP
14 59 (14.71%) Data Governance
15 54 (13.47%) Stakeholder Management
16 53 (13.22%) Validation
17 50 (12.47%) DevOps
18 48 (11.97%) Data Analysis
18 48 (11.97%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 156 (38.90%) Python
2 154 (38.40%) SQL
3 46 (11.47%) C++
4 44 (10.97%) Java
5 28 (6.98%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.99%) C#
7 19 (4.74%) Rust
8 15 (3.74%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.24%) Go
10 9 (2.24%) Scala
11 7 (1.75%) C
11 7 (1.75%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.75%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.00%) VBA
14 3 (0.75%) Bash
14 3 (0.75%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.75%) R
14 3 (0.75%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (20.45%) Degree
2 43 (10.72%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (6.73%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.49%) ACCA
5 18 (4.49%) CIMA
6 11 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.00%) PhD
10 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.75%) HND
10 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (19.70%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.74%) GDPR
3 17 (4.24%) Accessibility
4 16 (3.99%) QA
5 4 (1.00%) IFRS
6 3 (0.75%) CDISC
6 3 (0.75%) GAAP
6 3 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 33 (8.23%) Docker
2 11 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (5.49%) Terraform
2 20 (4.99%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.25%) Ansible
4 4 (1.00%) Packer
5 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.25%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 58 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 48 (11.97%) SAP
3 41 (10.22%) Oracle
4 21 (5.24%) Sage
5 20 (4.99%) Google
6 16 (3.99%) Databricks
7 13 (3.24%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.74%) Workday
9 5 (1.25%) Foundry
9 5 (1.25%) Palantir
9 5 (1.25%) Sparx
10 3 (0.75%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.75%) Avaya
10 3 (0.75%) Cisco
10 3 (0.75%) Genesys
10 3 (0.75%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.75%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.75%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.50%) Concur
11 2 (0.50%) Intapp