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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 353 316
Rank change year-on-year -35 -37 +1
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 398 340 593
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.77% 0.82%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.63% 1.84% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 265 128 223
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 £96,875
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £125,750
UK median annual salary £67,750 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.21% - +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 24,399 18,474 23,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.72% 42.01% 32.46%
Number of salaries quoted 15,987 9,386 14,274
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,381
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 £105,875 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.16%

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 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 17 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 -19 204 £85,000 -0.58% 294
North of England -13 73 £55,000 -21.43% 57
South East -43 55 £67,500 +42.11% 41
North West -11 30 £60,000 -7.69% 28
Yorkshire -8 26 £55,000 -29.03% 13
Midlands -42 21 £47,121 -2.84% 35
South West -88 19 £62,500 +6.38% 22
East of England -16 17 £37,500 -29.76% 18
North East -49 17 £55,000 -52.17% 16
West Midlands -18 14 £50,000 -1.96% 23
East Midlands -35 7 £44,241 -8.78% 12
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 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.52%) Apache
3 11 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.51%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.26%) SharePoint
6 8 (2.01%) SAS
7 6 (1.51%) Confluence
8 5 (1.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.50%) IIS
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (9.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (3.02%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.76%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.26%) SAP SCM
4 5 (1.26%) 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 95 (23.87%) AWS
2 90 (22.61%) Azure
3 87 (21.86%) Power Platform
4 39 (9.80%) GCP
5 23 (5.78%) Amazon S3
5 23 (5.78%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (5.53%) PowerApps
7 21 (5.28%) Power Automate
8 20 (5.03%) SaaS
9 18 (4.52%) Entra ID
9 18 (4.52%) Snowflake
10 15 (3.77%) dbt
11 13 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.27%) Serverless
12 12 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (2.26%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (2.26%) GitHub
14 9 (2.26%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.27%) Broadband
2 3 (0.75%) Intranet
3 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (18.09%) Power BI
2 29 (7.29%) Data Lake
3 28 (7.04%) Tableau
4 24 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (5.53%) BigQuery
6 21 (5.28%) Relational Database
7 17 (4.27%) Data Vault
8 15 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (3.77%) Metadata
9 14 (3.52%) Star Schema
10 13 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (3.27%) SQL Server
11 12 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (3.02%) SAP BW
11 12 (3.02%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (2.26%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (2.01%) DynamoDB
13 8 (2.01%) NoSQL
14 6 (1.51%) Big Data
14 6 (1.51%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (6.78%) Git
2 9 (2.26%) GitLab
3 8 (2.01%) JIRA
4 6 (1.51%) ERwin
4 6 (1.51%) 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
1 162 (40.70%) Finance
2 150 (37.69%) Social Skills
3 72 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (5.78%) Law
6 21 (5.28%) Banking
7 19 (4.77%) Retail
8 18 (4.52%) Legal
9 16 (4.02%) Front Office
10 15 (3.77%) Billing
11 14 (3.52%) Financial Institution
12 11 (2.76%) Manufacturing
12 11 (2.76%) Marketing
13 9 (2.26%) Public Sector
13 9 (2.26%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.51%) General Ledger
14 6 (1.51%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.26%) German Language
15 5 (1.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 91 (22.86%) Analyst
2 83 (20.85%) Senior
3 65 (16.33%) Developer
4 43 (10.80%) Consultant
4 43 (10.80%) Software Engineer
5 32 (8.04%) Senior Developer
6 29 (7.29%) Architect
7 28 (7.04%) Administrator
8 27 (6.78%) Data Analyst
9 26 (6.53%) Systems Analyst
10 23 (5.78%) Systems Administrator
11 22 (5.53%) Data Architect
12 19 (4.77%) Data Engineer
13 18 (4.52%) Python Developer
14 16 (4.02%) Backend Developer
14 16 (4.02%) Business Analyst
14 16 (4.02%) Data Consultant
15 14 (3.52%) C++ Developer
15 14 (3.52%) Senior Backend Developer
15 14 (3.52%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.03%) React
2 19 (4.77%) REST
3 16 (4.02%) .NET
3 16 (4.02%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 16 (4.02%) Django
4 15 (3.77%) Oracle Fusion
4 15 (3.77%) PySpark
5 14 (3.52%) Kafka
5 14 (3.52%) RESTful
6 13 (3.27%) JSON
7 10 (2.51%) XML
8 8 (2.01%) Flask
8 8 (2.01%) Vue
9 7 (1.76%) FIX Protocol
9 7 (1.76%) Middleware
9 7 (1.76%) Spring Boot
10 6 (1.51%) .NET Framework
10 6 (1.51%) CSS
10 6 (1.51%) HTML
10 6 (1.51%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 88 (22.11%) Algorithms
2 37 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (8.54%) Management Information System
4 19 (4.77%) Hedge funds
5 16 (4.02%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (3.27%) Equities
7 13 (3.27%) Social Media
8 12 (3.02%) Cloud Native
8 12 (3.02%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.01%) Client/Server
11 6 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.26%) Clustering
12 5 (1.26%) e-Learning
12 5 (1.26%) PKI
12 5 (1.26%) Public Cloud
13 4 (1.01%) Credit Risk
13 4 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
13 4 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.03%) Linux
2 12 (3.02%) Windows
3 3 (0.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (29.15%) Problem-Solving
2 114 (28.64%) Data Modelling
3 101 (25.38%) Analytics
4 89 (22.36%) Business Intelligence
5 86 (21.61%) Agile
5 86 (21.61%) Software Engineering
6 79 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 69 (17.34%) AI
8 68 (17.09%) Decision-Making
9 64 (16.08%) CI/CD
9 64 (16.08%) Computer Science
10 63 (15.83%) Data Engineering
11 61 (15.33%) ERP
12 58 (14.57%) Data Pipeline
13 55 (13.82%) Data Governance
14 54 (13.57%) Stakeholder Management
14 54 (13.57%) Validation
15 52 (13.07%) DevOps
16 49 (12.31%) Data Analysis
17 48 (12.06%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 151 (37.94%) Python
1 151 (37.94%) SQL
2 41 (10.30%) C++
3 40 (10.05%) Java
4 28 (7.04%) JavaScript
5 21 (5.28%) C#
6 18 (4.52%) Rust
7 15 (3.77%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.27%) Go
9 7 (1.76%) C
9 7 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (1.76%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.76%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.26%) Scala
10 5 (1.26%) VBA
11 3 (0.75%) Bash
11 3 (0.75%) PowerShell
11 3 (0.75%) R
11 3 (0.75%) SAS Macro
11 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (20.60%) Degree
2 43 (10.80%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (6.78%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.52%) ACCA
5 18 (4.52%) CIMA
6 11 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.76%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.01%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.01%) 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%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (20.35%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.77%) GDPR
3 17 (4.27%) Accessibility
3 17 (4.27%) QA
4 4 (1.01%) IFRS
5 3 (0.75%) CDISC
5 3 (0.75%) GAAP
5 3 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 33 (8.29%) Docker
2 11 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (5.53%) Terraform
2 20 (5.03%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.26%) Ansible
4 4 (1.01%) Packer
5 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.25%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 59 (14.82%) Microsoft
2 48 (12.06%) SAP
3 41 (10.30%) Oracle
4 21 (5.28%) Sage
5 20 (5.03%) Google
6 16 (4.02%) Databricks
7 13 (3.27%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.76%) Workday
9 5 (1.26%) Foundry
9 5 (1.26%) Palantir
9 5 (1.26%) 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%) Informatica
11 2 (0.50%) JD Edwards