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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 346 333
Rank change year-on-year -69 -13 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 402 332 509
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.78% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.50% 1.85% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 258 129 188
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,938 £90,750 £99,688
90th Percentile £97,500 £123,000 £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 26,740 17,985 21,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.01% 42.01% 32.35%
Number of salaries quoted 17,413 9,107 11,271
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,742 £31,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -51 182 £82,000 -3.53% 437
North of England -16 74 £55,000 -26.42% 83
South East -35 58 £68,000 +2.64% 90
Midlands -57 39 £52,500 +8.25% 50
North West -19 35 £60,000 -14.29% 46
Yorkshire -21 22 £61,755 -20.32% 23
West Midlands -34 22 £60,000 +14.29% 35
East of England -28 21 £37,500 -29.76% 27
South West -86 20 £58,000 -17.14% 42
East Midlands -39 17 £47,500 -2.06% 14
North East -55 17 £55,000 -52.17% 14
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 (3.73%) Apache
1 15 (3.73%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.74%) Jupyter
3 10 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.74%) SAS
4 7 (1.74%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.00%) Confluence
5 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.75%) IIS
6 3 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 35 (8.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 12 (2.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 12 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.74%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.49%) Infor M3
5 5 (1.24%) Workday HCM
6 4 (1.00%) SAP SCM
7 3 (0.75%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.50%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.50%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle iProcurement
9 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.25%) Dynamics SL
9 1 (0.25%) FastStats
9 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 91 (22.64%) Power Platform
2 84 (20.90%) Azure
3 83 (20.65%) AWS
4 28 (6.97%) GCP
5 24 (5.97%) Amazon S3
5 24 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
5 24 (5.97%) SaaS
6 21 (5.22%) Entra ID
7 19 (4.73%) PowerApps
7 19 (4.73%) Snowflake
8 18 (4.48%) Power Automate
9 15 (3.73%) dbt
10 14 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (3.48%) Serverless
11 13 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
11 13 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
12 10 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.24%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.99%) Broadband
2 3 (0.75%) Intranet
3 2 (0.50%) Internet
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 76 (18.91%) Power BI
2 29 (7.21%) Data Lake
3 27 (6.72%) Tableau
4 23 (5.72%) Relational Database
5 21 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.98%) Data Vault
7 15 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.73%) Snowflake Schema
7 15 (3.73%) SQL Server
7 15 (3.73%) Star Schema
8 14 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (2.99%) BigQuery
9 12 (2.99%) SAP BW
10 11 (2.74%) Big Data
11 10 (2.49%) Metadata
12 8 (1.99%) NoSQL
13 7 (1.74%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.49%) MySQL
15 5 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 27 (6.72%) Git
2 9 (2.24%) GitLab
3 6 (1.49%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.00%) JIRA
5 3 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.50%) ERwin
6 2 (0.50%) MLflow
7 1 (0.25%) CMake
7 1 (0.25%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.25%) Maven
7 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 159 (39.55%) Social Skills
2 145 (36.07%) Finance
3 82 (20.40%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (6.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (5.72%) Law
6 18 (4.48%) Legal
7 17 (4.23%) Banking
7 17 (4.23%) Manufacturing
7 17 (4.23%) Retail
8 14 (3.48%) Marketing
9 13 (3.23%) Billing
9 13 (3.23%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.49%) Front Office
11 9 (2.24%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.99%) General Ledger
12 8 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.99%) Public Sector
13 6 (1.49%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.24%) Advertising
14 5 (1.24%) Military
Job Titles
1 95 (23.63%) Analyst
2 71 (17.66%) Senior
3 57 (14.18%) Developer
4 37 (9.20%) Consultant
4 37 (9.20%) Software Engineer
5 32 (7.96%) Architect
6 29 (7.21%) Systems Analyst
7 26 (6.47%) Administrator
8 23 (5.72%) Data Architect
9 22 (5.47%) Data Analyst
9 22 (5.47%) Senior Developer
10 21 (5.22%) Data Engineer
10 21 (5.22%) Systems Administrator
11 20 (4.98%) Lead
12 18 (4.48%) Business Analyst
13 13 (3.23%) Snowflake Architect
14 12 (2.99%) Python Developer
15 11 (2.74%) Backend Developer
15 11 (2.74%) Data Consultant
15 11 (2.74%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.47%) .NET
1 22 (5.47%) React
1 22 (5.47%) Terraform
2 18 (4.48%) REST
3 16 (3.98%) PySpark
4 14 (3.48%) Oracle Fusion
5 13 (3.23%) Kafka
6 11 (2.74%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 10 (2.49%) CSS
7 10 (2.49%) HTML
8 9 (2.24%) RESTful
9 8 (1.99%) ASP.NET
9 8 (1.99%) FastAPI
9 8 (1.99%) Flask
9 8 (1.99%) Middleware
9 8 (1.99%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.74%) Django
10 7 (1.74%) Node.js
10 7 (1.74%) Vue
11 6 (1.49%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 78 (19.40%) Algorithms
2 38 (9.45%) Management Information System
3 25 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.73%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.48%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.23%) Hedge funds
7 12 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.99%) Social Media
8 11 (2.74%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.99%) Equities
10 7 (1.74%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.49%) FMCG
12 5 (1.24%) Clustering
12 5 (1.24%) Credit Risk
12 5 (1.24%) Educational Technology
12 5 (1.24%) PKI
12 5 (1.24%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.22%) Linux
2 14 (3.48%) Windows
3 3 (0.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (28.86%) Problem-Solving
2 111 (27.61%) Data Modelling
3 91 (22.64%) Analytics
3 91 (22.64%) Business Intelligence
4 82 (20.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 81 (20.15%) Agile
6 77 (19.15%) AI
7 74 (18.41%) Computer Science
8 73 (18.16%) Software Engineering
9 70 (17.41%) Stakeholder Management
10 69 (17.16%) Decision-Making
11 68 (16.92%) CI/CD
12 64 (15.92%) Data Engineering
13 60 (14.93%) Data Pipeline
14 59 (14.68%) Validation
15 58 (14.43%) ERP
16 57 (14.18%) Data Governance
17 55 (13.68%) Data Architecture
18 50 (12.44%) Data Management
18 50 (12.44%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 156 (38.81%) SQL
2 136 (33.83%) Python
3 45 (11.19%) Java
4 33 (8.21%) C++
5 29 (7.21%) JavaScript
6 28 (6.97%) C#
7 17 (4.23%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.48%) Go
8 14 (3.48%) Rust
9 7 (1.74%) C
10 6 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.49%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.24%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.00%) Bash
12 4 (1.00%) Scala
12 4 (1.00%) VBA
13 3 (0.75%) PowerShell
13 3 (0.75%) SAS Macro
13 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 91 (22.64%) Degree
2 41 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 28 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (6.72%) SC Cleared
5 20 (4.98%) ACCA
5 20 (4.98%) CIMA
6 11 (2.74%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.24%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.99%) PhD
9 7 (1.74%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.74%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.74%) PMP
10 5 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.00%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.75%) HND
12 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (23.13%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.72%) QA
3 20 (4.98%) GDPR
4 15 (3.73%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.75%) CDISC
6 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.25%) MiFID
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (7.96%) Docker
2 12 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (4.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.24%) Ansible
3 4 (1.00%) Packer
4 2 (0.50%) Grafana
4 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 61 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 49 (12.19%) SAP
3 41 (10.20%) Oracle
4 19 (4.73%) Sage
5 18 (4.48%) Databricks
6 16 (3.98%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.99%) Google
8 9 (2.24%) HubSpot
8 9 (2.24%) Workday
9 6 (1.49%) Infor
10 3 (0.75%) Avaya
10 3 (0.75%) Cisco
10 3 (0.75%) Foundry
10 3 (0.75%) Genesys
10 3 (0.75%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.75%) Palantir
10 3 (0.75%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.75%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.50%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.50%) Intapp