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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 357 327
Rank change year-on-year -41 -30 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 390 325 559
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.76% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.57% 1.80% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 259 121 211
10th Percentile £42,250 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £66,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +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 24,912 18,043 22,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.56% 42.02% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 16,381 9,144 12,684
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £58,701
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.30% -6.08%

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 4 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 4 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 -23 187 £85,000 - 516
North of England -10 75 £55,000 -26.17% 70
South East -42 54 £67,750 +2.26% 65
North West -5 33 £57,500 -17.86% 48
Midlands -49 29 £52,500 +8.25% 55
Yorkshire -21 24 £55,000 -29.03% 10
East of England -17 19 £37,500 -10.23% 34
South West -83 19 £61,250 -12.50% 35
West Midlands -27 18 £52,500 - 38
North East -48 18 £55,000 -52.17% 13
East Midlands -46 11 £54,521 +12.41% 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 15 (3.85%) Apache
2 14 (3.59%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.82%) Jupyter
4 10 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (2.05%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.79%) SAS
7 6 (1.54%) Confluence
8 5 (1.28%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.77%) IIS
9 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.26%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 35 (8.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.28%) Workday HCM
5 4 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (1.03%) SAP SCM
6 3 (0.77%) Infor M3
6 3 (0.77%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.51%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.51%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle iProcurement
8 1 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.26%) FastStats
8 1 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
8 1 (0.26%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.26%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.26%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 91 (23.33%) AWS
2 85 (21.79%) Power Platform
3 84 (21.54%) Azure
4 33 (8.46%) GCP
5 24 (6.15%) Amazon S3
6 23 (5.90%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (5.38%) SaaS
8 19 (4.87%) Entra ID
8 19 (4.87%) PowerApps
9 18 (4.62%) Power Automate
9 18 (4.62%) Snowflake
10 15 (3.85%) dbt
11 13 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.33%) Serverless
12 12 (3.08%) Amazon EMR
13 11 (2.82%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (2.31%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.08%) Broadband
2 3 (0.77%) Intranet
3 1 (0.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (17.95%) Power BI
2 30 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 26 (6.67%) Tableau
4 22 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.87%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.10%) BigQuery
6 16 (4.10%) Data Vault
7 15 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.85%) Star Schema
8 14 (3.59%) Snowflake Schema
9 13 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (3.08%) Metadata
10 12 (3.08%) SAP BW
10 12 (3.08%) SQL Server
11 9 (2.31%) Big Data
11 9 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (2.05%) DynamoDB
12 8 (2.05%) NoSQL
13 7 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (1.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (7.44%) Git
2 9 (2.31%) GitLab
3 7 (1.79%) JIRA
4 6 (1.54%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.03%) ERwin
6 3 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.51%) MLflow
8 1 (0.26%) CMake
8 1 (0.26%) Maven
8 1 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.26%) Toad
8 1 (0.26%) utPLSQL
8 1 (0.26%) Valgrind
General
1 153 (39.23%) Finance
2 148 (37.95%) Social Skills
3 77 (19.74%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (6.15%) Law
6 18 (4.62%) Banking
6 18 (4.62%) Legal
6 18 (4.62%) Retail
7 15 (3.85%) Billing
8 14 (3.59%) Financial Institution
9 13 (3.33%) Front Office
9 13 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.33%) Marketing
10 9 (2.31%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.31%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.79%) General Ledger
13 6 (1.54%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.28%) Military
15 4 (1.03%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 92 (23.59%) Analyst
2 75 (19.23%) Senior
3 59 (15.13%) Developer
4 42 (10.77%) Software Engineer
5 41 (10.51%) Consultant
6 28 (7.18%) Systems Analyst
7 27 (6.92%) Architect
8 26 (6.67%) Administrator
9 25 (6.41%) Data Analyst
9 25 (6.41%) Senior Developer
10 22 (5.64%) Systems Administrator
11 20 (5.13%) Data Architect
12 18 (4.62%) Data Engineer
13 16 (4.10%) Business Analyst
14 15 (3.85%) Data Consultant
14 15 (3.85%) Python Developer
15 14 (3.59%) Lead
16 13 (3.33%) Backend Developer
16 13 (3.33%) Snowflake Architect
17 12 (3.08%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.64%) Terraform
2 21 (5.38%) React
3 19 (4.87%) .NET
4 16 (4.10%) REST
5 15 (3.85%) PySpark
6 14 (3.59%) Kafka
6 14 (3.59%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (3.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 12 (3.08%) Django
9 11 (2.82%) RESTful
10 9 (2.31%) JSON
11 8 (2.05%) Flask
11 8 (2.05%) Vue
11 8 (2.05%) XML
12 7 (1.79%) CSS
12 7 (1.79%) HTML
12 7 (1.79%) Spring Boot
13 6 (1.54%) .NET Framework
13 6 (1.54%) Middleware
13 6 (1.54%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 81 (20.77%) Algorithms
2 36 (9.23%) Management Information System
3 29 (7.44%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.62%) Onboarding
5 16 (4.10%) Hedge funds
6 12 (3.08%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.08%) Social Media
7 10 (2.56%) Equities
7 10 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.05%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.28%) Clustering
9 5 (1.28%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.28%) PKI
9 5 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (0.77%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.64%) Linux
2 14 (3.59%) Windows
3 3 (0.77%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (29.49%) Problem-Solving
2 108 (27.69%) Data Modelling
3 95 (24.36%) Analytics
4 88 (22.56%) Business Intelligence
5 85 (21.79%) Agile
6 82 (21.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 79 (20.26%) Software Engineering
8 72 (18.46%) AI
9 67 (17.18%) Decision-Making
10 66 (16.92%) Computer Science
11 65 (16.67%) CI/CD
12 64 (16.41%) Data Engineering
13 63 (16.15%) Stakeholder Management
14 60 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
15 59 (15.13%) ERP
16 56 (14.36%) Validation
17 54 (13.85%) Data Governance
18 50 (12.82%) Data Architecture
18 50 (12.82%) DevOps
19 49 (12.56%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 151 (38.72%) SQL
2 141 (36.15%) Python
3 40 (10.26%) Java
4 36 (9.23%) C++
5 28 (7.18%) JavaScript
6 25 (6.41%) C#
7 16 (4.10%) Rust
7 16 (4.10%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.59%) Go
9 7 (1.79%) C
9 7 (1.79%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.54%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.03%) Scala
11 4 (1.03%) VBA
12 3 (0.77%) Bash
12 3 (0.77%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.77%) SAS Macro
12 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.77%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 86 (22.05%) Degree
2 43 (11.03%) Security Cleared
3 30 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (6.92%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.62%) ACCA
5 18 (4.62%) CIMA
6 11 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.31%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.54%) PhD
9 5 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (1.03%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.03%) PMP
11 3 (0.77%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.77%) HND
11 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.77%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (21.54%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.38%) QA
3 19 (4.87%) GDPR
4 17 (4.36%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.77%) CDISC
6 2 (0.51%) IFRS
6 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.26%) GAAP
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
7 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.26%) MiFID
7 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (8.72%) Docker
2 11 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.28%) Ansible
3 4 (1.03%) Packer
4 3 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.26%) Grafana
5 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 59 (15.13%) Microsoft
2 47 (12.05%) SAP
3 39 (10.00%) Oracle
4 20 (5.13%) Sage
5 17 (4.36%) Databricks
6 16 (4.10%) Google
7 13 (3.33%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.31%) Workday
9 6 (1.54%) HubSpot
10 5 (1.28%) Foundry
10 5 (1.28%) Palantir
11 3 (0.77%) Avaya
11 3 (0.77%) Cisco
11 3 (0.77%) Genesys
11 3 (0.77%) Infor
11 3 (0.77%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.77%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.77%) Sparx
11 3 (0.77%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.51%) OpenAI