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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 366 303
Rank change year-on-year -4 -63 -6
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 408 312 820
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.75% 0.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.86% 1.78% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 273 121 401
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +4.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £91,250 £98,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £71,991 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.71% +2.84% +11.11%

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 21,958 17,501 30,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.58% 42.20% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 14,551 8,632 20,790
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £28,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £59,511 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.50% +4.55% -14.10%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +49 236 £85,000 -5.56% 137
South East -24 57 £60,000 +26.32% 48
North of England -12 56 £57,500 -22.82% 29
North West +5 22 £60,000 +4.35% 14
Yorkshire -18 22 £57,500 -25.57% 6
East of England -13 18 £37,500 -42.31% 9
Midlands -46 16 £42,500 -12.37% 25
West Midlands -30 13 £43,000 -6.78% 13
South West -89 13 £68,750 -1.79% 13
North East -42 12 £55,000 -52.17% 10
East Midlands -34 3 £42,500 -12.37% 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 17 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.43%) Apache
3 13 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.96%) Jupyter
5 8 (1.96%) SAS
6 7 (1.72%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (1.47%) Confluence
7 6 (1.47%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 33 (8.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (2.21%) NetSuite
4 8 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (1.23%) SAP SCM
8 4 (0.98%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.74%) FLEXCUBE
9 3 (0.74%) Misys Opics
9 3 (0.74%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.49%) Elite 3E
10 2 (0.49%) Shopify
11 1 (0.25%) JDE EnterpriseOne
11 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
11 1 (0.25%) Magento
11 1 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
11 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
11 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
11 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 114 (27.94%) Azure
2 96 (23.53%) AWS
3 91 (22.30%) Power Platform
4 50 (12.25%) GCP
5 29 (7.11%) SaaS
6 21 (5.15%) Amazon S3
6 21 (5.15%) Entra ID
7 17 (4.17%) PowerApps
8 16 (3.92%) dbt
8 16 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
8 16 (3.92%) Power Automate
9 13 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (3.19%) Serverless
9 13 (3.19%) Snowflake
10 11 (2.70%) GitHub
11 10 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (2.21%) Intacct
13 8 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.41%) Broadband
2 2 (0.49%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (19.36%) Power BI
2 35 (8.58%) Tableau
3 33 (8.09%) BigQuery
4 26 (6.37%) Data Lake
5 23 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (5.15%) Metadata
7 20 (4.90%) Relational Database
7 20 (4.90%) SQL Server
8 19 (4.66%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (3.68%) Data Vault
11 14 (3.43%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (3.43%) MySQL
12 12 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
12 12 (2.94%) SAP BW
12 12 (2.94%) Star Schema
13 10 (2.45%) Snowflake Schema
13 10 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (2.21%) NoSQL
15 8 (1.96%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (6.13%) Git
2 11 (2.70%) Postman
3 9 (2.21%) ERwin
4 8 (1.96%) JIRA
5 7 (1.72%) Eclipse
6 6 (1.47%) GitLab
7 3 (0.74%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.49%) MLflow
8 2 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.25%) CMake
9 1 (0.25%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.25%) Maven
9 1 (0.25%) Toad
9 1 (0.25%) utPLSQL
9 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 167 (40.93%) Finance
2 157 (38.48%) Social Skills
3 69 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.31%) Law
5 23 (5.64%) Front Office
6 20 (4.90%) Retail
7 18 (4.41%) Banking
8 17 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (4.17%) Legal
9 16 (3.92%) Marketing
10 14 (3.43%) Billing
11 13 (3.19%) Public Sector
12 11 (2.70%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.45%) Financial Institution
14 9 (2.21%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.72%) Investment Banking
16 6 (1.47%) Publishing
17 5 (1.23%) General Ledger
17 5 (1.23%) Military
17 5 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (24.75%) Analyst
2 90 (22.06%) Senior
3 63 (15.44%) Developer
4 49 (12.01%) Data Analyst
5 46 (11.27%) Consultant
6 39 (9.56%) Software Engineer
7 38 (9.31%) Senior Developer
8 27 (6.62%) Administrator
9 24 (5.88%) Architect
9 24 (5.88%) Python Developer
10 22 (5.39%) Data Engineer
10 22 (5.39%) Systems Administrator
11 20 (4.90%) Lead
12 19 (4.66%) Data Architect
12 19 (4.66%) Data Consultant
13 18 (4.41%) C++ Developer
13 18 (4.41%) Quantitative Developer
13 18 (4.41%) Senior C++ Developer
13 18 (4.41%) Senior Python Developer
13 18 (4.41%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.62%) RESTful
2 24 (5.88%) JSON
3 22 (5.39%) Django
4 20 (4.90%) REST
4 20 (4.90%) XML
5 19 (4.66%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 17 (4.17%) Kafka
6 17 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
7 14 (3.43%) PySpark
7 14 (3.43%) React
8 12 (2.94%) OpenAPI
8 12 (2.94%) Swagger
9 9 (2.21%) FIX Protocol
9 9 (2.21%) Flask
10 7 (1.72%) .NET
10 7 (1.72%) FastAPI
10 7 (1.72%) FpML
10 7 (1.72%) Middleware
10 7 (1.72%) XML Schema
11 6 (1.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 87 (21.32%) Algorithms
2 44 (10.78%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (6.86%) Greenfield Project
3 28 (6.86%) Management Information System
4 21 (5.15%) Hedge funds
5 18 (4.41%) Equities
5 18 (4.41%) Social Media
6 16 (3.92%) Cloud Native
6 16 (3.92%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.94%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.96%) Client/Server
8 8 (1.96%) Reinsurance
9 7 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.72%) e-Learning
9 7 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.47%) Anti-Piracy
10 6 (1.47%) FMCG
11 5 (1.23%) PKI
11 5 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.39%) Linux
2 4 (0.98%) Windows
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (28.92%) Data Modelling
2 100 (24.51%) Business Intelligence
3 99 (24.26%) Analytics
4 87 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (20.59%) Software Engineering
6 82 (20.10%) Agile
7 75 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 67 (16.42%) Decision-Making
9 66 (16.18%) Computer Science
10 65 (15.93%) Validation
11 63 (15.44%) Data Engineering
12 60 (14.71%) Data Governance
13 59 (14.46%) ERP
14 58 (14.22%) AI
15 56 (13.73%) ETL
16 55 (13.48%) CI/CD
17 52 (12.75%) DevOps
18 50 (12.25%) Data Pipeline
19 47 (11.52%) Data Analysis
20 45 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 184 (45.10%) SQL
2 183 (44.85%) Python
3 44 (10.78%) C++
4 40 (9.80%) Java
5 25 (6.13%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.41%) Rust
7 14 (3.43%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.94%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.45%) Go
9 10 (2.45%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.45%) Scala
10 9 (2.21%) C#
11 8 (1.96%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.47%) R
13 5 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.98%) C
15 3 (0.74%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.74%) VBA
16 1 (0.25%) Bash
16 1 (0.25%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 81 (19.85%) Degree
2 38 (9.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (9.07%) Security Cleared
4 21 (5.15%) ACCA
4 21 (5.15%) CIMA
4 21 (5.15%) SC Cleared
5 8 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.47%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.74%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.49%) HND
9 2 (0.49%) PhD
10 1 (0.25%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.25%) PMP
10 1 (0.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (20.83%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.17%) QA
3 14 (3.43%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.43%) GDPR
4 11 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.23%) IFRS
5 5 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.74%) CDISC
6 3 (0.74%) GAAP
6 3 (0.74%) GRC
7 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.49%) NIST
7 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.25%) MiFID
8 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 28 (6.86%) Docker
2 19 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (4.90%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.92%) Terraform
3 4 (0.98%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.49%) Ansible
4 2 (0.49%) Grafana
4 2 (0.49%) Packer
5 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 54 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 42 (10.29%) Oracle
2 42 (10.29%) SAP
3 26 (6.37%) Google
4 23 (5.64%) Salesforce
5 20 (4.90%) Sage
6 15 (3.68%) Databricks
7 11 (2.70%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.45%) Foundry
9 9 (2.21%) Workday
10 8 (1.96%) Sparx
11 7 (1.72%) Palantir
12 6 (1.47%) Informatica
12 6 (1.47%) Talend
13 5 (1.23%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.98%) Alteryx
14 4 (0.98%) OpenAI
15 3 (0.74%) TOWER Software
16 2 (0.49%) Concur
16 2 (0.49%) Intapp