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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 364 284
Rank change year-on-year -3 -80 -2
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 347 268 840
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.71% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.52% 1.76% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 211 133 445
10th Percentile £41,993 £41,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £46,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +2.84% +2.36%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £71,991 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.71% +2.84% +3.70%

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 22,847 15,257 29,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.53% 40.37% 35.23%
Number of salaries quoted 11,978 8,332 20,849
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,950
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

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 May 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 May 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 +73 227 £85,000 -5.56% 104
North of England -42 45 £57,500 -4.17% 32
Yorkshire -36 32 £57,500 -7.64% 11
South East -50 23 £49,000 +8.89% 50
East of England -16 16 £65,000 -15.03% 14
Midlands -49 12 £43,000 -11.34% 28
South West -65 9 £43,953 -38.95% 14
North West -28 8 £52,500 -8.70% 18
West Midlands -31 6 £45,250 -24.58% 17
East Midlands -49 6 £42,500 -12.37% 11
North East -39 5 £60,000 -42.17% 3
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 8 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.44%) Confluence
3 5 (1.44%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.86%) Apache
4 3 (0.86%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (0.86%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 27 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (3.17%) NetSuite
3 7 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.44%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (1.15%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.86%) FLEXCUBE
6 3 (0.86%) Misys Opics
6 3 (0.86%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.86%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.58%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.58%) Shopify
7 2 (0.58%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.29%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.29%) Magento
8 1 (0.29%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.29%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.29%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.29%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 99 (28.53%) Azure
2 85 (24.50%) AWS
3 65 (18.73%) Power Platform
4 50 (14.41%) GCP
5 19 (5.48%) Serverless
6 17 (4.90%) GitHub
7 15 (4.32%) Entra ID
7 15 (4.32%) SaaS
8 14 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.17%) Power Automate
10 10 (2.88%) PowerApps
11 9 (2.59%) dbt
11 9 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (2.02%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.02%) Boomi
14 6 (1.73%) Cloud Composer
14 6 (1.73%) Matillion
14 6 (1.73%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.19%) Broadband
2 4 (1.15%) Network Security
3 1 (0.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (17.29%) Power BI
2 42 (12.10%) BigQuery
3 31 (8.93%) Metadata
4 30 (8.65%) Tableau
5 27 (7.78%) SQL Server
6 24 (6.92%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (6.63%) Data Lake
8 21 (6.05%) NoSQL
9 20 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (4.61%) DynamoDB
11 15 (4.32%) Relational Database
11 15 (4.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (3.46%) SAP BW
14 11 (3.17%) MySQL
15 10 (2.88%) Oracle Reports
16 7 (2.02%) Data Vault
16 7 (2.02%) RDBMS
17 6 (1.73%) Snowflake Schema
17 6 (1.73%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (5.19%) Git
2 17 (4.90%) Postman
3 9 (2.59%) Eclipse
3 9 (2.59%) ERwin
4 6 (1.73%) JIRA
5 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.58%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.58%) Storybook
5 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.29%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.29%) Maven
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.29%) Toad
6 1 (0.29%) utPLSQL
General
1 125 (36.02%) Finance
2 109 (31.41%) Social Skills
3 71 (20.46%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (11.53%) Law
5 26 (7.49%) Front Office
6 21 (6.05%) Marketing
6 21 (6.05%) Retail
7 15 (4.32%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.03%) Banking
9 10 (2.88%) Legal
9 10 (2.88%) Publishing
10 8 (2.31%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.02%) Billing
11 7 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.15%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.86%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.86%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (24.21%) Analyst
2 73 (21.04%) Developer
3 72 (20.75%) Senior
4 56 (16.14%) Data Analyst
5 39 (11.24%) Senior Developer
6 36 (10.37%) Software Engineer
7 29 (8.36%) Consultant
7 29 (8.36%) Python Developer
8 24 (6.92%) Architect
9 22 (6.34%) C++ Developer
10 21 (6.05%) Data Architect
10 21 (6.05%) Quantitative Developer
11 19 (5.48%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 19 (5.48%) Linux Developer
11 19 (5.48%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 19 (5.48%) Senior C++ Developer
11 19 (5.48%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
11 19 (5.48%) Senior Python Developer
11 19 (5.48%) Senior Quantitative Developer
12 18 (5.19%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.09%) Django
2 33 (9.51%) RESTful
3 26 (7.49%) JSON
4 20 (5.76%) OpenAPI
4 20 (5.76%) Swagger
5 19 (5.48%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 17 (4.90%) XML
7 15 (4.32%) Kafka
7 15 (4.32%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (4.32%) REST
8 12 (3.46%) CSS
8 12 (3.46%) Flask
8 12 (3.46%) HTML
9 10 (2.88%) FastAPI
9 10 (2.88%) React
10 9 (2.59%) FIX Protocol
10 9 (2.59%) Vue
11 8 (2.31%) .NET
12 7 (2.02%) FpML
12 7 (2.02%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 83 (23.92%) Algorithms
2 46 (13.26%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (10.66%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (7.20%) Management Information System
5 22 (6.34%) Hedge funds
6 21 (6.05%) Equities
7 18 (5.19%) Social Media
8 15 (4.32%) Onboarding
9 14 (4.03%) Product Ownership
10 11 (3.17%) Cloud Native
11 10 (2.88%) FMCG
11 10 (2.88%) Reinsurance
12 9 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (2.02%) e-Learning
15 6 (1.73%) Anti-Piracy
16 5 (1.44%) Client/Server
16 5 (1.44%) PKI
16 5 (1.44%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.76%) Linux
2 1 (0.29%) Android
2 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (31.12%) Data Modelling
2 84 (24.21%) Agile
3 78 (22.48%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (21.90%) Business Intelligence
4 76 (21.90%) Software Engineering
5 74 (21.33%) Analytics
5 74 (21.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 64 (18.44%) Computer Science
7 55 (15.85%) Data Governance
8 53 (15.27%) ETL
9 49 (14.12%) Decision-Making
10 48 (13.83%) OO
11 43 (12.39%) Validation
12 42 (12.10%) CI/CD
13 40 (11.53%) DevOps
13 40 (11.53%) Mentoring
14 39 (11.24%) Data Analysis
14 39 (11.24%) OOP
15 37 (10.66%) Microservices
16 35 (10.09%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 160 (46.11%) Python
2 148 (42.65%) SQL
3 43 (12.39%) C++
4 29 (8.36%) Java
5 19 (5.48%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.03%) Rust
7 13 (3.75%) T-SQL
8 10 (2.88%) Scala
9 8 (2.31%) C#
9 8 (2.31%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.73%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.44%) R
11 5 (1.44%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.15%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.86%) VBA
14 2 (0.58%) C
14 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.58%) Go
14 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.29%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 78 (22.48%) Degree
2 40 (11.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (8.07%) Security Cleared
4 19 (5.48%) SC Cleared
5 11 (3.17%) ACCA
5 11 (3.17%) CIMA
6 7 (2.02%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.44%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.44%) PhD
8 4 (1.15%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.15%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.86%) IIBA
9 3 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (18.16%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (4.03%) QA
3 13 (3.75%) GDPR
4 9 (2.59%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.44%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.44%) IFRS
6 5 (1.44%) NIST
7 3 (0.86%) GAAP
7 3 (0.86%) GRC
8 2 (0.58%) WCAG
9 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.29%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (4.32%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.03%) Docker
3 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (4.03%) Terraform
2 9 (2.59%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
4 1 (0.29%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 35 (10.09%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.93%) Google
3 30 (8.65%) Oracle
4 28 (8.07%) SAP
5 18 (5.19%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.75%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.59%) Informatica
7 9 (2.59%) Talend
8 8 (2.31%) Foundry
8 8 (2.31%) Sparx
9 7 (2.02%) Workday
10 6 (1.73%) Databricks
10 6 (1.73%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.44%) Palantir
12 3 (0.86%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.86%) Intapp
12 3 (0.86%) Temenos
13 2 (0.58%) Ariba
13 2 (0.58%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.58%) SendGrid