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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 352 319
Rank change year-on-year -39 -33 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 402 340 620
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.78% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.66% 1.84% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 266 126 229
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 £94,563 £96,250
90th Percentile £99,375 £122,500 £120,500
UK median annual salary £68,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +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 24,197 18,502 23,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.91% 42.26% 32.79%
Number of salaries quoted 15,835 9,373 14,642
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -10.85%

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 9 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 9 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 -13 207 £85,000 -0.58% 236
North of England +1 72 £55,000 -21.43% 27
South East -43 55 £67,500 +42.11% 33
North West -1 30 £60,000 -7.69% 9
Yorkshire -15 26 £55,000 -29.03% 12
Midlands -44 22 £47,121 -2.84% 16
East of England -26 18 £37,500 -42.31% 16
South West -75 18 £66,250 +12.77% 12
North East -40 16 £55,000 -52.17% 6
West Midlands -30 15 £50,000 -1.96% 8
East Midlands -40 7 £44,241 -8.78% 8
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 19 (4.73%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.73%) Apache
2 15 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.49%) Jupyter
4 9 (2.24%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.99%) SAS
6 6 (1.49%) Confluence
7 5 (1.24%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (8.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.99%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (1.74%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.24%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (1.24%) SAP SCM
5 5 (1.24%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.75%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.75%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.50%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.50%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.50%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.50%) Misys Opics
7 2 (0.50%) Shopify
8 1 (0.25%) FastStats
8 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.25%) Magento
8 1 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 100 (24.88%) AWS
2 89 (22.14%) Azure
2 89 (22.14%) Power Platform
3 43 (10.70%) GCP
4 25 (6.22%) Amazon S3
5 23 (5.72%) Dynamics 365
6 22 (5.47%) PowerApps
7 21 (5.22%) SaaS
8 20 (4.98%) Power Automate
9 19 (4.73%) dbt
10 17 (4.23%) Entra ID
10 17 (4.23%) Snowflake
11 14 (3.48%) Serverless
12 13 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (2.99%) Amazon EMR
14 11 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (2.49%) GitHub
16 9 (2.24%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (2.24%) Intacct
16 9 (2.24%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.23%) Broadband
2 3 (0.75%) Intranet
3 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (18.41%) Power BI
2 29 (7.21%) Data Lake
3 28 (6.97%) Tableau
4 26 (6.47%) BigQuery
5 23 (5.72%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (5.47%) Relational Database
7 19 (4.73%) Metadata
8 17 (4.23%) Amazon Athena
8 17 (4.23%) Data Vault
9 14 (3.48%) Star Schema
10 13 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (2.99%) SAP BW
11 12 (2.99%) Snowflake Schema
11 12 (2.99%) SQL Server
12 9 (2.24%) DynamoDB
12 9 (2.24%) NoSQL
12 9 (2.24%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (1.74%) MySQL
14 6 (1.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (6.47%) Git
2 9 (2.24%) GitLab
3 8 (1.99%) JIRA
4 7 (1.74%) ERwin
5 6 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.75%) Postman
7 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.50%) MLflow
8 1 (0.25%) CMake
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.25%) Toad
8 1 (0.25%) utPLSQL
8 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 162 (40.30%) Finance
2 155 (38.56%) Social Skills
3 72 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (6.97%) Law
5 26 (6.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (4.73%) Banking
6 19 (4.73%) Retail
7 18 (4.48%) Legal
8 17 (4.23%) Front Office
9 15 (3.73%) Billing
10 13 (3.23%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.74%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.74%) Marketing
12 9 (2.24%) Public Sector
12 9 (2.24%) Telecoms
13 6 (1.49%) General Ledger
13 6 (1.49%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.24%) German Language
14 5 (1.24%) Military
Job Titles
1 94 (23.38%) Analyst
2 89 (22.14%) Senior
3 64 (15.92%) Developer
4 44 (10.95%) Consultant
5 41 (10.20%) Software Engineer
6 34 (8.46%) Senior Developer
7 31 (7.71%) Architect
8 30 (7.46%) Data Analyst
9 28 (6.97%) Administrator
10 26 (6.47%) Systems Analyst
11 24 (5.97%) Data Architect
12 23 (5.72%) Data Engineer
12 23 (5.72%) Systems Administrator
13 19 (4.73%) Python Developer
14 17 (4.23%) Backend Developer
14 17 (4.23%) Data Consultant
15 16 (3.98%) Business Analyst
16 15 (3.73%) C++ Developer
16 15 (3.73%) Senior C++ Developer
16 15 (3.73%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.73%) React
1 19 (4.73%) REST
2 18 (4.48%) Kafka
3 17 (4.23%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 16 (3.98%) Django
4 16 (3.98%) JSON
4 16 (3.98%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (3.98%) RESTful
5 15 (3.73%) PySpark
6 12 (2.99%) .NET
6 12 (2.99%) XML
7 8 (1.99%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (1.99%) Flask
8 7 (1.74%) Middleware
8 7 (1.74%) Spring Boot
8 7 (1.74%) Vue
9 6 (1.49%) CSS
9 6 (1.49%) FpML
9 6 (1.49%) HTML
9 6 (1.49%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 86 (21.39%) Algorithms
2 39 (9.70%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (7.96%) Management Information System
4 19 (4.73%) Hedge funds
5 17 (4.23%) Social Media
6 16 (3.98%) Onboarding
7 15 (3.73%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (3.48%) Cloud Native
8 14 (3.48%) Equities
9 11 (2.74%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.99%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.49%) e-Learning
13 5 (1.24%) Anti-Piracy
13 5 (1.24%) Clustering
13 5 (1.24%) PKI
13 5 (1.24%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.00%) Credit Risk
14 4 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.72%) Linux
2 9 (2.24%) Windows
3 3 (0.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (29.60%) Data Modelling
2 113 (28.11%) Problem-Solving
3 102 (25.37%) Analytics
4 92 (22.89%) Business Intelligence
5 86 (21.39%) Agile
6 84 (20.90%) Software Engineering
7 77 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (17.16%) Decision-Making
9 67 (16.67%) Data Engineering
10 65 (16.17%) AI
11 63 (15.67%) Computer Science
12 62 (15.42%) CI/CD
12 62 (15.42%) Data Pipeline
13 61 (15.17%) ERP
14 60 (14.93%) Data Governance
15 55 (13.68%) Validation
16 53 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
17 49 (12.19%) Data Analysis
17 49 (12.19%) DevOps
18 48 (11.94%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 160 (39.80%) Python
2 158 (39.30%) SQL
3 45 (11.19%) C++
4 42 (10.45%) Java
5 28 (6.97%) JavaScript
6 19 (4.73%) Rust
7 17 (4.23%) C#
8 15 (3.73%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.23%) Go
10 9 (2.24%) Scala
11 8 (1.99%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.74%) C
12 7 (1.74%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (1.00%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.75%) Bash
15 3 (0.75%) R
15 3 (0.75%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (20.15%) Degree
2 43 (10.70%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (6.47%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.48%) ACCA
5 18 (4.48%) CIMA
6 11 (2.74%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.00%) PhD
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 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (20.15%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.73%) GDPR
3 16 (3.98%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.98%) QA
4 4 (1.00%) IFRS
5 3 (0.75%) CDISC
5 3 (0.75%) GAAP
5 3 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 33 (8.21%) 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 22 (5.47%) Terraform
2 20 (4.98%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.24%) Ansible
4 4 (1.00%) Packer
5 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.25%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 58 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 48 (11.94%) SAP
3 42 (10.45%) Oracle
4 21 (5.22%) Sage
5 20 (4.98%) Google
6 15 (3.73%) Databricks
7 13 (3.23%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.74%) Workday
9 6 (1.49%) Foundry
9 6 (1.49%) Sparx
10 5 (1.24%) Palantir
11 3 (0.75%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.75%) Avaya
11 3 (0.75%) Cisco
11 3 (0.75%) Genesys
11 3 (0.75%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.75%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.75%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.50%) Informatica
12 2 (0.50%) JD Edwards