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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 325 337
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 -123
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 335 549 492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.78% 0.80% 0.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.86% 2.50% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 127 200 393
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,625 £49,688 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £93,750 £98,474 £85,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £130,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 18,045 21,985 22,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 41.88% 32.06% 41.14%
Number of salaries quoted 9,119 11,716 16,210
10th Percentile £28,742 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,925 £43,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Structures as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 +49 171 £85,000 -5.56% 159
South East +3 50 £66,250 +47.22% 83
Midlands +5 40 £49,750 -17.08% 19
North of England -18 30 £74,750 +35.91% 39
South West +47 29 £70,000 - 15
East Midlands -29 23 £48,500 +61.67% 10
North West -61 22 £70,000 +8.53% 25
West Midlands +47 17 £52,500 -12.50% 9
East of England -4 12 £41,773 -30.38% 16
Yorkshire +10 4 £77,500 +210.00% 11
North East - 4 £115,000 - 3
Data Structures
UK

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (4.78%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.99%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.79%) Apache
5 4 (1.19%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.90%) CMS
7 2 (0.60%) Luigi
8 1 (0.30%) GeoServer
Applications
1 54 (16.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (8.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.30%) 3ds Max
4 1 (0.30%) Blender
4 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (6.57%) Oracle EBS
2 12 (3.58%) PeopleSoft Financials
3 9 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.90%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.60%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 2 (0.60%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.60%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.30%) Infor M3
6 1 (0.30%) Maximo
6 1 (0.30%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 98 (29.25%) Azure
2 78 (23.28%) Power Platform
3 61 (18.21%) AWS
4 33 (9.85%) GCP
5 13 (3.88%) Snowflake
6 12 (3.58%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (3.28%) PowerApps
8 8 (2.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.79%) GitHub
10 6 (1.79%) Google Analytics
10 6 (1.79%) SaaS
11 5 (1.49%) Serverless
12 4 (1.19%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.19%) Figma
12 4 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.19%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (20.00%) Power BI
2 44 (13.13%) NoSQL
3 33 (9.85%) Relational Database
4 24 (7.16%) Oracle ODI
5 23 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (6.57%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (6.27%) Data Lake
8 20 (5.97%) BusinessObjects
8 20 (5.97%) Data Mining
8 20 (5.97%) MongoDB
9 18 (5.37%) SQL Server
10 17 (5.07%) MySQL
11 15 (4.48%) Metadata
11 15 (4.48%) Tableau
12 13 (3.88%) BigQuery
12 13 (3.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (3.58%) DB2
13 12 (3.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (2.39%) Flink
Development Applications
1 19 (5.67%) Git
2 11 (3.28%) ERwin
3 4 (1.19%) JUnit
3 4 (1.19%) Mockito
3 4 (1.19%) Subversion
3 4 (1.19%) Terragrunt
4 3 (0.90%) JIRA
4 3 (0.90%) MLflow
4 3 (0.90%) Postman
5 2 (0.60%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.60%) GitLab
5 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.60%) Selenium
5 2 (0.60%) Xcode
6 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.30%) JConsole
6 1 (0.30%) VisualVM
General
1 127 (37.91%) Finance
2 103 (30.75%) Social Skills
3 75 (22.39%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (15.52%) Law
5 42 (12.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (8.06%) Banking
6 27 (8.06%) Front Office
6 27 (8.06%) Marketing
7 24 (7.16%) Retail
8 23 (6.87%) Public Sector
9 18 (5.37%) Legal
10 7 (2.09%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.79%) Agriculture
12 4 (1.19%) Wholesale Banking
13 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.90%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.60%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.30%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 76 (22.69%) Developer
2 56 (16.72%) Senior
3 54 (16.12%) Analyst
4 42 (12.54%) Lead
5 41 (12.24%) Software Engineer
6 27 (8.06%) Senior Developer
7 25 (7.46%) Data Engineer
8 22 (6.57%) Consultant
9 21 (6.27%) C++ Developer
9 21 (6.27%) Junior
10 18 (5.37%) Architect
10 18 (5.37%) Data Architect
10 18 (5.37%) Junior Developer
11 17 (5.07%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 17 (5.07%) Data Consultant
11 17 (5.07%) Linux Developer
11 17 (5.07%) Python Developer
11 17 (5.07%) Quantitative Developer
11 17 (5.07%) Senior Python Developer
12 16 (4.78%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.94%) Kafka
2 33 (9.85%) React
3 23 (6.87%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (5.07%) REST
5 16 (4.78%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 14 (4.18%) AngularJS
7 12 (3.58%) Backbone.js
7 12 (3.58%) Bootstrap
7 12 (3.58%) Ember.js
7 12 (3.58%) jQuery
8 11 (3.28%) Spring
8 11 (3.28%) Spring Boot
9 10 (2.99%) OAuth
10 9 (2.69%) OpenID
11 8 (2.39%) SwiftUI
12 7 (2.09%) .NET
12 7 (2.09%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (1.79%) gRPC
13 6 (1.79%) RESTful
14 5 (1.49%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 85 (25.37%) Algorithms
2 50 (14.93%) Legacy Systems
3 29 (8.66%) Management Information System
4 28 (8.36%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (6.87%) Hedge funds
6 22 (6.57%) Public Cloud
7 19 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (5.07%) Equities
9 16 (4.78%) Product Ownership
10 15 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (4.48%) Cloud Native
11 11 (3.28%) e-Learning
12 10 (2.99%) Client/Server
13 9 (2.69%) Fixed Income
13 9 (2.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (2.39%) Private Cloud
15 6 (1.79%) Mobile App
15 6 (1.79%) Robotics
16 5 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
16 5 (1.49%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.84%) Linux
2 20 (5.97%) Apple iOS
3 13 (3.88%) Android
3 13 (3.88%) Windows
4 9 (2.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (26.57%) Agile
2 74 (22.09%) Software Engineering
3 72 (21.49%) Problem-Solving
4 67 (20.00%) Coaching
5 66 (19.70%) ETL
6 59 (17.61%) Analytics
7 58 (17.31%) Business Intelligence
8 53 (15.82%) Data Management
9 52 (15.52%) Mentoring
10 51 (15.22%) Data Modelling
11 50 (14.93%) Data Analysis
12 48 (14.33%) Artificial Intelligence
13 46 (13.73%) Computer Science
14 44 (13.13%) CI/CD
15 43 (12.84%) Migration
16 41 (12.24%) Test Automation
17 40 (11.94%) Data Migration
18 39 (11.64%) SDLC
19 37 (11.04%) Service Delivery
20 35 (10.45%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 183 (54.63%) SQL
2 125 (37.31%) Python
3 41 (12.24%) C++
4 39 (11.64%) Java
5 26 (7.76%) VBA
6 25 (7.46%) PL/SQL
7 22 (6.57%) JavaScript
8 18 (5.37%) T-SQL
9 16 (4.78%) C#
10 13 (3.88%) TypeScript
11 12 (3.58%) Shell Script
12 10 (2.99%) Go
13 8 (2.39%) Swift
14 7 (2.09%) R
14 7 (2.09%) Rust
15 6 (1.79%) Scala
16 5 (1.49%) Kotlin
17 4 (1.19%) Julia
17 4 (1.19%) Objective-C
18 2 (0.60%) C
Qualifications
1 70 (20.90%) Degree
2 18 (5.37%) Master's Degree
3 13 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.58%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (3.58%) PhD
5 9 (2.69%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.09%) Security Cleared
7 4 (1.19%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.60%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.30%) HNC
10 1 (0.30%) HND
10 1 (0.30%) MCSA
10 1 (0.30%) MCSE
10 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.15%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.78%) GDPR
3 13 (3.88%) QA
4 9 (2.69%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.60%) GAAP
5 2 (0.60%) IFRS
5 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.60%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.30%) Dublin Core
6 1 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 41 (12.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.18%) Terraform
3 12 (3.58%) Ansible
4 3 (0.90%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.90%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.60%) Grafana
5 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.60%) Puppet
6 1 (0.30%) logstash
6 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (21.79%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.85%) Google
3 32 (9.55%) Oracle
4 21 (6.27%) IBM
5 20 (5.97%) Facebook
6 19 (5.67%) Red Hat
7 17 (5.07%) ServiceNow
7 17 (5.07%) Workday
8 12 (3.58%) Intapp
8 12 (3.58%) PeopleSoft
9 10 (2.99%) Salesforce
10 9 (2.69%) Databricks
11 7 (2.09%) SAP
12 4 (1.19%) HubSpot
13 3 (0.90%) Informatica
13 3 (0.90%) Talend
14 2 (0.60%) Foundry
14 2 (0.60%) Palantir
15 1 (0.30%) Alteryx
15 1 (0.30%) ForgeRock