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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 359 296
Rank change year-on-year +2 -63 +7
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 415 312 820
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.76% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.90% 1.80% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 274 121 399
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,063 £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 21,829 17,372 30,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.58% 42.45% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 14,425 8,518 20,859
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,250 £28,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,563 £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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £59,527 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.53% +4.55% -14.35%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 +68 239 £85,000 -5.56% 76
North of England -20 60 £57,500 -22.82% 23
South East -27 55 £60,000 +26.32% 46
Yorkshire -4 27 £63,005 -18.44% 8
North West +4 21 £53,750 -6.52% 10
East of England -9 19 £43,250 -33.46% 7
Midlands -50 16 £42,500 -12.37% 20
West Midlands -22 13 £43,000 -6.78% 10
South West -97 13 £68,750 -1.79% 12
North East -40 12 £55,000 -52.17% 6
East Midlands -32 3 £42,500 -12.37% 10
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 (4.10%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.37%) Apache
3 13 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (1.93%) Jupyter
6 7 (1.69%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (1.69%) SAS
7 6 (1.45%) Confluence
7 6 (1.45%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.72%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.48%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 33 (7.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (2.17%) NetSuite
4 8 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (1.20%) SAP SCM
7 4 (0.96%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.72%) FLEXCUBE
8 3 (0.72%) Misys Opics
8 3 (0.72%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.48%) Elite 3E
9 2 (0.48%) Shopify
10 1 (0.24%) Exchequer
10 1 (0.24%) FastStats
10 1 (0.24%) Magento
10 1 (0.24%) Raiser’s Edge
10 1 (0.24%) Sage X3
10 1 (0.24%) SAP EHS
10 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 116 (27.95%) Azure
2 104 (25.06%) AWS
3 88 (21.20%) Power Platform
4 52 (12.53%) GCP
5 28 (6.75%) SaaS
6 21 (5.06%) Amazon S3
6 21 (5.06%) Entra ID
7 16 (3.86%) dbt
7 16 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (3.86%) Power Automate
7 16 (3.86%) PowerApps
8 13 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (3.13%) Serverless
8 13 (3.13%) Snowflake
9 11 (2.65%) GitHub
10 10 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (2.17%) Intacct
12 8 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.34%) Broadband
2 2 (0.48%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (18.55%) Power BI
2 35 (8.43%) BigQuery
3 34 (8.19%) Tableau
4 26 (6.27%) Data Lake
4 26 (6.27%) Metadata
5 24 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (5.06%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (5.06%) Relational Database
7 18 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (4.34%) SQL Server
8 15 (3.61%) Data Vault
9 14 (3.37%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (3.37%) MySQL
9 14 (3.37%) NoSQL
10 13 (3.13%) DynamoDB
10 13 (3.13%) Star Schema
11 12 (2.89%) SAP BW
12 11 (2.65%) Oracle Reports
12 11 (2.65%) Snowflake Schema
13 10 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (6.02%) Git
2 11 (2.65%) Postman
3 9 (2.17%) ERwin
4 8 (1.93%) Eclipse
4 8 (1.93%) JIRA
5 6 (1.45%) GitLab
6 3 (0.72%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.48%) MLflow
7 2 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.24%) CMake
8 1 (0.24%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.24%) Maven
8 1 (0.24%) Toad
8 1 (0.24%) utPLSQL
8 1 (0.24%) Valgrind
General
1 166 (40.00%) Finance
2 157 (37.83%) Social Skills
3 73 (17.59%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.16%) Law
5 24 (5.78%) Front Office
6 21 (5.06%) Retail
7 17 (4.10%) Banking
8 16 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.86%) Legal
8 16 (3.86%) Marketing
9 15 (3.61%) Public Sector
10 14 (3.37%) Billing
11 11 (2.65%) Manufacturing
12 10 (2.41%) Financial Institution
13 9 (2.17%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.45%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.45%) Publishing
15 5 (1.20%) General Ledger
15 5 (1.20%) German Language
15 5 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 100 (24.10%) Analyst
2 92 (22.17%) Senior
3 64 (15.42%) Developer
4 49 (11.81%) Data Analyst
5 45 (10.84%) Consultant
6 41 (9.88%) Software Engineer
7 39 (9.40%) Senior Developer
8 29 (6.99%) Architect
9 27 (6.51%) Administrator
10 25 (6.02%) Python Developer
11 24 (5.78%) Data Architect
12 22 (5.30%) Data Engineer
12 22 (5.30%) Systems Administrator
13 21 (5.06%) Lead
14 19 (4.58%) C++ Developer
14 19 (4.58%) Data Consultant
14 19 (4.58%) Quantitative Developer
14 19 (4.58%) Senior C++ Developer
14 19 (4.58%) Senior Python Developer
15 18 (4.34%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.75%) RESTful
2 24 (5.78%) Django
2 24 (5.78%) JSON
3 20 (4.82%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 20 (4.82%) REST
3 20 (4.82%) XML
4 17 (4.10%) Kafka
4 17 (4.10%) Oracle Fusion
5 15 (3.61%) PySpark
6 14 (3.37%) React
7 12 (2.89%) OpenAPI
7 12 (2.89%) Swagger
8 9 (2.17%) FIX Protocol
8 9 (2.17%) Flask
9 7 (1.69%) .NET
9 7 (1.69%) FastAPI
9 7 (1.69%) FpML
9 7 (1.69%) Middleware
9 7 (1.69%) XML Schema
10 6 (1.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 90 (21.69%) Algorithms
2 45 (10.84%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (7.23%) Greenfield Project
3 30 (7.23%) Management Information System
4 22 (5.30%) Hedge funds
5 19 (4.58%) Equities
6 18 (4.34%) Social Media
7 16 (3.86%) Cloud Native
7 16 (3.86%) Onboarding
8 13 (3.13%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.17%) Reinsurance
10 8 (1.93%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.69%) e-Learning
11 7 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.45%) Anti-Piracy
12 6 (1.45%) FMCG
13 5 (1.20%) PKI
13 5 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.20%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.54%) Linux
2 4 (0.96%) Windows
3 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (29.40%) Data Modelling
2 98 (23.61%) Analytics
3 97 (23.37%) Business Intelligence
4 90 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (21.20%) Agile
6 86 (20.72%) Software Engineering
7 78 (18.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (16.63%) Computer Science
9 66 (15.90%) Data Governance
9 66 (15.90%) Decision-Making
10 65 (15.66%) Validation
11 64 (15.42%) Data Engineering
12 58 (13.98%) ERP
13 57 (13.73%) AI
14 55 (13.25%) CI/CD
14 55 (13.25%) ETL
15 53 (12.77%) DevOps
16 50 (12.05%) Data Pipeline
17 48 (11.57%) Data Architecture
18 47 (11.33%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 186 (44.82%) Python
2 183 (44.10%) SQL
3 45 (10.84%) C++
4 40 (9.64%) Java
5 25 (6.02%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.34%) Rust
7 13 (3.13%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.89%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.41%) Go
9 10 (2.41%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.41%) Scala
10 8 (1.93%) C#
11 7 (1.69%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.20%) R
13 4 (0.96%) C
14 3 (0.72%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.72%) VBA
15 1 (0.24%) ABAP
15 1 (0.24%) Bash
Qualifications
1 84 (20.24%) Degree
2 41 (9.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (9.64%) Security Cleared
4 24 (5.78%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.06%) ACCA
5 21 (5.06%) CIMA
6 8 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.48%) HND
10 2 (0.48%) PhD
11 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.24%) PMP
11 1 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (21.69%) Data Quality
2 17 (4.10%) QA
3 15 (3.61%) GDPR
4 14 (3.37%) Accessibility
5 12 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.20%) IFRS
8 3 (0.72%) CDISC
8 3 (0.72%) GAAP
8 3 (0.72%) GRC
8 3 (0.72%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.72%) NIST
9 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.24%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.24%) MiFID
10 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 28 (6.75%) Docker
2 19 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 16 (3.86%) Terraform
3 4 (0.96%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.48%) Ansible
4 2 (0.48%) Grafana
4 2 (0.48%) Packer
5 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 54 (13.01%) Microsoft
2 42 (10.12%) SAP
3 39 (9.40%) Oracle
4 28 (6.75%) Google
5 23 (5.54%) Salesforce
6 20 (4.82%) Sage
7 15 (3.61%) Databricks
8 12 (2.89%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.41%) Foundry
10 9 (2.17%) Workday
11 8 (1.93%) Sparx
12 7 (1.69%) Palantir
13 6 (1.45%) Informatica
13 6 (1.45%) MuleSoft
13 6 (1.45%) Talend
14 4 (0.96%) OpenAI
15 3 (0.72%) Alteryx
15 3 (0.72%) TOWER Software
16 2 (0.48%) Concur
16 2 (0.48%) Intapp