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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 336 339
Rank change year-on-year -81 +3 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 393 329 523
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.76% 0.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.48% 1.82% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 251 126 195
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,625 £52,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,625 £90,750 £100,625
90th Percentile £97,500 £125,000 £131,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +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 26,634 18,087 22,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.00% 41.98% 32.25%
Number of salaries quoted 17,349 9,179 11,714
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,742 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £43,744
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -57 178 £81,000 -4.71% 563
North of England -28 74 £55,000 -26.42% 79
South East -33 58 £68,000 +2.64% 103
Midlands -51 36 £52,500 +8.25% 47
North West -13 35 £60,000 -14.29% 51
Yorkshire -20 22 £61,755 -20.32% 16
West Midlands -42 21 £56,250 +7.14% 30
East of England -26 20 £37,500 -10.23% 24
South West -81 20 £58,000 -17.14% 37
North East -47 17 £55,000 -52.17% 12
East Midlands -43 15 £47,500 -2.06% 17
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 15 (3.82%) Apache
1 15 (3.82%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.80%) Jupyter
3 10 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.78%) SAS
4 7 (1.78%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.02%) Confluence
6 3 (0.76%) IIS
6 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.76%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 35 (8.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 12 (3.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 12 (3.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.78%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.27%) Infor M3
4 5 (1.27%) Workday HCM
5 4 (1.02%) SAP SCM
6 3 (0.76%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.51%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.51%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle iProcurement
8 1 (0.25%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.25%) Dynamics SL
8 1 (0.25%) FastStats
8 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 89 (22.65%) Power Platform
2 82 (20.87%) AWS
3 81 (20.61%) Azure
4 28 (7.12%) GCP
5 24 (6.11%) Amazon S3
5 24 (6.11%) Dynamics 365
6 23 (5.85%) SaaS
7 20 (5.09%) Entra ID
8 19 (4.83%) PowerApps
8 19 (4.83%) Snowflake
9 18 (4.58%) Power Automate
10 15 (3.82%) dbt
11 14 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (3.31%) Amazon EMR
12 13 (3.31%) Serverless
12 13 (3.31%) SuccessFactors
13 12 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (2.29%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (2.29%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.05%) Broadband
2 3 (0.76%) Intranet
3 2 (0.51%) Internet
4 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (18.83%) Power BI
2 29 (7.38%) Data Lake
3 27 (6.87%) Tableau
4 21 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (5.09%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.07%) Data Vault
7 15 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.82%) Snowflake Schema
7 15 (3.82%) Star Schema
8 13 (3.31%) SQL Server
9 12 (3.05%) BigQuery
9 12 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (3.05%) SAP BW
10 11 (2.80%) Big Data
11 9 (2.29%) Metadata
12 8 (2.04%) NoSQL
13 7 (1.78%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.53%) MySQL
15 5 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 27 (6.87%) Git
2 9 (2.29%) GitLab
3 6 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.02%) JIRA
5 3 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.51%) MLflow
7 1 (0.25%) CMake
7 1 (0.25%) ERwin
7 1 (0.25%) Maven
7 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 156 (39.69%) Social Skills
2 144 (36.64%) Finance
3 78 (19.85%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (5.85%) Law
6 18 (4.58%) Legal
7 17 (4.33%) Retail
8 16 (4.07%) Banking
8 16 (4.07%) Manufacturing
9 14 (3.56%) Marketing
10 13 (3.31%) Billing
11 12 (3.05%) Financial Institution
12 11 (2.80%) Front Office
13 9 (2.29%) Telecoms
14 8 (2.04%) General Ledger
14 8 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.78%) Public Sector
16 6 (1.53%) Investment Banking
17 5 (1.27%) Advertising
17 5 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 93 (23.66%) Analyst
2 70 (17.81%) Senior
3 57 (14.50%) Developer
4 37 (9.41%) Consultant
5 36 (9.16%) Software Engineer
6 30 (7.63%) Architect
7 29 (7.38%) Systems Analyst
8 25 (6.36%) Administrator
9 23 (5.85%) Senior Developer
10 22 (5.60%) Data Analyst
11 21 (5.34%) Data Architect
11 21 (5.34%) Data Engineer
11 21 (5.34%) Systems Administrator
12 17 (4.33%) Business Analyst
12 17 (4.33%) Lead
13 13 (3.31%) Python Developer
13 13 (3.31%) Snowflake Architect
14 11 (2.80%) Backend Developer
14 11 (2.80%) Data Consultant
14 11 (2.80%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.60%) .NET
1 22 (5.60%) React
2 21 (5.34%) Terraform
3 17 (4.33%) REST
4 16 (4.07%) PySpark
5 14 (3.56%) Oracle Fusion
6 13 (3.31%) Kafka
7 12 (3.05%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 10 (2.54%) CSS
8 10 (2.54%) HTML
9 9 (2.29%) RESTful
10 8 (2.04%) ASP.NET
10 8 (2.04%) Flask
10 8 (2.04%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.78%) Django
11 7 (1.78%) FastAPI
11 7 (1.78%) Middleware
11 7 (1.78%) Node.js
11 7 (1.78%) Vue
12 6 (1.53%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 79 (20.10%) Algorithms
2 36 (9.16%) Management Information System
3 24 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.83%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.56%) Hedge funds
6 13 (3.31%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.05%) Social Media
8 11 (2.80%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.29%) Equities
10 7 (1.78%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.27%) Clustering
11 5 (1.27%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.27%) Educational Technology
11 5 (1.27%) FMCG
11 5 (1.27%) PKI
11 5 (1.27%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.34%) Linux
2 14 (3.56%) Windows
3 3 (0.76%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (29.26%) Problem-Solving
2 107 (27.23%) Data Modelling
3 89 (22.65%) Analytics
3 89 (22.65%) Business Intelligence
4 80 (20.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 79 (20.10%) Agile
6 77 (19.59%) AI
7 72 (18.32%) Computer Science
8 71 (18.07%) Software Engineering
9 67 (17.05%) Decision-Making
9 67 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 65 (16.54%) CI/CD
11 64 (16.28%) Data Engineering
12 59 (15.01%) Data Pipeline
13 57 (14.50%) ERP
13 57 (14.50%) Validation
14 54 (13.74%) Data Governance
15 53 (13.49%) Data Architecture
16 49 (12.47%) Data Management
17 48 (12.21%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 151 (38.42%) SQL
2 135 (34.35%) Python
3 44 (11.20%) Java
4 33 (8.40%) C++
5 28 (7.12%) C#
5 28 (7.12%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.33%) TypeScript
7 14 (3.56%) Go
7 14 (3.56%) Rust
8 7 (1.78%) C
9 6 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (1.53%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.27%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.02%) Bash
11 4 (1.02%) Scala
11 4 (1.02%) VBA
12 3 (0.76%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.76%) SAS Macro
12 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 90 (22.90%) Degree
2 40 (10.18%) Security Cleared
3 28 (7.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (6.62%) SC Cleared
5 20 (5.09%) ACCA
5 20 (5.09%) CIMA
6 11 (2.80%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.29%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.04%) PhD
9 7 (1.78%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.53%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.53%) PMP
11 5 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (1.02%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.76%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.76%) HND
13 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (22.90%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.60%) QA
3 20 (5.09%) GDPR
4 14 (3.56%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.76%) CDISC
6 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.25%) MiFID
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (8.14%) Docker
2 12 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (4.83%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.27%) Ansible
3 4 (1.02%) Packer
4 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.25%) Grafana
5 1 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 60 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 49 (12.47%) SAP
3 40 (10.18%) Oracle
4 19 (4.83%) Sage
5 17 (4.33%) Databricks
6 15 (3.82%) Salesforce
7 12 (3.05%) Google
8 9 (2.29%) Workday
9 8 (2.04%) HubSpot
10 5 (1.27%) Infor
11 3 (0.76%) Avaya
11 3 (0.76%) Cisco
11 3 (0.76%) Foundry
11 3 (0.76%) Genesys
11 3 (0.76%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.76%) Palantir
11 3 (0.76%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.76%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
12 2 (0.51%) Concur