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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 344 296
Rank change year-on-year -15 -48 -3
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 408 309 865
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.49% 0.78% 0.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.92% 1.79% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 264 119 430
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,750 £46,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +6.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,625 £98,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £111,375
UK median annual salary £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.69% +5.36% +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 21,250 17,229 31,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.37% 43.30% 33.02%
Number of salaries quoted 13,975 8,305 21,360
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,500
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 20 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 20 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 +50 235 £85,000 -5.56% 75
North of England +15 63 £60,000 -19.46% 25
South East -26 50 £60,000 +20.00% 47
Yorkshire -9 32 £63,005 -18.44% 8
North West +6 20 £60,000 +17.07% 8
East of England -6 20 £49,000 -24.62% 4
Midlands -43 16 £42,500 -12.37% 23
West Midlands -22 12 £42,750 -14.50% 14
North East -41 11 £55,000 -52.17% 10
South West -94 11 £75,000 +7.14% 16
East Midlands -45 4 £42,500 -12.37% 9
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 (3.68%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.94%) Apache
2 12 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (1.72%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.72%) Palantir Foundry
5 6 (1.47%) Confluence
5 6 (1.47%) SAS
5 6 (1.47%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.74%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 33 (8.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (2.45%) NetSuite
3 8 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.74%) FLEXCUBE
5 3 (0.74%) Misys Opics
5 3 (0.74%) SAP SCM
5 3 (0.74%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.49%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.49%) Shopify
6 2 (0.49%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.25%) FastStats
7 1 (0.25%) Magento
7 1 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 115 (28.19%) Azure
2 102 (25.00%) AWS
3 84 (20.59%) Power Platform
4 50 (12.25%) GCP
5 23 (5.64%) SaaS
6 21 (5.15%) Entra ID
7 20 (4.90%) Amazon S3
8 17 (4.17%) dbt
9 16 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
9 16 (3.92%) Power Automate
9 16 (3.92%) PowerApps
10 15 (3.68%) Serverless
11 14 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (3.43%) Snowflake
12 12 (2.94%) GitHub
13 10 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (1.96%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.41%) Broadband
2 2 (0.49%) Intranet
3 1 (0.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (17.89%) Power BI
2 36 (8.82%) BigQuery
3 33 (8.09%) Tableau
4 30 (7.35%) Metadata
5 26 (6.37%) Data Lake
6 24 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (5.15%) Relational Database
8 19 (4.66%) NoSQL
9 16 (3.92%) DynamoDB
9 16 (3.92%) SQL Server
10 15 (3.68%) Data Vault
10 15 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (3.19%) MySQL
11 13 (3.19%) Star Schema
12 12 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (2.94%) SAP BW
12 12 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
13 11 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
14 10 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (6.37%) Git
2 12 (2.94%) Postman
3 9 (2.21%) Eclipse
3 9 (2.21%) ERwin
4 8 (1.96%) JIRA
5 5 (1.23%) GitLab
6 3 (0.74%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.49%) MLflow
7 2 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.25%) CMake
8 1 (0.25%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) Storybook
8 1 (0.25%) Toad
8 1 (0.25%) utPLSQL
8 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 163 (39.95%) Finance
2 149 (36.52%) Social Skills
3 73 (17.89%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.56%) Law
5 25 (6.13%) Front Office
6 22 (5.39%) Retail
7 17 (4.17%) Marketing
8 16 (3.92%) Banking
8 16 (3.92%) Legal
8 16 (3.92%) Public Sector
9 15 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (3.19%) Billing
11 10 (2.45%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.21%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.21%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.72%) Publishing
14 5 (1.23%) General Ledger
14 5 (1.23%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.23%) Military
15 4 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (24.02%) Analyst
2 88 (21.57%) Senior
3 61 (14.95%) Developer
4 51 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 40 (9.80%) Consultant
5 40 (9.80%) Software Engineer
6 38 (9.31%) Senior Developer
7 34 (8.33%) Architect
8 29 (7.11%) Data Architect
9 26 (6.37%) Administrator
10 25 (6.13%) Python Developer
11 21 (5.15%) Lead
11 21 (5.15%) Systems Administrator
12 20 (4.90%) C++ Developer
12 20 (4.90%) Data Engineer
12 20 (4.90%) Quantitative Developer
12 20 (4.90%) Senior C++ Developer
12 20 (4.90%) Senior Python Developer
13 19 (4.66%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 19 (4.66%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.86%) RESTful
2 24 (5.88%) Django
2 24 (5.88%) JSON
3 21 (5.15%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 19 (4.66%) XML
5 17 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
5 17 (4.17%) REST
6 15 (3.68%) PySpark
7 14 (3.43%) Kafka
7 14 (3.43%) OpenAPI
7 14 (3.43%) Swagger
8 12 (2.94%) React
9 9 (2.21%) FIX Protocol
9 9 (2.21%) Flask
10 7 (1.72%) .NET
10 7 (1.72%) FpML
10 7 (1.72%) Middleware
10 7 (1.72%) XML Schema
11 6 (1.47%) CSS
11 6 (1.47%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (21.81%) Algorithms
2 44 (10.78%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (7.84%) Management Information System
4 31 (7.60%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (5.64%) Hedge funds
6 20 (4.90%) Equities
7 18 (4.41%) Social Media
8 16 (3.92%) Onboarding
9 14 (3.43%) Product Ownership
10 13 (3.19%) Cloud Native
11 10 (2.45%) Reinsurance
12 7 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.72%) e-Learning
12 7 (1.72%) FMCG
13 6 (1.47%) Anti-Piracy
13 6 (1.47%) Client/Server
13 6 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.23%) PKI
14 5 (1.23%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.88%) Linux
2 4 (0.98%) Windows
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (30.88%) Data Modelling
2 95 (23.28%) Analytics
3 92 (22.55%) Business Intelligence
4 88 (21.57%) Agile
5 86 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (20.10%) Software Engineering
7 77 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (16.91%) Computer Science
8 69 (16.91%) Data Governance
9 63 (15.44%) Decision-Making
10 60 (14.71%) Data Engineering
11 59 (14.46%) Validation
12 56 (13.73%) AI
13 54 (13.24%) ETL
14 53 (12.99%) ERP
15 52 (12.75%) CI/CD
15 52 (12.75%) DevOps
16 49 (12.01%) Data Architecture
17 47 (11.52%) Data Analysis
17 47 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 186 (45.59%) Python
2 180 (44.12%) SQL
3 46 (11.27%) C++
4 37 (9.07%) Java
5 24 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.41%) Rust
7 12 (2.94%) T-SQL
8 11 (2.70%) TypeScript
9 10 (2.45%) Go
9 10 (2.45%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.21%) Scala
11 8 (1.96%) C#
12 7 (1.72%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.23%) R
14 4 (0.98%) C
14 4 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.74%) VBA
16 2 (0.49%) SAS Macro
16 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 88 (21.57%) Degree
2 43 (10.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (10.05%) Security Cleared
4 25 (6.13%) SC Cleared
5 20 (4.90%) ACCA
5 20 (4.90%) CIMA
6 8 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.23%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.74%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.74%) PhD
10 3 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.49%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.49%) HND
11 2 (0.49%) IIBA
11 2 (0.49%) Postgraduate
12 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (21.81%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.41%) QA
3 17 (4.17%) GDPR
4 14 (3.43%) Accessibility
5 13 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.23%) IFRS
8 4 (0.98%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.98%) NIST
9 3 (0.74%) GAAP
9 3 (0.74%) GRC
10 2 (0.49%) CDISC
10 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.25%) MiFID
11 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (6.62%) Docker
2 19 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (4.66%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.68%) Terraform
3 4 (0.98%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.49%) Ansible
4 2 (0.49%) Grafana
4 2 (0.49%) Packer
5 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 54 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 38 (9.31%) SAP
3 37 (9.07%) Oracle
4 29 (7.11%) Google
5 23 (5.64%) Salesforce
6 17 (4.17%) Sage
7 14 (3.43%) Databricks
8 13 (3.19%) ServiceNow
9 10 (2.45%) Foundry
10 8 (1.96%) Sparx
11 7 (1.72%) Informatica
11 7 (1.72%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.72%) Palantir
11 7 (1.72%) Talend
11 7 (1.72%) Workday
12 4 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.74%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.74%) TOWER Software
14 2 (0.49%) Concur
14 2 (0.49%) Intapp