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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 363 302
Rank change year-on-year -13 -61 -33
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 333 251 745
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.69% 0.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.52% 1.77% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 215 128 452
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% +0.80%
75th Percentile £95,000 £103,125 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £69,250
% change year-on-year - +4.69% +0.62%

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 21,956 14,213 28,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.57% 38.81% 35.48%
Number of salaries quoted 11,412 8,189 20,596
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £58,446 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.59% +9.09% -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 11 April 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 11 April 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 +82 221 £82,500 -8.84% 111
North of England -47 45 £60,000 - 53
Yorkshire -28 35 £71,755 +47.93% 25
South East -61 22 £49,000 +8.89% 65
East of England -30 13 £65,000 -15.03% 19
Midlands -58 13 £48,500 -1.52% 19
East Midlands -55 7 £48,500 - 15
West Midlands -23 6 £47,500 -20.83% 4
North West -39 6 £41,750 -27.39% 17
South West -66 5 £43,953 -38.95% 20
North East -29 4 £60,000 -42.17% 12
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 8 (2.40%) Apache Spark
1 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.80%) Palantir Foundry
3 5 (1.50%) Confluence
4 4 (1.20%) SAS
5 3 (0.90%) Apache
5 3 (0.90%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (0.60%) Mendix
7 1 (0.30%) CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
Applications
1 14 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (3.30%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.50%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.20%) Distributed Ledger
3 4 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.90%) FLEXCUBE
4 3 (0.90%) Misys Opics
4 3 (0.90%) SAP SD
4 3 (0.90%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.60%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.60%) Shopify
5 2 (0.60%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.30%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.30%) Magento
6 1 (0.30%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.30%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.30%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 94 (28.23%) Azure
2 92 (27.63%) AWS
3 49 (14.71%) GCP
4 44 (13.21%) Power Platform
5 25 (7.51%) GitHub
5 25 (7.51%) Serverless
6 16 (4.80%) SaaS
7 14 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (3.00%) Boomi
8 10 (3.00%) Entra ID
9 9 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.70%) Power Automate
10 8 (2.40%) dbt
11 7 (2.10%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.80%) Cloud Composer
12 6 (1.80%) Dagster
12 6 (1.80%) Matillion
12 6 (1.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.80%) Broadband
2 4 (1.20%) Network Security
3 1 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (13.21%) Power BI
2 40 (12.01%) BigQuery
3 33 (9.91%) SQL Server
4 32 (9.61%) Metadata
5 25 (7.51%) NoSQL
6 24 (7.21%) Elasticsearch
7 21 (6.31%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (5.71%) Relational Database
8 19 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 18 (5.41%) DynamoDB
9 18 (5.41%) Tableau
10 13 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (3.60%) Data Lake
12 10 (3.00%) MySQL
13 9 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (2.10%) RDBMS
16 6 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
16 6 (1.80%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (5.71%) Postman
2 18 (5.41%) Git
3 9 (2.70%) Eclipse
3 9 (2.70%) ERwin
4 6 (1.80%) JIRA
5 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.60%) Storybook
5 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.30%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.30%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.30%) Maven
6 1 (0.30%) Toad
6 1 (0.30%) utPLSQL
General
1 107 (32.13%) Finance
2 100 (30.03%) Social Skills
3 82 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (13.21%) Law
5 28 (8.41%) Front Office
6 20 (6.01%) Retail
7 18 (5.41%) Public Sector
8 17 (5.11%) Marketing
9 12 (3.60%) Banking
10 11 (3.30%) Publishing
11 10 (3.00%) Legal
12 8 (2.40%) Financial Institution
12 8 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (2.10%) Billing
14 4 (1.20%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.90%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
17 1 (0.30%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 85 (25.53%) Developer
2 73 (21.92%) Senior
3 72 (21.62%) Analyst
4 51 (15.32%) Data Analyst
5 39 (11.71%) Senior Developer
6 37 (11.11%) Python Developer
6 37 (11.11%) Software Engineer
7 24 (7.21%) Architect
8 23 (6.91%) C++ Developer
8 23 (6.91%) Consultant
8 23 (6.91%) Quantitative Developer
9 22 (6.61%) Senior Python Developer
10 21 (6.31%) Lead
11 20 (6.01%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 20 (6.01%) Data Architect
11 20 (6.01%) Linux Developer
11 20 (6.01%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 20 (6.01%) Senior C++ Developer
11 20 (6.01%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
11 20 (6.01%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (12.31%) Django
2 34 (10.21%) RESTful
3 30 (9.01%) JSON
4 22 (6.61%) CSS
4 22 (6.61%) HTML
4 22 (6.61%) OpenAPI
4 22 (6.61%) Swagger
5 21 (6.31%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 21 (6.31%) REST
5 21 (6.31%) XML
6 20 (6.01%) Flask
7 18 (5.41%) React
8 17 (5.11%) Vue
9 16 (4.80%) FastAPI
9 16 (4.80%) Kafka
10 10 (3.00%) FIX Protocol
11 9 (2.70%) .NET
12 7 (2.10%) FpML
12 7 (2.10%) OAuth
12 7 (2.10%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 81 (24.32%) Algorithms
2 44 (13.21%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (11.41%) Greenfield Project
4 26 (7.81%) Management Information System
5 23 (6.91%) Hedge funds
6 22 (6.61%) Equities
7 17 (5.11%) Onboarding
8 13 (3.90%) Product Ownership
9 11 (3.30%) Cloud Native
10 10 (3.00%) FMCG
10 10 (3.00%) Reinsurance
11 9 (2.70%) Low-Code
12 8 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (2.10%) e-Learning
14 6 (1.80%) Anti-Piracy
14 6 (1.80%) Social Media
15 5 (1.50%) PKI
15 5 (1.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.31%) Linux
2 2 (0.60%) Android
3 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (29.13%) Data Modelling
2 87 (26.13%) Agile
3 86 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
4 71 (21.32%) Software Engineering
5 69 (20.72%) Computer Science
6 68 (20.42%) Analytics
7 64 (19.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 60 (18.02%) Business Intelligence
9 58 (17.42%) ETL
10 54 (16.22%) Data Governance
11 49 (14.71%) OO
11 49 (14.71%) OOP
12 46 (13.81%) Decision-Making
12 46 (13.81%) Mentoring
13 44 (13.21%) Data Analysis
14 41 (12.31%) CI/CD
14 41 (12.31%) Validation
15 38 (11.41%) Microservices
16 36 (10.81%) Migration
17 33 (9.91%) AI
Programming Languages
1 171 (51.35%) Python
2 150 (45.05%) SQL
3 42 (12.61%) C++
4 32 (9.61%) JavaScript
5 31 (9.31%) Java
6 16 (4.80%) T-SQL
7 12 (3.60%) Rust
7 12 (3.60%) Scala
8 9 (2.70%) C#
9 8 (2.40%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.80%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.50%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.50%) R
11 5 (1.50%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.90%) Go
12 3 (0.90%) VBA
13 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.30%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 83 (24.92%) Degree
2 43 (12.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (7.81%) Security Cleared
4 18 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 11 (3.30%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.00%) ACCA
6 10 (3.00%) CIMA
7 5 (1.50%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.50%) PhD
8 4 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.20%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.90%) IIBA
9 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (16.82%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.00%) GDPR
4 8 (2.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (2.10%) QA
6 5 (1.50%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.50%) NIST
7 4 (1.20%) IFRS
8 3 (0.90%) GAAP
8 3 (0.90%) GRC
9 2 (0.60%) WCAG
10 1 (0.30%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.30%) Solvency II
System Software
1 18 (5.41%) Docker
2 10 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (5.41%) Terraform
2 6 (1.80%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.90%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.30%) Grafana
4 1 (0.30%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 35 (10.51%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.01%) Google
3 18 (5.41%) Oracle
4 17 (5.11%) Salesforce
5 13 (3.90%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.60%) SAP
7 10 (3.00%) Foundry
7 10 (3.00%) Talend
8 9 (2.70%) Informatica
9 8 (2.40%) Sparx
10 7 (2.10%) Workday
11 6 (1.80%) Intapp
11 6 (1.80%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.80%) Palantir
12 4 (1.20%) Databricks
13 3 (0.90%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.90%) Temenos
14 2 (0.60%) OutSystems
14 2 (0.60%) Sage
14 2 (0.60%) SendGrid