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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 355 312
Rank change year-on-year -64 -43 +22
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 389 310 555
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.72% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.41% 1.73% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 253 127 175
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £108,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £106,250 £132,500
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 27,496 17,952 21,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.45% 41.72% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 17,712 9,260 10,427
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% -4.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -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 11 October 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 October 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 -56 172 £81,000 +1.25% 447
North of England -27 70 £55,000 -21.43% 90
South East -20 58 £71,250 -20.83% 82
Midlands -40 41 £52,500 - 44
North West -10 36 £60,000 -14.29% 55
West Midlands -40 23 £60,000 +14.29% 33
South West -79 22 £60,000 -14.29% 30
East of England -33 19 £37,500 -10.23% 29
East Midlands -29 18 £47,500 -5.94% 11
Yorkshire -32 17 £47,500 -38.71% 19
North East -51 17 £55,000 - 16
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 16 (4.11%) Apache
1 16 (4.11%) Apache Spark
2 12 (3.08%) Jupyter
3 11 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.80%) SAS
4 7 (1.80%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.77%) IIS
6 3 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.51%) Confluence
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 34 (8.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.77%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.26%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 12 (3.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.80%) Infor M3
3 7 (1.80%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (1.29%) Workday HCM
6 4 (1.03%) SAP SCM
7 3 (0.77%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.51%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.51%) Oracle iProcurement
9 1 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.26%) Dynamics SL
9 1 (0.26%) FastStats
9 1 (0.26%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.26%) Primavera
9 1 (0.26%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.26%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.26%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 92 (23.65%) Power Platform
2 79 (20.31%) AWS
3 78 (20.05%) Azure
4 25 (6.43%) Amazon S3
5 24 (6.17%) SaaS
6 21 (5.40%) Entra ID
6 21 (5.40%) GCP
7 20 (5.14%) Dynamics 365
8 19 (4.88%) Snowflake
9 18 (4.63%) PowerApps
10 17 (4.37%) Power Automate
11 16 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (3.86%) dbt
13 14 (3.60%) Amazon EMR
14 13 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (3.34%) SuccessFactors
15 12 (3.08%) Serverless
16 11 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 10 (2.57%) Amazon ECR
17 10 (2.57%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.08%) Broadband
2 3 (0.77%) Intranet
3 2 (0.51%) Internet
4 1 (0.26%) DKIM
4 1 (0.26%) DMARC
4 1 (0.26%) Multicast
4 1 (0.26%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.26%) Unicast
4 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (19.79%) Power BI
2 30 (7.71%) Data Lake
3 26 (6.68%) Tableau
4 25 (6.43%) Relational Database
5 22 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (4.63%) SQL Server
7 17 (4.37%) Amazon Athena
8 16 (4.11%) Data Vault
8 16 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (4.11%) Snowflake Schema
9 15 (3.86%) Star Schema
10 13 (3.34%) Big Data
11 12 (3.08%) SAP BW
12 10 (2.57%) NoSQL
13 9 (2.31%) Metadata
14 7 (1.80%) DynamoDB
15 6 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (1.54%) BigQuery
15 6 (1.54%) MySQL
16 5 (1.29%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 29 (7.46%) Git
2 10 (2.57%) GitLab
3 6 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.51%) ERwin
5 2 (0.51%) JIRA
5 2 (0.51%) MLflow
6 1 (0.26%) CMake
6 1 (0.26%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.26%) Valgrind
General
1 164 (42.16%) Social Skills
2 138 (35.48%) Finance
3 83 (21.34%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (5.14%) Retail
6 19 (4.88%) Law
7 17 (4.37%) Banking
7 17 (4.37%) Manufacturing
8 15 (3.86%) Legal
9 12 (3.08%) Financial Institution
10 11 (2.83%) Billing
10 11 (2.83%) Marketing
11 10 (2.57%) Public Sector
12 9 (2.31%) Telecoms
13 8 (2.06%) Front Office
13 8 (2.06%) General Ledger
13 8 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.54%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.29%) Advertising
15 5 (1.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 89 (22.88%) Analyst
2 65 (16.71%) Senior
3 53 (13.62%) Developer
4 35 (9.00%) Consultant
5 34 (8.74%) Software Engineer
6 33 (8.48%) Architect
7 27 (6.94%) Systems Analyst
8 25 (6.43%) Administrator
8 25 (6.43%) Data Engineer
9 24 (6.17%) Data Architect
10 23 (5.91%) Lead
11 21 (5.40%) Data Analyst
12 20 (5.14%) Systems Administrator
13 18 (4.63%) Business Analyst
13 18 (4.63%) Senior Developer
14 13 (3.34%) Snowflake Architect
15 11 (2.83%) C# Developer
16 10 (2.57%) Data Consultant
16 10 (2.57%) Financial Analyst
17 9 (2.31%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.91%) .NET
1 23 (5.91%) React
2 22 (5.66%) REST
3 20 (5.14%) Terraform
4 17 (4.37%) PySpark
5 14 (3.60%) Oracle Fusion
6 12 (3.08%) Kafka
7 10 (2.57%) ASP.NET
7 10 (2.57%) FastAPI
7 10 (2.57%) Middleware
8 9 (2.31%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 9 (2.31%) Node.js
9 8 (2.06%) HTML
9 8 (2.06%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.80%) CSS
10 7 (1.80%) Flask
10 7 (1.80%) RESTful
11 6 (1.54%) .NET Framework
11 6 (1.54%) ASP.NET Core
11 6 (1.54%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 71 (18.25%) Algorithms
2 37 (9.51%) Management Information System
3 19 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.63%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.34%) Cloud Native
7 12 (3.08%) Social Media
8 9 (2.31%) Hedge funds
9 7 (1.80%) Equities
9 7 (1.80%) FMCG
10 6 (1.54%) Educational Technology
11 5 (1.29%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.29%) Clustering
11 5 (1.29%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.03%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.03%) Reference Data
12 4 (1.03%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.88%) Linux
2 14 (3.60%) Windows
3 3 (0.77%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (30.33%) Data Modelling
2 107 (27.51%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (23.14%) Analytics
4 89 (22.88%) Business Intelligence
5 83 (21.34%) AI
6 81 (20.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 76 (19.54%) Computer Science
8 73 (18.77%) Agile
9 70 (17.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 69 (17.74%) CI/CD
11 68 (17.48%) Decision-Making
12 67 (17.22%) Data Engineering
13 65 (16.71%) Software Engineering
13 65 (16.71%) Validation
14 62 (15.94%) Data Pipeline
15 59 (15.17%) Data Governance
16 58 (14.91%) ERP
17 57 (14.65%) Data Architecture
18 51 (13.11%) DevOps
19 50 (12.85%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 154 (39.59%) SQL
2 133 (34.19%) Python
3 46 (11.83%) Java
4 30 (7.71%) C#
5 29 (7.46%) C++
6 25 (6.43%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.88%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.60%) Go
9 12 (3.08%) Rust
10 7 (1.80%) C
10 7 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.54%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.29%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.03%) Bash
13 4 (1.03%) Scala
14 3 (0.77%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.77%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.77%) VBA
14 3 (0.77%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 85 (21.85%) Degree
2 41 (10.54%) Security Cleared
3 27 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (6.94%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.14%) ACCA
4 20 (5.14%) CIMA
5 13 (3.34%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.57%) PhD
7 9 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.06%) DBS Check
8 8 (2.06%) PMI Certification
8 8 (2.06%) PMP
9 5 (1.29%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.29%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (1.03%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.77%) HND
11 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (24.94%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.17%) QA
3 21 (5.40%) GDPR
4 14 (3.60%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.77%) CDISC
6 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS
7 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.26%) MiFID
7 1 (0.26%) PERC
7 1 (0.26%) PMO
7 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (7.46%) Docker
2 12 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 18 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.54%) Ansible
3 5 (1.29%) Packer
4 3 (0.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.51%) Grafana
6 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 60 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 47 (12.08%) SAP
3 40 (10.28%) Oracle
4 19 (4.88%) Databricks
4 19 (4.88%) Sage
5 17 (4.37%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.31%) HubSpot
6 9 (2.31%) Workday
7 7 (1.80%) Infor
8 6 (1.54%) Google
9 3 (0.77%) Avaya
9 3 (0.77%) Cisco
9 3 (0.77%) Foundry
9 3 (0.77%) Genesys
9 3 (0.77%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.77%) Palantir
10 2 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.51%) Concur
10 2 (0.51%) RedGate
10 2 (0.51%) TOWER Software