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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 338 362
Rank change year-on-year -73 +24 -29
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 398 334 469
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.38% 0.77% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.47% 1.85% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 255 130 186
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,625 £54,063 £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 £85,000 £90,750 £101,875
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,750 £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 27,039 18,071 22,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.14% 41.81% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17,613 9,167 11,311
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £43,997
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 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% -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 26 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 26 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 -57 180 £80,000 -5.88% 549
North of England -18 72 £55,000 -26.17% 103
South East -23 58 £70,000 +5.66% 94
Midlands -48 39 £52,500 +5.53% 60
North West -15 36 £60,000 -14.29% 61
West Midlands -32 22 £60,000 +14.29% 43
East of England -18 21 £37,500 -10.23% 28
South West -85 20 £58,000 -17.14% 42
Yorkshire -28 19 £55,000 -29.03% 27
East Midlands -35 17 £47,500 -2.06% 16
North East -48 17 £55,000 -52.17% 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 15 (3.77%) Apache
1 15 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.76%) Jupyter
3 10 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.76%) SAS
4 7 (1.76%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.01%) Confluence
5 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.75%) IIS
6 3 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 34 (8.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 12 (3.02%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 12 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.76%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.51%) Infor M3
5 5 (1.26%) Workday HCM
6 4 (1.01%) SAP SCM
7 3 (0.75%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.50%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.50%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle iProcurement
9 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.25%) FastStats
9 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.25%) Primavera
9 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.25%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 90 (22.61%) Power Platform
2 84 (21.11%) Azure
3 79 (19.85%) AWS
4 28 (7.04%) GCP
5 24 (6.03%) Amazon S3
5 24 (6.03%) Dynamics 365
5 24 (6.03%) SaaS
6 22 (5.53%) Entra ID
7 19 (4.77%) PowerApps
7 19 (4.77%) Snowflake
8 18 (4.52%) Power Automate
9 15 (3.77%) dbt
10 14 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.27%) Amazon EMR
11 13 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (3.27%) SuccessFactors
12 11 (2.76%) Serverless
13 10 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (2.26%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.02%) Broadband
2 3 (0.75%) Intranet
3 2 (0.50%) Internet
4 1 (0.25%) Multicast
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.25%) Unicast
4 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (18.84%) Power BI
2 29 (7.29%) Data Lake
3 26 (6.53%) Tableau
4 23 (5.78%) Relational Database
5 21 (5.28%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (4.02%) Data Vault
6 16 (4.02%) SQL Server
7 15 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.77%) Snowflake Schema
7 15 (3.77%) Star Schema
8 14 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (3.02%) BigQuery
9 12 (3.02%) SAP BW
10 11 (2.76%) Big Data
11 8 (2.01%) Metadata
11 8 (2.01%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.76%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.51%) MySQL
14 5 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (7.04%) Git
2 9 (2.26%) GitLab
3 6 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.01%) JIRA
5 3 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.50%) ERwin
6 2 (0.50%) MLflow
7 1 (0.25%) CMake
7 1 (0.25%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.25%) Maven
7 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 161 (40.45%) Social Skills
2 145 (36.43%) Finance
3 81 (20.35%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (5.53%) Law
6 18 (4.52%) Legal
7 17 (4.27%) Banking
7 17 (4.27%) Manufacturing
7 17 (4.27%) Retail
8 14 (3.52%) Marketing
9 13 (3.27%) Billing
10 12 (3.02%) Financial Institution
11 9 (2.26%) Front Office
11 9 (2.26%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.01%) General Ledger
12 8 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.76%) Public Sector
14 6 (1.51%) Investment Banking
15 5 (1.26%) Advertising
15 5 (1.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 95 (23.87%) Analyst
2 70 (17.59%) Senior
3 54 (13.57%) Developer
4 37 (9.30%) Software Engineer
5 36 (9.05%) Consultant
6 32 (8.04%) Architect
7 29 (7.29%) Systems Analyst
8 26 (6.53%) Administrator
9 23 (5.78%) Data Architect
10 21 (5.28%) Data Analyst
10 21 (5.28%) Data Engineer
10 21 (5.28%) Senior Developer
10 21 (5.28%) Systems Administrator
11 20 (5.03%) Lead
12 19 (4.77%) Business Analyst
13 13 (3.27%) Snowflake Architect
14 12 (3.02%) Financial Analyst
15 11 (2.76%) Python Developer
16 10 (2.51%) C++ Developer
16 10 (2.51%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.78%) React
2 22 (5.53%) .NET
3 19 (4.77%) REST
3 19 (4.77%) Terraform
4 16 (4.02%) PySpark
5 14 (3.52%) Oracle Fusion
6 12 (3.02%) Kafka
7 11 (2.76%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 9 (2.26%) FastAPI
8 9 (2.26%) Middleware
8 9 (2.26%) RESTful
9 8 (2.01%) ASP.NET
9 8 (2.01%) Node.js
9 8 (2.01%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.76%) CSS
10 7 (1.76%) Django
10 7 (1.76%) HTML
11 6 (1.51%) .NET Framework
11 6 (1.51%) Blazor
11 6 (1.51%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 77 (19.35%) Algorithms
2 38 (9.55%) Management Information System
3 24 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.77%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.27%) Hedge funds
7 12 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (3.02%) Social Media
8 11 (2.76%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.01%) Equities
10 7 (1.76%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.51%) FMCG
12 5 (1.26%) Clustering
12 5 (1.26%) Credit Risk
12 5 (1.26%) Educational Technology
12 5 (1.26%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
13 4 (1.01%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.28%) Linux
2 14 (3.52%) Windows
3 3 (0.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (28.14%) Data Modelling
1 112 (28.14%) Problem-Solving
2 90 (22.61%) Analytics
2 90 (22.61%) Business Intelligence
3 79 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 78 (19.60%) AI
5 76 (19.10%) Agile
6 74 (18.59%) Computer Science
7 71 (17.84%) Software Engineering
7 71 (17.84%) Stakeholder Management
8 65 (16.33%) CI/CD
8 65 (16.33%) Decision-Making
9 64 (16.08%) Data Engineering
10 60 (15.08%) Validation
11 59 (14.82%) Data Pipeline
12 58 (14.57%) ERP
13 56 (14.07%) Data Architecture
14 55 (13.82%) Data Governance
15 51 (12.81%) DevOps
16 50 (12.56%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 153 (38.44%) SQL
2 133 (33.42%) Python
3 45 (11.31%) Java
4 33 (8.29%) C++
5 28 (7.04%) C#
6 26 (6.53%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.52%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.52%) Go
9 13 (3.27%) Rust
10 7 (1.76%) C
11 6 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.51%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.26%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.01%) Bash
13 4 (1.01%) Scala
13 4 (1.01%) VBA
14 3 (0.75%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.75%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 90 (22.61%) Degree
2 39 (9.80%) Security Cleared
3 28 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (6.28%) SC Cleared
5 20 (5.03%) ACCA
5 20 (5.03%) CIMA
6 11 (2.76%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.01%) PhD
9 7 (1.76%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.76%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.76%) PMP
10 5 (1.26%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (1.01%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.01%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.75%) HND
12 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (23.62%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.03%) QA
3 20 (5.03%) GDPR
4 14 (3.52%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.75%) CDISC
6 2 (0.50%) 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 29 (7.29%) Docker
2 13 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (4.77%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.26%) Ansible
3 4 (1.01%) Packer
4 2 (0.50%) Grafana
4 2 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 62 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 49 (12.31%) SAP
3 41 (10.30%) Oracle
4 19 (4.77%) Databricks
4 19 (4.77%) Sage
5 16 (4.02%) Salesforce
6 12 (3.02%) Google
7 9 (2.26%) HubSpot
7 9 (2.26%) Workday
8 6 (1.51%) Infor
9 3 (0.75%) Avaya
9 3 (0.75%) Cisco
9 3 (0.75%) Foundry
9 3 (0.75%) Genesys
9 3 (0.75%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.75%) Palantir
9 3 (0.75%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.75%) TOWER Software
10 2 (0.50%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.50%) JD Edwards