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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 318 319
Rank change year-on-year -36 +1 -56
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 296 389 546
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.51% 0.87% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.53% 2.30% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 194 124 449
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,985 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,991 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +2.01% +0.82%
75th Percentile £87,500 £98,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £129,250 £110,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £71,991 £69,500
% change year-on-year -2.77% +3.58% +0.08%

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 19,351 16,925 23,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.22% 37.82% 35.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9,916 7,953 17,804
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,619 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +12.61% -14.62%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,571
% change year-on-year -11.29% +11.57% -14.51%

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 February 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 February 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 +86 198 £72,500 -21.62% 74
North of England -4 37 £75,000 +27.66% 13
Yorkshire -11 26 £75,000 +66.67% 2
Midlands +13 18 £50,000 -20.00% 15
South East -7 15 £42,500 - 43
East Midlands -4 12 £49,250 -24.23% 6
North West +15 10 £75,000 +25.00% 6
East of England +8 10 £75,000 -16.67% 12
West Midlands +4 6 £65,000 +8.33% 9
South West -125 2 £43,953 -38.95% 11
North East -9 1 - - 5
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 10 (3.38%) Palantir Foundry
2 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.69%) CMS
3 5 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.35%) Apache
5 3 (1.01%) SAS
6 2 (0.68%) Luigi
6 2 (0.68%) Mendix
7 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 9 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.01%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 15 (5.07%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.35%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.01%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.68%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (0.68%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.68%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.68%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.34%) Misys Opics
5 1 (0.34%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 76 (25.68%) Azure
2 74 (25.00%) AWS
3 43 (14.53%) Power Platform
4 31 (10.47%) GCP
5 24 (8.11%) GitHub
5 24 (8.11%) Serverless
6 16 (5.41%) SaaS
7 11 (3.72%) Boomi
8 10 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (2.70%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.36%) Entra ID
10 7 (2.36%) Power Automate
10 7 (2.36%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.03%) Matillion
12 5 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (1.69%) AWS KMS
12 5 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.69%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.35%) Network Security
2 1 (0.34%) Broadband
2 1 (0.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (14.53%) Power BI
2 35 (11.82%) NoSQL
3 33 (11.15%) SQL Server
4 21 (7.09%) BigQuery
4 21 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (7.09%) Metadata
5 20 (6.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 17 (5.74%) DynamoDB
6 17 (5.74%) Tableau
7 16 (5.41%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (4.73%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.39%) Relational Database
11 12 (4.05%) MySQL
11 12 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (2.36%) Redis
13 7 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (2.03%) Pentaho
15 5 (1.69%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 22 (7.43%) Postman
2 18 (6.08%) Git
3 11 (3.72%) ERwin
4 9 (3.04%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.68%) JConsole
5 2 (0.68%) JIRA
5 2 (0.68%) Storybook
5 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.68%) VisualVM
6 1 (0.34%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.34%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
General
1 104 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 82 (27.70%) Finance
3 79 (26.69%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (11.49%) Law
5 29 (9.80%) Front Office
6 22 (7.43%) Public Sector
7 20 (6.76%) Retail
8 16 (5.41%) Marketing
9 12 (4.05%) Banking
10 11 (3.72%) Publishing
11 10 (3.38%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.35%) Legal
14 2 (0.68%) Billing
14 2 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.34%) Digital Economy
15 1 (0.34%) iGaming
15 1 (0.34%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 85 (28.72%) Developer
2 57 (19.26%) Analyst
3 51 (17.23%) Senior
4 43 (14.53%) Data Analyst
5 36 (12.16%) Python Developer
6 35 (11.82%) Lead
7 33 (11.15%) Senior Developer
8 29 (9.80%) Architect
9 27 (9.12%) Software Engineer
10 25 (8.45%) Data Architect
11 22 (7.43%) C++ Developer
12 21 (7.09%) Quantitative Developer
12 21 (7.09%) Senior Python Developer
13 19 (6.42%) Consultant
14 18 (6.08%) C++ Quantitative Developer
15 17 (5.74%) Linux Developer
15 17 (5.74%) Low Latency C++ Developer
15 17 (5.74%) Senior C++ Developer
15 17 (5.74%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
15 17 (5.74%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.50%) Django
2 27 (9.12%) RESTful
3 25 (8.45%) Flask
4 23 (7.77%) FastAPI
4 23 (7.77%) JSON
5 21 (7.09%) CSS
5 21 (7.09%) HTML
5 21 (7.09%) OpenAPI
5 21 (7.09%) Swagger
6 20 (6.76%) React
7 18 (6.08%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 18 (6.08%) REST
8 17 (5.74%) Kafka
9 15 (5.07%) Vue
10 13 (4.39%) XML
11 9 (3.04%) .NET
12 8 (2.70%) Web Services
13 6 (2.03%) OAuth
13 6 (2.03%) PySpark
14 5 (1.69%) Memcached
Miscellaneous
1 60 (20.27%) Algorithms
2 34 (11.49%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (9.80%) Greenfield Project
4 26 (8.78%) Management Information System
5 22 (7.43%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (6.76%) Hedge funds
7 19 (6.42%) Equities
8 14 (4.73%) Onboarding
9 13 (4.39%) Product Ownership
10 12 (4.05%) Cloud Native
11 10 (3.38%) FMCG
11 10 (3.38%) Reinsurance
12 9 (3.04%) Low-Code
12 9 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.69%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.69%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (1.35%) Blockchain
14 4 (1.35%) Derivative
14 4 (1.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.42%) Linux
2 2 (0.68%) Android
3 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (29.73%) Data Modelling
2 70 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (22.64%) Agile
4 60 (20.27%) Computer Science
4 60 (20.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 59 (19.93%) Analytics
6 54 (18.24%) ETL
7 52 (17.57%) Business Intelligence
7 52 (17.57%) Data Governance
8 51 (17.23%) Data Analysis
9 50 (16.89%) OOP
10 47 (15.88%) AI
11 46 (15.54%) Mentoring
12 45 (15.20%) Software Engineering
13 42 (14.19%) CI/CD
14 41 (13.85%) Data Integration
15 39 (13.18%) Decision-Making
16 36 (12.16%) Microservices
17 35 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
18 34 (11.49%) OO
Programming Languages
1 148 (50.00%) Python
2 138 (46.62%) SQL
3 34 (11.49%) JavaScript
4 30 (10.14%) C++
5 23 (7.77%) Java
6 14 (4.73%) T-SQL
7 9 (3.04%) C#
7 9 (3.04%) Scala
8 7 (2.36%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.03%) Kotlin
9 6 (2.03%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.35%) Go
10 4 (1.35%) Rust
11 3 (1.01%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.01%) R
12 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.34%) PHP
13 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (23.99%) Degree
2 37 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (8.78%) Security Cleared
4 20 (6.76%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.05%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.38%) ACCA
6 10 (3.38%) CIMA
7 7 (2.36%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.03%) PhD
9 5 (1.69%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.35%) Postgraduate
11 3 (1.01%) IIBA
12 2 (0.68%) HNC
12 2 (0.68%) HND
12 2 (0.68%) MCSA
12 2 (0.68%) MCSE
12 2 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (17.23%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.42%) GDPR
3 12 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 12 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.69%) HIPAA
4 5 (1.69%) NIST
4 5 (1.69%) QA
4 5 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.68%) GRC
5 2 (0.68%) WCAG
6 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (7.43%) Docker
2 7 (2.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (6.08%) Terraform
2 7 (2.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.68%) Ansible
4 2 (0.68%) logstash
4 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.68%) Puppet
5 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 35 (11.82%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.77%) Salesforce
3 17 (5.74%) Google
4 16 (5.41%) Oracle
5 14 (4.73%) Foundry
6 10 (3.38%) Palantir
6 10 (3.38%) ServiceNow
7 9 (3.04%) SAP
7 9 (3.04%) Talend
8 8 (2.70%) Informatica
9 6 (2.03%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.69%) Databricks
11 4 (1.35%) HubSpot
11 4 (1.35%) Intapp
11 4 (1.35%) Workday
12 3 (1.01%) Alteryx
12 3 (1.01%) Temenos
13 2 (0.68%) Dataiku
13 2 (0.68%) OutSystems
13 2 (0.68%) SendGrid