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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 351 324
Rank change year-on-year -53 -27 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 397 341 568
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.78% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.60% 1.86% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 266 128 217
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% +3.21% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,688 £97,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £128,500
UK median annual salary £66,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +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 24,755 18,382 22,946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.58% 41.92% 32.23%
Number of salaries quoted 16,302 9,400 13,298
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,625 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -8.00%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -23 192 £85,000 -0.58% 499
North of England -10 76 £55,000 -21.43% 68
South East -39 56 £67,500 +42.11% 57
North West -5 33 £57,500 -13.21% 44
Yorkshire -18 26 £55,000 -29.03% 9
Midlands -50 26 £52,500 +8.25% 49
South West -77 20 £61,250 -12.50% 36
East of England -6 19 £37,500 -10.23% 32
West Midlands -22 17 £52,500 - 36
North East -48 17 £55,000 -52.17% 15
East Midlands -40 9 £44,241 -8.78% 13
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 (3.78%) Apache
2 14 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.77%) Jupyter
4 10 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.27%) SharePoint
6 8 (2.02%) SAS
7 6 (1.51%) Confluence
8 5 (1.26%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.50%) IIS
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 38 (9.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 12 (3.02%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (2.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.76%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.26%) SAP SCM
4 5 (1.26%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.76%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.76%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.50%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.50%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.50%) Infor M3
6 2 (0.50%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.50%) Misys Opics
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.50%) Shopify
7 1 (0.25%) FastStats
7 1 (0.25%) Magento
7 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 92 (23.17%) AWS
2 88 (22.17%) Power Platform
3 87 (21.91%) Azure
4 33 (8.31%) GCP
5 24 (6.05%) Amazon S3
6 23 (5.79%) Dynamics 365
7 22 (5.54%) PowerApps
8 21 (5.29%) Power Automate
8 21 (5.29%) SaaS
9 18 (4.53%) Entra ID
9 18 (4.53%) Snowflake
10 15 (3.78%) dbt
11 13 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.27%) Serverless
12 12 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
13 11 (2.77%) SuccessFactors
14 10 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (2.52%) GitHub
15 9 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.02%) Broadband
2 3 (0.76%) Intranet
3 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (18.39%) Power BI
2 30 (7.56%) Data Lake
3 27 (6.80%) Tableau
4 24 (6.05%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.79%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.03%) BigQuery
6 16 (4.03%) Data Vault
7 15 (3.78%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.78%) Star Schema
8 14 (3.53%) Snowflake Schema
9 13 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (3.27%) SQL Server
10 12 (3.02%) Metadata
10 12 (3.02%) SAP BW
11 9 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (2.02%) Big Data
12 8 (2.02%) DynamoDB
12 8 (2.02%) NoSQL
13 6 (1.51%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 29 (7.30%) Git
2 9 (2.27%) GitLab
3 8 (2.02%) JIRA
4 6 (1.51%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.01%) ERwin
6 3 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.50%) MLflow
8 1 (0.25%) CMake
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.25%) Toad
8 1 (0.25%) utPLSQL
8 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 159 (40.05%) Finance
2 153 (38.54%) Social Skills
3 75 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (5.79%) Law
6 22 (5.54%) Banking
7 19 (4.79%) Legal
7 19 (4.79%) Retail
8 14 (3.53%) Billing
8 14 (3.53%) Front Office
9 13 (3.27%) Financial Institution
9 13 (3.27%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.27%) Marketing
10 9 (2.27%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.27%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.76%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.51%) General Ledger
14 5 (1.26%) German Language
14 5 (1.26%) Military
Job Titles
1 94 (23.68%) Analyst
2 79 (19.90%) Senior
3 61 (15.37%) Developer
4 43 (10.83%) Software Engineer
5 42 (10.58%) Consultant
6 28 (7.05%) Senior Developer
6 28 (7.05%) Systems Analyst
7 27 (6.80%) Administrator
7 27 (6.80%) Architect
7 27 (6.80%) Data Analyst
8 22 (5.54%) Systems Administrator
9 20 (5.04%) Data Architect
10 18 (4.53%) Data Engineer
11 16 (4.03%) Business Analyst
11 16 (4.03%) Python Developer
12 15 (3.78%) Data Consultant
13 14 (3.53%) Backend Developer
14 13 (3.27%) Lead
14 13 (3.27%) Snowflake Architect
15 12 (3.02%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.54%) Terraform
2 21 (5.29%) React
3 17 (4.28%) .NET
3 17 (4.28%) REST
4 15 (3.78%) PySpark
5 14 (3.53%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 14 (3.53%) Kafka
5 14 (3.53%) Oracle Fusion
6 12 (3.02%) Django
7 11 (2.77%) RESTful
8 10 (2.52%) JSON
9 8 (2.02%) Flask
9 8 (2.02%) Vue
9 8 (2.02%) XML
10 7 (1.76%) CSS
10 7 (1.76%) HTML
10 7 (1.76%) Spring Boot
11 6 (1.51%) .NET Framework
11 6 (1.51%) Middleware
11 6 (1.51%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 83 (20.91%) Algorithms
2 35 (8.82%) Management Information System
3 31 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.53%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.28%) Hedge funds
6 12 (3.02%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.02%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.02%) Social Media
7 11 (2.77%) Equities
8 10 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.02%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.26%) Clustering
11 5 (1.26%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.26%) PKI
11 5 (1.26%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
12 4 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.76%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.79%) Linux
2 13 (3.27%) Windows
3 3 (0.76%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (29.47%) Problem-Solving
2 110 (27.71%) Data Modelling
3 98 (24.69%) Analytics
4 91 (22.92%) Business Intelligence
5 84 (21.16%) Agile
6 80 (20.15%) Software Engineering
7 79 (19.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 71 (17.88%) AI
9 68 (17.13%) Decision-Making
10 66 (16.62%) Data Engineering
11 65 (16.37%) CI/CD
12 63 (15.87%) Computer Science
13 62 (15.62%) ERP
14 60 (15.11%) Data Pipeline
14 60 (15.11%) Stakeholder Management
15 55 (13.85%) Validation
16 54 (13.60%) Data Governance
17 51 (12.85%) DevOps
18 50 (12.59%) Data Analysis
18 50 (12.59%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 154 (38.79%) SQL
2 146 (36.78%) Python
3 42 (10.58%) Java
4 38 (9.57%) C++
5 29 (7.30%) JavaScript
6 23 (5.79%) C#
7 17 (4.28%) Rust
8 16 (4.03%) TypeScript
9 14 (3.53%) Go
10 8 (2.02%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.76%) C
11 7 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.76%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.26%) VBA
13 4 (1.01%) Scala
14 3 (0.76%) Bash
14 3 (0.76%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.76%) R
14 3 (0.76%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (20.91%) Degree
2 44 (11.08%) Security Cleared
3 30 (7.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (6.80%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.53%) ACCA
5 18 (4.53%) CIMA
6 11 (2.77%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.02%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.26%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (1.26%) PhD
10 4 (1.01%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.76%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.76%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.76%) HND
11 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.76%) PMP
11 3 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (21.41%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.04%) GDPR
2 20 (5.04%) QA
3 17 (4.28%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.76%) CDISC
4 3 (0.76%) IFRS
5 2 (0.50%) GAAP
5 2 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 34 (8.56%) Docker
2 11 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (5.04%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.26%) Ansible
3 4 (1.01%) Packer
4 3 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.25%) Grafana
5 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 59 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 50 (12.59%) SAP
3 41 (10.33%) Oracle
4 20 (5.04%) Sage
5 17 (4.28%) Databricks
6 16 (4.03%) Google
7 13 (3.27%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.52%) Workday
9 5 (1.26%) Foundry
9 5 (1.26%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.26%) Palantir
10 3 (0.76%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.76%) Avaya
10 3 (0.76%) Cisco
10 3 (0.76%) Genesys
10 3 (0.76%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.76%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.76%) Sparx
10 3 (0.76%) TOWER Software
11 2 (0.50%) OpenAI