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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 377 289
Rank change year-on-year +25 -88 -2
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 387 284 857
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.47% 0.73% 0.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.76% 1.69% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 242 106 431
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +2.84% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £71,991 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.71% +2.84% +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 21,961 16,824 30,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.55% 43.08% 33.83%
Number of salaries quoted 13,211 8,003 20,984
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,560 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.24% +4.65% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 +69 233 £85,000 -5.82% 128
North of England -20 56 £57,500 -17.56% 34
South East -48 36 £60,000 +20.00% 46
Yorkshire -10 35 £63,005 -17.10% 9
East of England -9 21 £62,000 -10.14% 8
Midlands -47 15 £42,500 -12.37% 15
North West -12 11 £46,250 -9.76% 16
West Midlands -40 10 £43,000 -14.00% 11
North East -40 10 £57,500 -50.00% 10
South West -82 10 £68,750 -1.79% 20
East Midlands -35 5 £42,500 -12.37% 4
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 12 (3.10%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.33%) Apache
4 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.81%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (1.55%) Confluence
6 6 (1.55%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.78%) Oracle Application Server
7 3 (0.78%) SAS
7 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 29 (7.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (3.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (2.58%) NetSuite
3 6 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.29%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.29%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.78%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.78%) FLEXCUBE
5 3 (0.78%) Misys Opics
5 3 (0.78%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.52%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.52%) SAP SCM
6 2 (0.52%) Shopify
6 2 (0.52%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.26%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.26%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.26%) Magento
7 1 (0.26%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.26%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 111 (28.68%) Azure
2 101 (26.10%) AWS
3 66 (17.05%) Power Platform
4 47 (12.14%) GCP
5 19 (4.91%) Entra ID
6 18 (4.65%) Amazon S3
7 17 (4.39%) SaaS
8 16 (4.13%) GitHub
8 16 (4.13%) Serverless
9 15 (3.88%) dbt
10 14 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (3.36%) Power Automate
11 13 (3.36%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.84%) Snowflake
13 10 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (2.07%) Boomi
15 8 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
17 6 (1.55%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.65%) Broadband
2 3 (0.78%) Network Security
3 2 (0.52%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (14.73%) Power BI
2 36 (9.30%) BigQuery
3 31 (8.01%) Metadata
4 30 (7.75%) Tableau
5 25 (6.46%) Data Lake
6 23 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (5.43%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (5.17%) NoSQL
8 20 (5.17%) SQL Server
9 18 (4.65%) Relational Database
10 17 (4.39%) DynamoDB
11 16 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (3.36%) Data Vault
13 12 (3.10%) MySQL
13 12 (3.10%) SAP BW
13 12 (3.10%) Star Schema
14 11 (2.84%) Oracle Reports
14 11 (2.84%) Snowflake Schema
14 11 (2.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 27 (6.98%) Git
2 13 (3.36%) Postman
3 9 (2.33%) Eclipse
3 9 (2.33%) ERwin
4 7 (1.81%) JIRA
5 4 (1.03%) GitLab
6 3 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.52%) Storybook
8 1 (0.26%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.26%) CMake
8 1 (0.26%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.26%) Maven
8 1 (0.26%) Toad
8 1 (0.26%) utPLSQL
8 1 (0.26%) Valgrind
General
1 153 (39.53%) Finance
2 131 (33.85%) Social Skills
3 73 (18.86%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.04%) Law
5 28 (7.24%) Front Office
6 26 (6.72%) Retail
7 18 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 16 (4.13%) Banking
8 16 (4.13%) Marketing
9 12 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.84%) Financial Institution
10 11 (2.84%) Legal
11 9 (2.33%) Billing
12 7 (1.81%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.81%) Publishing
13 5 (1.29%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.03%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 90 (23.26%) Analyst
2 80 (20.67%) Senior
3 65 (16.80%) Developer
4 51 (13.18%) Data Analyst
5 41 (10.59%) Software Engineer
6 40 (10.34%) Senior Developer
7 39 (10.08%) Consultant
8 30 (7.75%) Architect
8 30 (7.75%) Python Developer
9 27 (6.98%) Data Architect
10 22 (5.68%) Administrator
10 22 (5.68%) Quantitative Developer
11 21 (5.43%) C++ Developer
11 21 (5.43%) Lead
11 21 (5.43%) Senior C++ Developer
11 21 (5.43%) Senior Python Developer
12 20 (5.17%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 20 (5.17%) Linux Developer
12 20 (5.17%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 20 (5.17%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (7.75%) RESTful
2 29 (7.49%) Django
3 24 (6.20%) JSON
4 20 (5.17%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 17 (4.39%) Oracle Fusion
5 17 (4.39%) XML
6 16 (4.13%) OpenAPI
6 16 (4.13%) REST
6 16 (4.13%) Swagger
7 15 (3.88%) Kafka
8 14 (3.62%) React
9 11 (2.84%) Flask
10 10 (2.58%) PySpark
11 9 (2.33%) CSS
11 9 (2.33%) FastAPI
11 9 (2.33%) FIX Protocol
11 9 (2.33%) HTML
12 7 (1.81%) .NET
12 7 (1.81%) FpML
12 7 (1.81%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 90 (23.26%) Algorithms
2 44 (11.37%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (8.01%) Management Information System
4 30 (7.75%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (6.20%) Hedge funds
6 22 (5.68%) Equities
7 18 (4.65%) Social Media
8 14 (3.62%) Product Ownership
9 13 (3.36%) Cloud Native
9 13 (3.36%) Onboarding
10 10 (2.58%) Reinsurance
11 8 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.81%) e-Learning
12 7 (1.81%) FMCG
12 7 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
13 6 (1.55%) Anti-Piracy
13 6 (1.55%) Client/Server
14 5 (1.29%) PKI
14 5 (1.29%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.94%) Linux
2 2 (0.52%) Windows
3 1 (0.26%) Android
3 1 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (29.72%) Data Modelling
2 93 (24.03%) Agile
3 87 (22.48%) Analytics
4 84 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (21.45%) Software Engineering
6 79 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 78 (20.16%) Business Intelligence
8 73 (18.86%) Computer Science
9 67 (17.31%) Data Governance
10 56 (14.47%) CI/CD
11 53 (13.70%) Decision-Making
12 51 (13.18%) Data Engineering
12 51 (13.18%) DevOps
12 51 (13.18%) ETL
13 48 (12.40%) AI
13 48 (12.40%) OO
13 48 (12.40%) Validation
14 46 (11.89%) Data Analysis
15 42 (10.85%) ERP
16 41 (10.59%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 180 (46.51%) Python
2 165 (42.64%) SQL
3 44 (11.37%) C++
4 37 (9.56%) Java
5 23 (5.94%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.65%) Rust
7 12 (3.10%) T-SQL
7 12 (3.10%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.58%) Go
9 9 (2.33%) Scala
10 8 (2.07%) C#
10 8 (2.07%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.81%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.29%) R
13 3 (0.78%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.78%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.78%) VBA
14 2 (0.52%) C
14 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 87 (22.48%) Degree
2 45 (11.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (10.08%) Security Cleared
4 24 (6.20%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.10%) ACCA
5 12 (3.10%) CIMA
6 7 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.29%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.29%) PhD
9 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.03%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.78%) IIBA
10 3 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (20.93%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.91%) QA
3 15 (3.88%) GDPR
4 14 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (3.10%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.29%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.29%) IFRS
7 5 (1.29%) NIST
8 3 (0.78%) GAAP
8 3 (0.78%) GRC
9 2 (0.52%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.52%) WCAG
10 1 (0.26%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.26%) MiFID
10 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.26%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (6.72%) Docker
2 19 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (4.91%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.13%) Terraform
3 3 (0.78%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.26%) Grafana
4 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 42 (10.85%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.79%) Oracle
3 31 (8.01%) SAP
4 29 (7.49%) Google
5 18 (4.65%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.36%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.84%) Sage
8 10 (2.58%) Foundry
9 9 (2.33%) Databricks
10 8 (2.07%) Informatica
10 8 (2.07%) MuleSoft
10 8 (2.07%) Sparx
10 8 (2.07%) Talend
11 7 (1.81%) Palantir
11 7 (1.81%) Workday
12 3 (0.78%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.78%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.78%) TOWER Software
13 2 (0.52%) Intapp
13 2 (0.52%) SendGrid