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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 347 311
Rank change year-on-year -45 -36 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 399 341 619
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.78% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% 1.85% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 264 125 227
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,188 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,255 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,250 £96,250
90th Percentile £99,625 £122,500 £122,250
UK median annual salary £68,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +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 24,293 18,470 23,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.82% 42.30% 32.72%
Number of salaries quoted 15,894 9,323 14,589
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,679 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% -4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,130 £105,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -11.54%

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 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 11 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 -4 204 £85,000 -0.58% 241
North of England -4 72 £55,000 -21.43% 29
South East -40 55 £67,500 +42.11% 39
North West -9 30 £60,000 -7.69% 11
Yorkshire -10 26 £55,000 -29.03% 12
Midlands -64 22 £47,121 -2.84% 20
East of England -26 18 £37,500 -42.31% 17
South West -85 18 £66,250 +12.77% 11
North East -45 16 £55,000 -52.17% 6
West Midlands -37 15 £50,000 -1.96% 11
East Midlands -39 7 £44,241 -8.78% 9
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 19 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 15 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (3.51%) Apache
4 10 (2.51%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.26%) SharePoint
6 8 (2.01%) SAS
7 6 (1.50%) Confluence
8 5 (1.25%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (9.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.01%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (2.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (1.25%) SAP SCM
5 5 (1.25%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.75%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.75%) SAP SD
7 2 (0.50%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.50%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.50%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 2 (0.50%) Misys Opics
7 2 (0.50%) Shopify
8 1 (0.25%) FastStats
8 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.25%) Magento
8 1 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 98 (24.56%) AWS
2 87 (21.80%) Azure
2 87 (21.80%) Power Platform
3 42 (10.53%) GCP
4 23 (5.76%) Amazon S3
4 23 (5.76%) Dynamics 365
5 22 (5.51%) PowerApps
6 21 (5.26%) SaaS
7 20 (5.01%) Power Automate
8 19 (4.76%) dbt
9 18 (4.51%) Snowflake
10 17 (4.26%) Entra ID
11 14 (3.51%) Serverless
12 13 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (3.01%) Amazon EMR
14 10 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (2.51%) GitHub
15 9 (2.26%) Amazon ECR
15 9 (2.26%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (2.26%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.26%) Broadband
2 3 (0.75%) Intranet
3 1 (0.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (18.05%) Power BI
2 29 (7.27%) Data Lake
3 28 (7.02%) Tableau
4 26 (6.52%) BigQuery
5 24 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (5.51%) Relational Database
7 19 (4.76%) Metadata
8 16 (4.01%) Data Vault
9 15 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (3.51%) Star Schema
11 13 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (3.01%) SAP BW
12 12 (3.01%) Snowflake Schema
12 12 (3.01%) SQL Server
13 9 (2.26%) DynamoDB
13 9 (2.26%) NoSQL
13 9 (2.26%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (1.75%) MySQL
15 6 (1.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (6.52%) Git
2 9 (2.26%) GitLab
3 8 (2.01%) JIRA
4 7 (1.75%) ERwin
5 6 (1.50%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.75%) 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%) Postman
8 1 (0.25%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.25%) Toad
8 1 (0.25%) utPLSQL
8 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 162 (40.60%) Finance
2 153 (38.35%) Social Skills
3 70 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.77%) Law
5 26 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (5.01%) Banking
7 19 (4.76%) Retail
8 18 (4.51%) Legal
9 17 (4.26%) Front Office
10 15 (3.76%) Billing
11 13 (3.26%) Financial Institution
12 11 (2.76%) Manufacturing
12 11 (2.76%) Marketing
13 9 (2.26%) Public Sector
13 9 (2.26%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.50%) General Ledger
14 6 (1.50%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.25%) German Language
15 5 (1.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 91 (22.81%) Analyst
2 89 (22.31%) Senior
3 63 (15.79%) Developer
4 44 (11.03%) Consultant
5 41 (10.28%) Software Engineer
6 34 (8.52%) Senior Developer
7 31 (7.77%) Architect
8 28 (7.02%) Administrator
9 27 (6.77%) Data Analyst
10 26 (6.52%) Systems Analyst
11 24 (6.02%) Data Architect
12 23 (5.76%) Data Engineer
12 23 (5.76%) Systems Administrator
13 19 (4.76%) Python Developer
14 17 (4.26%) Backend Developer
14 17 (4.26%) Data Consultant
15 16 (4.01%) Business Analyst
16 15 (3.76%) C++ Developer
16 15 (3.76%) Senior C++ Developer
16 15 (3.76%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.76%) React
2 18 (4.51%) Kafka
2 18 (4.51%) REST
3 17 (4.26%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 16 (4.01%) Django
4 16 (4.01%) Oracle Fusion
5 15 (3.76%) JSON
5 15 (3.76%) PySpark
6 14 (3.51%) RESTful
7 12 (3.01%) XML
8 11 (2.76%) .NET
9 8 (2.01%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (2.01%) Flask
10 7 (1.75%) Middleware
10 7 (1.75%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.75%) Vue
11 6 (1.50%) CSS
11 6 (1.50%) FpML
11 6 (1.50%) HTML
11 6 (1.50%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 87 (21.80%) Algorithms
2 39 (9.77%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (8.27%) Management Information System
4 19 (4.76%) Hedge funds
5 17 (4.26%) Social Media
6 16 (4.01%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.51%) Equities
7 14 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (3.26%) Cloud Native
9 12 (3.01%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.01%) Client/Server
11 7 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.50%) e-Learning
13 5 (1.25%) Anti-Piracy
13 5 (1.25%) Clustering
13 5 (1.25%) PKI
13 5 (1.25%) Public Cloud
14 4 (1.00%) Credit Risk
14 4 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.02%) Linux
2 9 (2.26%) Windows
3 3 (0.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (29.32%) Data Modelling
2 112 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
3 102 (25.56%) Analytics
4 90 (22.56%) Business Intelligence
5 86 (21.55%) Agile
6 85 (21.30%) Software Engineering
7 77 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 67 (16.79%) Decision-Making
9 66 (16.54%) Data Engineering
10 65 (16.29%) AI
11 63 (15.79%) CI/CD
12 62 (15.54%) Computer Science
12 62 (15.54%) Data Pipeline
13 61 (15.29%) ERP
14 59 (14.79%) Data Governance
15 54 (13.53%) Validation
16 53 (13.28%) Stakeholder Management
17 49 (12.28%) Data Management
17 49 (12.28%) DevOps
18 48 (12.03%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 158 (39.60%) Python
2 155 (38.85%) SQL
3 45 (11.28%) C++
4 42 (10.53%) Java
5 28 (7.02%) JavaScript
6 19 (4.76%) Rust
7 16 (4.01%) C#
8 15 (3.76%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.26%) Go
10 9 (2.26%) Scala
11 8 (2.01%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.75%) C
12 7 (1.75%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (1.00%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.75%) Bash
15 3 (0.75%) R
15 3 (0.75%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 80 (20.05%) Degree
2 42 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 34 (8.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (6.52%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.51%) ACCA
5 18 (4.51%) CIMA
6 11 (2.76%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.50%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.75%) HND
9 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.75%) PhD
9 3 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (19.80%) Data Quality
2 19 (4.76%) GDPR
3 16 (4.01%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.01%) QA
4 4 (1.00%) IFRS
5 3 (0.75%) CDISC
5 3 (0.75%) GAAP
5 3 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 33 (8.27%) Docker
2 12 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (5.51%) Terraform
2 20 (5.01%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.25%) Ansible
4 4 (1.00%) Packer
5 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.25%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 57 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 48 (12.03%) SAP
3 42 (10.53%) Oracle
4 21 (5.26%) Sage
5 20 (5.01%) Google
6 16 (4.01%) Databricks
7 13 (3.26%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.76%) Workday
9 6 (1.50%) Sparx
10 5 (1.25%) Foundry
10 5 (1.25%) Palantir
11 3 (0.75%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.75%) Avaya
11 3 (0.75%) Cisco
11 3 (0.75%) Genesys
11 3 (0.75%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.75%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.75%) TOWER Software
12 2 (0.50%) Concur
12 2 (0.50%) Intapp