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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 347 326
Rank change year-on-year -60 -21 +17
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 392 336 549
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.78% 0.80%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.51% 1.86% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 254 127 199
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,625 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,250 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,250 £93,750 £98,474
90th Percentile £97,500 £125,000 £130,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%

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 25,991 18,090 22,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.82% 41.92% 32.18%
Number of salaries quoted 16,978 9,160 11,767
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,575 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 16 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 16 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 -37 181 £82,250 -3.24% 710
North of England -23 73 £55,000 -26.42% 112
South East -48 55 £68,000 +2.64% 121
Midlands -35 36 £52,500 +5.53% 66
North West -6 34 £60,000 -14.29% 65
Yorkshire -15 22 £61,755 -20.32% 25
West Midlands -36 21 £56,250 +7.14% 43
East of England -24 20 £37,500 -10.23% 42
South West -80 20 £58,000 -17.14% 37
North East -50 17 £55,000 -52.17% 23
East Midlands -39 15 £47,500 -2.06% 23
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 (3.83%) Apache
1 15 (3.83%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.81%) Jupyter
3 10 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.04%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.79%) SAS
6 4 (1.02%) Confluence
7 3 (0.77%) IIS
7 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 35 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.26%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 12 (3.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (2.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.28%) Infor M3
5 5 (1.28%) Workday HCM
6 4 (1.02%) SAP SCM
7 3 (0.77%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.51%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.51%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.51%) Oracle iProcurement
9 1 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.26%) Dynamics SL
9 1 (0.26%) FastStats
9 1 (0.26%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.26%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.26%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 90 (22.96%) Power Platform
2 85 (21.68%) AWS
3 83 (21.17%) Azure
4 31 (7.91%) GCP
5 24 (6.12%) Amazon S3
5 24 (6.12%) Dynamics 365
6 23 (5.87%) SaaS
7 19 (4.85%) Entra ID
7 19 (4.85%) PowerApps
7 19 (4.85%) Snowflake
8 18 (4.59%) Power Automate
9 15 (3.83%) dbt
10 14 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (3.32%) Amazon EMR
11 13 (3.32%) Serverless
12 12 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (3.06%) SuccessFactors
13 10 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (2.30%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.06%) Broadband
2 3 (0.77%) Intranet
3 2 (0.51%) Internet
4 1 (0.26%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (19.13%) Power BI
2 29 (7.40%) Data Lake
3 28 (7.14%) Tableau
4 22 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (4.59%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.08%) Data Vault
7 15 (3.83%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.83%) Snowflake Schema
7 15 (3.83%) Star Schema
8 14 (3.57%) BigQuery
9 12 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (3.06%) SAP BW
9 12 (3.06%) SQL Server
10 11 (2.81%) Big Data
11 10 (2.55%) Metadata
12 7 (1.79%) DynamoDB
12 7 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.79%) NoSQL
13 6 (1.53%) MySQL
14 5 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (6.63%) Git
2 9 (2.30%) GitLab
3 6 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.02%) JIRA
5 3 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.51%) ERwin
6 2 (0.51%) MLflow
7 1 (0.26%) CMake
7 1 (0.26%) Maven
7 1 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.26%) Valgrind
General
1 154 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 145 (36.99%) Finance
3 78 (19.90%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (5.87%) Law
6 18 (4.59%) Legal
6 18 (4.59%) Retail
7 16 (4.08%) Banking
7 16 (4.08%) Manufacturing
8 14 (3.57%) Marketing
9 13 (3.32%) Billing
10 12 (3.06%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.81%) Front Office
12 9 (2.30%) Telecoms
13 8 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (1.79%) General Ledger
14 7 (1.79%) Public Sector
15 6 (1.53%) Investment Banking
16 5 (1.28%) Advertising
16 5 (1.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 91 (23.21%) Analyst
2 71 (18.11%) Senior
3 56 (14.29%) Developer
4 37 (9.44%) Consultant
4 37 (9.44%) Software Engineer
5 29 (7.40%) Architect
6 28 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
7 26 (6.63%) Administrator
8 23 (5.87%) Senior Developer
9 22 (5.61%) Data Analyst
10 21 (5.36%) Data Engineer
10 21 (5.36%) Systems Administrator
11 20 (5.10%) Data Architect
12 17 (4.34%) Lead
13 16 (4.08%) Business Analyst
14 13 (3.32%) Python Developer
14 13 (3.32%) Snowflake Architect
15 12 (3.06%) Financial Analyst
16 11 (2.81%) Backend Developer
16 11 (2.81%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.61%) .NET
2 21 (5.36%) React
2 21 (5.36%) Terraform
3 16 (4.08%) PySpark
3 16 (4.08%) REST
4 14 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
5 13 (3.32%) Kafka
6 12 (3.06%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 10 (2.55%) RESTful
8 9 (2.30%) CSS
8 9 (2.30%) Django
8 9 (2.30%) HTML
9 8 (2.04%) ASP.NET
9 8 (2.04%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.79%) Flask
10 7 (1.79%) Vue
11 6 (1.53%) .NET Framework
11 6 (1.53%) Blazor
11 6 (1.53%) FastAPI
11 6 (1.53%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 80 (20.41%) Algorithms
2 35 (8.93%) Management Information System
3 25 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.85%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.57%) Hedge funds
6 13 (3.32%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.06%) Social Media
8 11 (2.81%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.30%) Equities
9 9 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.79%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.28%) Clustering
11 5 (1.28%) Credit Risk
11 5 (1.28%) FMCG
11 5 (1.28%) PKI
11 5 (1.28%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.02%) Educational Technology
12 4 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.36%) Linux
2 14 (3.57%) Windows
3 3 (0.77%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (28.83%) Problem-Solving
2 107 (27.30%) Data Modelling
3 90 (22.96%) Analytics
3 90 (22.96%) Business Intelligence
4 81 (20.66%) Continuous Improvement
5 80 (20.41%) Agile
6 74 (18.88%) AI
7 73 (18.62%) Computer Science
7 73 (18.62%) Software Engineering
8 66 (16.84%) Decision-Making
8 66 (16.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 64 (16.33%) CI/CD
9 64 (16.33%) Data Engineering
10 59 (15.05%) Data Pipeline
11 57 (14.54%) ERP
11 57 (14.54%) Validation
12 54 (13.78%) Data Governance
13 53 (13.52%) Data Architecture
14 49 (12.50%) Data Management
14 49 (12.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 151 (38.52%) SQL
2 135 (34.44%) Python
3 43 (10.97%) Java
4 33 (8.42%) C++
5 28 (7.14%) C#
5 28 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 16 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 14 (3.57%) Go
7 14 (3.57%) Rust
8 7 (1.79%) C
9 6 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (1.53%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.02%) Bash
11 4 (1.02%) Scala
11 4 (1.02%) VBA
12 3 (0.77%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.77%) SAS Macro
12 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.77%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 90 (22.96%) Degree
2 41 (10.46%) Security Cleared
3 29 (7.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (6.63%) SC Cleared
5 19 (4.85%) ACCA
5 19 (4.85%) CIMA
6 11 (2.81%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.30%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.04%) PhD
9 6 (1.53%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.53%) PMI Certification
9 6 (1.53%) PMP
10 5 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (1.02%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.77%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.77%) HND
12 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (22.96%) Data Quality
2 22 (5.61%) QA
3 19 (4.85%) GDPR
4 15 (3.83%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.77%) CDISC
6 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
7 1 (0.26%) IFRS
7 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.26%) MiFID
7 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (8.16%) Docker
2 11 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (4.85%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.28%) Ansible
3 4 (1.02%) Packer
4 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.26%) Grafana
5 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 60 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 47 (11.99%) SAP
3 40 (10.20%) Oracle
4 19 (4.85%) Sage
5 17 (4.34%) Databricks
6 15 (3.83%) Salesforce
7 14 (3.57%) Google
8 9 (2.30%) Workday
9 8 (2.04%) HubSpot
10 5 (1.28%) Infor
11 4 (1.02%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.77%) Avaya
12 3 (0.77%) Cisco
12 3 (0.77%) Foundry
12 3 (0.77%) Genesys
12 3 (0.77%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.77%) Palantir
12 3 (0.77%) TOWER Software
13 2 (0.51%) JD Edwards
13 2 (0.51%) RedGate