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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 325 310
Rank change year-on-year -36 -15 -46
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 308 383 591
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.90% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% 2.36% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 197 118 444
10th Percentile £46,140 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,495 £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 £90,000 £99,688 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £128,250 £110,875
UK median annual salary £71,000 £72,285 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.78% +3.26% +0.80%

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 19,952 16,243 24,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.66% 38.15% 36.15%
Number of salaries quoted 10,258 7,800 18,147
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,800 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 24 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 24 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 +80 206 £75,000 -18.92% 61
North of England -9 37 £75,000 +27.66% 27
Yorkshire -15 26 £75,000 +60.42% 7
Midlands -5 19 £50,000 -20.00% 14
South East -21 16 £42,500 - 39
East Midlands -13 12 £49,250 -24.23% 6
East of England -1 11 £75,000 -6.25% 9
North West -2 10 £75,000 +25.00% 12
West Midlands -2 7 £65,000 +8.33% 8
South West -129 2 £43,953 -38.95% 9
North East -10 1 - - 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 10 (3.25%) Palantir Foundry
2 8 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.60%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.62%) CMS
3 5 (1.62%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.30%) Apache
5 3 (0.97%) SAS
6 2 (0.65%) Mendix
7 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 9 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.97%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 15 (4.87%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.30%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.97%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (0.65%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.65%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.65%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.32%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.32%) Misys Opics
5 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.32%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 80 (25.97%) AWS
1 80 (25.97%) Azure
2 44 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 37 (12.01%) GCP
4 25 (8.12%) GitHub
4 25 (8.12%) Serverless
5 17 (5.52%) SaaS
6 11 (3.57%) Boomi
7 10 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (2.60%) dbt
9 8 (2.60%) Entra ID
9 8 (2.60%) Snowflake
10 7 (2.27%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.27%) Cloud Composer
10 7 (2.27%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.95%) Dagster
11 6 (1.95%) Matillion
12 5 (1.62%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.95%) Broadband
2 4 (1.30%) Network Security
3 1 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (14.29%) Power BI
2 33 (10.71%) NoSQL
2 33 (10.71%) SQL Server
3 29 (9.42%) BigQuery
4 28 (9.09%) Metadata
5 22 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (6.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 18 (5.84%) DynamoDB
7 18 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (5.52%) Tableau
9 14 (4.55%) Data Lake
9 14 (4.55%) Relational Database
10 13 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (3.90%) MySQL
12 11 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (2.27%) Redis
14 7 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (1.95%) Pentaho
15 6 (1.95%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (7.47%) Postman
2 18 (5.84%) Git
3 13 (4.22%) ERwin
4 9 (2.92%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.65%) JConsole
5 2 (0.65%) Storybook
5 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.65%) VisualVM
6 1 (0.32%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.32%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.32%) JIRA
6 1 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
General
1 106 (34.42%) Social Skills
2 84 (27.27%) Finance
3 81 (26.30%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (12.99%) Law
5 30 (9.74%) Front Office
6 22 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 20 (6.49%) Retail
8 16 (5.19%) Marketing
9 11 (3.57%) Publishing
10 10 (3.25%) Banking
11 8 (2.60%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.30%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.30%) Legal
14 2 (0.65%) Billing
14 2 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.32%) Digital Economy
15 1 (0.32%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.32%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 83 (26.95%) Developer
2 59 (19.16%) Analyst
3 58 (18.83%) Senior
4 45 (14.61%) Data Analyst
5 37 (12.01%) Lead
5 37 (12.01%) Python Developer
6 34 (11.04%) Architect
6 34 (11.04%) Senior Developer
7 30 (9.74%) Data Architect
8 28 (9.09%) Software Engineer
9 22 (7.14%) C++ Developer
9 22 (7.14%) Senior Python Developer
10 21 (6.82%) Consultant
10 21 (6.82%) Quantitative Developer
11 18 (5.84%) C++ Quantitative Developer
11 18 (5.84%) Linux Developer
11 18 (5.84%) Low Latency C++ Developer
11 18 (5.84%) Senior C++ Developer
11 18 (5.84%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
11 18 (5.84%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.34%) Django
2 29 (9.42%) RESTful
3 27 (8.77%) JSON
4 24 (7.79%) Flask
5 22 (7.14%) FastAPI
5 22 (7.14%) OpenAPI
5 22 (7.14%) Swagger
6 21 (6.82%) CSS
6 21 (6.82%) HTML
7 20 (6.49%) Kafka
7 20 (6.49%) REST
8 19 (6.17%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 18 (5.84%) React
10 16 (5.19%) XML
11 15 (4.87%) Vue
12 8 (2.60%) .NET
13 7 (2.27%) SOAP
13 7 (2.27%) Web Services
14 6 (1.95%) FIX Protocol
14 6 (1.95%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 64 (20.78%) Algorithms
2 37 (12.01%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (10.06%) Greenfield Project
4 26 (8.44%) Management Information System
5 21 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (6.49%) Equities
6 20 (6.49%) Hedge funds
7 15 (4.87%) Onboarding
8 13 (4.22%) Cloud Native
8 13 (4.22%) Product Ownership
9 10 (3.25%) FMCG
9 10 (3.25%) Reinsurance
10 9 (2.92%) Low-Code
11 8 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.95%) Anti-Piracy
12 6 (1.95%) Social Media
13 5 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.62%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.30%) Blockchain
14 4 (1.30%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.17%) Linux
2 2 (0.65%) Android
3 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (32.14%) Data Modelling
2 70 (22.73%) Analytics
2 70 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (22.08%) Agile
4 61 (19.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 61 (19.81%) Data Governance
5 60 (19.48%) Computer Science
6 57 (18.51%) ETL
7 55 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
8 52 (16.88%) Data Analysis
9 48 (15.58%) OOP
10 47 (15.26%) Mentoring
10 47 (15.26%) Software Engineering
11 44 (14.29%) AI
12 42 (13.64%) CI/CD
13 41 (13.31%) Decision-Making
14 40 (12.99%) Data Integration
15 37 (12.01%) Microservices
15 37 (12.01%) OO
16 36 (11.69%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 157 (50.97%) Python
2 147 (47.73%) SQL
3 37 (12.01%) C++
4 34 (11.04%) JavaScript
5 26 (8.44%) Java
6 15 (4.87%) T-SQL
7 12 (3.90%) Scala
8 9 (2.92%) C#
9 8 (2.60%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.95%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.95%) Rust
11 4 (1.30%) Go
11 4 (1.30%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.97%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.97%) R
13 2 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.65%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.32%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.32%) PHP
14 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 68 (22.08%) Degree
2 37 (12.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (8.44%) Security Cleared
4 20 (6.49%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.90%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.25%) ACCA
6 10 (3.25%) CIMA
7 7 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.95%) PhD
9 5 (1.62%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.30%) Postgraduate
11 3 (0.97%) IIBA
11 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.32%) HNC
13 1 (0.32%) HND
13 1 (0.32%) MCSA
13 1 (0.32%) MCSE
13 1 (0.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (16.88%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.17%) GDPR
3 13 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.90%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.62%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.62%) NIST
5 5 (1.62%) QA
5 5 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.65%) GRC
6 2 (0.65%) WCAG
7 1 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (7.14%) Docker
2 8 (2.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (5.84%) Terraform
2 7 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.97%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.65%) logstash
5 1 (0.32%) Grafana
Vendors
1 35 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 19 (6.17%) Google
4 17 (5.52%) Oracle
5 14 (4.55%) Foundry
6 10 (3.25%) Palantir
6 10 (3.25%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.92%) SAP
7 9 (2.92%) Talend
8 8 (2.60%) Informatica
9 6 (1.95%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.62%) Databricks
11 4 (1.30%) HubSpot
11 4 (1.30%) Intapp
11 4 (1.30%) Sparx
11 4 (1.30%) Workday
12 3 (0.97%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.97%) Temenos
13 2 (0.65%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.65%) SendGrid