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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 367 278
Rank change year-on-year -4 -89 -3
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 342 266 829
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.71% 1.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.50% 1.78% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 212 136 443
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,750 £46,278
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +2.84% +1.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £101,125 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £71,991 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.71% +2.84% +3.70%

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 22,774 14,957 29,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.71% 39.73% 35.17%
Number of salaries quoted 11,895 8,310 20,786
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +72 227 £85,000 -5.82% 75
North of England -38 45 £57,500 -4.17% 26
Yorkshire -30 32 £57,500 -7.64% 10
South East -50 23 £49,000 +8.89% 49
Midlands -67 13 £45,250 -6.70% 17
East of England -36 12 £70,000 -8.50% 16
North West -37 8 £52,500 -8.70% 11
East Midlands -57 7 £45,500 -6.19% 6
South West -64 7 £60,727 -15.65% 17
West Midlands -34 6 £45,250 -24.58% 11
North East -43 5 £60,000 -42.17% 5
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 8 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.05%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.46%) Confluence
4 5 (1.46%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.88%) Apache
5 3 (0.88%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (0.88%) SAS
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
Applications
1 26 (7.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (3.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (3.22%) NetSuite
3 7 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (1.17%) Distributed Ledger
6 3 (0.88%) FLEXCUBE
6 3 (0.88%) Misys Opics
6 3 (0.88%) SAP SD
6 3 (0.88%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.58%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.58%) Shopify
7 2 (0.58%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.29%) Exchequer
8 1 (0.29%) Magento
8 1 (0.29%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.29%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.29%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.29%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 98 (28.65%) Azure
2 89 (26.02%) AWS
3 59 (17.25%) Power Platform
4 52 (15.20%) GCP
5 20 (5.85%) Serverless
6 19 (5.56%) GitHub
7 15 (4.39%) SaaS
8 14 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (2.92%) Entra ID
10 9 (2.63%) dbt
10 9 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (2.34%) Boomi
12 7 (2.05%) Amazon S3
12 7 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (2.05%) Power Automate
13 6 (1.75%) Cloud Composer
13 6 (1.75%) Dagster
13 6 (1.75%) Matillion
13 6 (1.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.26%) Broadband
2 4 (1.17%) Network Security
3 1 (0.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (17.25%) Power BI
2 44 (12.87%) BigQuery
3 31 (9.06%) Metadata
4 30 (8.77%) Tableau
5 27 (7.89%) SQL Server
6 26 (7.60%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (6.73%) Data Lake
8 21 (6.14%) NoSQL
9 19 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (4.68%) DynamoDB
10 16 (4.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (4.39%) Relational Database
12 13 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (3.51%) SAP BW
14 11 (3.22%) MySQL
15 9 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
16 7 (2.05%) Data Vault
16 7 (2.05%) RDBMS
17 6 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
17 6 (1.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (5.56%) Postman
2 18 (5.26%) Git
3 9 (2.63%) Eclipse
3 9 (2.63%) ERwin
4 6 (1.75%) JIRA
5 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.58%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.58%) Storybook
5 2 (0.58%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.29%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.29%) Maven
6 1 (0.29%) Toad
6 1 (0.29%) utPLSQL
General
1 118 (34.50%) Finance
2 109 (31.87%) Social Skills
3 73 (21.35%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.28%) Law
5 26 (7.60%) Front Office
6 21 (6.14%) Retail
7 20 (5.85%) Marketing
8 15 (4.39%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.80%) Banking
10 10 (2.92%) Legal
10 10 (2.92%) Publishing
11 8 (2.34%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.05%) Billing
12 7 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.17%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.17%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.88%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.88%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (24.56%) Analyst
2 74 (21.64%) Developer
3 73 (21.35%) Senior
4 57 (16.67%) Data Analyst
5 39 (11.40%) Senior Developer
6 38 (11.11%) Software Engineer
7 31 (9.06%) Python Developer
8 28 (8.19%) Consultant
9 24 (7.02%) Architect
10 22 (6.43%) C++ Developer
11 21 (6.14%) Data Architect
11 21 (6.14%) Quantitative Developer
12 20 (5.85%) Senior Python Developer
13 19 (5.56%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 19 (5.56%) Linux Developer
13 19 (5.56%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 19 (5.56%) Senior C++ Developer
13 19 (5.56%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
13 19 (5.56%) Senior Quantitative Developer
14 16 (4.68%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (11.11%) Django
2 35 (10.23%) RESTful
3 27 (7.89%) JSON
4 22 (6.43%) OpenAPI
4 22 (6.43%) Swagger
5 19 (5.56%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 18 (5.26%) XML
7 16 (4.68%) REST
8 15 (4.39%) Oracle Fusion
9 14 (4.09%) CSS
9 14 (4.09%) Flask
9 14 (4.09%) HTML
9 14 (4.09%) Kafka
10 11 (3.22%) FastAPI
10 11 (3.22%) React
11 10 (2.92%) Vue
12 9 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (2.34%) .NET
14 7 (2.05%) FpML
14 7 (2.05%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 84 (24.56%) Algorithms
2 45 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (11.40%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (7.31%) Management Information System
5 22 (6.43%) Hedge funds
6 21 (6.14%) Equities
7 18 (5.26%) Social Media
8 15 (4.39%) Onboarding
9 14 (4.09%) Product Ownership
10 11 (3.22%) Cloud Native
11 10 (2.92%) FMCG
11 10 (2.92%) Reinsurance
11 10 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (2.05%) e-Learning
14 6 (1.75%) Anti-Piracy
14 6 (1.75%) PKI
15 5 (1.46%) Low-Code
15 5 (1.46%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.85%) Linux
2 1 (0.29%) Android
2 1 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
2 1 (0.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (31.87%) Data Modelling
2 85 (24.85%) Agile
3 79 (23.10%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (22.51%) Software Engineering
5 75 (21.93%) Business Intelligence
6 72 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 70 (20.47%) Analytics
8 67 (19.59%) Computer Science
9 55 (16.08%) Data Governance
9 55 (16.08%) ETL
10 49 (14.33%) Decision-Making
11 46 (13.45%) OO
12 43 (12.57%) Mentoring
13 42 (12.28%) Validation
14 41 (11.99%) Data Analysis
15 40 (11.70%) OOP
16 38 (11.11%) Microservices
17 37 (10.82%) CI/CD
18 36 (10.53%) DevOps
19 34 (9.94%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 165 (48.25%) Python
2 145 (42.40%) SQL
3 43 (12.57%) C++
4 28 (8.19%) Java
5 22 (6.43%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.09%) Rust
6 14 (4.09%) T-SQL
7 10 (2.92%) Scala
8 8 (2.34%) C#
8 8 (2.34%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.46%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.46%) R
9 5 (1.46%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.17%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.88%) VBA
12 2 (0.58%) C
12 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.58%) Go
12 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.29%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (23.68%) Degree
2 43 (12.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (8.19%) Security Cleared
4 19 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 11 (3.22%) ACCA
5 11 (3.22%) CIMA
6 7 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.46%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.46%) PhD
8 4 (1.17%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.17%) Postgraduate
9 3 (0.88%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.88%) IIBA
9 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (16.96%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.51%) GDPR
4 9 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.63%) QA
5 8 (2.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.46%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.46%) NIST
7 4 (1.17%) IFRS
8 3 (0.88%) GAAP
8 3 (0.88%) GRC
9 2 (0.58%) WCAG
10 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.29%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (4.39%) Docker
2 10 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (4.68%) Terraform
2 8 (2.34%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
4 1 (0.29%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 33 (9.65%) Google
2 31 (9.06%) Microsoft
3 29 (8.48%) Oracle
4 28 (8.19%) SAP
5 17 (4.97%) Salesforce
6 13 (3.80%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.63%) Foundry
7 9 (2.63%) Informatica
7 9 (2.63%) Talend
8 8 (2.34%) Sparx
9 6 (1.75%) Databricks
9 6 (1.75%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.75%) Workday
10 5 (1.46%) Palantir
11 4 (1.17%) Intapp
12 3 (0.88%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.88%) Temenos
13 2 (0.58%) Ariba
13 2 (0.58%) Sage
13 2 (0.58%) SendGrid