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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 338 363
Rank change year-on-year -75 +25 -29
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 399 328 462
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.77% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.48% 1.83% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 255 127 179
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,750 £132,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +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 27,040 17,959 21,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 26.10% 41.92% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 17,570 9,082 10,977
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% -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 29 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 29 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 -52 180 £81,000 -4.71% 401
North of England -30 71 £55,000 -23.88% 91
South East -33 60 £70,000 +5.66% 68
Midlands -51 40 £52,500 +8.25% 53
North West -12 36 £60,000 -14.29% 50
West Midlands -38 22 £60,000 +14.29% 39
East of England -20 21 £37,500 -10.23% 27
South West -90 20 £58,000 -17.14% 36
Yorkshire -19 18 £58,005 -25.15% 22
East Midlands -47 18 £47,500 -2.06% 13
North East -53 17 £55,000 -52.17% 19
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 (3.76%) Apache
1 15 (3.76%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.76%) Jupyter
3 10 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.75%) SAS
4 7 (1.75%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.75%) Confluence
6 3 (0.75%) IIS
6 3 (0.75%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 34 (8.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.25%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 12 (3.01%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 12 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.75%) Infor M3
2 7 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (1.25%) Workday HCM
4 4 (1.00%) SAP SCM
5 3 (0.75%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.50%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.50%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle iProcurement
7 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.25%) FastStats
7 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.25%) Primavera
7 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.25%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 91 (22.81%) Power Platform
2 84 (21.05%) Azure
3 80 (20.05%) AWS
4 27 (6.77%) GCP
5 24 (6.02%) Amazon S3
6 23 (5.76%) Dynamics 365
6 23 (5.76%) SaaS
7 22 (5.51%) Entra ID
8 19 (4.76%) PowerApps
8 19 (4.76%) Snowflake
9 18 (4.51%) Power Automate
10 15 (3.76%) dbt
11 14 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (3.26%) Amazon EMR
12 13 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (3.26%) SuccessFactors
13 11 (2.76%) Serverless
14 10 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (2.26%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.01%) Broadband
2 3 (0.75%) Intranet
3 2 (0.50%) Internet
4 1 (0.25%) Multicast
4 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.25%) Unicast
4 1 (0.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (19.05%) Power BI
2 29 (7.27%) Data Lake
3 26 (6.52%) Tableau
4 24 (6.02%) Relational Database
5 21 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (4.01%) Data Vault
6 16 (4.01%) SQL Server
7 15 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.76%) Snowflake Schema
7 15 (3.76%) Star Schema
8 14 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (3.01%) SAP BW
10 11 (2.76%) Big Data
10 11 (2.76%) BigQuery
11 9 (2.26%) NoSQL
12 8 (2.01%) Metadata
13 7 (1.75%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.50%) MySQL
15 5 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (7.02%) Git
2 9 (2.26%) GitLab
3 6 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.75%) JIRA
4 3 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (0.50%) ERwin
5 2 (0.50%) MLflow
6 1 (0.25%) CMake
6 1 (0.25%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.25%) Maven
6 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 161 (40.35%) Social Skills
2 146 (36.59%) Finance
3 81 (20.30%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (5.26%) Law
6 18 (4.51%) Manufacturing
7 17 (4.26%) Banking
7 17 (4.26%) Legal
7 17 (4.26%) Retail
8 13 (3.26%) Billing
8 13 (3.26%) Marketing
9 12 (3.01%) Financial Institution
10 9 (2.26%) Front Office
10 9 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.01%) General Ledger
11 8 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.75%) Public Sector
13 6 (1.50%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.25%) Advertising
14 5 (1.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 94 (23.56%) Analyst
2 70 (17.54%) Senior
3 55 (13.78%) Developer
4 36 (9.02%) Consultant
4 36 (9.02%) Software Engineer
5 33 (8.27%) Architect
6 29 (7.27%) Systems Analyst
7 26 (6.52%) Administrator
8 24 (6.02%) Data Architect
9 21 (5.26%) Data Analyst
9 21 (5.26%) Data Engineer
9 21 (5.26%) Lead
9 21 (5.26%) Senior Developer
9 21 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
10 19 (4.76%) Business Analyst
11 13 (3.26%) Snowflake Architect
12 12 (3.01%) Financial Analyst
13 11 (2.76%) Python Developer
14 10 (2.51%) C++ Developer
14 10 (2.51%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.76%) React
2 22 (5.51%) .NET
3 21 (5.26%) REST
4 19 (4.76%) Terraform
5 16 (4.01%) PySpark
6 14 (3.51%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (3.26%) Kafka
8 11 (2.76%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 9 (2.26%) FastAPI
9 9 (2.26%) Middleware
9 9 (2.26%) RESTful
9 9 (2.26%) Spring Boot
10 8 (2.01%) ASP.NET
10 8 (2.01%) CSS
10 8 (2.01%) HTML
10 8 (2.01%) Node.js
11 7 (1.75%) Django
12 6 (1.50%) .NET Framework
12 6 (1.50%) Blazor
12 6 (1.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 78 (19.55%) Algorithms
2 39 (9.77%) Management Information System
3 24 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (4.51%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.76%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.26%) Hedge funds
6 13 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (3.01%) Social Media
8 11 (2.76%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.01%) Equities
10 7 (1.75%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.75%) FMCG
10 7 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.50%) Educational Technology
12 5 (1.25%) Clustering
12 5 (1.25%) Credit Risk
12 5 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.00%) Hackathon
13 4 (1.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.01%) Linux
2 14 (3.51%) Windows
3 3 (0.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.25%) Android
4 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (28.32%) Data Modelling
2 112 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (22.56%) Business Intelligence
4 89 (22.31%) Analytics
5 82 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 79 (19.80%) AI
7 77 (19.30%) Computer Science
8 76 (19.05%) Agile
9 71 (17.79%) Software Engineering
9 71 (17.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 66 (16.54%) CI/CD
10 66 (16.54%) Decision-Making
11 64 (16.04%) Data Engineering
12 60 (15.04%) Validation
13 59 (14.79%) Data Pipeline
13 59 (14.79%) ERP
14 57 (14.29%) Data Architecture
15 56 (14.04%) Data Governance
16 52 (13.03%) DevOps
17 51 (12.78%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 154 (38.60%) SQL
2 134 (33.58%) Python
3 47 (11.78%) Java
4 32 (8.02%) C++
5 28 (7.02%) C#
6 26 (6.52%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.51%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.51%) Go
9 12 (3.01%) Rust
10 7 (1.75%) C
11 6 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.50%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.25%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.00%) Bash
13 4 (1.00%) Scala
13 4 (1.00%) VBA
14 3 (0.75%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.75%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.75%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 90 (22.56%) Degree
2 38 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 29 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (6.02%) SC Cleared
5 20 (5.01%) ACCA
5 20 (5.01%) CIMA
6 11 (2.76%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.01%) DBS Check
8 8 (2.01%) PhD
8 8 (2.01%) PMI Certification
8 8 (2.01%) PMP
9 5 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (1.00%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.75%) HND
11 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (23.81%) Data Quality
2 24 (6.02%) QA
3 20 (5.01%) GDPR
4 14 (3.51%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.75%) CDISC
6 2 (0.50%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.25%) MiFID
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
System Software
1 29 (7.27%) Docker
2 13 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 19 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.25%) Ansible
3 4 (1.00%) Packer
4 2 (0.50%) Grafana
4 2 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 62 (15.54%) Microsoft
2 49 (12.28%) SAP
3 41 (10.28%) Oracle
4 19 (4.76%) Databricks
4 19 (4.76%) Sage
5 16 (4.01%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.76%) Google
7 9 (2.26%) HubSpot
7 9 (2.26%) Workday
8 7 (1.75%) Infor
9 3 (0.75%) Avaya
9 3 (0.75%) Cisco
9 3 (0.75%) Foundry
9 3 (0.75%) Genesys
9 3 (0.75%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.75%) Palantir
9 3 (0.75%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.75%) TOWER Software
10 2 (0.50%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.50%) JD Edwards