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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 361 314
Rank change year-on-year -23 -47 +4
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 413 326 622
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.45% 0.75% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.74% 1.77% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 274 129 233
10th Percentile £41,625 £40,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,510 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £123,000 £125,750
UK median annual salary £68,510 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.13% - +8.53%

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 23,697 18,410 24,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.81% 42.18% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 15,571 9,334 14,963
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.51% -0.87% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £56,121 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.35% -2.40% -9.02%

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 2 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 2 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 +8 221 £85,000 -0.58% 156
North of England +9 71 £55,000 -21.43% 35
South East -28 55 £60,000 +20.00% 41
North West +5 29 £60,000 -7.69% 16
Yorkshire -11 25 £55,000 -29.03% 15
Midlands -42 20 £43,621 -10.06% 24
East of England -17 19 £37,500 -42.31% 16
North East -39 17 £55,000 -52.17% 4
South West -81 17 £70,000 +33.33% 12
West Midlands -37 15 £50,000 -1.96% 15
East Midlands -42 5 £42,500 -12.37% 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 20 (4.84%) Apache Spark
2 17 (4.12%) Apache
3 16 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (2.66%) Jupyter
5 9 (2.18%) SAS
5 9 (2.18%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (1.45%) Confluence
8 5 (1.21%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.48%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.48%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (8.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (2.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.21%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (1.21%) SAP SCM
4 5 (1.21%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.73%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.73%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.48%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.48%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.48%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 2 (0.48%) Misys Opics
6 2 (0.48%) Shopify
7 1 (0.24%) FastStats
7 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.24%) Magento
7 1 (0.24%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.24%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.24%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 104 (25.18%) AWS
2 96 (23.24%) Azure
3 91 (22.03%) Power Platform
4 48 (11.62%) GCP
5 27 (6.54%) Amazon S3
6 25 (6.05%) SaaS
7 22 (5.33%) PowerApps
8 21 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (4.84%) dbt
9 20 (4.84%) Entra ID
10 19 (4.60%) Power Automate
11 17 (4.12%) Snowflake
12 14 (3.39%) Serverless
13 13 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (2.91%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (2.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 10 (2.42%) GitHub
17 9 (2.18%) Intacct
17 9 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
17 9 (2.18%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.36%) Broadband
2 3 (0.73%) Intranet
3 1 (0.24%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (18.40%) Power BI
2 31 (7.51%) Data Lake
3 29 (7.02%) BigQuery
3 29 (7.02%) Tableau
4 25 (6.05%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (5.57%) Relational Database
6 22 (5.33%) Metadata
7 19 (4.60%) Amazon Athena
7 19 (4.60%) Data Vault
8 16 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (3.87%) SQL Server
9 15 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (3.63%) Star Schema
10 13 (3.15%) Snowflake Schema
11 12 (2.91%) SAP BW
12 10 (2.42%) MySQL
12 10 (2.42%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (2.18%) DynamoDB
13 9 (2.18%) NoSQL
14 7 (1.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (5.81%) Git
2 9 (2.18%) GitLab
3 8 (1.94%) ERwin
3 8 (1.94%) JIRA
4 6 (1.45%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.97%) Postman
6 3 (0.73%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.48%) MLflow
8 1 (0.24%) CMake
8 1 (0.24%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.24%) Maven
8 1 (0.24%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.24%) Toad
8 1 (0.24%) utPLSQL
8 1 (0.24%) Valgrind
General
1 166 (40.19%) Finance
2 159 (38.50%) Social Skills
3 73 (17.68%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (7.75%) Law
5 25 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.84%) Banking
6 20 (4.84%) Legal
7 19 (4.60%) Retail
8 18 (4.36%) Front Office
9 15 (3.63%) Billing
10 13 (3.15%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.66%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.66%) Marketing
12 10 (2.42%) Public Sector
13 9 (2.18%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.69%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.45%) General Ledger
15 6 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.21%) German Language
16 5 (1.21%) Military
Job Titles
1 98 (23.73%) Analyst
2 89 (21.55%) Senior
3 66 (15.98%) Developer
4 43 (10.41%) Consultant
5 41 (9.93%) Software Engineer
6 35 (8.47%) Senior Developer
7 34 (8.23%) Data Analyst
8 33 (7.99%) Architect
9 28 (6.78%) Administrator
10 26 (6.30%) Systems Analyst
11 25 (6.05%) Data Architect
12 24 (5.81%) Data Engineer
13 23 (5.57%) Systems Administrator
14 21 (5.08%) Python Developer
15 18 (4.36%) Data Consultant
16 17 (4.12%) Backend Developer
17 16 (3.87%) C++ Developer
17 16 (3.87%) Lead
17 16 (3.87%) Senior C++ Developer
17 16 (3.87%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.84%) JSON
1 20 (4.84%) REST
2 19 (4.60%) Kafka
3 18 (4.36%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 18 (4.36%) Django
3 18 (4.36%) RESTful
4 16 (3.87%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (3.87%) PySpark
4 16 (3.87%) React
4 16 (3.87%) XML
5 11 (2.66%) .NET
6 9 (2.18%) FIX Protocol
6 9 (2.18%) Flask
7 7 (1.69%) FastAPI
7 7 (1.69%) FpML
7 7 (1.69%) Middleware
7 7 (1.69%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.69%) XML Schema
8 6 (1.45%) CSS
8 6 (1.45%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (21.55%) Algorithms
2 44 (10.65%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (7.99%) Management Information System
4 20 (4.84%) Hedge funds
4 20 (4.84%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.36%) Social Media
6 17 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (3.87%) Cloud Native
8 15 (3.63%) Equities
9 11 (2.66%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.94%) Client/Server
10 8 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.69%) e-Learning
12 6 (1.45%) Anti-Piracy
13 5 (1.21%) PKI
13 5 (1.21%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.97%) Credit Risk
14 4 (0.97%) Embedded Systems
14 4 (0.97%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.81%) Linux
2 8 (1.94%) Windows
3 3 (0.73%) Unix
4 1 (0.24%) Android
4 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (30.02%) Data Modelling
2 108 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
3 106 (25.67%) Analytics
4 97 (23.49%) Business Intelligence
5 87 (21.07%) Software Engineering
6 85 (20.58%) Agile
7 77 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 72 (17.43%) Data Engineering
9 70 (16.95%) Decision-Making
10 68 (16.46%) AI
10 68 (16.46%) Computer Science
11 62 (15.01%) Data Governance
11 62 (15.01%) Data Pipeline
12 61 (14.77%) ERP
13 60 (14.53%) CI/CD
13 60 (14.53%) Validation
14 52 (12.59%) Stakeholder Management
15 51 (12.35%) DevOps
16 49 (11.86%) Data Architecture
17 48 (11.62%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 171 (41.40%) Python
2 167 (40.44%) SQL
3 48 (11.62%) C++
4 41 (9.93%) Java
5 26 (6.30%) JavaScript
6 21 (5.08%) Rust
7 14 (3.39%) C#
8 13 (3.15%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.66%) Go
9 11 (2.66%) T-SQL
10 10 (2.42%) Scala
11 7 (1.69%) C
11 7 (1.69%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.69%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.97%) R
14 3 (0.73%) Bash
14 3 (0.73%) SAS Macro
14 3 (0.73%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 82 (19.85%) Degree
2 41 (9.93%) Security Cleared
3 36 (8.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (6.30%) SC Cleared
5 18 (4.36%) ACCA
5 18 (4.36%) CIMA
6 10 (2.42%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.97%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.73%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.73%) HND
10 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.73%) PhD
10 3 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (20.82%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.84%) GDPR
3 16 (3.87%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.87%) QA
4 6 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.97%) IFRS
5 4 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.73%) CDISC
6 3 (0.73%) GAAP
7 2 (0.48%) GRC
7 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.24%) MiFID
8 1 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 31 (7.51%) Docker
2 15 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (5.33%) Terraform
2 20 (4.84%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.21%) Ansible
4 4 (0.97%) Packer
5 3 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.24%) Grafana
6 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 57 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 48 (11.62%) SAP
3 43 (10.41%) Oracle
4 22 (5.33%) Google
5 21 (5.08%) Sage
6 15 (3.63%) Databricks
7 13 (3.15%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.66%) Workday
9 7 (1.69%) Sparx
10 6 (1.45%) Foundry
11 5 (1.21%) Palantir
12 4 (0.97%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.97%) Informatica
12 4 (0.97%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.97%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.97%) Talend
13 3 (0.73%) Avaya
13 3 (0.73%) Cisco
13 3 (0.73%) Genesys
13 3 (0.73%) OpenAI