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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 331 313
Rank change year-on-year -20 -18 -54
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 298 394 564
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.88% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.52% 2.33% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 193 125 448
10th Percentile £46,029 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,231 £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 £87,500 £98,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £129,000 £110,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £71,991 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.77% +2.84% +0.69%

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 19,560 16,945 23,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 33.07% 37.88% 35.85%
Number of salaries quoted 10,066 7,958 17,917
10th Percentile £28,000 £34,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +12.73% -14.71%
75th Percentile £78,790 £85,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,440
% change year-on-year -12.00% +12.73% -14.71%

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 14 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 14 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 +80 198 £72,500 -21.62% 66
North of England +6 37 £75,000 +25.00% 20
Yorkshire -13 26 £75,000 +60.42% 4
Midlands +7 19 £50,000 -20.00% 16
South East -5 16 £42,500 - 46
East Midlands -6 12 £49,250 -24.23% 6
East of England +10 10 £75,000 -6.25% 14
North West +6 10 £75,000 +25.00% 9
West Midlands +7 7 £65,000 +8.33% 10
South West -127 2 £43,953 -38.95% 9
North East -10 1 - - 7
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 (3.36%) Palantir Foundry
2 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.68%) CMS
3 5 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.34%) Apache
5 3 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.01%) SAS
6 2 (0.67%) Mendix
7 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 9 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.01%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 15 (5.03%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.34%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.01%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.67%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.67%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 2 (0.67%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.67%) SAP Retail
4 2 (0.67%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.34%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.34%) Misys Opics
5 1 (0.34%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.34%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 77 (25.84%) Azure
2 72 (24.16%) AWS
3 44 (14.77%) Power Platform
4 29 (9.73%) GCP
5 24 (8.05%) GitHub
5 24 (8.05%) Serverless
6 17 (5.70%) SaaS
7 11 (3.69%) Boomi
8 10 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (2.68%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.35%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.35%) Power Automate
11 7 (2.35%) Snowflake
12 6 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.01%) Matillion
13 5 (1.68%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (1.68%) AWS KMS
13 5 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.68%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.34%) Network Security
2 1 (0.34%) Broadband
2 1 (0.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (14.77%) Power BI
2 34 (11.41%) SQL Server
3 33 (11.07%) NoSQL
4 22 (7.38%) Metadata
5 21 (7.05%) BigQuery
5 21 (7.05%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (7.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 17 (5.70%) DynamoDB
6 17 (5.70%) Tableau
7 16 (5.37%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (4.70%) Data Lake
8 14 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (4.36%) MySQL
9 13 (4.36%) Relational Database
10 12 (4.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (2.35%) Redis
12 7 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (2.01%) Pentaho
14 5 (1.68%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 22 (7.38%) Postman
2 18 (6.04%) Git
3 12 (4.03%) ERwin
4 9 (3.02%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.67%) JConsole
5 2 (0.67%) JIRA
5 2 (0.67%) Storybook
5 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.67%) VisualVM
6 1 (0.34%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.34%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
General
1 105 (35.23%) Social Skills
2 83 (27.85%) Finance
3 81 (27.18%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (11.41%) Law
5 30 (10.07%) Front Office
6 22 (7.38%) Public Sector
7 20 (6.71%) Retail
8 16 (5.37%) Marketing
9 11 (3.69%) Banking
9 11 (3.69%) Publishing
10 9 (3.02%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.34%) Legal
13 3 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.67%) Billing
14 2 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.34%) Digital Economy
15 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.34%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 86 (28.86%) Developer
2 58 (19.46%) Analyst
3 52 (17.45%) Senior
4 44 (14.77%) Data Analyst
5 37 (12.42%) Python Developer
6 35 (11.74%) Lead
7 34 (11.41%) Senior Developer
8 31 (10.40%) Architect
9 27 (9.06%) Data Architect
9 27 (9.06%) Software Engineer
10 23 (7.72%) C++ Developer
11 22 (7.38%) Quantitative Developer
11 22 (7.38%) Senior Python Developer
12 20 (6.71%) Consultant
13 19 (6.38%) C++ Quantitative Developer
14 18 (6.04%) Linux Developer
14 18 (6.04%) Low Latency C++ Developer
14 18 (6.04%) Senior C++ Developer
14 18 (6.04%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
14 18 (6.04%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.42%) Django
2 27 (9.06%) RESTful
3 25 (8.39%) Flask
3 25 (8.39%) JSON
4 23 (7.72%) FastAPI
5 21 (7.05%) CSS
5 21 (7.05%) HTML
5 21 (7.05%) OpenAPI
5 21 (7.05%) Swagger
6 19 (6.38%) Boost C++ Libraries
6 19 (6.38%) React
6 19 (6.38%) REST
7 15 (5.03%) Kafka
7 15 (5.03%) Vue
7 15 (5.03%) XML
8 9 (3.02%) .NET
9 8 (2.68%) Web Services
10 6 (2.01%) OAuth
10 6 (2.01%) PySpark
10 6 (2.01%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 60 (20.13%) Algorithms
2 33 (11.07%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (9.73%) Greenfield Project
4 26 (8.72%) Management Information System
5 21 (7.05%) Hedge funds
5 21 (7.05%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (6.71%) Equities
7 15 (5.03%) Onboarding
8 13 (4.36%) Product Ownership
9 12 (4.03%) Cloud Native
10 10 (3.36%) FMCG
10 10 (3.36%) Reinsurance
11 9 (3.02%) Low-Code
11 9 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.68%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.34%) Blockchain
13 4 (1.34%) Client/Server
13 4 (1.34%) Derivative
13 4 (1.34%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.71%) Linux
2 2 (0.67%) Android
3 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (30.20%) Data Modelling
2 71 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (22.15%) Agile
4 61 (20.47%) Analytics
5 59 (19.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 58 (19.46%) Computer Science
7 54 (18.12%) Business Intelligence
8 53 (17.79%) Data Governance
9 52 (17.45%) ETL
10 51 (17.11%) Data Analysis
11 50 (16.78%) OOP
12 46 (15.44%) Mentoring
13 45 (15.10%) AI
14 44 (14.77%) Software Engineering
15 42 (14.09%) CI/CD
16 41 (13.76%) Data Integration
17 40 (13.42%) Decision-Making
18 36 (12.08%) Microservices
18 36 (12.08%) OO
19 35 (11.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 149 (50.00%) Python
2 138 (46.31%) SQL
3 34 (11.41%) JavaScript
4 31 (10.40%) C++
5 21 (7.05%) Java
6 15 (5.03%) T-SQL
7 9 (3.02%) C#
8 8 (2.68%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.35%) Scala
10 6 (2.01%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.68%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.34%) Go
12 4 (1.34%) Rust
13 3 (1.01%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.01%) R
14 2 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.67%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.34%) ANSI SQL
15 1 (0.34%) PHP
15 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 68 (22.82%) Degree
2 36 (12.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (8.72%) Security Cleared
4 20 (6.71%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.03%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.36%) ACCA
6 10 (3.36%) CIMA
7 7 (2.35%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.01%) PhD
9 5 (1.68%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.34%) Postgraduate
11 3 (1.01%) IIBA
12 2 (0.67%) HNC
12 2 (0.67%) HND
12 2 (0.67%) MCSA
12 2 (0.67%) MCSE
12 2 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (17.45%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.38%) GDPR
3 13 (4.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (4.03%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.68%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.68%) NIST
5 5 (1.68%) QA
5 5 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.67%) GRC
6 2 (0.67%) WCAG
7 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 22 (7.38%) Docker
2 8 (2.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (6.04%) Terraform
2 7 (2.35%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.67%) logstash
5 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 35 (11.74%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.38%) Salesforce
3 17 (5.70%) Google
3 17 (5.70%) Oracle
4 14 (4.70%) Foundry
5 10 (3.36%) Palantir
5 10 (3.36%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.02%) SAP
6 9 (3.02%) Talend
7 8 (2.68%) Informatica
8 6 (2.01%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.68%) Databricks
10 4 (1.34%) HubSpot
10 4 (1.34%) Intapp
10 4 (1.34%) Workday
11 3 (1.01%) Alteryx
11 3 (1.01%) Sparx
11 3 (1.01%) Temenos
12 2 (0.67%) Dataiku
12 2 (0.67%) OpenAI