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 28 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 342 361
Rank change year-on-year +4 +19 -128
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 293 450 359
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.62% 0.75% 0.79%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.73% 2.17% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 158 178 303
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,926
25th Percentile £54,063 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £104,375 £86,250
90th Percentile £114,875 £132,500 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -9.50%

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 16,895 20,720 17,528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 36.01% 34.61% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,690 10,074 13,083
10th Percentile £27,707 £33,750 £33,448
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,250 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -2.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +58 176 £80,000 -13.51% 96
Midlands +78 33 £50,500 -22.31% 20
North of England +13 33 £75,000 +35.75% 22
South East +36 19 £65,000 +52.94% 69
North West +39 18 £70,000 +19.15% 15
East Midlands +38 18 £49,250 -24.23% 6
West Midlands +57 15 £56,250 -14.82% 14
Yorkshire +13 14 £77,500 +210.00% 5
East of England +31 12 £45,000 -55.00% 16
South West -105 9 £35,532 -49.24% 12
North East +11 1 - - 3
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 12 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
1 12 (4.10%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.71%) CMS
4 3 (1.02%) Apache
4 3 (1.02%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.68%) Luigi
5 2 (0.68%) Mendix
6 1 (0.34%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 29 (9.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.02%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.34%) 3ds Max
5 1 (0.34%) Blender
5 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.39%) PeopleSoft Financials
2 6 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.05%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.02%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.68%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 2 (0.68%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.68%) SAP Retail
6 1 (0.34%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.34%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 63 (21.50%) AWS
2 58 (19.80%) Azure
3 57 (19.45%) Power Platform
4 30 (10.24%) GCP
5 20 (6.83%) GitHub
6 15 (5.12%) Serverless
7 9 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (3.07%) SaaS
8 7 (2.39%) Power Automate
8 7 (2.39%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.05%) Boomi
9 6 (2.05%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (1.37%) Figma
11 4 (1.37%) Google Analytics
11 4 (1.37%) Slack
11 4 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
11 4 (1.37%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.68%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.09%) Power BI
2 33 (11.26%) NoSQL
3 23 (7.85%) Relational Database
3 23 (7.85%) SQL Server
4 20 (6.83%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (5.46%) Data Lake
6 14 (4.78%) MySQL
6 14 (4.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 13 (4.44%) Metadata
7 13 (4.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (4.10%) BigQuery
9 11 (3.75%) Tableau
10 9 (3.07%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (2.73%) Redis
12 6 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (2.05%) Flink
12 6 (2.05%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.71%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (1.71%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (7.17%) Git
2 11 (3.75%) ERwin
3 9 (3.07%) Postman
4 4 (1.37%) JIRA
5 3 (1.02%) JUnit
5 3 (1.02%) MLflow
5 3 (1.02%) Mockito
5 3 (1.02%) Terragrunt
6 2 (0.68%) JConsole
6 2 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.68%) VisualVM
6 2 (0.68%) Xcode
7 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.34%) GitLab
7 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.34%) Selenium
7 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 106 (36.18%) Finance
2 105 (35.84%) Social Skills
3 62 (21.16%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (14.68%) Law
5 26 (8.87%) Front Office
6 24 (8.19%) Marketing
7 23 (7.85%) Banking
8 22 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (6.14%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.41%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.73%) Legal
11 8 (2.73%) Retail
12 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.37%) Publishing
13 3 (1.02%) Health Technology
13 3 (1.02%) Wholesale Banking
14 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.34%) Advertising
15 1 (0.34%) Back Office
15 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 86 (29.35%) Developer
2 59 (20.14%) Analyst
3 57 (19.45%) Senior
4 36 (12.29%) Software Engineer
5 35 (11.95%) Senior Developer
6 33 (11.26%) Lead
6 33 (11.26%) Python Developer
7 25 (8.53%) C++ Developer
8 24 (8.19%) Senior Python Developer
9 23 (7.85%) Data Engineer
10 21 (7.17%) Quantitative Developer
11 20 (6.83%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (6.48%) Linux Developer
12 19 (6.48%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 19 (6.48%) Senior C++ Developer
12 19 (6.48%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (6.48%) Senior Quantitative Developer
13 17 (5.80%) Architect
14 16 (5.46%) Data Analyst
15 15 (5.12%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.92%) Kafka
2 31 (10.58%) React
3 25 (8.53%) Django
3 25 (8.53%) REST
4 24 (8.19%) Flask
5 20 (6.83%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 20 (6.83%) FastAPI
6 18 (6.14%) CSS
6 18 (6.14%) HTML
7 13 (4.44%) Vue
8 12 (4.10%) RESTful
9 11 (3.75%) JSON
9 11 (3.75%) OAuth
10 10 (3.41%) .NET
10 10 (3.41%) OpenID
11 9 (3.07%) Spring
12 8 (2.73%) SwiftUI
12 8 (2.73%) Web Services
13 6 (2.05%) Hugging Face
13 6 (2.05%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 70 (23.89%) Algorithms
2 35 (11.95%) Management Information System
3 33 (11.26%) Distributed Systems
4 27 (9.22%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (8.19%) Hedge funds
6 19 (6.48%) Equities
7 16 (5.46%) Product Ownership
8 14 (4.78%) Cloud Native
8 14 (4.78%) Public Cloud
9 12 (4.10%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (3.41%) Client/Server
11 9 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (2.73%) Low-Code
13 6 (2.05%) Mobile App
13 6 (2.05%) Private Cloud
13 6 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 4 (1.37%) Derivative
15 4 (1.37%) Fixed Income
15 4 (1.37%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.87%) Linux
2 9 (3.07%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.39%) Unix
4 2 (0.68%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (26.62%) Problem-Solving
2 68 (23.21%) Agile
3 61 (20.82%) Software Engineering
4 55 (18.77%) Business Intelligence
4 55 (18.77%) Computer Science
4 55 (18.77%) Data Modelling
5 54 (18.43%) CI/CD
6 50 (17.06%) OOP
7 49 (16.72%) AI
8 48 (16.38%) Analytics
9 47 (16.04%) Test Automation
10 46 (15.70%) Mentoring
11 45 (15.36%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (13.99%) Data Analysis
12 41 (13.99%) Mathematics
13 39 (13.31%) ETL
14 37 (12.63%) Low Latency
15 34 (11.60%) Data Governance
15 34 (11.60%) OO
16 33 (11.26%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 139 (47.44%) Python
2 138 (47.10%) SQL
3 39 (13.31%) C++
4 36 (12.29%) JavaScript
5 32 (10.92%) Java
6 14 (4.78%) C#
7 12 (4.10%) T-SQL
7 12 (4.10%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.07%) Scala
9 8 (2.73%) Swift
10 7 (2.39%) Go
10 7 (2.39%) Kotlin
11 6 (2.05%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.71%) VBA
13 4 (1.37%) Objective-C
14 3 (1.02%) Rust
15 2 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.34%) ABAP
16 1 (0.34%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 79 (26.96%) Degree
2 24 (8.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (6.14%) Master's Degree
4 15 (5.12%) Security Cleared
5 11 (3.75%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.07%) PhD
7 8 (2.73%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (2.05%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.68%) ACCA
10 2 (0.68%) CIMA
10 2 (0.68%) HNC
10 2 (0.68%) HND
10 2 (0.68%) MCSA
10 2 (0.68%) MCSE
10 2 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.34%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.92%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.14%) GDPR
3 14 (4.78%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.05%) QA
5 1 (0.34%) GAAP
5 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.34%) IFRS
5 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 41 (13.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (7.85%) Terraform
2 21 (7.17%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.07%) Ansible
4 3 (1.02%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.68%) logstash
5 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 47 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.85%) Google
3 15 (5.12%) Salesforce
4 13 (4.44%) Oracle
5 11 (3.75%) Foundry
5 11 (3.75%) Intapp
6 10 (3.41%) Palantir
6 10 (3.41%) SAP
7 8 (2.73%) Workday
8 7 (2.39%) PeopleSoft
8 7 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.05%) Databricks
10 5 (1.71%) HubSpot
11 4 (1.37%) Facebook
12 3 (1.02%) Temenos
13 2 (0.68%) Alteryx
13 2 (0.68%) Dataiku
13 2 (0.68%) IBM
13 2 (0.68%) OutSystems
13 2 (0.68%) Talend