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 11 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 359 297
Rank change year-on-year +10 -62 -1
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 395 297 856
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.76% 0.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.92% 1.74% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 250 109 428
10th Percentile £42,375 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +6.43% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £90,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.69% +5.36% +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 20,622 17,045 31,170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.07% 43.41% 33.50%
Number of salaries quoted 13,498 8,120 21,176
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,670 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% +4.85% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +59 232 £85,000 -5.56% 84
North of England +5 57 £57,500 -22.82% 41
South East -28 43 £60,000 +20.00% 44
Yorkshire -10 34 £57,500 -25.57% 10
East of England -7 21 £62,000 -10.14% 6
Midlands -34 16 £42,500 -12.37% 20
North West +4 13 £47,500 -7.32% 22
West Midlands -25 12 £42,750 -14.50% 13
North East -36 10 £57,500 -50.00% 10
South West -83 10 £68,750 -1.79% 15
East Midlands -33 4 £42,500 -12.37% 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 12 (3.04%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.28%) Apache
4 8 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.77%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (1.52%) Confluence
6 6 (1.52%) Jupyter
7 4 (1.01%) SAS
7 4 (1.01%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.76%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 29 (7.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (2.53%) NetSuite
3 8 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.76%) FLEXCUBE
5 3 (0.76%) Misys Opics
5 3 (0.76%) SAP SCM
5 3 (0.76%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.51%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.51%) Shopify
6 2 (0.51%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.25%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.25%) Magento
7 1 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.25%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
7 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 112 (28.35%) Azure
2 101 (25.57%) AWS
3 71 (17.97%) Power Platform
4 47 (11.90%) GCP
5 19 (4.81%) Amazon S3
5 19 (4.81%) Entra ID
5 19 (4.81%) SaaS
6 16 (4.05%) dbt
7 15 (3.80%) GitHub
8 14 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (3.54%) Serverless
9 13 (3.29%) Power Automate
9 13 (3.29%) PowerApps
10 12 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (3.04%) Snowflake
11 9 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (2.03%) Boomi
12 8 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (1.77%) Intacct
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.56%) Broadband
2 2 (0.51%) Intranet
2 2 (0.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (15.70%) Power BI
2 35 (8.86%) BigQuery
3 32 (8.10%) Tableau
4 30 (7.59%) Metadata
5 25 (6.33%) Data Lake
6 24 (6.08%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (5.32%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (5.06%) Relational Database
9 19 (4.81%) NoSQL
10 17 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (4.30%) SQL Server
11 16 (4.05%) DynamoDB
12 14 (3.54%) Data Vault
13 13 (3.29%) MySQL
13 13 (3.29%) Star Schema
14 12 (3.04%) SAP BW
14 12 (3.04%) Snowflake Schema
15 11 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
16 10 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 9 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 27 (6.84%) Git
2 13 (3.29%) Postman
3 9 (2.28%) Eclipse
3 9 (2.28%) ERwin
4 8 (2.03%) JIRA
5 4 (1.01%) GitLab
6 3 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.25%) CMake
8 1 (0.25%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.25%) Maven
8 1 (0.25%) Storybook
8 1 (0.25%) Toad
8 1 (0.25%) utPLSQL
8 1 (0.25%) Valgrind
General
1 155 (39.24%) Finance
2 138 (34.94%) Social Skills
3 74 (18.73%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.61%) Law
5 28 (7.09%) Front Office
6 25 (6.33%) Retail
7 17 (4.30%) Public Sector
8 16 (4.05%) Banking
8 16 (4.05%) Marketing
9 12 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.78%) Billing
10 11 (2.78%) Legal
11 10 (2.53%) Financial Institution
12 9 (2.28%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.77%) Publishing
14 5 (1.27%) Investment Banking
15 4 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
16 3 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (24.30%) Analyst
2 83 (21.01%) Senior
3 64 (16.20%) Developer
4 51 (12.91%) Data Analyst
5 41 (10.38%) Software Engineer
6 40 (10.13%) Consultant
6 40 (10.13%) Senior Developer
7 31 (7.85%) Architect
8 29 (7.34%) Python Developer
9 28 (7.09%) Data Architect
10 23 (5.82%) Administrator
11 22 (5.57%) Quantitative Developer
12 21 (5.32%) C++ Developer
12 21 (5.32%) Lead
12 21 (5.32%) Senior C++ Developer
12 21 (5.32%) Senior Python Developer
13 20 (5.06%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 20 (5.06%) Linux Developer
13 20 (5.06%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 20 (5.06%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.34%) RESTful
2 28 (7.09%) Django
3 24 (6.08%) JSON
4 20 (5.06%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 18 (4.56%) XML
6 17 (4.30%) Oracle Fusion
6 17 (4.30%) REST
7 16 (4.05%) OpenAPI
7 16 (4.05%) Swagger
8 15 (3.80%) Kafka
9 13 (3.29%) React
10 11 (2.78%) Flask
11 10 (2.53%) PySpark
12 9 (2.28%) FastAPI
12 9 (2.28%) FIX Protocol
13 7 (1.77%) .NET
13 7 (1.77%) CSS
13 7 (1.77%) FpML
13 7 (1.77%) HTML
13 7 (1.77%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 90 (22.78%) Algorithms
2 45 (11.39%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (8.35%) Management Information System
4 30 (7.59%) Greenfield Project
5 24 (6.08%) Hedge funds
6 22 (5.57%) Equities
7 18 (4.56%) Social Media
8 13 (3.29%) Cloud Native
8 13 (3.29%) Onboarding
8 13 (3.29%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.53%) Reinsurance
10 8 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.77%) e-Learning
11 7 (1.77%) FMCG
12 6 (1.52%) Anti-Piracy
12 6 (1.52%) Client/Server
12 6 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.27%) PKI
13 5 (1.27%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.82%) Linux
2 2 (0.51%) Windows
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (29.87%) Data Modelling
2 91 (23.04%) Agile
3 87 (22.03%) Analytics
3 87 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (21.27%) Business Intelligence
5 82 (20.76%) Software Engineering
6 80 (20.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 70 (17.72%) Computer Science
7 70 (17.72%) Data Governance
8 57 (14.43%) Decision-Making
9 55 (13.92%) Data Engineering
10 54 (13.67%) CI/CD
11 53 (13.42%) ETL
12 52 (13.16%) AI
13 51 (12.91%) Validation
14 50 (12.66%) DevOps
15 46 (11.65%) Data Analysis
15 46 (11.65%) ERP
15 46 (11.65%) OO
16 42 (10.63%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 182 (46.08%) Python
2 170 (43.04%) SQL
3 45 (11.39%) C++
4 37 (9.37%) Java
5 21 (5.32%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.56%) Rust
7 11 (2.78%) T-SQL
7 11 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.53%) Go
9 8 (2.03%) C#
9 8 (2.03%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.03%) Scala
10 7 (1.77%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.27%) R
12 3 (0.76%) VBA
13 2 (0.51%) C
13 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.25%) Bash
14 1 (0.25%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 86 (21.77%) Degree
2 43 (10.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (9.87%) Security Cleared
4 24 (6.08%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.54%) ACCA
5 14 (3.54%) CIMA
6 7 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.27%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.01%) PhD
10 3 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.76%) IIBA
10 3 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.76%) Postgraduate
10 3 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.51%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (21.01%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.56%) QA
3 16 (4.05%) GDPR
4 14 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (3.04%) Accessibility
6 8 (2.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.27%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.27%) IFRS
7 5 (1.27%) NIST
8 3 (0.76%) GAAP
8 3 (0.76%) GRC
9 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.25%) CDISC
10 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.25%) MiFID
10 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.25%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (6.58%) Docker
2 19 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.80%) Terraform
3 3 (0.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.25%) Grafana
4 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 44 (11.14%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.11%) Oracle
2 36 (9.11%) SAP
3 29 (7.34%) Google
4 21 (5.32%) Salesforce
5 15 (3.80%) Sage
6 13 (3.29%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.53%) Foundry
8 9 (2.28%) Databricks
9 8 (2.03%) Informatica
9 8 (2.03%) MuleSoft
9 8 (2.03%) Sparx
9 8 (2.03%) Talend
10 7 (1.77%) Palantir
10 7 (1.77%) Workday
11 4 (1.01%) OpenAI
12 3 (0.76%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.76%) TOWER Software
13 2 (0.51%) Intapp
14 1 (0.25%) WooCommerce