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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 337 320
Rank change year-on-year -81 -17 +19
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 389 338 556
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.78% 0.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.51% 1.85% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 257 127 201
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,875 £98,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £123,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £65,250 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.79% - +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 25,695 18,237 22,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.76% 41.93% 32.10%
Number of salaries quoted 16,910 9,263 12,082
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,744 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,925 £43,020
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 10 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 10 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 -45 186 £85,000 - 225
North of England -10 73 £55,000 -26.17% 34
South East -20 53 £67,750 +2.26% 55
North West -2 32 £60,000 -14.29% 24
Midlands -57 31 £52,500 +8.25% 32
Yorkshire -26 23 £61,755 -20.32% 4
South West -89 20 £60,000 -14.29% 24
East of England -21 19 £37,500 -10.23% 21
West Midlands -28 19 £52,500 - 23
North East -45 18 £55,000 -52.17% 6
East Midlands -37 12 £54,521 +12.41% 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 15 (3.86%) Apache
1 15 (3.86%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.83%) Jupyter
3 10 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.06%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.80%) Confluence
5 7 (1.80%) SAS
6 5 (1.29%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.77%) IIS
7 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 35 (9.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (1.80%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (1.29%) Workday HCM
6 4 (1.03%) Infor M3
6 4 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (1.03%) SAP SCM
7 3 (0.77%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.51%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.51%) JDE EnterpriseOne
8 2 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.51%) Oracle iProcurement
9 1 (0.26%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.26%) Dynamics SL
9 1 (0.26%) FastStats
9 1 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
9 1 (0.26%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.26%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.26%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 89 (22.88%) AWS
2 87 (22.37%) Power Platform
3 83 (21.34%) Azure
4 31 (7.97%) GCP
5 24 (6.17%) Amazon S3
5 24 (6.17%) Dynamics 365
6 21 (5.40%) SaaS
7 19 (4.88%) Entra ID
7 19 (4.88%) PowerApps
8 18 (4.63%) Power Automate
8 18 (4.63%) Snowflake
9 15 (3.86%) dbt
10 14 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (3.60%) Serverless
11 13 (3.34%) Amazon EMR
12 11 (2.83%) SuccessFactors
13 10 (2.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (2.57%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.08%) Broadband
2 3 (0.77%) Intranet
3 1 (0.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (18.51%) Power BI
2 30 (7.71%) Data Lake
3 27 (6.94%) Tableau
4 22 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (4.88%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.11%) Data Vault
7 15 (3.86%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.86%) Star Schema
8 14 (3.60%) BigQuery
8 14 (3.60%) Snowflake Schema
9 13 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (3.34%) SQL Server
10 12 (3.08%) SAP BW
11 11 (2.83%) Metadata
12 10 (2.57%) Big Data
13 8 (2.06%) DynamoDB
13 8 (2.06%) NoSQL
14 7 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.80%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (1.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 29 (7.46%) Git
2 9 (2.31%) GitLab
3 7 (1.80%) JIRA
4 6 (1.54%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.77%) ERwin
5 3 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.51%) MLflow
7 1 (0.26%) CMake
7 1 (0.26%) Maven
7 1 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.26%) Toad
7 1 (0.26%) utPLSQL
7 1 (0.26%) Valgrind
General
1 154 (39.59%) Finance
2 149 (38.30%) Social Skills
3 78 (20.05%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (5.91%) Law
6 19 (4.88%) Retail
7 18 (4.63%) Banking
7 18 (4.63%) Legal
8 14 (3.60%) Billing
8 14 (3.60%) Manufacturing
9 13 (3.34%) Financial Institution
9 13 (3.34%) Front Office
9 13 (3.34%) Marketing
10 9 (2.31%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.31%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.80%) General Ledger
13 6 (1.54%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.29%) Advertising
14 5 (1.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 89 (22.88%) Analyst
2 75 (19.28%) Senior
3 60 (15.42%) Developer
4 41 (10.54%) Software Engineer
5 40 (10.28%) Consultant
6 28 (7.20%) Systems Analyst
7 27 (6.94%) Architect
8 26 (6.68%) Administrator
8 26 (6.68%) Senior Developer
9 23 (5.91%) Data Analyst
10 22 (5.66%) Systems Administrator
11 20 (5.14%) Data Architect
11 20 (5.14%) Data Engineer
12 15 (3.86%) Business Analyst
12 15 (3.86%) Lead
12 15 (3.86%) Python Developer
13 14 (3.60%) Data Consultant
14 13 (3.34%) Backend Developer
14 13 (3.34%) Snowflake Architect
15 12 (3.08%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.66%) Terraform
2 21 (5.40%) React
3 20 (5.14%) .NET
4 17 (4.37%) REST
5 16 (4.11%) PySpark
6 14 (3.60%) Kafka
6 14 (3.60%) Oracle Fusion
7 13 (3.34%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 10 (2.57%) Django
8 10 (2.57%) RESTful
9 8 (2.06%) Flask
9 8 (2.06%) JSON
9 8 (2.06%) Spring Boot
9 8 (2.06%) Vue
10 7 (1.80%) CSS
10 7 (1.80%) HTML
10 7 (1.80%) XML
11 6 (1.54%) .NET Framework
11 6 (1.54%) ASP.NET
11 6 (1.54%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 80 (20.57%) Algorithms
2 36 (9.25%) Management Information System
3 28 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (4.88%) Onboarding
5 16 (4.11%) Hedge funds
6 12 (3.08%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 12 (3.08%) Social Media
7 10 (2.57%) Equities
8 9 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (2.06%) Client/Server
9 8 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.29%) Clustering
10 5 (1.29%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.29%) PKI
10 5 (1.29%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.03%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.03%) FMCG
12 3 (0.77%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.66%) Linux
2 14 (3.60%) Windows
3 3 (0.77%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Android
4 1 (0.26%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (29.56%) Problem-Solving
2 106 (27.25%) Data Modelling
3 94 (24.16%) Analytics
4 90 (23.14%) Business Intelligence
5 84 (21.59%) Agile
6 81 (20.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 77 (19.79%) Software Engineering
8 74 (19.02%) AI
9 67 (17.22%) Computer Science
10 66 (16.97%) CI/CD
10 66 (16.97%) Decision-Making
11 65 (16.71%) Data Engineering
12 64 (16.45%) Stakeholder Management
13 60 (15.42%) Data Pipeline
14 59 (15.17%) ERP
15 57 (14.65%) Validation
16 53 (13.62%) Data Governance
17 51 (13.11%) Data Architecture
18 50 (12.85%) Data Management
19 49 (12.60%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 152 (39.07%) SQL
2 140 (35.99%) Python
3 42 (10.80%) Java
4 36 (9.25%) C++
5 28 (7.20%) JavaScript
6 26 (6.68%) C#
7 16 (4.11%) Rust
7 16 (4.11%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.60%) Go
9 7 (1.80%) C
9 7 (1.80%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.54%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.03%) Bash
11 4 (1.03%) Scala
11 4 (1.03%) VBA
12 3 (0.77%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.77%) SAS Macro
12 3 (0.77%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.77%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 86 (22.11%) Degree
2 44 (11.31%) Security Cleared
3 28 (7.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.63%) ACCA
4 18 (4.63%) CIMA
5 11 (2.83%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.57%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.80%) PhD
8 5 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.29%) Numerate Degree
8 5 (1.29%) PMP
9 4 (1.03%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.03%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.77%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.77%) HND
10 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (22.11%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.40%) QA
3 19 (4.88%) GDPR
4 17 (4.37%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.77%) CDISC
6 2 (0.51%) IFRS
6 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.26%) GAAP
7 1 (0.26%) GRC
7 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.26%) MiFID
7 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (8.74%) Docker
2 11 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.26%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.29%) Ansible
3 4 (1.03%) Packer
4 3 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.26%) Grafana
5 1 (0.26%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 60 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 46 (11.83%) SAP
3 39 (10.03%) Oracle
4 20 (5.14%) Sage
5 17 (4.37%) Databricks
6 14 (3.60%) Google
7 13 (3.34%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.31%) Workday
9 6 (1.54%) HubSpot
10 5 (1.29%) Foundry
10 5 (1.29%) Palantir
11 4 (1.03%) Infor
12 3 (0.77%) Avaya
12 3 (0.77%) Cisco
12 3 (0.77%) Genesys
12 3 (0.77%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.77%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.77%) TOWER Software
13 2 (0.51%) CA Agile Central
13 2 (0.51%) Concur