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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 324 321
Rank change year-on-year -24 -3 -58
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 312 365 629
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.48% 0.93% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.54% 2.37% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 206 121 460
10th Percentile £46,112 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.57% +0.80%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £127,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £69,750
% change year-on-year - +3.94% +1.35%

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 20,229 15,395 26,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.45% 39.03% 35.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,360 7,978 19,580
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £28,286
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,572 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +11.95% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,250 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +9.09% -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 10 March 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 March 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 +87 210 £78,750 -14.86% 61
North of England -26 38 £66,250 +12.77% 37
Yorkshire -26 29 £75,000 +54.62% 15
South East -26 19 £47,500 +5.56% 47
Midlands -21 13 £48,500 -22.40% 10
East of England -4 11 £75,000 -6.25% 10
East Midlands -20 9 £48,500 -25.38% 6
North West -21 8 £45,974 -21.75% 16
West Midlands -12 4 £53,750 -10.42% 3
South West -133 3 £43,953 -38.95% 13
North East -24 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 (3.21%) Palantir Foundry
2 8 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.28%) SAS
6 3 (0.96%) Apache
6 3 (0.96%) CMS
7 2 (0.64%) Mendix
7 2 (0.64%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.96%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (4.17%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.28%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.96%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.64%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.64%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.64%) Misys Opics
4 2 (0.64%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.64%) Shopify
4 2 (0.64%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.32%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.32%) Magento
5 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.32%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.32%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 86 (27.56%) Azure
2 84 (26.92%) AWS
3 46 (14.74%) Power Platform
4 40 (12.82%) GCP
5 26 (8.33%) GitHub
6 25 (8.01%) Serverless
7 15 (4.81%) SaaS
8 12 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.53%) Boomi
10 10 (3.21%) Power Automate
11 9 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (2.56%) dbt
12 8 (2.56%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.24%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.24%) Cloud Composer
13 7 (2.24%) Snowflake
14 6 (1.92%) Dagster
14 6 (1.92%) Matillion
14 6 (1.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.92%) Broadband
2 4 (1.28%) Network Security
3 1 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (14.74%) Power BI
2 35 (11.22%) SQL Server
3 33 (10.58%) BigQuery
4 30 (9.62%) NoSQL
5 29 (9.29%) Metadata
6 23 (7.37%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (7.05%) Elasticsearch
8 20 (6.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 18 (5.77%) DynamoDB
9 18 (5.77%) Tableau
10 16 (5.13%) Relational Database
11 14 (4.49%) Data Lake
12 13 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (3.85%) MySQL
14 11 (3.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (2.24%) Oracle Reports
16 7 (2.24%) Redis
17 6 (1.92%) Pentaho
17 6 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (6.73%) Postman
2 18 (5.77%) Git
3 9 (2.88%) Eclipse
4 6 (1.92%) ERwin
5 2 (0.64%) JConsole
5 2 (0.64%) JIRA
5 2 (0.64%) Storybook
5 2 (0.64%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.64%) VisualVM
6 1 (0.32%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.32%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
General
1 102 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 96 (30.77%) Finance
3 83 (26.60%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (12.82%) Law
5 29 (9.29%) Front Office
6 21 (6.73%) Public Sector
7 18 (5.77%) Retail
8 15 (4.81%) Marketing
9 14 (4.49%) Banking
10 11 (3.53%) Publishing
11 8 (2.56%) Investment Banking
12 7 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.92%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.60%) Legal
15 4 (1.28%) Billing
16 3 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
17 2 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.64%) Retail Banking
18 1 (0.32%) Digital Economy
18 1 (0.32%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 84 (26.92%) Developer
2 67 (21.47%) Senior
3 63 (20.19%) Analyst
4 49 (15.71%) Data Analyst
5 38 (12.18%) Python Developer
6 37 (11.86%) Senior Developer
7 31 (9.94%) Software Engineer
8 25 (8.01%) Architect
8 25 (8.01%) Lead
9 23 (7.37%) Consultant
9 23 (7.37%) Senior Python Developer
10 22 (7.05%) C++ Developer
10 22 (7.05%) Quantitative Developer
11 21 (6.73%) Data Architect
12 19 (6.09%) C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (6.09%) Linux Developer
12 19 (6.09%) Low Latency C++ Developer
12 19 (6.09%) Senior C++ Developer
12 19 (6.09%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
12 19 (6.09%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (13.14%) Django
2 31 (9.94%) RESTful
3 28 (8.97%) JSON
4 23 (7.37%) Flask
5 22 (7.05%) OpenAPI
5 22 (7.05%) REST
5 22 (7.05%) Swagger
6 21 (6.73%) CSS
6 21 (6.73%) FastAPI
6 21 (6.73%) HTML
7 20 (6.41%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 18 (5.77%) React
8 18 (5.77%) XML
9 16 (5.13%) Kafka
10 15 (4.81%) Vue
11 9 (2.88%) .NET
12 8 (2.56%) SOAP
13 7 (2.24%) FIX Protocol
13 7 (2.24%) Web Services
14 6 (1.92%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 71 (22.76%) Algorithms
2 41 (13.14%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (11.22%) Greenfield Project
4 27 (8.65%) Management Information System
5 21 (6.73%) Equities
6 20 (6.41%) Hedge funds
7 15 (4.81%) Onboarding
8 13 (4.17%) Product Ownership
9 12 (3.85%) Cloud Native
9 12 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
10 10 (3.21%) FMCG
10 10 (3.21%) Reinsurance
11 9 (2.88%) Low-Code
12 8 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.92%) Anti-Piracy
14 6 (1.92%) Social Media
15 5 (1.60%) e-Learning
15 5 (1.60%) Virtual Team
16 4 (1.28%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.09%) Linux
2 2 (0.64%) Android
3 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (30.13%) Data Modelling
2 76 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (23.08%) Agile
4 66 (21.15%) Analytics
5 65 (20.83%) Computer Science
6 64 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 63 (20.19%) ETL
8 58 (18.59%) Business Intelligence
9 56 (17.95%) Data Governance
10 55 (17.63%) Software Engineering
11 48 (15.38%) OOP
12 47 (15.06%) Mentoring
13 45 (14.42%) Data Analysis
14 44 (14.10%) Decision-Making
15 42 (13.46%) AI
16 41 (13.14%) CI/CD
17 40 (12.82%) OO
18 37 (11.86%) Microservices
18 37 (11.86%) Migration
18 37 (11.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 164 (52.56%) Python
2 150 (48.08%) SQL
3 39 (12.50%) C++
4 33 (10.58%) JavaScript
5 28 (8.97%) Java
6 16 (5.13%) T-SQL
7 12 (3.85%) Scala
8 9 (2.88%) C#
9 8 (2.56%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.56%) Rust
10 6 (1.92%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.60%) R
12 4 (1.28%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.28%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.96%) Go
14 2 (0.64%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.64%) VBA
15 1 (0.32%) ANSI SQL
15 1 (0.32%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 70 (22.44%) Degree
2 40 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (8.01%) Security Cleared
4 18 (5.77%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.85%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.21%) ACCA
6 10 (3.21%) CIMA
7 7 (2.24%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.92%) PhD
9 5 (1.60%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.28%) Postgraduate
11 3 (0.96%) IIBA
12 2 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.32%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.32%) HNC
13 1 (0.32%) HND
13 1 (0.32%) MCSA
13 1 (0.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (17.63%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.85%) Accessibility
4 11 (3.53%) GDPR
5 7 (2.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.60%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.60%) NIST
6 5 (1.60%) QA
7 3 (0.96%) IFRS
8 2 (0.64%) GAAP
8 2 (0.64%) GRC
8 2 (0.64%) WCAG
9 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (6.41%) Docker
2 8 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (5.77%) Terraform
2 5 (1.60%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.96%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.64%) logstash
5 1 (0.32%) Grafana
Vendors
1 37 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.37%) Google
3 20 (6.41%) Salesforce
4 19 (6.09%) Oracle
5 14 (4.49%) Foundry
6 10 (3.21%) Palantir
6 10 (3.21%) SAP
6 10 (3.21%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.21%) Talend
7 9 (2.88%) Informatica
8 6 (1.92%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.92%) Sparx
8 6 (1.92%) Workday
9 5 (1.60%) Databricks
10 4 (1.28%) Alteryx
10 4 (1.28%) Intapp
11 3 (0.96%) Temenos
12 2 (0.64%) HubSpot
12 2 (0.64%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.64%) SendGrid