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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 321 322
Rank change year-on-year -23 +1 -67
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 320 380 616
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.91% 0.86%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.57% 2.37% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 208 123 453
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,849 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,365 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,991 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +2.01% +1.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £127,500 £111,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% +1.71%

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 20,362 16,059 25,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 31.85% 38.60% 35.86%
Number of salaries quoted 10,483 8,052 19,192
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £38,918
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +10.91% -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 7 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 7 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 +108 218 £80,000 -13.51% 86
North of England -12 37 £75,000 +27.66% 45
Yorkshire -18 28 £75,000 +54.62% 17
South East -9 18 £47,500 +5.56% 50
Midlands -4 15 £48,500 -22.40% 11
East of England +5 11 £75,000 -6.25% 14
East Midlands -13 11 £48,500 -25.38% 5
North West -16 8 £60,487 +2.96% 21
West Midlands -4 4 £53,750 -10.42% 5
South West -120 3 £43,953 -38.95% 16
North East -16 1 - - 8
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 (3.13%) Palantir Foundry
2 8 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.25%) SAS
6 3 (0.94%) Apache
6 3 (0.94%) CMS
7 2 (0.63%) Mendix
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 12 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.94%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (4.06%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.25%) Distributed Ledger
2 4 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.94%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.63%) FLEXCUBE
4 2 (0.63%) Misys Opics
4 2 (0.63%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.63%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.31%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.31%) Magento
5 1 (0.31%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (0.31%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.31%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.31%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.31%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 86 (26.88%) Azure
2 83 (25.94%) AWS
3 48 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 39 (12.19%) GCP
5 26 (8.13%) GitHub
6 25 (7.81%) Serverless
7 16 (5.00%) SaaS
8 12 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (3.44%) Boomi
10 10 (3.13%) Power Automate
11 9 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (2.50%) dbt
12 8 (2.50%) Entra ID
13 7 (2.19%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.19%) Cloud Composer
13 7 (2.19%) Snowflake
14 6 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (1.88%) Matillion
14 6 (1.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.88%) Broadband
2 4 (1.25%) Network Security
3 1 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (15.00%) Power BI
2 35 (10.94%) SQL Server
3 31 (9.69%) BigQuery
3 31 (9.69%) NoSQL
4 28 (8.75%) Metadata
5 23 (7.19%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
6 20 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 18 (5.63%) DynamoDB
7 18 (5.63%) Tableau
8 15 (4.69%) Relational Database
9 14 (4.38%) Data Lake
10 13 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (3.75%) MySQL
12 11 (3.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (2.19%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (2.19%) Redis
15 6 (1.88%) Snowflake Schema
15 6 (1.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (6.56%) Postman
2 18 (5.63%) Git
3 12 (3.75%) ERwin
4 9 (2.81%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.63%) JConsole
5 2 (0.63%) JIRA
5 2 (0.63%) Storybook
5 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.63%) VisualVM
6 1 (0.31%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.31%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
General
1 111 (34.69%) Social Skills
2 98 (30.63%) Finance
3 83 (25.94%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (12.19%) Law
5 31 (9.69%) Front Office
6 21 (6.56%) Public Sector
7 20 (6.25%) Retail
8 15 (4.69%) Banking
9 14 (4.38%) Marketing
10 11 (3.44%) Publishing
11 9 (2.81%) Investment Banking
12 7 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.56%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.56%) Legal
14 3 (0.94%) Billing
14 3 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
15 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.63%) Retail Banking
16 1 (0.31%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 88 (27.50%) Developer
2 66 (20.63%) Senior
3 61 (19.06%) Analyst
4 47 (14.69%) Data Analyst
5 38 (11.88%) Python Developer
6 37 (11.56%) Senior Developer
7 33 (10.31%) Lead
8 32 (10.00%) Architect
9 30 (9.38%) Software Engineer
10 28 (8.75%) Data Architect
11 23 (7.19%) C++ Developer
11 23 (7.19%) Consultant
11 23 (7.19%) Senior Python Developer
12 22 (6.88%) Quantitative Developer
13 19 (5.94%) C++ Quantitative Developer
13 19 (5.94%) Linux Developer
13 19 (5.94%) Low Latency C++ Developer
13 19 (5.94%) Senior C++ Developer
13 19 (5.94%) Senior C++ Quantitative Developer
13 19 (5.94%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (12.19%) Django
2 30 (9.38%) RESTful
3 27 (8.44%) JSON
4 23 (7.19%) Flask
5 22 (6.88%) OpenAPI
5 22 (6.88%) REST
5 22 (6.88%) Swagger
6 21 (6.56%) CSS
6 21 (6.56%) FastAPI
6 21 (6.56%) HTML
7 20 (6.25%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 18 (5.63%) Kafka
8 18 (5.63%) React
9 17 (5.31%) XML
10 15 (4.69%) Vue
11 9 (2.81%) .NET
12 8 (2.50%) SOAP
13 7 (2.19%) FIX Protocol
13 7 (2.19%) Web Services
14 6 (1.88%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 71 (22.19%) Algorithms
2 41 (12.81%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (10.31%) Greenfield Project
4 27 (8.44%) Management Information System
5 21 (6.56%) Equities
5 21 (6.56%) Hedge funds
6 19 (5.94%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (4.69%) Onboarding
8 13 (4.06%) Cloud Native
8 13 (4.06%) Product Ownership
9 10 (3.13%) FMCG
9 10 (3.13%) Reinsurance
10 9 (2.81%) Low-Code
11 8 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.88%) Anti-Piracy
12 6 (1.88%) Social Media
13 5 (1.56%) Virtual Team
14 4 (1.25%) Blockchain
14 4 (1.25%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (0.63%) Android
3 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (30.94%) Data Modelling
2 76 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (22.81%) Analytics
4 71 (22.19%) Agile
5 64 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 63 (19.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 62 (19.38%) ETL
8 61 (19.06%) Data Governance
9 60 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
10 53 (16.56%) Data Analysis
10 53 (16.56%) Software Engineering
11 48 (15.00%) OOP
12 47 (14.69%) Mentoring
13 43 (13.44%) AI
13 43 (13.44%) Decision-Making
14 42 (13.13%) CI/CD
15 40 (12.50%) OO
16 39 (12.19%) Data Integration
17 37 (11.56%) Microservices
18 35 (10.94%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 163 (50.94%) Python
2 151 (47.19%) SQL
3 40 (12.50%) C++
4 33 (10.31%) JavaScript
5 29 (9.06%) Java
6 16 (5.00%) T-SQL
7 12 (3.75%) Scala
8 9 (2.81%) C#
9 8 (2.50%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.50%) Rust
10 6 (1.88%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.56%) R
12 4 (1.25%) Go
12 4 (1.25%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.25%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.94%) VBA
14 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.31%) ANSI SQL
15 1 (0.31%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 70 (21.88%) Degree
2 39 (12.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (8.13%) Security Cleared
4 19 (5.94%) SC Cleared
5 12 (3.75%) Master's Degree
6 10 (3.13%) ACCA
6 10 (3.13%) CIMA
7 7 (2.19%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.88%) PhD
9 5 (1.56%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.25%) Postgraduate
11 3 (0.94%) IIBA
12 2 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.31%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.31%) MCSA
13 1 (0.31%) MCSE
13 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (16.88%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.63%) GDPR
3 13 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.75%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.56%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.56%) NIST
7 4 (1.25%) QA
8 3 (0.94%) IFRS
9 2 (0.63%) GAAP
9 2 (0.63%) GRC
9 2 (0.63%) WCAG
10 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (6.56%) Docker
2 8 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (5.63%) Terraform
2 6 (1.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.94%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.63%) logstash
5 1 (0.31%) Grafana
Vendors
1 38 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.56%) Google
2 21 (6.56%) Salesforce
3 19 (5.94%) Oracle
4 14 (4.38%) Foundry
5 10 (3.13%) Palantir
5 10 (3.13%) SAP
5 10 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.13%) Talend
6 9 (2.81%) Informatica
7 6 (1.88%) MuleSoft
7 6 (1.88%) Workday
8 5 (1.56%) Databricks
8 5 (1.56%) Sparx
9 4 (1.25%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.25%) Intapp
10 3 (0.94%) Temenos
11 2 (0.63%) HubSpot
11 2 (0.63%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.63%) SendGrid