Data Structures Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Structures
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in permanent job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 179 201
Rank change year-on-year -9 +22 +11
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 40 101 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.72% 1.01% 0.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.69% 3.71% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 22 19 26
10th Percentile £31,263 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £46,750 £52,500 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,750 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.08% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £79,250 £80,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -7.14%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,371 2,719 2,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 42.42% 27.26% 40.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,206 1,242 1,468
10th Percentile £26,375 £30,000 £27,760
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -2.78% +10.20%
75th Percentile £61,198 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Data Structures as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in the Midlands

Data Structures
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Structures.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Structures

Data Structures
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Structures in the Midlands

Data Structures
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Structures within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
East Midlands -25 23 £48,500 +61.67% 9
West Midlands +45 17 £52,500 -12.50% 10
Data Structures
England

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.00%) Apache
1 4 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 2 (5.00%) SAP MM
1 2 (5.00%) SAP Retail
1 2 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.50%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) Azure
2 13 (32.50%) Power Platform
3 11 (27.50%) AWS
4 9 (22.50%) Snowflake
5 5 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (12.50%) GCP
6 4 (10.00%) SaaS
7 2 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.50%) dbt
8 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.00%) Power BI
2 8 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 8 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (17.50%) Data Lake
4 6 (15.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (12.50%) BigQuery
5 5 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (12.50%) Metadata
5 5 (12.50%) MongoDB
6 3 (7.50%) FileMaker
6 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
6 3 (7.50%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.50%) MySQL
7 1 (2.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (2.50%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (2.50%) Tableau
General
1 17 (42.50%) Analytical Skills
1 17 (42.50%) Finance
2 14 (35.00%) Law
3 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Retail
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Analyst
1 8 (20.00%) DBA
1 8 (20.00%) SQL DBA
2 7 (17.50%) Administrator
3 6 (15.00%) Developer
3 6 (15.00%) Lead
4 5 (12.50%) Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Data Architect
5 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Lead Architect
5 4 (10.00%) Lead Data Architect
5 4 (10.00%) Python Data Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Snowflake Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) Data Modeller
7 2 (5.00%) Junior
7 2 (5.00%) Junior Developer
7 2 (5.00%) SAP MM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) Kafka
1 5 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (2.50%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.50%) SOAP
2 1 (2.50%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (10.00%) Legacy Code
3 3 (7.50%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) ETL
2 15 (37.50%) Analytics
3 14 (35.00%) Data Analysis
3 14 (35.00%) Data Modelling
4 13 (32.50%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (25.00%) Data Governance
6 9 (22.50%) Data Engineering
6 9 (22.50%) Data Pipeline
6 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (20.00%) Agile
7 8 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
7 8 (20.00%) Physical Data Model
7 8 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
7 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (17.50%) Data Architecture
8 7 (17.50%) Economics
8 7 (17.50%) Mathematics
8 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
8 7 (17.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 30 (75.00%) SQL
2 11 (27.50%) Python
3 9 (22.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.50%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.50%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Google
3 3 (7.50%) SAP
4 2 (5.00%) Databricks
5 1 (2.50%) Cognos
5 1 (2.50%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.50%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) Salesforce