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 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 212 199
Rank change year-on-year +8 -13 +23
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 32 63 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.58% 0.68% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.40% 2.38% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 17 10 25
10th Percentile £29,175 £52,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -14.23% +18.18%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,576 £81,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +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 2,292 2,649 1,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 41.45% 28.40% 38.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,149 1,025 1,427
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £27,650
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £39,744
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,400 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,180 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Structures relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Data Structures job vacancy trend 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 October 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 October 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 -7 18 £50,500 - 3
West Midlands +37 14 £52,500 -5.83% 17
Data Structures
England

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (12.50%) Apache
1 4 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 2 (6.25%) SAP MM
1 2 (6.25%) SAP Retail
1 2 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) Power Platform
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
2 8 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (18.75%) Snowflake
4 5 (15.63%) SaaS
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (6.25%) GCP
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.13%) dbt
6 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.13%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (37.50%) Power BI
2 6 (18.75%) Metadata
3 5 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (15.63%) MongoDB
3 5 (15.63%) NoSQL
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (9.38%) Data Lake
4 3 (9.38%) FileMaker
4 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
4 3 (9.38%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
4 3 (9.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (9.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (6.25%) BigQuery
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (3.13%) MySQL
6 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.13%) Tableau
General
1 10 (31.25%) Law
2 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Finance
3 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Retail
5 1 (3.13%) Legal
5 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Python Data Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Python Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Consultant
4 3 (9.38%) Data Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Data Modeller
4 3 (9.38%) DBA
5 2 (6.25%) Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Database Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Junior
5 2 (6.25%) Junior Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) SAP MM Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) REST
2 5 (15.63%) Kafka
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (6.25%) SOAP
4 1 (3.13%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (3.13%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (12.50%) Legacy Code
2 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 11 (34.38%) ETL
4 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.00%) Agile
5 8 (25.00%) Analytics
5 8 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 8 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 7 (21.88%) Data Analysis
6 7 (21.88%) Economics
6 7 (21.88%) Mathematics
7 6 (18.75%) Data Engineering
7 6 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (18.75%) Statistical Modelling
8 5 (15.63%) AI
8 5 (15.63%) Data Architecture
8 5 (15.63%) Logical Data Model
8 5 (15.63%) Physical Data Model
8 5 (15.63%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 23 (71.88%) SQL
2 11 (34.38%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.13%) Apex Code
4 1 (3.13%) C#
4 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.38%) QA
3 2 (6.25%) GDPR
4 1 (3.13%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) SAP
3 2 (6.25%) Databricks
3 2 (6.25%) Google
3 2 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Cognos
4 1 (3.13%) HubSpot
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce