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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 184 198
Rank change year-on-year -59 +14 +77
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 12 30 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.096% 0.61% 1.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 1.61% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 9 18 44
10th Percentile £40,150 £46,600 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +14.12% -26.09%
75th Percentile £50,250 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £52,500 £69,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £71,991 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.71% +2.84% +1.71%

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 3,274 1,863 3,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 26.16% 37.99% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,437 1,073 2,666
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £48,500 £49,107
Median % change year-on-year -1.03% -1.24% -8.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

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
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 26 April 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
West Midlands -39 6 £45,250 -24.58% 11
East Midlands -65 6 £48,500 - 6
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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (8.33%) Exchequer
1 1 (8.33%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (16.67%) Power BI
4 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Law
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Administrator
1 3 (25.00%) DBA
1 3 (25.00%) SQL DBA
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Configuration Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) CRM Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Data Modeller
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Report Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) JSON
1 2 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) XML
2 1 (8.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (8.33%) Educational Technology
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Analytics
1 5 (41.67%) Decision-Making
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (25.00%) ETL
2 3 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) CRM
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Data Management
3 2 (16.67%) DataOps
3 2 (16.67%) ERP
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (8.33%) Data Transformation
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks