Data Structures Jobs in Scotland

Data Structures
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 135 183
Rank change year-on-year +4 +48 -55
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 14 164 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.50% 2.43% 0.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.00% 5.04% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 11 30 10
10th Percentile - £48,587 £45,715
25th Percentile £42,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £75,000 £74,870
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +0.17% +66.38%
75th Percentile £75,250 - £89,852
90th Percentile £100,000 £79,404 £92,900
UK median annual salary £71,991 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +2.84% +3.70% +7.14%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 701 3,257 1,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.88% 48.35% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 424 853 805
10th Percentile £36,625 £30,150 £32,492
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% -5.17% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,433 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,519 £82,548 £89,852
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in Scotland

Data Structures
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in Scotland.

Salary trend for Data Structures in Scotland

Data Structures
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Structures in Scotland

Data Structures
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Structures within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh -15 10 £51,250 -31.67% 14
Glasgow +80 4 £90,000 +30.91% 10
Data Structures
UK

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 3 (21.43%) Big Data
2 3 (21.43%) DB2
3 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Graduate
4 1 (7.14%) Graduate Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Server Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) REST
1 7 (50.00%) WebSockets
2 4 (28.57%) Middleware
3 3 (21.43%) CSS
3 3 (21.43%) React
3 3 (21.43%) Spring
4 2 (14.29%) gRPC
4 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
4 2 (14.29%) Kafka
4 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 1 (7.14%) FIDO
5 1 (7.14%) JWT
5 1 (7.14%) OAuth
5 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
5 1 (7.14%) OpenID
5 1 (7.14%) SAML
5 1 (7.14%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Algorithms
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Reference Data
2 2 (14.29%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Concurrent Programming
2 5 (35.71%) Microservices
2 5 (35.71%) Multithreading
3 4 (28.57%) Distributed Cache
3 4 (28.57%) Fintech
3 4 (28.57%) Product Management
3 4 (28.57%) User Experience
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Front End Development
4 3 (21.43%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Low Latency
5 2 (14.29%) SOA
5 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) TDD
5 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (28.57%) C
3 4 (28.57%) C++
3 4 (28.57%) Python
4 3 (21.43%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 2 (14.29%) C#
6 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
6 1 (7.14%) Rust
6 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Sybase
2 1 (7.14%) ForgeRock
2 1 (7.14%) Ping Identity