Data Structures Job Trends 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 14 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 138 136
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +28
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 3 11 138
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.094% 0.50% 2.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.37% 1.56% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 27
10th Percentile £29,500 - £47,826
25th Percentile £32,500 £48,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -18.53% +38.42%
75th Percentile £47,500 £92,125 £76,250
90th Percentile £50,500 £100,000 £85,116
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% +7.69%

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 810 706 2,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.25% 31.96% 45.59%
Number of salaries quoted 445 267 867
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,000 £29,350
25th Percentile £31,500 £42,800 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -9.19%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,360 £69,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Data Structures job vacancy trend in Scotland

Data Structures
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Structures.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Structures

Data Structures
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

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 14 June 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
Edinburgh +13 1 £30,000 -47.83% 4
Data Structures
UK

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe XD
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Figma
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Junior
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) Data Science
1 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
1 1 (33.33%) Fund Management
1 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Product Discovery
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
1 1 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
1 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) FIS