Data Structures Job Trends in the Scottish Borders

Data Structures
Scotland > Scottish Borders

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in permanent job vacancies in the Scottish Borders. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Scottish Borders 33.33% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 100.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38,269 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,594 - -
75th Percentile £40,919 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £55,875 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.51% +11.75% +10.82%

All Generic Skills
Scottish Borders

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 Scottish Borders.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Scottish Borders 33.33% 33.33% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38,269 £29,750 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,594 £31,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.70% -16.00% -
75th Percentile £40,919 £33,250 £41,250
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -18.18% -7.60% +3.52%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in the Scottish Borders

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

Data Structures job vacancy trend in the Scottish Borders

Data Structures
Job Locations in the Scottish Borders

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Structures within the Scottish Borders region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Galashiels - 1 £39,594 -
Data Structures
Scotland

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Scottish Borders 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Police
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy