Data Structures Job Trends in the South West

Data Structures
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in permanent job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 126 262
Rank change year-on-year -85 +136 -73
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 14 38 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.17% 1.16% 0.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.73% 3.34% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 20
10th Percentile £45,949 £35,532 £36,575
25th Percentile £57,313 £46,250 £69,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.95% -25.00% +17.93%
75th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £89,575 - £98,474
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +7.69%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,910 1,137 2,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.08% 34.59% 28.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,232 643 1,957
10th Percentile £28,125 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,875 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
England 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 the South West

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

Data Structures job vacancy trend in the South West

Data Structures
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Structures.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Structures

Data Structures
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in the South West over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Structures in the South West

Data Structures
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Structures within the South West region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Bristol -30 4 £62,500 - 2
Gloucestershire -31 4 £77,500 +118.11% 5
Wiltshire -21 3 £55,250 - 1
Somerset -41 2 £56,990 +8.55% 2
Dorset -13 1 - - 1
Data Structures
England

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Workday HCM
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (7.14%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Serverless
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
2 1 (7.14%) Lucidchart
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Retail
3 4 (28.57%) Finance
4 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
6 1 (7.14%) Back Office
6 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Administrator
1 3 (21.43%) Data Administrator
1 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Lead
1 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Workday Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Junior
3 1 (7.14%) Junior Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Junior Java Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) EDI
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) Spring
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Batch
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
1 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 2 (14.29%) PKI
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) ERP
2 6 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) Process Improvement
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (28.57%) Data Analysis
4 4 (28.57%) Data Strategy
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Logistics
5 3 (21.43%) Analytics
5 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
5 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
5 3 (21.43%) Master Data Management
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) PDM
5 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Statistical Analysis
5 3 (21.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) C
2 2 (14.29%) C++
2 2 (14.29%) Rust
3 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 2 (14.29%) Ansible
3 2 (14.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Workday
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Sage