Data Structures Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 382 288
Rank change year-on-year -73 -94 +43
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 183 179 601
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.53% 0.85%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.10% 1.35% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 132 66 212
10th Percentile £38,272 £36,478 £35,351
25th Percentile £42,188 £42,813 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £50,111 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.76% -19.82% +19.05%
75th Percentile £72,438 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £100,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +11.11%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 16,570 13,253 22,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.05% 39.22% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 10,921 6,051 13,587
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,733 £26,625
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £35,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,497 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.73% +4.55% -14.10%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Data Structures job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Structures.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Structures

Data Structures
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Structures in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Structures within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
North of England -8 63 £56,250 -16.67% 31
South East -24 59 £60,000 +20.00% 28
North West +9 26 £60,000 +20.00% 11
Yorkshire -11 23 £57,500 -25.81% 10
East of England -5 20 £37,500 -42.31% 9
Midlands -48 16 £42,500 -12.37% 15
South West -79 15 £75,000 +42.86% 13
North East -42 14 £55,000 -52.17% 11
West Midlands -23 13 £43,000 +33.33% 7
Wales -50 6 £39,756 -20.84%
Scotland +5 3 £40,000 -30.43% 5
East Midlands -29 3 £42,500 -12.37% 8
Northern Ireland -61 1 - - 3
Data Structures
UK

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (6.56%) Apache
1 12 (6.56%) Apache Spark
2 11 (6.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (4.37%) SharePoint
5 7 (3.83%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.64%) Confluence
6 3 (1.64%) SAS
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 21 (11.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.09%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.55%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.73%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.64%) SAP SD
4 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.09%) Elite 3E
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (1.09%) Shopify
4 2 (1.09%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.55%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.55%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.55%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.55%) Magento
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.55%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.55%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 66 (36.07%) Power Platform
2 50 (27.32%) Azure
3 45 (24.59%) AWS
4 25 (13.66%) SaaS
5 18 (9.84%) Entra ID
6 15 (8.20%) PowerApps
7 14 (7.65%) Power Automate
8 13 (7.10%) Amazon S3
9 12 (6.56%) GCP
9 12 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (6.01%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (5.46%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (4.92%) Amazon EMR
12 9 (4.92%) Serverless
13 8 (4.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (4.37%) GitHub
14 7 (3.83%) Amazon ECR
14 7 (3.83%) Textract
15 6 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (30.05%) Power BI
2 15 (8.20%) Tableau
3 14 (7.65%) MySQL
3 14 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (7.10%) SQL Server
5 12 (6.56%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (6.01%) Relational Database
7 9 (4.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (3.28%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.28%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.73%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.73%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (2.19%) Metadata
10 4 (2.19%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.64%) SAP HANA
11 3 (1.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (9.29%) Git
2 8 (4.37%) GitLab
3 5 (2.73%) JIRA
4 4 (2.19%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.64%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.64%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.55%) Toad
6 1 (0.55%) utPLSQL
6 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 76 (41.53%) Social Skills
2 56 (30.60%) Finance
3 35 (19.13%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.84%) Law
5 14 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (6.01%) Retail
7 10 (5.46%) Legal
8 7 (3.83%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.28%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.73%) General Ledger
10 5 (2.73%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.73%) Military
11 4 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.64%) Billing
12 3 (1.64%) Marketing
12 3 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.64%) Welsh Language
13 2 (1.09%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (32.24%) Analyst
2 21 (11.48%) Data Analyst
3 20 (10.93%) Senior
4 19 (10.38%) Software Engineer
5 18 (9.84%) Data Engineer
6 17 (9.29%) Developer
7 15 (8.20%) Administrator
7 15 (8.20%) Consultant
7 15 (8.20%) Systems Analyst
8 14 (7.65%) Business Analyst
9 10 (5.46%) Lead
9 10 (5.46%) Systems Administrator
10 9 (4.92%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 9 (4.92%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
10 9 (4.92%) Support Analyst
11 8 (4.37%) SQL Analyst
11 8 (4.37%) SQL Data Analyst
11 8 (4.37%) SSRS Analyst
12 7 (3.83%) Accountant
12 7 (3.83%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.65%) PySpark
2 13 (7.10%) XML
3 12 (6.56%) JSON
4 11 (6.01%) React
5 7 (3.83%) .NET
5 7 (3.83%) Flask
5 7 (3.83%) REST
6 5 (2.73%) CSS
6 5 (2.73%) HTML
7 4 (2.19%) Kafka
7 4 (2.19%) RESTful
7 4 (2.19%) Vue
8 3 (1.64%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.64%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.64%) OpenID
8 3 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (1.64%) SAP Core Interface
8 3 (1.64%) SAP Fiori
8 3 (1.64%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.38%) Algorithms
2 14 (7.65%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.92%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.83%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.73%) Client/Server
5 5 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.73%) Hedge funds
5 5 (2.73%) PKI
6 3 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.64%) IoT
6 3 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.64%) Social Media
7 2 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.55%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.55%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.55%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.73%) Windows
2 3 (1.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (36.07%) Business Intelligence
2 48 (26.23%) Validation
3 46 (25.14%) Data Modelling
4 45 (24.59%) Agile
4 45 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (21.86%) Data Management
5 40 (21.86%) Decision-Making
6 38 (20.77%) Data Engineering
7 36 (19.67%) CI/CD
8 34 (18.58%) Analytics
9 33 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (17.49%) ERP
11 30 (16.39%) Data Analysis
12 28 (15.30%) Data Governance
13 26 (14.21%) AI
13 26 (14.21%) Software Engineering
14 25 (13.66%) Computer Science
14 25 (13.66%) DevOps
15 24 (13.11%) Dashboard Development
15 24 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (50.27%) SQL
2 64 (34.97%) Python
3 24 (13.11%) Java
4 18 (9.84%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.10%) C++
6 11 (6.01%) PowerShell
7 10 (5.46%) T-SQL
7 10 (5.46%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.92%) Go
9 8 (4.37%) C#
10 6 (3.28%) Rust
11 5 (2.73%) C
11 5 (2.73%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.73%) Scala
12 4 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.64%) SAS Macro
13 3 (1.64%) VBA
14 2 (1.09%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (22.40%) Degree
2 29 (15.85%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.74%) ACCA
3 16 (8.74%) CIMA
4 15 (8.20%) SC Cleared
5 13 (7.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.19%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.64%) HND
7 3 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.55%) IIBA
9 1 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (32.24%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (5.46%) GDPR
4 7 (3.83%) QA
5 4 (2.19%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.64%) CDISC
7 2 (1.09%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.09%) NIST
7 2 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (14.21%) Docker
2 15 (8.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (9.29%) Terraform
2 15 (8.20%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.64%) Ansible
3 3 (1.64%) Packer
Vendors
1 42 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 24 (13.11%) SAP
3 21 (11.48%) Oracle
4 12 (6.56%) Sage
5 6 (3.28%) Databricks
6 4 (2.19%) Workday
7 3 (1.64%) TOWER Software
8 2 (1.09%) ESRI
8 2 (1.09%) Google
8 2 (1.09%) Informatica
8 2 (1.09%) Intapp
8 2 (1.09%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.09%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.09%) Talend
9 1 (0.55%) Adaptive Insights
9 1 (0.55%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.55%) RedGate
9 1 (0.55%) WooCommerce