Data Structures Jobs

Data Structures
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 277 280
Rank change year-on-year -129 +3 -100
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 301 1,036 1,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 1.05% 1.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.67% 2.96% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 158 491 764
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,825
25th Percentile £46,750 £46,306 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% +3.70% +7.14%
75th Percentile £98,438 £90,000 £89,852
90th Percentile £125,000 £105,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,249 £59,098
% change year-on-year -4.56% +1.95% +10.46%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,032 35,027 45,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 35.62% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 23,030 23,975
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,000 £35,271
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Structures over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England -119 273 £72,246 +3.21% 369
UK excluding London -120 166 £57,500 -4.56% 157
London -21 126 £90,000 +7.46% 252
Work from Home -40 100 £65,000 - 173
South East +3 47 £45,000 -10.00% 40
Midlands -28 30 £48,500 +14.12% 20
North of England -73 29 £60,000 -15.54% 26
South West +109 24 £71,991 +2.01% 17
West Midlands +20 17 £60,000 +41.18% 14
North West -100 17 £57,500 -28.13% 13
East of England +23 14 £76,500 +2.00% 20
Scotland -1 14 £57,500 -23.33% 23
East Midlands -11 13 £48,500 +38.57% 6
Wales +37 7 £80,000 +119.33% 6
Yorkshire +57 6 £62,254 +24.51% 3
North East +38 6 £103,750 +72.92% 10
Northern Ireland +34 1 £50,000 -23.08% 6

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (4.65%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.99%) CMS
4 6 (1.99%) SAS
5 5 (1.66%) Apache
6 4 (1.33%) Confluence
6 4 (1.33%) GemFire
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 28 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.99%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 17 (5.65%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.66%) Maximo
3 2 (0.66%) PeopleSoft Financials
3 2 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.33%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.33%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle iRecruitment
4 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 98 (32.56%) Azure
2 51 (16.94%) AWS
3 48 (15.95%) Power Platform
4 33 (10.96%) GCP
5 20 (6.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 17 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (5.32%) PowerApps
8 15 (4.98%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (4.32%) Snowflake
10 12 (3.99%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (3.99%) Cloud Computing
11 10 (3.32%) Amazon S3
12 9 (2.99%) Power Automate
13 8 (2.66%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (2.33%) Serverless
15 6 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
16 5 (1.66%) Amazon Kinesis
17 4 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
17 4 (1.33%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.66%) Multicast
1 2 (0.66%) RTP
2 1 (0.33%) HTTP
2 1 (0.33%) Intranet
2 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.29%) NoSQL
2 35 (11.63%) Power BI
3 32 (10.63%) SQL Server
4 26 (8.64%) Big Data
5 24 (7.97%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (7.31%) Data Lake
6 22 (7.31%) MongoDB
7 21 (6.98%) Relational Database
8 17 (5.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (5.65%) BigQuery
8 17 (5.65%) Oracle ODI
9 15 (4.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (4.65%) Hadoop
11 13 (4.32%) Tableau
12 12 (3.99%) Metadata
12 12 (3.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (2.66%) MySQL
15 6 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
16 5 (1.66%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (5.98%) Git
2 12 (3.99%) JIRA
3 8 (2.66%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.33%) GitLab
4 7 (2.33%) Visual Studio
4 7 (2.33%) webpack
5 5 (1.66%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.33%) Grunt
6 4 (1.33%) gulp
7 3 (1.00%) Babel
7 3 (1.00%) ERwin
7 3 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.66%) Maven
8 2 (0.66%) Subversion
9 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.33%) kappa
9 1 (0.33%) MLflow
9 1 (0.33%) Moq
9 1 (0.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 109 (36.21%) Finance
2 85 (28.24%) Social Skills
3 73 (24.25%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (10.30%) Banking
5 27 (8.97%) Front Office
6 23 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (7.64%) Law
7 19 (6.31%) Legal
8 15 (4.98%) Marketing
8 15 (4.98%) Retail
9 10 (3.32%) Electronics
10 9 (2.99%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.33%) Agriculture
12 5 (1.66%) Advertising
12 5 (1.66%) Games
13 4 (1.33%) iGaming
13 4 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.00%) Automotive
14 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 85 (28.24%) Developer
2 61 (20.27%) Senior
3 44 (14.62%) Software Engineer
4 40 (13.29%) Lead
5 27 (8.97%) Senior Developer
6 21 (6.98%) Architect
6 21 (6.98%) C++ Developer
7 20 (6.64%) Consultant
8 19 (6.31%) C++ Quantitative Developer
8 19 (6.31%) Quantitative Developer
9 18 (5.98%) Analyst
10 17 (5.65%) Data Engineer
11 16 (5.32%) Oracle Consultant
11 16 (5.32%) Python Developer
12 15 (4.98%) Administrator
12 15 (4.98%) Data Consultant
12 15 (4.98%) Oracle Technical Consultant
12 15 (4.98%) Senior C++ Developer
12 15 (4.98%) Senior Python Developer
12 15 (4.98%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.62%) Kafka
2 29 (9.63%) REST
3 25 (8.31%) .NET
4 23 (7.64%) React
5 19 (6.31%) gRPC
6 18 (5.98%) Middleware
7 17 (5.65%) WebSockets
8 16 (5.32%) AngularJS
8 16 (5.32%) Oracle Fusion
9 15 (4.98%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 15 (4.98%) CSS
10 13 (4.32%) XML
11 11 (3.65%) ASP.NET
11 11 (3.65%) HTML
12 10 (3.32%) JSON
13 9 (2.99%) .NET Core
14 8 (2.66%) ADO
14 8 (2.66%) MERN Stack
14 8 (2.66%) SOAP
14 8 (2.66%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 110 (36.54%) Algorithms
2 29 (9.63%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (9.63%) Legacy Systems
3 23 (7.64%) Hedge funds
3 23 (7.64%) Management Information System
4 22 (7.31%) Public Cloud
5 19 (6.31%) Equities
6 15 (4.98%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (3.99%) Cloud Native
7 12 (3.99%) Fixed Income
7 12 (3.99%) Reference Data
7 12 (3.99%) Replication
8 11 (3.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (3.65%) Product Ownership
8 11 (3.65%) Virtual Team
9 8 (2.66%) Client/Server
10 6 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.99%) FMCG
11 5 (1.66%) Derivative
11 5 (1.66%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.96%) Linux
2 16 (5.32%) Apple iOS
3 10 (3.32%) Android
3 10 (3.32%) Windows
4 5 (1.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (28.90%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (28.24%) Agile
3 72 (23.92%) Software Engineering
4 70 (23.26%) ETL
5 68 (22.59%) Analytics
6 56 (18.60%) Computer Science
7 50 (16.61%) OOP
8 49 (16.28%) Data Modelling
9 44 (14.62%) CI/CD
9 44 (14.62%) OO
10 42 (13.95%) Business Intelligence
11 40 (13.29%) Data Pipeline
11 40 (13.29%) DevOps
11 40 (13.29%) Mentoring
12 38 (12.62%) Design Patterns
12 38 (12.62%) Microservices
13 36 (11.96%) Migration
13 36 (11.96%) Test Automation
14 35 (11.63%) Data Migration
15 34 (11.30%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 134 (44.52%) SQL
2 91 (30.23%) Python
3 67 (22.26%) Java
4 52 (17.28%) C#
5 47 (15.61%) C++
6 41 (13.62%) JavaScript
7 20 (6.64%) PL/SQL
8 17 (5.65%) TypeScript
9 16 (5.32%) T-SQL
10 15 (4.98%) Go
11 10 (3.32%) C
12 8 (2.66%) Scala
13 5 (1.66%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.66%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.33%) R
14 4 (1.33%) Ruby
14 4 (1.33%) Rust
15 3 (1.00%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.66%) Julia
Qualifications
1 72 (23.92%) Degree
2 13 (4.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (3.32%) Master's Degree
3 10 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (2.33%) Numerate Degree
4 7 (2.33%) Security Cleared
5 6 (1.99%) PhD
6 4 (1.33%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.00%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.66%) MBA
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.63%) Data Quality
2 32 (10.63%) QA
3 17 (5.65%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.66%) Dublin Core
4 2 (0.66%) GDPR
4 2 (0.66%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (9.63%) Docker
2 5 (1.66%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (14.95%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.31%) Terraform
3 5 (1.66%) Grafana
3 5 (1.66%) Oozie
3 5 (1.66%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.00%) Ansible
5 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (21.26%) Microsoft
2 34 (11.30%) Oracle
3 26 (8.64%) Databricks
4 17 (5.65%) Google
5 9 (2.99%) Workday
6 7 (2.33%) ANSYS
6 7 (2.33%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.33%) Teradata
7 5 (1.66%) Cloudera
7 5 (1.66%) Informatica
7 5 (1.66%) Talend
8 4 (1.33%) IBM
8 4 (1.33%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.33%) SAP
8 4 (1.33%) Solace
8 4 (1.33%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.00%) Sybase
10 2 (0.66%) Intapp
10 2 (0.66%) PeopleSoft
10 2 (0.66%) Red Hat