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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 281 293
Rank change year-on-year -131 +12 -115
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 318 1,046 1,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 1.05% 1.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.64% 2.97% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 155 489 737
10th Percentile £41,750 £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,500 £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 £96,875 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £105,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £61,125 £59,098
% change year-on-year -5.93% +3.43% +12.57%

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 19,436 35,193 43,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.52% 35.47% 43.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10,068 23,064 23,448
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,015
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £79,500 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £108,000
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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -148 287 £71,991 +2.84% 511
UK excluding London -127 184 £57,500 -5.93% 265
London -21 125 £90,000 +9.76% 343
Work from Home -41 108 £67,500 -2.53% 231
South East -8 50 £45,000 -10.00% 101
South West +115 38 £70,996 +0.60% 19
North of England -88 30 £60,000 -16.08% 39
Midlands -40 28 £48,500 +14.12% 31
North West -121 18 £57,500 -28.13% 18
West Midlands +25 15 £60,000 +20.00% 26
Scotland -9 15 £57,500 -23.33% 28
East of England +3 13 £76,500 +2.00% 45
East Midlands -24 13 £48,500 +38.57% 5
Wales +39 9 £80,000 +119.33% 5
Yorkshire +55 6 £62,254 +24.51% 8
North East +37 6 £103,750 +72.92% 13
Northern Ireland +41 1 £50,000 - 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 (4.40%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.89%) Apache
4 5 (1.57%) CMS
4 5 (1.57%) SAS
5 4 (1.26%) Confluence
5 4 (1.26%) GemFire
6 2 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 44 (13.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (5.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.31%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 23 (7.23%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.63%) Maximo
3 2 (0.63%) PeopleSoft Financials
3 2 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.31%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.31%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle iRecruitment
4 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 115 (36.16%) Azure
2 64 (20.13%) Power Platform
3 44 (13.84%) AWS
4 33 (10.38%) GCP
5 20 (6.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (5.03%) PowerApps
7 15 (4.72%) Snowflake
8 14 (4.40%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (3.46%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (2.83%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.83%) Power Automate
11 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.57%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (1.57%) Serverless
13 4 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.26%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.26%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.63%) Multicast
1 2 (0.63%) RTP
2 1 (0.31%) HTTP
2 1 (0.31%) Intranet
2 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (16.04%) Power BI
2 37 (11.64%) NoSQL
3 31 (9.75%) SQL Server
4 27 (8.49%) MongoDB
5 26 (8.18%) Big Data
6 23 (7.23%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (7.23%) Oracle ODI
6 23 (7.23%) Relational Database
7 22 (6.92%) Data Lake
8 17 (5.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (5.35%) BigQuery
9 16 (5.03%) BusinessObjects
9 16 (5.03%) Data Mining
10 15 (4.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (4.40%) Hadoop
11 14 (4.40%) Tableau
12 12 (3.77%) Metadata
12 12 (3.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 10 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (5.66%) Git
2 12 (3.77%) JIRA
3 7 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.20%) Visual Studio
3 7 (2.20%) webpack
4 6 (1.89%) GitLab
5 5 (1.57%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.26%) Grunt
6 4 (1.26%) gulp
7 3 (0.94%) Babel
7 3 (0.94%) ERwin
7 3 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.94%) Subversion
8 2 (0.63%) Maven
9 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.31%) MLflow
9 1 (0.31%) Moq
9 1 (0.31%) SpecFlow
General
1 105 (33.02%) Finance
2 85 (26.73%) Analytical Skills
3 80 (25.16%) Social Skills
4 31 (9.75%) Banking
4 31 (9.75%) Retail
5 26 (8.18%) Front Office
6 25 (7.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (7.23%) Law
8 14 (4.40%) Marketing
8 14 (4.40%) Public Sector
9 13 (4.09%) Legal
10 10 (3.14%) Electronics
11 7 (2.20%) Agriculture
12 5 (1.57%) Advertising
12 5 (1.57%) Games
12 5 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.26%) iGaming
14 3 (0.94%) Automotive
14 3 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 107 (33.65%) Developer
2 57 (17.92%) Senior
3 40 (12.58%) Lead
4 38 (11.95%) Software Engineer
5 27 (8.49%) Senior Developer
6 22 (6.92%) Junior
7 20 (6.29%) Architect
7 20 (6.29%) Consultant
8 19 (5.97%) C++ Developer
9 18 (5.66%) Junior Developer
10 17 (5.35%) C++ Quantitative Developer
10 17 (5.35%) Quantitative Developer
11 16 (5.03%) Administrator
11 16 (5.03%) Data Engineer
11 16 (5.03%) Linux Developer
11 16 (5.03%) Oracle Consultant
11 16 (5.03%) Python Developer
12 15 (4.72%) Analyst
12 15 (4.72%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
12 15 (4.72%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.32%) Kafka
2 28 (8.81%) REST
3 26 (8.18%) React
4 24 (7.55%) .NET
5 22 (6.92%) Oracle Fusion
6 20 (6.29%) AngularJS
7 18 (5.66%) gRPC
7 18 (5.66%) Middleware
8 17 (5.35%) WebSockets
9 15 (4.72%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 14 (4.40%) CSS
11 13 (4.09%) XML
12 10 (3.14%) ASP.NET
12 10 (3.14%) HTML
12 10 (3.14%) JSON
13 9 (2.83%) .NET Core
13 9 (2.83%) Spring
14 8 (2.52%) ADO
14 8 (2.52%) MERN Stack
14 8 (2.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 105 (33.02%) Algorithms
2 36 (11.32%) Legacy Systems
3 29 (9.12%) Distributed Systems
4 23 (7.23%) Hedge funds
5 22 (6.92%) Public Cloud
6 21 (6.60%) Management Information System
7 18 (5.66%) Equities
8 14 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (4.09%) Fixed Income
9 13 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (3.77%) Reference Data
10 12 (3.77%) Replication
11 11 (3.46%) Cloud Native
11 11 (3.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (2.83%) Product Ownership
13 8 (2.52%) Client/Server
14 7 (2.20%) Virtual Team
15 6 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (1.89%) FMCG
16 5 (1.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 42 (13.21%) Linux
2 17 (5.35%) Apple iOS
3 15 (4.72%) Windows
4 11 (3.46%) Android
5 5 (1.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (26.10%) Agile
2 81 (25.47%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (22.33%) ETL
4 65 (20.44%) Software Engineering
5 62 (19.50%) Analytics
6 53 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 49 (15.41%) Data Management
8 47 (14.78%) OOP
9 43 (13.52%) Business Intelligence
9 43 (13.52%) Data Analysis
10 42 (13.21%) Coaching
10 42 (13.21%) Data Modelling
10 42 (13.21%) Migration
11 41 (12.89%) OO
12 40 (12.58%) Data Migration
12 40 (12.58%) Mentoring
13 39 (12.26%) CI/CD
14 38 (11.95%) Artificial Intelligence
14 38 (11.95%) Data Pipeline
15 37 (11.64%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 153 (48.11%) SQL
2 88 (27.67%) Python
3 67 (21.07%) Java
4 51 (16.04%) C#
5 45 (14.15%) C++
6 39 (12.26%) JavaScript
7 27 (8.49%) PL/SQL
8 19 (5.97%) VBA
9 17 (5.35%) T-SQL
10 16 (5.03%) TypeScript
11 9 (2.83%) C
11 9 (2.83%) Go
12 8 (2.52%) Scala
13 5 (1.57%) R
13 5 (1.57%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.26%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.26%) Rust
15 3 (0.94%) Julia
15 3 (0.94%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.63%) Bash
Qualifications
1 66 (20.75%) Degree
2 14 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (2.83%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.20%) Numerate Degree
6 6 (1.89%) PhD
6 6 (1.89%) Security Cleared
7 4 (1.26%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.94%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.94%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.01%) Data Quality
2 28 (8.81%) QA
3 13 (4.09%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.63%) Dublin Core
4 2 (0.63%) GDPR
4 2 (0.63%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.31%) CDISC
System Software
1 26 (8.18%) Docker
2 5 (1.57%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (11.95%) Kubernetes
2 21 (6.60%) Terraform
3 5 (1.57%) Oozie
4 3 (0.94%) Grafana
4 3 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.63%) Ansible
5 2 (0.63%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 40 (12.58%) Oracle
3 24 (7.55%) Databricks
4 17 (5.35%) Google
5 16 (5.03%) Facebook
6 15 (4.72%) IBM
7 13 (4.09%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.83%) Workday
9 8 (2.52%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.89%) ANSYS
10 6 (1.89%) Teradata
11 5 (1.57%) Cloudera
11 5 (1.57%) Informatica
11 5 (1.57%) Talend
12 4 (1.26%) Solace
12 4 (1.26%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.94%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.94%) SAP
13 3 (0.94%) Sybase
14 2 (0.63%) PeopleSoft