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 have cited Data Structures over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 276 282 185
Rank change year-on-year +6 -97 +83
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 1,032 1,352 3,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.05% 1.29% 2.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.97% 3.01% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 491 772 924
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,050 £40,815
25th Percentile £46,306 £51,833 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +7.57% -3.46%
75th Percentile £90,000 £89,852 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,249 £59,098 £53,500
% change year-on-year +1.95% +10.46% +1.90%

All Generic Skills
UK

Data Structures is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,798 44,935 72,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.44% 42.88% 47.15%
Number of salaries quoted 22,967 24,136 34,100
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,178 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Top 18 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 26 April 2024. 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 -1 842 £70,000 +1.71% 201
UK excluding London +52 737 £60,249 +1.95% 98
Work from Home +14 378 £65,000 -5.55% 139
London -38 279 £83,750 +4.69% 119
North of England +109 196 £71,038 +36.61% 24
Scotland +43 164 £75,000 +8.00% 15
South East +4 161 £50,000 -9.09% 15
North West +126 157 £80,000 +16.83% 11
Midlands +74 123 £42,500 -26.09% 16
East Midlands +45 74 £35,000 -36.36% 5
West Midlands +36 49 £42,500 -32.00% 11
East of England -22 49 £75,000 +25.00% 20
South West -52 30 £70,576 +19.23% 7
North East +4 20 £60,000 +20.39% 6
Yorkshire +42 19 £50,000 - 7
Wales -3 10 £36,476 -18.34% 2
Northern Ireland +18 3 £65,000 -16.13% 1
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1

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 61 (5.91%) Apache Spark
2 11 (1.07%) SAS
3 10 (0.97%) Apache
4 6 (0.58%) Confluence
5 4 (0.39%) CMS
5 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.19%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 36 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.39%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.19%) Sketch
7 2 (0.19%) Zeplin
8 1 (0.097%) InVision
8 1 (0.097%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 8 (0.78%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) ResourceLink
2 4 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.29%) Endur
3 3 (0.29%) Primavera
4 2 (0.19%) MIS ActiveH
4 2 (0.19%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.097%) Data Workbench
5 1 (0.097%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.097%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.097%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.097%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 461 (44.67%) Azure
2 290 (28.10%) AWS
3 221 (21.41%) IBM Cloud
4 195 (18.90%) Azure DevOps
5 157 (15.21%) Serverless
6 120 (11.63%) Azure Logic Apps
7 117 (11.34%) Azure API Management
7 117 (11.34%) Azure Functions
7 117 (11.34%) Azure Service Bus
8 87 (8.43%) SaaS
9 74 (7.17%) Power Platform
10 70 (6.78%) GCP
11 44 (4.26%) Snowflake
12 36 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
13 34 (3.29%) Matillion
14 31 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 30 (2.91%) GitHub
16 27 (2.62%) Amazon S3
17 25 (2.42%) PaaS
18 23 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.07%) Wireless
2 7 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.58%) Firewall
4 5 (0.48%) BGP
4 5 (0.48%) Internet
4 5 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (0.48%) IPsec
4 5 (0.48%) LAN
4 5 (0.48%) Network Security
4 5 (0.48%) NGFW
4 5 (0.48%) OSPF
4 5 (0.48%) SSL
4 5 (0.48%) VLAN
4 5 (0.48%) VPN
4 5 (0.48%) WAN
5 3 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.19%) 4G
6 2 (0.19%) 5G
6 2 (0.19%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.19%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (25.10%) NoSQL
2 243 (23.55%) PostgreSQL
3 227 (22.00%) MongoDB
4 221 (21.41%) DB2
5 200 (19.38%) Relational Database
6 127 (12.31%) SQL Server
7 100 (9.69%) Data Warehouse
8 74 (7.17%) Elasticsearch
9 68 (6.59%) Big Data
10 64 (6.20%) Data Lake
11 63 (6.10%) Power BI
12 47 (4.55%) Redis
13 46 (4.46%) Data Vault
14 42 (4.07%) Hadoop
15 35 (3.39%) Star Schema
16 34 (3.29%) Delta Lake
17 24 (2.33%) Tableau
18 23 (2.23%) BigQuery
18 23 (2.23%) Scylla
19 20 (1.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 80 (7.75%) JUnit
2 70 (6.78%) JIRA
3 65 (6.30%) Jasmine
3 65 (6.30%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (5.81%) Cypress.io
4 60 (5.81%) Protractor
4 60 (5.81%) Selenium
4 60 (5.81%) WebDriver
5 47 (4.55%) GitLab
6 45 (4.36%) Git
7 20 (1.94%) Jenkins
8 11 (1.07%) TeamCity
9 9 (0.87%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
11 7 (0.68%) Maven
12 6 (0.58%) Postman
12 6 (0.58%) SoapUI
13 5 (0.48%) Grunt
13 5 (0.48%) gulp
13 5 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 265 (25.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 250 (24.22%) Finance
3 229 (22.19%) Social Skills
4 225 (21.80%) Public Sector
5 129 (12.50%) Law
6 123 (11.92%) Banking
7 100 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
8 77 (7.46%) Legal
9 67 (6.49%) Investment Banking
10 41 (3.97%) Retail
11 32 (3.10%) Games
12 29 (2.81%) Marketing
13 19 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.55%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.26%) Private Banking
16 12 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (0.97%) Local Government
18 9 (0.87%) Multimedia
18 9 (0.87%) Tech for Good
19 8 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 302 (29.26%) Developer
2 175 (16.96%) Software Engineer
3 148 (14.34%) Senior
4 144 (13.95%) Full Stack Developer
5 143 (13.86%) Full Stack Engineer
6 130 (12.60%) Data Engineer
7 117 (11.34%) Azure Developer
8 113 (10.95%) Azure Engineer
9 110 (10.66%) Lead
10 75 (7.27%) Java Engineer
10 75 (7.27%) Java Software Engineer
11 49 (4.75%) Analyst
11 49 (4.75%) Architect
12 33 (3.20%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 33 (3.20%) Lead Software Engineer
12 33 (3.20%) Software Developer
13 32 (3.10%) Principal Engineer
13 32 (3.10%) Senior Developer
14 31 (3.00%) Senior Architect
15 29 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (34.79%) CSS
2 358 (34.69%) HTML
3 349 (33.82%) AngularJS
4 339 (32.85%) React
5 325 (31.49%) .NET
6 300 (29.07%) jQuery
6 300 (29.07%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 256 (24.81%) REST
8 247 (23.93%) ASP.NET
9 245 (23.74%) Web Services
10 241 (23.35%) Vue
11 235 (22.77%) Node.js
12 223 (21.61%) ASP.NET Core
13 221 (21.41%) Backbone.js
13 221 (21.41%) Ember.js
14 141 (13.66%) JSON
15 123 (11.92%) Spring
16 82 (7.95%) Hibernate
17 79 (7.66%) J2EE
17 79 (7.66%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 551 (53.39%) Algorithms
2 227 (22.00%) Blockchain
3 226 (21.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 104 (10.08%) e-Learning
5 77 (7.46%) Client/Server
6 59 (5.72%) Self-Motivation
7 58 (5.62%) Public Cloud
8 54 (5.23%) Management Information System
9 48 (4.65%) Cloud Native
10 42 (4.07%) Reinsurance
11 30 (2.91%) Product Ownership
12 23 (2.23%) Virtual Team
13 19 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (1.16%) Hedge funds
16 11 (1.07%) Online Games
17 9 (0.87%) Augmented Reality
17 9 (0.87%) IoT
17 9 (0.87%) Virtual Reality
18 8 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 235 (22.77%) Linux
2 232 (22.48%) Windows
3 230 (22.29%) Android
4 228 (22.09%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.39%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.19%) Unix
7 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.097%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (49.81%) Agile
2 410 (39.73%) Artificial Intelligence
3 355 (34.40%) Design Patterns
4 310 (30.04%) OOP
5 299 (28.97%) Full Stack Development
5 299 (28.97%) User Experience
6 294 (28.49%) Web Development
7 290 (28.10%) Software Engineering
8 272 (26.36%) Problem-Solving
9 260 (25.19%) OO
10 245 (23.74%) DevOps
11 242 (23.45%) MVC
12 228 (22.09%) Design Thinking
13 223 (21.61%) SOLID
14 222 (21.51%) Co-Creation
15 221 (21.41%) MVVM
15 221 (21.41%) Responsive Web Design
16 218 (21.12%) Computer Science
17 208 (20.16%) Machine Learning
18 194 (18.80%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 527 (51.07%) SQL
2 420 (40.70%) Python
3 407 (39.44%) JavaScript
4 339 (32.85%) Java
5 310 (30.04%) C#
6 143 (13.86%) TypeScript
7 51 (4.94%) Go
8 49 (4.75%) C
9 42 (4.07%) Scala
10 28 (2.71%) C++
11 23 (2.23%) Bash
12 18 (1.74%) Fortran
13 17 (1.65%) PowerShell
13 17 (1.65%) R
14 12 (1.16%) Ruby
15 10 (0.97%) PHP
15 10 (0.97%) Rust
15 10 (0.97%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.48%) Embedded C
17 4 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 233 (22.58%) Degree
2 68 (6.59%) Master's Degree
3 50 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 33 (3.20%) PhD
5 25 (2.42%) TOGAF Certification
6 21 (2.03%) Numerate Degree
7 11 (1.07%) MBA
7 11 (1.07%) Security Cleared
8 7 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (0.68%) HNC
9 5 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.48%) CCIE
9 5 (0.48%) JNCIE
9 5 (0.48%) SC Cleared
10 4 (0.39%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.29%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.29%) Sun Certification
12 2 (0.19%) CISSP
12 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (10.85%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.36%) QA
3 13 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.68%) CDISC
5 5 (0.48%) SLA
6 3 (0.29%) PMO
7 2 (0.19%) GDPR
7 2 (0.19%) GRC
7 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.097%) UCITS
System Software
1 66 (6.40%) Docker
2 5 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.097%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.097%) NFS
4 1 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.097%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.097%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 79 (7.66%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.81%) Terraform
3 16 (1.55%) Grafana
3 16 (1.55%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.48%) Ansible
5 4 (0.39%) SCCM
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.097%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.097%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.097%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.097%) Podman
Vendors
1 223 (21.61%) IBM
2 221 (21.41%) Red Hat
3 88 (8.53%) Microsoft
4 84 (8.14%) Oracle
5 66 (6.40%) Google
6 62 (6.01%) Databricks
7 55 (5.33%) Informatica
8 26 (2.52%) SAP
9 23 (2.23%) Dell
10 16 (1.55%) Splunk
11 15 (1.45%) Dynatrace
12 12 (1.16%) OpenAI
13 11 (1.07%) Automation Anywhere
13 11 (1.07%) Blue Prism
13 11 (1.07%) Salesforce
13 11 (1.07%) UiPath
14 10 (0.97%) Teradata
15 9 (0.87%) Sage
16 8 (0.78%) MuleSoft
17 6 (0.58%) iManage