Hybrid/Remote Data Structures Job Trends

Data Structures
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in remote or hybrid work. 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 275 328 310
Rank change year-on-year +53 -18 -31
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 167 94 281
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 0.57% 0.88%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.07% 1.34% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 100 58 195
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,813 £50,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% - +16.18%
75th Percentile £93,125 £90,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - +11.11%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,054 7,034 11,145
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.79% 42.71% 34.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,007 3,617 8,481
10th Percentile £34,400 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.10%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Structures and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Structures job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Structures
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Structures.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Structures

Data Structures
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Structures over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Data Structures salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Structures
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 10 (5.99%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.79%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.40%) SAS
3 4 (2.40%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.20%) Apache
4 2 (1.20%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 19 (11.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (7.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (2.40%) NetSuite
2 4 (2.40%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.20%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.60%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.60%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (29.94%) Power Platform
2 37 (22.16%) Azure
3 31 (18.56%) AWS
4 22 (13.17%) GCP
4 22 (13.17%) SaaS
5 17 (10.18%) Entra ID
6 10 (5.99%) PowerApps
7 9 (5.39%) Intacct
8 8 (4.79%) dbt
8 8 (4.79%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (4.79%) Power Automate
9 7 (4.19%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.19%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (3.59%) Cloud Composer
10 6 (3.59%) Dagster
11 5 (2.99%) Google Analytics
11 5 (2.99%) SuccessFactors
11 5 (2.99%) Vertex AI
12 4 (2.40%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.78%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (24.55%) Power BI
2 22 (13.17%) Tableau
3 19 (11.38%) SQL Server
4 15 (8.98%) Data Lake
5 14 (8.38%) SAP BW
6 13 (7.78%) BigQuery
6 13 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (6.59%) MySQL
8 10 (5.99%) Metadata
9 8 (4.79%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (4.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.99%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (2.40%) SAS EBI
13 3 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.80%) Big Data
13 3 (1.80%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.80%) Semantic Layer
14 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Git
2 3 (1.80%) GitLab
2 3 (1.80%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.20%) JIRA
4 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.60%) CMake
4 1 (0.60%) MLflow
4 1 (0.60%) Postman
4 1 (0.60%) Valgrind
General
1 87 (52.10%) Social Skills
2 69 (41.32%) Finance
3 38 (22.75%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.38%) Legal
5 11 (6.59%) Billing
5 11 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (6.59%) Law
6 10 (5.99%) Marketing
7 9 (5.39%) Retail
8 8 (4.79%) Banking
9 7 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (2.40%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (2.40%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.40%) Publishing
11 3 (1.80%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.80%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.20%) Social Housing
12 2 (1.20%) Welsh Language
13 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 43 (25.75%) Senior
2 42 (25.15%) Analyst
3 30 (17.96%) Developer
4 24 (14.37%) Data Analyst
5 23 (13.77%) Administrator
6 18 (10.78%) Systems Administrator
7 17 (10.18%) Consultant
8 16 (9.58%) Data Engineer
8 16 (9.58%) Senior Developer
9 15 (8.98%) Backend Developer
9 15 (8.98%) Senior Backend Developer
10 10 (5.99%) Senior Data Engineer
11 9 (5.39%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 9 (5.39%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
11 9 (5.39%) Senior Systems Administrator
12 8 (4.79%) Business Analyst
12 8 (4.79%) Financial Analyst
12 8 (4.79%) SQL Analyst
12 8 (4.79%) SQL Data Analyst
12 8 (4.79%) SSRS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.78%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (5.39%) JSON
2 9 (5.39%) Kafka
3 8 (4.79%) XML
4 6 (3.59%) .NET
5 5 (2.99%) REST
6 4 (2.40%) RESTful
6 4 (2.40%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.80%) Middleware
8 2 (1.20%) CSS
8 2 (1.20%) Django
8 2 (1.20%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.20%) Flask
8 2 (1.20%) HTML
8 2 (1.20%) OpenAPI
8 2 (1.20%) PySpark
8 2 (1.20%) React
8 2 (1.20%) Swagger
8 2 (1.20%) Vue
9 1 (0.60%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.17%) Algorithms
2 21 (12.57%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (10.78%) Social Media
4 12 (7.19%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.19%) Management Information System
5 7 (4.19%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.59%) Anti-Piracy
6 6 (3.59%) Client/Server
6 6 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.40%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.40%) FMCG
7 4 (2.40%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.80%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.80%) PKI
8 3 (1.80%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.20%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.20%) NHS
9 2 (1.20%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.20%) Linux
2 1 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (32.93%) Data Modelling
2 51 (30.54%) Business Intelligence
3 49 (29.34%) Analytics
3 49 (29.34%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (19.76%) Validation
5 32 (19.16%) ERP
6 31 (18.56%) Software Engineering
7 30 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (17.96%) Process Improvement
8 27 (16.17%) ETL
8 27 (16.17%) Translating Business Requirements
9 26 (15.57%) Collaborative Working
9 26 (15.57%) Data Engineering
9 26 (15.57%) Data Governance
10 25 (14.97%) Agile
11 21 (12.57%) AI
11 21 (12.57%) OO
12 20 (11.98%) Data Management
12 20 (11.98%) Procure-to-Pay
13 19 (11.38%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 71 (42.51%) SQL
2 69 (41.32%) Python
3 18 (10.78%) Java
4 10 (5.99%) C++
4 10 (5.99%) T-SQL
5 8 (4.79%) C#
5 8 (4.79%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.79%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.59%) R
6 6 (3.59%) Scala
7 4 (2.40%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.80%) ABAP
8 3 (1.80%) Rust
9 2 (1.20%) C
10 1 (0.60%) Cypher
10 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.60%) Go
Qualifications
1 27 (16.17%) Degree
2 13 (7.78%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.79%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.40%) ACCA
4 4 (2.40%) CIMA
4 4 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.40%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.80%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.60%) IIBA
7 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.60%) PhD
7 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (26.95%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.59%) QA
3 9 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.40%) GDPR
5 3 (1.80%) GAAP
5 3 (1.80%) IFRS
5 3 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.20%) GRC
7 1 (0.60%) MiFID
System Software
1 17 (10.18%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.19%) Docker
3 1 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (3.59%) Terraform
2 3 (1.80%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (16.77%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.97%) SAP
3 22 (13.17%) Oracle
4 17 (10.18%) Salesforce
5 10 (5.99%) Sage
6 6 (3.59%) Google
7 5 (2.99%) Alteryx
7 5 (2.99%) Databricks
7 5 (2.99%) Informatica
7 5 (2.99%) Workday
8 4 (2.40%) Talend
9 2 (1.20%) Ariba
9 2 (1.20%) Concur
9 2 (1.20%) ESRI
9 2 (1.20%) Intapp
9 2 (1.20%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.60%) Adobe
10 1 (0.60%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.60%) JD Edwards