Data Structures Contracts in England

Data Structures
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Structures over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 286 328 270
Rank change year-on-year +42 -58 -28
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 280 360 729
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.77% 0.75% 1.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.52% 2.22% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 254 487
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £575 £635
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -9.45% +13.90%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £763
90th Percentile £825 £950 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £40.10 £29.20 £13.58
25th Percentile £40.25 £36.25 £16.02
Median hourly rate £40.50 £79.19 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year -48.86% +370.81% -62.20%
75th Percentile £55.25 - £25.70
90th Percentile £64.10 - £38.14
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £57.72 £16.82
% change year-on-year -29.83% +243.16% -61.33%

All Generic Skills
England

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 contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,131 16,221 23,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.59% 33.66% 33.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,299 11,282 16,987
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £571 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 810 575 635
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.14 £10.63 £17.42
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.72% +2.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £49.67
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.77
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%

Data Structures
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in England

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in England

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in England

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in England

Data Structures
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Structures in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Structures in England

Data Structures
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Structures within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +43 175 £665 +8.97% 117
North of England +42 35 £538 +7.50% 21
Midlands +32 25 £606 +1.04% 15
West Midlands +40 24 £563 +7.14% 11
North West +28 21 £525 +18.31% 13
South West +16 13 £525 -2.78% 9
East of England +13 12 £463 -7.50% 8
Yorkshire +21 11 £625 +13.64% 6
South East -35 10 £469 -18.48% 9
North East +14 6 £330 -45.00% 2
East Midlands +4 1 £675 +12.50% 4
Data Structures
UK

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.93%) Confluence
3 7 (2.50%) SAS
4 6 (2.14%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.79%) Apache
6 4 (1.43%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (1.07%) CMS
7 3 (1.07%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.36%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.36%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.36%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 11 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.71%) Sketch
2 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (9.29%) Dynamics AX
2 8 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.71%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.71%) SAP GTS
4 2 (0.71%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.71%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.36%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 93 (33.21%) Azure
2 48 (17.14%) Power Platform
3 37 (13.21%) AWS
4 31 (11.07%) Power Automate
4 31 (11.07%) PowerApps
5 29 (10.36%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (9.64%) Dynamics 365
7 24 (8.57%) GCP
8 16 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (4.29%) Microsoft Purview
10 11 (3.93%) Amazon S3
10 11 (3.93%) Azure Stack
11 10 (3.57%) GitHub
12 9 (3.21%) Kong
13 7 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (2.14%) Apigee
14 6 (2.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (2.14%) Snowflake
15 5 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.00%) DNS
2 13 (4.64%) Firewall
3 9 (3.21%) HTTP
3 9 (3.21%) TCP/IP
3 9 (3.21%) VPN
4 4 (1.43%) DHCP
4 4 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.07%) BIG-IP
5 3 (1.07%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (1.07%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (1.07%) SSL
6 2 (0.71%) RS-485
6 2 (0.71%) SSH
7 1 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (17.14%) Power BI
2 36 (12.86%) Data Lake
3 31 (11.07%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (10.71%) Relational Database
5 18 (6.43%) NoSQL
6 14 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 13 (4.64%) Big Data
8 12 (4.29%) MongoDB
8 12 (4.29%) Tableau
9 11 (3.93%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (3.21%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (3.21%) KDB
11 8 (2.86%) Metadata
11 8 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (1.79%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.79%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.79%) Redis
12 5 (1.79%) Star Schema
13 4 (1.43%) MySQL
13 4 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (7.50%) JIRA
2 20 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 17 (6.07%) Git
3 17 (6.07%) GitLab
4 9 (3.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (3.21%) CircleCI
4 9 (3.21%) Travis CI
5 6 (2.14%) webpack
6 4 (1.43%) Gradle
6 4 (1.43%) Jasmine
6 4 (1.43%) JUnit
6 4 (1.43%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (1.43%) Mocha
7 3 (1.07%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.07%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.71%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.71%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.71%) Maven
8 2 (0.71%) TeamCity
General
1 105 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 90 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (28.21%) Finance
4 41 (14.64%) Public Sector
5 33 (11.79%) Retail
6 27 (9.64%) General Ledger
7 18 (6.43%) Front Office
8 13 (4.64%) Banking
9 9 (3.21%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.14%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.79%) Marketing
13 4 (1.43%) Investment Banking
14 3 (1.07%) Electronics
15 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.71%) Legal
15 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.71%) Police
Job Titles
1 66 (23.57%) Developer
2 57 (20.36%) Architect
3 39 (13.93%) Consultant
3 39 (13.93%) Senior
4 32 (11.43%) Analyst
5 31 (11.07%) Data Architect
6 24 (8.57%) Java Developer
7 19 (6.79%) Microsoft Consultant
7 19 (6.79%) Technical Architect
8 18 (6.43%) Data Analyst
8 18 (6.43%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.64%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 13 (4.64%) SharePoint Architect
10 12 (4.29%) Lead
10 12 (4.29%) Python Developer
11 11 (3.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (3.57%) Python Engineer
12 10 (3.57%) Senior Developer
12 10 (3.57%) Site Engineer
13 9 (3.21%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.50%) JSON
2 32 (11.43%) XML
3 30 (10.71%) React
4 26 (9.29%) REST
5 21 (7.50%) Spring
6 19 (6.79%) RESTful
7 18 (6.43%) CSS
7 18 (6.43%) HTML
8 16 (5.71%) Kafka
9 13 (4.64%) .NET
9 13 (4.64%) Node.js
9 13 (4.64%) YAML
10 10 (3.57%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (3.21%) Web Services
12 8 (2.86%) Django
12 8 (2.86%) JSON Schema
12 8 (2.86%) Pandas
13 6 (2.14%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 95 (33.93%) Algorithms
2 30 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 18 (6.43%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (5.71%) Derivative
5 16 (5.71%) Product Ownership
6 15 (5.36%) Management Information System
7 13 (4.64%) Reference Data
8 12 (4.29%) Fixed Income
9 7 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.79%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.79%) NHS
12 4 (1.43%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.43%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.43%) Virtual Team
13 3 (1.07%) Biopharmaceutical
13 3 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.79%) Linux
2 11 (3.93%) Unix
3 3 (1.07%) Android
4 1 (0.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (34.64%) Agile
2 74 (26.43%) Data Modelling
3 66 (23.57%) Business Intelligence
4 63 (22.50%) DevOps
5 56 (20.00%) Analytics
5 56 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 53 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (18.21%) CI/CD
8 43 (15.36%) Microservices
9 42 (15.00%) Migration
10 38 (13.57%) Requirements Gathering
11 35 (12.50%) ETL
12 32 (11.43%) Data Migration
13 31 (11.07%) Data Architecture
13 31 (11.07%) Data Governance
13 31 (11.07%) Design Patterns
14 29 (10.36%) Accounts Payable
14 29 (10.36%) Data Analysis
14 29 (10.36%) OO
14 29 (10.36%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 82 (29.29%) Python
2 63 (22.50%) SQL
3 62 (22.14%) Java
4 30 (10.71%) JavaScript
5 20 (7.14%) C++
6 16 (5.71%) C#
7 13 (4.64%) Go
8 12 (4.29%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.57%) Bash
9 10 (3.57%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.21%) C
10 9 (3.21%) Perl
10 9 (3.21%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.14%) Kotlin
11 6 (2.14%) R
11 6 (2.14%) Scala
12 5 (1.79%) Rust
13 4 (1.43%) ABAP
14 3 (1.07%) ActionScript
14 3 (1.07%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (22.14%) Degree
2 29 (10.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 24 (8.57%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.07%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.07%) PhD
7 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.07%) QA
3 16 (5.71%) GDPR
4 3 (1.07%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.36%) MiFID
5 1 (0.36%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (8.93%) Docker
2 9 (3.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (14.64%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.43%) Grafana
2 18 (6.43%) Prometheus
3 12 (4.29%) Terraform
4 9 (3.21%) Ansible
4 9 (3.21%) Consul
4 9 (3.21%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (3.21%) Kibana
4 9 (3.21%) logstash
4 9 (3.21%) Progress Chef
4 9 (3.21%) Puppet
5 1 (0.36%) Argo
5 1 (0.36%) Istio
5 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (30.36%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.86%) SAP
3 16 (5.71%) NetApp
4 13 (4.64%) Oracle
5 10 (3.57%) Splunk
6 9 (3.21%) SaltStack
7 7 (2.50%) Databricks
7 7 (2.50%) ION Trading
8 6 (2.14%) Google
9 5 (1.79%) Ariba
9 5 (1.79%) Autodesk
10 4 (1.43%) Sparx
11 3 (1.07%) F5
12 2 (0.71%) Alteryx
12 2 (0.71%) CA
12 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.71%) Talend
13 1 (0.36%) JD Edwards
13 1 (0.36%) Lotus