Data Structures Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 284 303 309
Rank change year-on-year +19 +6 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 111 148 212
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.64% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.89% 1.99% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 100 119
10th Percentile £324 £400 £357
25th Percentile £400 £472 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £549 £508
Median % change year-on-year -13.48% +8.18% +3.26%
75th Percentile £622 £625 £563
90th Percentile £683 £704 £640
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £40.05 £22.45 £15.94
25th Percentile £40.13 £36.25 £16.41
Median hourly rate £40.25 £79.19 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year -49.17% +370.81% -
75th Percentile £40.38 - £24.50
90th Percentile £40.45 - £42.80
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £57.72 £16.82
% change year-on-year -29.83% +243.16% -61.33%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,883 7,452 9,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.99% 32.39% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,537 5,017 6,733
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £378 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £672
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 716 420 456
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.43
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.63
Median hourly rate £29.25 £22.00 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year +32.95% +4.14% -11.98%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £46.54
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.83
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Structures as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Structures in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Structures in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in the UK excluding London

Data Structures
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +42 35 £538 +7.50% 21
Midlands +32 25 £606 +1.04% 15
West Midlands +40 24 £563 +7.14% 11
Scotland +40 23 £400 -34.69% 10
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
Wales +4 1 £175 -66.65% 4
Data Structures
UK

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (9.01%) Apache Spark
2 9 (8.11%) Confluence
3 1 (0.90%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.80%) Sketch
2 2 (1.80%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.80%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.90%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 38 (34.23%) Azure
2 34 (30.63%) AWS
3 23 (20.72%) GCP
4 17 (15.32%) Power Platform
5 9 (8.11%) GitHub
5 9 (8.11%) Kong
6 7 (6.31%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.41%) Apigee
7 6 (5.41%) Azure Stack
7 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.50%) Power Automate
8 5 (4.50%) PowerApps
9 4 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.60%) npm
9 4 (3.60%) Yarn
10 3 (2.70%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.80%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.80%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.11%) DNS
1 9 (8.11%) Firewall
1 9 (8.11%) HTTP
1 9 (8.11%) TCP/IP
1 9 (8.11%) VPN
2 3 (2.70%) BIG-IP
2 3 (2.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 3 (2.70%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (2.70%) SSL
3 2 (1.80%) RS-485
4 1 (0.90%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.22%) Relational Database
2 17 (15.32%) Power BI
3 16 (14.41%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (6.31%) Tableau
6 6 (5.41%) Data Lake
6 6 (5.41%) Metadata
6 6 (5.41%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.41%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (5.41%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.50%) Data Mining
8 4 (3.60%) Big Data
8 4 (3.60%) MySQL
8 4 (3.60%) Oracle Database
8 4 (3.60%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (3.60%) Oracle8/8i Database
8 4 (3.60%) Redis
9 3 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (17.12%) JIRA
2 13 (11.71%) Git
3 9 (8.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 9 (8.11%) CircleCI
3 9 (8.11%) GitLab
3 9 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.11%) Travis CI
4 4 (3.60%) Jasmine
4 4 (3.60%) Karma Test Runner
4 4 (3.60%) Mocha
4 4 (3.60%) webpack
5 3 (2.70%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.80%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.80%) ERwin
6 2 (1.80%) kappa
7 1 (0.90%) Ant
7 1 (0.90%) Gradle
7 1 (0.90%) JUnit
7 1 (0.90%) Maven
7 1 (0.90%) Mockito
General
1 30 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (24.32%) Social Skills
3 20 (18.02%) Finance
4 9 (8.11%) Banking
5 8 (7.21%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (6.31%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.50%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.60%) Retail
9 3 (2.70%) Electronics
9 3 (2.70%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.80%) Marketing
10 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.90%) Billing
11 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 36 (32.43%) Developer
2 23 (20.72%) Analyst
3 21 (18.92%) Java Developer
4 15 (13.51%) Architect
4 15 (13.51%) Data Architect
4 15 (13.51%) Senior
5 13 (11.71%) Data Analyst
6 8 (7.21%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (6.31%) Data Engineer
7 7 (6.31%) Senior Data Analyst
8 6 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Backend Developer
8 6 (5.41%) Business Analyst
8 6 (5.41%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) SAP Analyst
8 6 (5.41%) SAP Data Analyst
9 5 (4.50%) Lead
10 4 (3.60%) Consultant
10 4 (3.60%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.12%) Spring
2 18 (16.22%) XML
3 17 (15.32%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (14.41%) JSON
4 16 (14.41%) Kafka
4 16 (14.41%) RESTful
5 11 (9.91%) Spring Boot
6 9 (8.11%) React
6 9 (8.11%) YAML
7 8 (7.21%) OpenTracing
8 7 (6.31%) .NET
8 7 (6.31%) Web Services
9 6 (5.41%) .NET Framework
9 6 (5.41%) REST
10 4 (3.60%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.60%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 3 (2.70%) .NET Core
11 3 (2.70%) CSS
11 3 (2.70%) Entity Framework
11 3 (2.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.12%) Algorithms
2 18 (16.22%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.31%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.31%) Reference Data
4 5 (4.50%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.50%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.70%) Biopharmaceutical
6 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.80%) Derivative
7 2 (1.80%) FPGA
7 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.90%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.90%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.90%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.90%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.90%) NHS
8 1 (0.90%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.71%) Linux
2 10 (9.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (43.24%) Agile
2 37 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 25 (22.52%) Microservices
4 24 (21.62%) Analytics
4 24 (21.62%) Scrum
5 22 (19.82%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (18.92%) Migration
7 19 (17.12%) CI/CD
8 18 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (14.41%) DevOps
9 16 (14.41%) Software Engineering
9 16 (14.41%) Use Case
10 15 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (12.61%) Data Architecture
11 14 (12.61%) ETL
12 13 (11.71%) Computer Science
12 13 (11.71%) Data Analysis
12 13 (11.71%) OO
13 12 (10.81%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (27.03%) Java
2 29 (26.13%) Python
3 19 (17.12%) SQL
4 12 (10.81%) Scala
5 11 (9.91%) Kotlin
6 10 (9.01%) C#
6 10 (9.01%) JavaScript
7 9 (8.11%) Bash
7 9 (8.11%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.50%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.60%) C
9 4 (3.60%) C++
9 4 (3.60%) Perl
9 4 (3.60%) R
10 3 (2.70%) ABAP
10 3 (2.70%) ActionScript
10 3 (2.70%) Rust
11 2 (1.80%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.80%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.90%) JCL
Qualifications
1 16 (14.41%) Degree
2 10 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.60%) Master's Degree
3 4 (3.60%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.60%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.70%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.70%) PhD
5 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.41%) Data Quality
2 14 (12.61%) QA
3 7 (6.31%) GDPR
4 1 (0.90%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (18.92%) Docker
2 4 (3.60%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 22 (19.82%) Kubernetes
2 17 (15.32%) Prometheus
3 13 (11.71%) Grafana
4 9 (8.11%) Ansible
4 9 (8.11%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (8.11%) Kibana
4 9 (8.11%) logstash
4 9 (8.11%) Progress Chef
4 9 (8.11%) Puppet
4 9 (8.11%) Terraform
5 8 (7.21%) Zipkin
6 4 (3.60%) Data Guard
6 4 (3.60%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 22 (19.82%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.61%) SAP
3 12 (10.81%) Splunk
4 9 (8.11%) Oracle
5 5 (4.50%) Autodesk
6 4 (3.60%) Ariba
7 3 (2.70%) F5
8 2 (1.80%) Google
8 2 (1.80%) IDERA
8 2 (1.80%) Informatica
8 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.80%) Talend
9 1 (0.90%) Cadence
9 1 (0.90%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.90%) Workday