Data Structures Contracts

Data Structures
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Structures over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 319 270
Rank change year-on-year +17 -49 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 332 474 918
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.79% 1.03%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.51% 2.39% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 325 577
10th Percentile £385 £411 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £700 £749 £750
90th Percentile £775 £921 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £40.10 £18.88 £12.55
25th Percentile £40.25 £27.44 £15.63
Median hourly rate £40.50 £57.72 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year -29.83% +243.16% -61.33%
75th Percentile £55.25 £79.19 £17.23
90th Percentile £64.10 - £23.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.25 £79.19 £16.82
% change year-on-year -49.17% +370.81% -70.75%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,239 19,871 29,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.37% 33.29% 33.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,498 13,667 20,456
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £659 £680 £656
90th Percentile £788 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 907 640 726
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.42% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Structures over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +25 282 £563 -4.26% 202
London +27 172 £650 +2.36% 119
Work from Home +103 148 £600 +9.09% 137
UK excluding London +6 111 £500 -9.09% 103
North of England +57 45 £550 +10.00% 24
North West +45 32 £538 +19.44% 12
Midlands +28 22 £581 -3.13% 16
West Midlands +36 20 £531 +1.19% 11
Scotland +30 18 £400 -33.33% 16
South West +17 13 £525 -1.41% 8
East of England +14 11 £463 -7.50% 20
Yorkshire +29 10 £635 +15.45% 6
South East -49 8 £563 -2.17% 16
North East +24 6 £330 -40.00% 6
East Midlands +14 2 £638 +6.25% 5
Northern Ireland +7 2 £500 - 2
Wales 0 1 £175 -66.65% 3

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 17 (5.12%) SharePoint
2 14 (4.22%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.71%) Confluence
4 7 (2.11%) SAS
5 6 (1.81%) Apache
6 5 (1.51%) IBM Notes
7 4 (1.20%) CICS
7 4 (1.20%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.60%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.30%) CMS
10 1 (0.30%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.30%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 13 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 27 (8.13%) Dynamics AX
2 13 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.60%) SAP GTS
4 2 (0.60%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.30%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.30%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 105 (31.63%) Azure
2 45 (13.55%) AWS
2 45 (13.55%) Power Platform
3 30 (9.04%) Dynamics 365
4 29 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (8.73%) Power Automate
4 29 (8.73%) PowerApps
5 25 (7.53%) GCP
6 18 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (4.82%) Azure Stack
8 15 (4.52%) Amazon S3
9 14 (4.22%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (3.01%) GitHub
11 8 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (2.41%) Serverless
12 6 (1.81%) Apigee
12 6 (1.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.81%) Kong
12 6 (1.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.31%) DNS
2 10 (3.01%) Firewall
3 6 (1.81%) HTTP
3 6 (1.81%) TCP/IP
3 6 (1.81%) VPN
4 4 (1.20%) DHCP
4 4 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.60%) SSH
6 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (13.25%) Power BI
2 42 (12.65%) Relational Database
3 37 (11.14%) Data Lake
4 36 (10.84%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (5.72%) NoSQL
6 16 (4.82%) Snowflake Schema
7 14 (4.22%) Metadata
8 13 (3.92%) Big Data
9 12 (3.61%) SQL Server
10 11 (3.31%) MongoDB
11 10 (3.01%) Tableau
12 9 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (2.41%) KDB
13 8 (2.41%) RDBMS
14 6 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (1.51%) Data Mining
15 5 (1.51%) Redis
15 5 (1.51%) Star Schema
16 4 (1.20%) Oracle8/8i Database
16 4 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (7.23%) JIRA
2 19 (5.72%) Jenkins
3 16 (4.82%) Git
4 14 (4.22%) GitLab
5 6 (1.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (1.81%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.81%) Travis CI
5 6 (1.81%) webpack
6 5 (1.51%) ERwin
7 4 (1.20%) Gradle
7 4 (1.20%) Jasmine
7 4 (1.20%) JUnit
7 4 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
7 4 (1.20%) Mocha
8 3 (0.90%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.90%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.60%) Ant
9 2 (0.60%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.60%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.60%) Maven
General
1 118 (35.54%) Social Skills
2 92 (27.71%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (23.80%) Finance
4 51 (15.36%) Public Sector
5 33 (9.94%) Retail
6 28 (8.43%) General Ledger
7 18 (5.42%) Banking
8 17 (5.12%) Front Office
9 12 (3.61%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.11%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.81%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.51%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.20%) Marketing
15 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.90%) Legal
15 3 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.90%) Police
16 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 80 (24.10%) Developer
2 68 (20.48%) Architect
3 48 (14.46%) Analyst
4 42 (12.65%) Senior
5 41 (12.35%) Consultant
6 39 (11.75%) Data Architect
7 32 (9.64%) Data Analyst
7 32 (9.64%) Java Developer
8 19 (5.72%) Data Engineer
8 19 (5.72%) Microsoft Consultant
8 19 (5.72%) Technical Architect
9 16 (4.82%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 14 (4.22%) Lead
10 14 (4.22%) SAP Analyst
10 14 (4.22%) SAP Data Analyst
10 14 (4.22%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (3.92%) Senior Data Analyst
12 12 (3.61%) SharePoint Architect
13 11 (3.31%) Python Developer
14 10 (3.01%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (10.84%) JSON
2 34 (10.24%) React
3 31 (9.34%) XML
4 28 (8.43%) REST
4 28 (8.43%) Spring
5 27 (8.13%) RESTful
6 22 (6.63%) Kafka
7 18 (5.42%) CSS
7 18 (5.42%) HTML
8 14 (4.22%) Node.js
9 12 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (3.31%) AngularJS
11 10 (3.01%) .NET
12 9 (2.71%) Spring Boot
12 9 (2.71%) YAML
13 8 (2.41%) Django
13 8 (2.41%) JSON Schema
13 8 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (2.11%) Pandas
15 6 (1.81%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 100 (30.12%) Algorithms
2 40 (12.05%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (7.53%) Cloud Native
4 20 (6.02%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (5.42%) Product Ownership
6 15 (4.52%) Derivative
6 15 (4.52%) Reference Data
7 14 (4.22%) Management Information System
8 11 (3.31%) Fixed Income
9 8 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
10 7 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (2.11%) Life Science
11 6 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.51%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.51%) Hedge funds
12 5 (1.51%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.51%) Mainframe
12 5 (1.51%) NHS
13 4 (1.20%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 36 (10.84%) Linux
2 18 (5.42%) Unix
3 3 (0.90%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (29.22%) Agile
2 90 (27.11%) Data Modelling
3 65 (19.58%) Business Intelligence
4 62 (18.67%) Migration
5 60 (18.07%) DevOps
6 59 (17.77%) Microservices
7 58 (17.47%) Analytics
8 56 (16.87%) CI/CD
9 53 (15.96%) Computer Science
10 49 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
11 42 (12.65%) Data Migration
12 41 (12.35%) Requirements Gathering
13 39 (11.75%) ETL
14 35 (10.54%) Data Architecture
14 35 (10.54%) Data Governance
14 35 (10.54%) Design Patterns
15 32 (9.64%) Scrum
16 30 (9.04%) Change Management
16 30 (9.04%) Data Analysis
16 30 (9.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 79 (23.80%) Python
2 73 (21.99%) Java
3 65 (19.58%) SQL
4 31 (9.34%) JavaScript
5 20 (6.02%) C++
6 18 (5.42%) Shell Script
7 15 (4.52%) Kotlin
7 15 (4.52%) Scala
8 13 (3.92%) C#
8 13 (3.92%) Go
8 13 (3.92%) TypeScript
9 11 (3.31%) Perl
10 9 (2.71%) C
10 9 (2.71%) R
11 7 (2.11%) Bash
12 6 (1.81%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.51%) COBOL
14 4 (1.20%) ABAP
14 4 (1.20%) JCL
14 4 (1.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 63 (18.98%) Degree
2 29 (8.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (8.43%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.43%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.51%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.90%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (15.06%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.42%) GDPR
3 16 (4.82%) QA
4 5 (1.51%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.30%) MiFID
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (8.73%) Docker
2 8 (2.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 4 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (13.25%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.02%) Prometheus
3 14 (4.22%) Grafana
4 9 (2.71%) Terraform
5 8 (2.41%) Consul
6 6 (1.81%) Ansible
6 6 (1.81%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (1.81%) Kibana
6 6 (1.81%) logstash
6 6 (1.81%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.81%) Puppet
6 6 (1.81%) Zipkin
7 4 (1.20%) Data Guard
7 4 (1.20%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.30%) Argo
8 1 (0.30%) Istio
8 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (26.51%) Microsoft
2 30 (9.04%) SAP
3 17 (5.12%) NetApp
4 15 (4.52%) Oracle
5 12 (3.61%) Splunk
6 10 (3.01%) Ariba
7 8 (2.41%) Databricks
7 8 (2.41%) SaltStack
8 7 (2.11%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.81%) Google
9 6 (1.81%) ION Trading
10 5 (1.51%) Autodesk
10 5 (1.51%) IBM
10 5 (1.51%) Lotus
10 5 (1.51%) New Relic
11 4 (1.20%) Sparx
12 3 (0.90%) Facebook
12 3 (0.90%) Instagram
12 3 (0.90%) Twitter
12 3 (0.90%) YouTube