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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 279 177
Rank change year-on-year +7 -102 +88
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 1,056 1,312 3,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 1.26% 2.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.02% 2.96% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 492 755 918
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £40,000
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 £89,301 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £119,000 £105,000
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 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
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 £84,056
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 3 May 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 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +13 866 £70,000 +3.36% 185
UK excluding London +76 754 £60,249 +1.95% 93
Work from Home +21 383 £65,000 -5.55% 132
London -37 285 £83,750 +4.69% 106
North of England +120 196 £71,038 +36.61% 24
South East +4 167 £50,000 -9.09% 12
Scotland +41 163 £75,000 +0.17% 11
North West +123 157 £80,000 +16.83% 12
Midlands +86 133 £42,500 -26.09% 16
East Midlands +64 83 £35,000 -30.00% 5
West Midlands +27 50 £46,250 -26.00% 11
East of England -32 49 £75,000 +25.00% 18
South West -46 32 £70,576 +19.23% 8
North East -1 20 £60,000 +25.86% 4
Yorkshire +27 19 £50,000 - 8
Wales -4 10 £36,476 -18.34% 3
Northern Ireland +21 3 £65,000 -16.13% 2
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 65 (6.16%) Apache Spark
2 12 (1.14%) Apache
3 10 (0.95%) SAS
4 6 (0.57%) Confluence
5 4 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.38%) CMS
5 4 (0.38%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.095%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.47%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.38%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.19%) Sketch
7 2 (0.19%) Zeplin
8 1 (0.095%) InVision
8 1 (0.095%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 8 (0.76%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.38%) ResourceLink
2 4 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.28%) Endur
3 3 (0.28%) Primavera
4 2 (0.19%) MIS ActiveH
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle iProcurement
4 2 (0.19%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.095%) Data Workbench
5 1 (0.095%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.095%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.095%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 478 (45.27%) Azure
2 293 (27.75%) AWS
3 238 (22.54%) IBM Cloud
4 204 (19.32%) Azure DevOps
5 165 (15.63%) Serverless
6 128 (12.12%) Azure Logic Apps
7 125 (11.84%) Azure API Management
7 125 (11.84%) Azure Functions
7 125 (11.84%) Azure Service Bus
8 87 (8.24%) SaaS
9 75 (7.10%) Power Platform
10 73 (6.91%) GCP
11 43 (4.07%) Snowflake
12 36 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
13 34 (3.22%) Matillion
14 30 (2.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 30 (2.84%) GitHub
15 26 (2.46%) Amazon S3
16 25 (2.37%) PaaS
17 23 (2.18%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.04%) Wireless
2 7 (0.66%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.57%) Firewall
4 5 (0.47%) BGP
4 5 (0.47%) Internet
4 5 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (0.47%) IPsec
4 5 (0.47%) LAN
4 5 (0.47%) Network Security
4 5 (0.47%) NGFW
4 5 (0.47%) OSPF
4 5 (0.47%) SSL
4 5 (0.47%) VLAN
4 5 (0.47%) VPN
4 5 (0.47%) WAN
5 3 (0.28%) 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
1 276 (26.14%) NoSQL
2 260 (24.62%) PostgreSQL
3 244 (23.11%) MongoDB
4 238 (22.54%) DB2
5 210 (19.89%) Relational Database
6 128 (12.12%) SQL Server
7 104 (9.85%) Data Warehouse
8 74 (7.01%) Elasticsearch
9 70 (6.63%) Big Data
10 64 (6.06%) Data Lake
10 64 (6.06%) Power BI
11 47 (4.45%) Redis
12 46 (4.36%) Data Vault
13 42 (3.98%) Hadoop
14 35 (3.31%) Star Schema
15 34 (3.22%) Delta Lake
16 26 (2.46%) BigQuery
17 24 (2.27%) Tableau
18 23 (2.18%) Scylla
19 21 (1.99%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 80 (7.58%) JUnit
2 70 (6.63%) JIRA
3 65 (6.16%) Jasmine
3 65 (6.16%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (5.68%) Cypress.io
4 60 (5.68%) Protractor
4 60 (5.68%) Selenium
4 60 (5.68%) WebDriver
5 48 (4.55%) GitLab
6 46 (4.36%) Git
7 20 (1.89%) Jenkins
8 11 (1.04%) TeamCity
9 10 (0.95%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
11 7 (0.66%) Maven
12 6 (0.57%) Postman
12 6 (0.57%) SoapUI
13 5 (0.47%) Grunt
13 5 (0.47%) gulp
13 5 (0.47%) webpack
General
1 275 (26.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 253 (23.96%) Finance
3 242 (22.92%) Public Sector
4 231 (21.88%) Social Skills
5 130 (12.31%) Law
6 123 (11.65%) Banking
7 101 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
8 79 (7.48%) Legal
9 67 (6.34%) Investment Banking
10 41 (3.88%) Retail
11 32 (3.03%) Games
12 29 (2.75%) Marketing
13 19 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.61%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.23%) Private Banking
16 12 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (0.95%) Local Government
18 9 (0.85%) Tech for Good
19 8 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
19 8 (0.76%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 310 (29.36%) Developer
2 178 (16.86%) Software Engineer
3 152 (14.39%) Full Stack Developer
3 152 (14.39%) Full Stack Engineer
4 149 (14.11%) Senior
5 134 (12.69%) Data Engineer
6 125 (11.84%) Azure Developer
7 119 (11.27%) Azure Engineer
8 113 (10.70%) Lead
9 76 (7.20%) Java Engineer
10 75 (7.10%) Java Software Engineer
11 49 (4.64%) Architect
12 48 (4.55%) Analyst
13 35 (3.31%) Lead Software Engineer
14 33 (3.13%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 33 (3.13%) Software Developer
15 32 (3.03%) Principal Engineer
15 32 (3.03%) Senior Developer
16 31 (2.94%) Senior Architect
17 29 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 375 (35.51%) CSS
2 374 (35.42%) HTML
3 366 (34.66%) AngularJS
4 355 (33.62%) React
5 343 (32.48%) .NET
6 317 (30.02%) jQuery
6 317 (30.02%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 273 (25.85%) REST
8 264 (25.00%) ASP.NET
8 264 (25.00%) Web Services
9 258 (24.43%) Vue
10 242 (22.92%) Node.js
11 240 (22.73%) ASP.NET Core
12 238 (22.54%) Backbone.js
12 238 (22.54%) Ember.js
13 141 (13.35%) JSON
14 124 (11.74%) Spring
15 82 (7.77%) Hibernate
16 79 (7.48%) J2EE
16 79 (7.48%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 569 (53.88%) Algorithms
2 244 (23.11%) Blockchain
3 243 (23.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 113 (10.70%) e-Learning
5 77 (7.29%) Client/Server
6 60 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
7 59 (5.59%) Public Cloud
8 52 (4.92%) Management Information System
9 49 (4.64%) Cloud Native
10 42 (3.98%) Reinsurance
11 30 (2.84%) Product Ownership
12 23 (2.18%) Virtual Team
13 19 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (1.14%) Hedge funds
16 11 (1.04%) Online Games
17 10 (0.95%) IoT
18 8 (0.76%) Augmented Reality
18 8 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
18 8 (0.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 255 (24.15%) Linux
2 248 (23.48%) Windows
3 247 (23.39%) Android
4 245 (23.20%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.38%) Windows 10
5 4 (0.38%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.19%) Unix
7 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.095%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (49.62%) Agile
2 427 (40.44%) Artificial Intelligence
3 372 (35.23%) Design Patterns
4 327 (30.97%) OOP
5 316 (29.92%) Full Stack Development
5 316 (29.92%) User Experience
6 311 (29.45%) Web Development
7 295 (27.94%) Software Engineering
8 279 (26.42%) OO
9 273 (25.85%) Problem-Solving
10 259 (24.53%) MVC
11 254 (24.05%) DevOps
12 245 (23.20%) Design Thinking
13 240 (22.73%) SOLID
14 239 (22.63%) Co-Creation
15 238 (22.54%) MVVM
15 238 (22.54%) Responsive Web Design
16 219 (20.74%) Computer Science
17 208 (19.70%) Machine Learning
18 200 (18.94%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 548 (51.89%) SQL
2 434 (41.10%) Python
3 423 (40.06%) JavaScript
4 351 (33.24%) Java
5 328 (31.06%) C#
6 142 (13.45%) TypeScript
7 51 (4.83%) Go
8 49 (4.64%) C
9 42 (3.98%) Scala
10 29 (2.75%) C++
11 23 (2.18%) Bash
12 18 (1.70%) Fortran
13 17 (1.61%) PowerShell
13 17 (1.61%) R
14 12 (1.14%) Ruby
15 10 (0.95%) PHP
15 10 (0.95%) Rust
15 10 (0.95%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.57%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.47%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 233 (22.06%) Degree
2 67 (6.34%) Master's Degree
3 49 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 33 (3.13%) PhD
5 25 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
6 21 (1.99%) Numerate Degree
7 11 (1.04%) MBA
7 11 (1.04%) Security Cleared
8 7 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (0.66%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.66%) HNC
9 5 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.47%) CCIE
9 5 (0.47%) JNCIE
9 5 (0.47%) SC Cleared
10 4 (0.38%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.28%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.28%) Sun Certification
12 2 (0.19%) CISSP
12 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (10.98%) Data Quality
2 44 (4.17%) QA
3 13 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.66%) CDISC
5 4 (0.38%) SLA
6 3 (0.28%) PMO
7 2 (0.19%) GDPR
7 2 (0.19%) GRC
7 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.095%) UCITS
System Software
1 70 (6.63%) Docker
2 5 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.095%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.095%) NFS
4 1 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 82 (7.77%) Kubernetes
2 30 (2.84%) Terraform
3 16 (1.52%) Grafana
3 16 (1.52%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.47%) Ansible
5 4 (0.38%) SCCM
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.095%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.095%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.095%) Podman
Vendors
1 240 (22.73%) IBM
2 238 (22.54%) Red Hat
3 89 (8.43%) Microsoft
4 86 (8.14%) Oracle
5 67 (6.34%) Google
6 65 (6.16%) Databricks
7 55 (5.21%) Informatica
8 26 (2.46%) SAP
9 23 (2.18%) Dell
10 16 (1.52%) Splunk
11 15 (1.42%) Dynatrace
12 12 (1.14%) OpenAI
13 11 (1.04%) Automation Anywhere
13 11 (1.04%) Blue Prism
13 11 (1.04%) Salesforce
13 11 (1.04%) UiPath
14 10 (0.95%) Teradata
15 9 (0.85%) Sage
16 8 (0.76%) MuleSoft
17 6 (0.57%) iManage