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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 296 177
Rank change year-on-year +8 -119 +93
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 1,028 1,150 3,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.00% 1.18% 2.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.91% 2.76% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 477 706 889
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,478 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.91% +3.93% -3.08%
75th Percentile £90,000 £89,852 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,250 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.26% +15.00% -4.76%

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 35,381 41,658 80,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.48% 42.79% 48.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23,078 22,714 34,326
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,738 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,070 £46,350 £45,625
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 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £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 28 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 28 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 +9 854 £70,000 +3.70% 182
UK excluding London +85 731 £62,250 +8.26% 69
Work from Home +18 352 £70,000 +3.70% 116
London -19 281 £85,000 +6.06% 117
North of England +124 191 £71,500 +40.24% 14
South East +3 162 £50,000 -4.76% 14
North West +133 158 £80,000 +15.20% 11
Scotland +47 151 £72,788 +4.81% 8
Midlands +83 137 £42,500 -17.07% 13
East Midlands +58 85 £35,000 -26.32% 6
West Midlands +28 52 £52,500 - 7
East of England -43 50 £75,000 +25.00% 8
South West -43 30 £70,576 +17.14% 7
North East -5 17 £71,500 +49.98% 1
Yorkshire +35 16 £50,000 - 2
Wales -7 8 £36,476 -18.34% 3
Northern Ireland +12 1 £47,500 -38.71% 2
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 -

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 61 (5.93%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.26%) Apache
3 10 (0.97%) SAS
4 6 (0.58%) Confluence
5 4 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.39%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.39%) CMS
5 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.097%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 35 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.39%) Acrobat
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.19%) Sketch
7 2 (0.19%) Zeplin
8 1 (0.097%) InVision
8 1 (0.097%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 11 (1.07%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.39%) Oracle iProcurement
2 4 (0.39%) ResourceLink
2 4 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.29%) Endur
3 3 (0.29%) Primavera
4 2 (0.19%) MIS ActiveH
4 2 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.19%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.097%) Data Workbench
5 1 (0.097%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.097%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 454 (44.16%) Azure
2 264 (25.68%) AWS
3 238 (23.15%) IBM Cloud
4 205 (19.94%) Azure DevOps
5 163 (15.86%) Serverless
6 128 (12.45%) Azure Logic Apps
7 125 (12.16%) Azure API Management
7 125 (12.16%) Azure Functions
7 125 (12.16%) Azure Service Bus
8 79 (7.68%) Power Platform
8 79 (7.68%) SaaS
9 64 (6.23%) GCP
10 43 (4.18%) Snowflake
11 34 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (3.31%) Matillion
12 30 (2.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 29 (2.82%) GitHub
14 20 (1.95%) Amazon S3
14 20 (1.95%) PaaS
15 17 (1.65%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.07%) Wireless
2 9 (0.88%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.58%) Firewall
4 5 (0.49%) BGP
4 5 (0.49%) Internet
4 5 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (0.49%) IPsec
4 5 (0.49%) LAN
4 5 (0.49%) Network Security
4 5 (0.49%) NGFW
4 5 (0.49%) OSPF
4 5 (0.49%) SSL
4 5 (0.49%) VLAN
4 5 (0.49%) VPN
4 5 (0.49%) WAN
5 3 (0.29%) 4G
5 3 (0.29%) 5G
5 3 (0.29%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.19%) Multicast
6 2 (0.19%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (26.85%) NoSQL
2 259 (25.19%) PostgreSQL
3 243 (23.64%) MongoDB
4 238 (23.15%) DB2
5 209 (20.33%) Relational Database
6 123 (11.96%) SQL Server
7 84 (8.17%) Data Warehouse
8 69 (6.71%) Power BI
9 67 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
10 65 (6.32%) Big Data
11 62 (6.03%) Data Lake
12 46 (4.47%) Data Vault
13 41 (3.99%) Redis
14 35 (3.40%) Star Schema
15 33 (3.21%) Hadoop
16 30 (2.92%) Delta Lake
17 26 (2.53%) Tableau
18 25 (2.43%) BigQuery
19 23 (2.24%) MySQL
20 19 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 80 (7.78%) JUnit
2 68 (6.61%) JIRA
3 65 (6.32%) Jasmine
3 65 (6.32%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (5.84%) Cypress.io
4 60 (5.84%) Protractor
4 60 (5.84%) Selenium
4 60 (5.84%) WebDriver
5 49 (4.77%) Git
6 48 (4.67%) GitLab
7 20 (1.95%) Jenkins
8 12 (1.17%) Visual Studio
9 11 (1.07%) TeamCity
10 8 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
11 7 (0.68%) Maven
12 5 (0.49%) Postman
12 5 (0.49%) SoapUI
13 4 (0.39%) GCC
13 4 (0.39%) Grunt
13 4 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 275 (26.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 254 (24.71%) Finance
3 242 (23.54%) Public Sector
4 230 (22.37%) Social Skills
5 129 (12.55%) Law
6 118 (11.48%) Banking
7 103 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
8 83 (8.07%) Legal
9 63 (6.13%) Investment Banking
10 49 (4.77%) Retail
11 30 (2.92%) Games
12 28 (2.72%) Marketing
13 25 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.75%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (1.17%) Private Banking
16 10 (0.97%) Local Government
17 9 (0.88%) Tech for Good
18 8 (0.78%) Telecoms
19 7 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 304 (29.57%) Developer
2 172 (16.73%) Software Engineer
3 152 (14.79%) Full Stack Engineer
4 151 (14.69%) Full Stack Developer
5 136 (13.23%) Data Engineer
6 134 (13.04%) Senior
7 125 (12.16%) Azure Developer
8 118 (11.48%) Azure Engineer
8 118 (11.48%) Lead
9 75 (7.30%) Java Engineer
10 74 (7.20%) Java Software Engineer
11 42 (4.09%) Analyst
12 36 (3.50%) Lead Software Engineer
13 33 (3.21%) Architect
14 32 (3.11%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 32 (3.11%) Software Developer
15 31 (3.02%) Senior Developer
16 30 (2.92%) Informatica Engineer
17 28 (2.72%) C# Software Engineer
18 27 (2.63%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 374 (36.38%) CSS
2 371 (36.09%) HTML
3 365 (35.51%) AngularJS
4 353 (34.34%) React
5 343 (33.37%) .NET
6 317 (30.84%) jQuery
6 317 (30.84%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 271 (26.36%) REST
8 265 (25.78%) Web Services
9 263 (25.58%) ASP.NET
10 259 (25.19%) Vue
11 240 (23.35%) ASP.NET Core
11 240 (23.35%) Node.js
12 238 (23.15%) Backbone.js
12 238 (23.15%) Ember.js
13 132 (12.84%) JSON
14 122 (11.87%) Spring
15 82 (7.98%) Hibernate
16 79 (7.68%) J2EE
16 79 (7.68%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 560 (54.47%) Algorithms
2 244 (23.74%) Blockchain
3 243 (23.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 113 (10.99%) e-Learning
5 80 (7.78%) Client/Server
6 62 (6.03%) Self-Motivation
7 54 (5.25%) Public Cloud
8 46 (4.47%) Management Information System
9 38 (3.70%) Reinsurance
10 33 (3.21%) Virtual Team
11 28 (2.72%) Product Ownership
12 25 (2.43%) Cloud Native
13 22 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (1.17%) Hedge funds
16 11 (1.07%) IoT
16 11 (1.07%) Online Games
17 9 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
18 8 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
18 8 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 257 (25.00%) Linux
2 248 (24.12%) Android
2 248 (24.12%) Windows
3 246 (23.93%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.39%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.097%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.097%) Unix
5 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.097%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (49.32%) Agile
2 426 (41.44%) Artificial Intelligence
3 349 (33.95%) Design Patterns
4 329 (32.00%) OOP
5 316 (30.74%) Full Stack Development
6 310 (30.16%) User Experience
7 308 (29.96%) Web Development
8 289 (28.11%) Software Engineering
9 279 (27.14%) OO
10 275 (26.75%) Problem-Solving
11 258 (25.10%) MVC
12 251 (24.42%) DevOps
13 245 (23.83%) Design Thinking
14 240 (23.35%) SOLID
15 239 (23.25%) Co-Creation
16 238 (23.15%) MVVM
16 238 (23.15%) Responsive Web Design
17 219 (21.30%) Computer Science
18 215 (20.91%) Mentoring
19 202 (19.65%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 545 (53.02%) SQL
2 423 (41.15%) Python
3 419 (40.76%) JavaScript
4 341 (33.17%) Java
5 331 (32.20%) C#
6 140 (13.62%) TypeScript
7 51 (4.96%) C
8 44 (4.28%) Go
9 36 (3.50%) Scala
10 32 (3.11%) C++
11 20 (1.95%) R
12 18 (1.75%) Fortran
13 17 (1.65%) Bash
14 16 (1.56%) PowerShell
15 14 (1.36%) Ruby
16 10 (0.97%) PHP
17 9 (0.88%) Rust
18 8 (0.78%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.68%) T-SQL
20 5 (0.49%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 236 (22.96%) Degree
2 66 (6.42%) Master's Degree
3 47 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 33 (3.21%) PhD
5 21 (2.04%) Numerate Degree
6 11 (1.07%) DBS Check
6 11 (1.07%) MBA
6 11 (1.07%) Security Cleared
7 7 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (0.49%) CCIE
8 5 (0.49%) HNC
8 5 (0.49%) JNCIE
8 5 (0.49%) SC Cleared
9 4 (0.39%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.39%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.29%) Sun Certification
11 2 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.19%) CISSP
11 2 (0.19%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (10.99%) Data Quality
2 40 (3.89%) QA
3 11 (1.07%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.68%) CDISC
5 3 (0.29%) PMO
6 2 (0.19%) GDPR
6 2 (0.19%) GRC
6 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.19%) SLA
7 1 (0.097%) UCITS
System Software
1 67 (6.52%) Docker
2 4 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (0.29%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.097%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.097%) NFS
4 1 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.097%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.097%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 79 (7.68%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.82%) Terraform
3 15 (1.46%) Grafana
3 15 (1.46%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.49%) Ansible
5 4 (0.39%) SCCM
6 1 (0.097%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.097%) FTK
6 1 (0.097%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.097%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.097%) Podman
Vendors
1 240 (23.35%) IBM
2 238 (23.15%) Red Hat
3 87 (8.46%) Microsoft
4 83 (8.07%) Oracle
5 70 (6.81%) Databricks
6 55 (5.35%) Informatica
7 54 (5.25%) Google
8 26 (2.53%) SAP
9 20 (1.95%) Salesforce
10 17 (1.65%) Dell
11 15 (1.46%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.46%) Splunk
12 12 (1.17%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.97%) Automation Anywhere
13 10 (0.97%) Blue Prism
13 10 (0.97%) Teradata
13 10 (0.97%) UiPath
14 9 (0.88%) Sage
15 8 (0.78%) MuleSoft
16 6 (0.58%) iManage