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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 299 182
Rank change year-on-year +8 -117 +89
Permanent jobs citing Data Structures 1,035 1,190 3,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 1.20% 2.31%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.94% 2.81% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 481 719 886
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +5.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £89,926 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.09% +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 35,145 42,330 76,975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.18% 42.69% 47.89%
Number of salaries quoted 23,044 23,098 33,984
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,427 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,719
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 £109,865 £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 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Top 17 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 18 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 +3 855 £70,000 +3.70% 214
UK excluding London +70 733 £61,000 +6.09% 108
Work from Home +8 359 £69,500 +0.98% 121
London -24 287 £83,750 +4.69% 152
North of England +126 189 £71,500 +40.24% 21
South East +6 162 £50,000 -6.98% 39
Scotland +46 159 £75,000 +8.00% 10
North West +123 154 £80,000 +15.20% 15
Midlands +76 136 £42,500 -19.05% 14
East Midlands +63 85 £35,000 -26.32% 5
West Midlands +29 51 £50,000 -6.98% 9
East of England -35 50 £75,000 +25.00% 7
South West -44 28 £70,576 +18.56% 9
North East -2 19 £65,750 +37.92% 2
Yorkshire +37 16 £50,000 - 4
Wales -5 8 £36,476 -17.72% 4
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 68 (6.57%) 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%) CMS
5 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 36 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.87%) 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 9 (0.87%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) ResourceLink
2 4 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.29%) Endur
3 3 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.29%) Oracle iProcurement
3 3 (0.29%) Primavera
4 2 (0.19%) MIS ActiveH
4 2 (0.19%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.097%) Data Workbench
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.097%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.097%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.097%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 452 (43.67%) Azure
2 270 (26.09%) AWS
3 238 (23.00%) IBM Cloud
4 204 (19.71%) Azure DevOps
5 163 (15.75%) Serverless
6 128 (12.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 125 (12.08%) Azure API Management
7 125 (12.08%) Azure Functions
7 125 (12.08%) Azure Service Bus
8 86 (8.31%) SaaS
9 76 (7.34%) Power Platform
10 70 (6.76%) GCP
11 43 (4.15%) Snowflake
12 34 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
12 34 (3.29%) Matillion
13 30 (2.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 30 (2.90%) GitHub
14 26 (2.51%) Amazon S3
15 23 (2.22%) Lucidchart
15 23 (2.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.06%) Wireless
2 9 (0.87%) TCP/IP
3 6 (0.58%) Firewall
4 5 (0.48%) BGP
4 5 (0.48%) Internet
4 5 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (0.48%) IPsec
4 5 (0.48%) LAN
4 5 (0.48%) Network Security
4 5 (0.48%) NGFW
4 5 (0.48%) OSPF
4 5 (0.48%) SSL
4 5 (0.48%) VLAN
4 5 (0.48%) VPN
4 5 (0.48%) 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
1 277 (26.76%) NoSQL
2 259 (25.02%) PostgreSQL
3 244 (23.57%) MongoDB
4 238 (23.00%) DB2
5 209 (20.19%) Relational Database
6 126 (12.17%) SQL Server
7 82 (7.92%) Data Warehouse
8 73 (7.05%) Elasticsearch
9 72 (6.96%) Big Data
10 66 (6.38%) Power BI
11 62 (5.99%) Data Lake
12 47 (4.54%) Redis
13 46 (4.44%) Data Vault
14 39 (3.77%) Hadoop
15 35 (3.38%) Star Schema
16 32 (3.09%) Delta Lake
17 24 (2.32%) BigQuery
17 24 (2.32%) Tableau
18 23 (2.22%) MySQL
18 23 (2.22%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 80 (7.73%) JUnit
2 69 (6.67%) JIRA
3 65 (6.28%) Jasmine
3 65 (6.28%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (5.80%) Cypress.io
4 60 (5.80%) Protractor
4 60 (5.80%) Selenium
4 60 (5.80%) WebDriver
5 48 (4.64%) GitLab
6 46 (4.44%) Git
7 20 (1.93%) Jenkins
8 11 (1.06%) TeamCity
8 11 (1.06%) Visual Studio
9 8 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
10 7 (0.68%) Maven
11 5 (0.48%) Postman
11 5 (0.48%) SoapUI
12 4 (0.39%) GCC
12 4 (0.39%) gulp
12 4 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 282 (27.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 257 (24.83%) Finance
3 242 (23.38%) Public Sector
4 241 (23.29%) Social Skills
5 129 (12.46%) Law
6 120 (11.59%) Banking
7 100 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
8 82 (7.92%) Legal
9 63 (6.09%) Investment Banking
10 49 (4.73%) Retail
11 30 (2.90%) Games
12 28 (2.71%) Marketing
13 25 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.64%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.26%) Private Banking
16 12 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (0.97%) Local Government
18 9 (0.87%) Tech for Good
19 8 (0.77%) Multimedia
19 8 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 307 (29.66%) Developer
2 179 (17.29%) Software Engineer
3 152 (14.69%) Full Stack Developer
3 152 (14.69%) Full Stack Engineer
4 136 (13.14%) Data Engineer
5 134 (12.95%) Senior
6 125 (12.08%) Azure Developer
7 119 (11.50%) Azure Engineer
8 114 (11.01%) Lead
9 76 (7.34%) Java Engineer
10 75 (7.25%) Java Software Engineer
11 42 (4.06%) Analyst
12 35 (3.38%) Lead Software Engineer
13 33 (3.19%) Architect
13 33 (3.19%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 32 (3.09%) Principal Engineer
14 32 (3.09%) Software Developer
15 31 (3.00%) Senior Developer
16 29 (2.80%) Informatica Engineer
17 28 (2.71%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 373 (36.04%) CSS
2 369 (35.65%) HTML
3 365 (35.27%) AngularJS
4 354 (34.20%) React
5 342 (33.04%) .NET
6 317 (30.63%) jQuery
6 317 (30.63%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 272 (26.28%) REST
8 264 (25.51%) Web Services
9 263 (25.41%) ASP.NET
10 258 (24.93%) Vue
11 241 (23.29%) Node.js
12 240 (23.19%) ASP.NET Core
13 238 (23.00%) Backbone.js
13 238 (23.00%) Ember.js
14 136 (13.14%) JSON
15 123 (11.88%) Spring
16 82 (7.92%) Hibernate
17 79 (7.63%) J2EE
17 79 (7.63%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 567 (54.78%) Algorithms
2 244 (23.57%) Blockchain
3 243 (23.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 113 (10.92%) e-Learning
5 79 (7.63%) Client/Server
6 61 (5.89%) Self-Motivation
7 56 (5.41%) Public Cloud
8 49 (4.73%) Management Information System
9 40 (3.86%) Reinsurance
10 33 (3.19%) Virtual Team
11 29 (2.80%) Product Ownership
12 24 (2.32%) Cloud Native
13 20 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (1.16%) Hedge funds
16 11 (1.06%) IoT
16 11 (1.06%) Online Games
17 9 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
18 8 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
18 8 (0.77%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 257 (24.83%) Linux
2 248 (23.96%) Android
2 248 (23.96%) Windows
3 246 (23.77%) 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
1 505 (48.79%) Agile
2 426 (41.16%) Artificial Intelligence
3 351 (33.91%) Design Patterns
4 329 (31.79%) OOP
5 316 (30.53%) Full Stack Development
6 315 (30.43%) User Experience
7 309 (29.86%) Web Development
8 294 (28.41%) Software Engineering
9 282 (27.25%) Problem-Solving
10 279 (26.96%) OO
11 258 (24.93%) MVC
12 252 (24.35%) DevOps
13 245 (23.67%) Design Thinking
14 240 (23.19%) SOLID
15 239 (23.09%) Co-Creation
16 238 (23.00%) MVVM
16 238 (23.00%) Responsive Web Design
17 220 (21.26%) Computer Science
18 210 (20.29%) Mentoring
19 203 (19.61%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 543 (52.46%) SQL
2 428 (41.35%) Python
3 419 (40.48%) JavaScript
4 348 (33.62%) Java
5 329 (31.79%) C#
6 140 (13.53%) TypeScript
7 51 (4.93%) C
7 51 (4.93%) Go
8 42 (4.06%) Scala
9 32 (3.09%) C++
10 23 (2.22%) Bash
11 18 (1.74%) Fortran
12 17 (1.64%) R
13 16 (1.55%) PowerShell
14 13 (1.26%) Ruby
15 10 (0.97%) PHP
16 9 (0.87%) Rust
17 8 (0.77%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.68%) Kotlin
19 5 (0.48%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 237 (22.90%) Degree
2 66 (6.38%) Master's Degree
3 48 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 33 (3.19%) PhD
5 21 (2.03%) Numerate Degree
6 11 (1.06%) DBS Check
6 11 (1.06%) MBA
6 11 (1.06%) Security Cleared
7 7 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (0.58%) HNC
9 5 (0.48%) CCIE
9 5 (0.48%) JNCIE
9 5 (0.48%) SC Cleared
10 4 (0.39%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.39%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.29%) Sun Certification
12 2 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.19%) CISSP
12 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (11.21%) Data Quality
2 41 (3.96%) QA
3 12 (1.16%) 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 69 (6.67%) Docker
2 4 (0.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.097%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (0.097%) NFS
3 1 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.097%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.097%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 85 (8.21%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.80%) Terraform
3 15 (1.45%) Grafana
3 15 (1.45%) Prometheus
4 5 (0.48%) 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 (23.19%) IBM
2 238 (23.00%) Red Hat
3 88 (8.50%) Microsoft
4 84 (8.12%) Oracle
5 69 (6.67%) Databricks
6 61 (5.89%) Google
7 55 (5.31%) Informatica
8 26 (2.51%) SAP
9 23 (2.22%) Dell
10 20 (1.93%) Salesforce
11 15 (1.45%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.45%) Splunk
12 12 (1.16%) 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 (0.87%) Sage
15 8 (0.77%) MuleSoft
16 6 (0.58%) iManage