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 in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Structures over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 283 303
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 113 148 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.65% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.86% 2.03% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 99 133
10th Percentile £324 £404 £375
25th Percentile £400 £486 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £520
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +10.58% +5.05%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £575
90th Percentile £698 £707 £643
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 £79.19 £19.91
% change year-on-year -48.86% +297.74% -58.84%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Data Structures falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +31 32 £599 +16.78% 13
Midlands +16 27 £650 +8.33% 10
West Midlands +31 26 £650 +23.81% 5
Scotland +54 24 £400 -34.69% 8
North West +21 18 £550 +23.94% 8
South West +7 12 £525 -2.78% 13
South East -26 12 £375 -34.78% 12
Yorkshire +21 11 £625 +13.64% 4
East of England +8 10 £388 -20.51% 3
North East +13 6 £330 -45.00% 1
Wales +8 1 £175 -66.65% 2
East Midlands -7 1 £675 +11.61% 5
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 (8.85%) Apache Spark
2 9 (7.96%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.54%) Sketch
3 2 (1.77%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.88%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 38 (33.63%) Azure
2 37 (32.74%) AWS
3 22 (19.47%) GCP
4 15 (13.27%) Power Platform
5 9 (7.96%) Amazon S3
5 9 (7.96%) GitHub
5 9 (7.96%) Kong
6 6 (5.31%) Apigee
6 6 (5.31%) Azure Stack
6 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.42%) Power Automate
7 5 (4.42%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.54%) Figma
8 4 (3.54%) npm
8 4 (3.54%) Yarn
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (2.65%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.96%) DNS
1 9 (7.96%) Firewall
1 9 (7.96%) HTTP
1 9 (7.96%) TCP/IP
1 9 (7.96%) VPN
2 3 (2.65%) BIG-IP
2 3 (2.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 3 (2.65%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (2.65%) RS-485
2 3 (2.65%) SSL
3 1 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.93%) Relational Database
2 15 (13.27%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (13.27%) Power BI
3 9 (7.96%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (6.19%) MySQL
4 7 (6.19%) Snowflake Schema
4 7 (6.19%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.19%) Tableau
5 6 (5.31%) Data Lake
5 6 (5.31%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.42%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.42%) Big Data
6 5 (4.42%) Data Mining
6 5 (4.42%) Metadata
6 5 (4.42%) Oracle Database
7 4 (3.54%) BusinessObjects
7 4 (3.54%) Oracle8/8i Database
7 4 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (18.58%) JIRA
2 15 (13.27%) Git
3 9 (7.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 9 (7.96%) CircleCI
3 9 (7.96%) GitLab
3 9 (7.96%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.96%) Travis CI
4 4 (3.54%) Jasmine
4 4 (3.54%) Karma Test Runner
4 4 (3.54%) Mocha
4 4 (3.54%) Visual Studio
4 4 (3.54%) webpack
5 2 (1.77%) ER Studio
5 2 (1.77%) ERwin
5 2 (1.77%) kappa
6 1 (0.88%) Ant
6 1 (0.88%) Gradle
6 1 (0.88%) JUnit
6 1 (0.88%) Maven
6 1 (0.88%) Mockito
General
1 31 (27.43%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (23.01%) Social Skills
3 20 (17.70%) Finance
4 8 (7.08%) Banking
5 7 (6.19%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.31%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (4.42%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.54%) Electronics
8 4 (3.54%) Marketing
9 3 (2.65%) Retail
9 3 (2.65%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Billing
11 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 41 (36.28%) Developer
2 23 (20.35%) Java Developer
3 15 (13.27%) Analyst
4 14 (12.39%) Architect
4 14 (12.39%) Data Architect
5 12 (10.62%) Senior
6 10 (8.85%) Data Engineer
7 7 (6.19%) Data Analyst
8 6 (5.31%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) Backend Developer
8 6 (5.31%) DevOps Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.31%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.42%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.42%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) DBA
10 4 (3.54%) Development Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Oracle DBA
10 4 (3.54%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Software Development Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.58%) Spring
2 19 (16.81%) XML
3 18 (15.93%) JSON
3 18 (15.93%) RESTful
4 17 (15.04%) Elastic Stack
5 16 (14.16%) Kafka
6 11 (9.73%) React
6 11 (9.73%) Spring Boot
7 9 (7.96%) YAML
8 8 (7.08%) .NET
8 8 (7.08%) OpenTracing
8 8 (7.08%) Web Services
9 7 (6.19%) .NET Framework
10 6 (5.31%) REST
11 5 (4.42%) CSS
11 5 (4.42%) PySpark
12 4 (3.54%) AngularJS
12 4 (3.54%) HTML
12 4 (3.54%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 4 (3.54%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.70%) Algorithms
2 18 (15.93%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.31%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.31%) Reference Data
4 5 (4.42%) Biopharmaceutical
4 5 (4.42%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.42%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.65%) Derivative
6 3 (2.65%) FPGA
6 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.77%) NB-IoT
8 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.88%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.88%) IoT
8 1 (0.88%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.88%) Life Science
8 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.04%) Linux
2 13 (11.50%) Unix
3 2 (1.77%) ThreadX
4 1 (0.88%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (46.02%) Agile
2 33 (29.20%) Data Modelling
3 29 (25.66%) Analytics
4 26 (23.01%) Microservices
5 24 (21.24%) Scrum
6 21 (18.58%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (17.70%) Migration
8 19 (16.81%) CI/CD
9 18 (15.93%) Continuous Integration
9 18 (15.93%) Use Case
10 17 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (15.04%) Software Engineering
11 16 (14.16%) Computer Science
11 16 (14.16%) DevOps
11 16 (14.16%) ETL
12 15 (13.27%) Data Architecture
13 14 (12.39%) Data Governance
13 14 (12.39%) Data Management
13 14 (12.39%) OO
13 14 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (30.97%) Java
2 34 (30.09%) Python
3 21 (18.58%) SQL
4 14 (12.39%) JavaScript
5 12 (10.62%) C#
5 12 (10.62%) Scala
6 11 (9.73%) Kotlin
7 9 (7.96%) Bash
7 9 (7.96%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.19%) C++
9 6 (5.31%) C
9 6 (5.31%) Shell Script
10 5 (4.42%) R
11 4 (3.54%) Perl
11 4 (3.54%) Rust
12 3 (2.65%) ABAP
12 3 (2.65%) ActionScript
13 2 (1.77%) Embedded C
13 2 (1.77%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.77%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (15.04%) Degree
2 11 (9.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.42%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.54%) PhD
4 4 (3.54%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.54%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.65%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.16%) Data Quality
2 14 (12.39%) QA
3 2 (1.77%) GDPR
System Software
1 21 (18.58%) Docker
2 5 (4.42%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.77%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (19.47%) Kubernetes
2 17 (15.04%) Prometheus
3 13 (11.50%) Grafana
4 10 (8.85%) Ansible
4 10 (8.85%) Puppet
5 9 (7.96%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (7.96%) Kibana
5 9 (7.96%) logstash
5 9 (7.96%) Progress Chef
5 9 (7.96%) Terraform
6 8 (7.08%) Zipkin
7 5 (4.42%) Data Guard
7 5 (4.42%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (0.88%) Nagios
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 22 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.62%) Splunk
3 11 (9.73%) Oracle
4 9 (7.96%) SAP
5 5 (4.42%) Autodesk
6 3 (2.65%) F5
7 2 (1.77%) IDERA
7 2 (1.77%) Informatica
7 2 (1.77%) Renesas
7 2 (1.77%) Talend
8 1 (0.88%) Adobe
8 1 (0.88%) Google
8 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.88%) Workday