Data Structures Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Structures
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in remote or hybrid contract work. 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 203 291 268
Rank change year-on-year +88 -23 -15
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 143 169 435
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.97% 0.71% 0.99%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.32% 2.24% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 115 313
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £478 £491 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £624 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year +13.36% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £700 £638 £738
90th Percentile £744 £788 £824
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,304 7,539 13,934
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.17% 31.58% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,923 5,349 10,060
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £435 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £835 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 147 225
10th Percentile £15.95 £19.00 £15.13
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.36 £21.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +27.98%
75th Percentile £68.75 £69.38 £62.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Data Structures
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Structures as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Structures trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Structures
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Structures.

Data Structures daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Structures over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Data Structures daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Structures
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Structures.

Data Structures hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Structures
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 19 (13.29%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.80%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.10%) CMS
3 3 (2.10%) Confluence
3 3 (2.10%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.70%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.70%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (11.89%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (2.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.40%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 68 (47.55%) Azure
2 20 (13.99%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (13.29%) Dynamics 365
4 18 (12.59%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (12.59%) Power Platform
5 17 (11.89%) GCP
5 17 (11.89%) Power Automate
5 17 (11.89%) PowerApps
6 12 (8.39%) AWS
7 11 (7.69%) Azure Stack
8 8 (5.59%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (4.20%) GitHub
10 5 (3.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.10%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.10%) Fivetran
11 3 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.10%) Kong
12 2 (1.40%) Apigee
12 2 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.80%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.10%) DNS
2 3 (2.10%) Firewall
2 3 (2.10%) HTTP
2 3 (2.10%) VPN
3 1 (0.70%) BIG-IP
3 1 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.70%) SSL
3 1 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.59%) Power BI
2 17 (11.89%) Data Lake
3 13 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (8.39%) MongoDB
4 12 (8.39%) Relational Database
5 11 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (4.20%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.80%) Big Data
9 3 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.10%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.10%) Tableau
10 2 (1.40%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.40%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.40%) Metadata
10 2 (1.40%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.40%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.40%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (7.69%) Git
2 9 (6.29%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.59%) GitLab
4 4 (2.80%) ERwin
4 4 (2.80%) JIRA
5 3 (2.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (2.10%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.10%) Travis CI
6 2 (1.40%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.40%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 59 (41.26%) Social Skills
2 44 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (25.87%) Public Sector
4 27 (18.88%) Finance
5 21 (14.69%) Retail
6 17 (11.89%) General Ledger
7 4 (2.80%) Banking
7 4 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.40%) Front Office
8 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.70%) Automotive
9 1 (0.70%) Billing
9 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.70%) Law
9 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (29.37%) Architect
2 31 (21.68%) Developer
3 22 (15.38%) Technical Architect
4 20 (13.99%) Consultant
5 19 (13.29%) Data Architect
6 16 (11.19%) SharePoint Architect
7 12 (8.39%) Microsoft Consultant
8 11 (7.69%) Analyst
8 11 (7.69%) Site Engineer
8 11 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (6.29%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 9 (6.29%) Java Developer
9 9 (6.29%) Python Developer
9 9 (6.29%) Python Engineer
10 8 (5.59%) Senior
11 7 (4.90%) Data Analyst
12 6 (4.20%) Lead
13 5 (3.50%) Data Scientist
13 5 (3.50%) Functional Consultant
13 5 (3.50%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.88%) JSON
2 19 (13.29%) XML
3 18 (12.59%) REST
3 18 (12.59%) RESTful
4 16 (11.19%) Kafka
5 13 (9.09%) React
6 11 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (6.99%) CSS
7 10 (6.99%) HTML
8 9 (6.29%) .NET
9 8 (5.59%) Spring
9 8 (5.59%) YAML
10 7 (4.90%) Django
11 6 (4.20%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (3.50%) JSON Schema
12 5 (3.50%) Spring Boot
13 4 (2.80%) .NET Core
13 4 (2.80%) Pandas
13 4 (2.80%) Swagger
14 3 (2.10%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 40 (27.97%) Algorithms
2 20 (13.99%) Cloud Native
2 20 (13.99%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.59%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.59%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.80%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.10%) Blockchain
5 3 (2.10%) Derivative
5 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.10%) NB-IoT
5 3 (2.10%) Social Media
6 2 (1.40%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.40%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.70%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.89%) Linux
2 6 (4.20%) Unix
3 3 (2.10%) ThreadX
4 1 (0.70%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (26.57%) DevOps
1 38 (26.57%) Microservices
2 36 (25.17%) Agile
2 36 (25.17%) Data Modelling
3 33 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (22.38%) Business Intelligence
5 31 (21.68%) CI/CD
6 29 (20.28%) Migration
7 25 (17.48%) Change Management
8 24 (16.78%) Data Migration
9 22 (15.38%) Analytics
10 21 (14.69%) Computer Science
11 19 (13.29%) Data Security
12 18 (12.59%) Requirements Gathering
13 17 (11.89%) Accounts Payable
13 17 (11.89%) Accounts Receivable
13 17 (11.89%) Requirements Workshops
14 15 (10.49%) Data Protection
15 14 (9.79%) Data Strategy
15 14 (9.79%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 38 (26.57%) Python
2 26 (18.18%) SQL
3 24 (16.78%) Java
4 18 (12.59%) C++
5 14 (9.79%) Shell Script
6 12 (8.39%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.99%) Go
8 5 (3.50%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.50%) Scala
9 4 (2.80%) Bash
9 4 (2.80%) C#
9 4 (2.80%) Perl
10 3 (2.10%) ABAP
10 3 (2.10%) C
10 3 (2.10%) Embedded C
10 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.40%) Ruby
11 2 (1.40%) Rust
12 1 (0.70%) R
12 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (18.88%) Degree
2 20 (13.99%) SC Cleared
2 20 (13.99%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.89%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.20%) GDPR
2 6 (4.20%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (9.79%) Docker
2 11 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (2.10%) Firmware
4 2 (1.40%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 29 (20.28%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.89%) Prometheus
3 14 (9.79%) Grafana
4 11 (7.69%) Consul
5 4 (2.80%) Ansible
5 4 (2.80%) Puppet
5 4 (2.80%) Terraform
6 3 (2.10%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (2.10%) Kibana
6 3 (2.10%) logstash
6 3 (2.10%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.10%) Zipkin
7 2 (1.40%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.40%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.70%) Argo
8 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (0.70%) Nagios
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 59 (41.26%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.29%) NetApp
3 11 (7.69%) SaltStack
4 6 (4.20%) Oracle
5 5 (3.50%) SAP
6 4 (2.80%) Splunk
7 3 (2.10%) Facebook
7 3 (2.10%) Instagram
7 3 (2.10%) Renesas
7 3 (2.10%) Sparx
7 3 (2.10%) Twitter
7 3 (2.10%) YouTube
8 2 (1.40%) IDERA
8 2 (1.40%) Informatica
8 2 (1.40%) Talend
9 1 (0.70%) Ariba
9 1 (0.70%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.70%) F5
9 1 (0.70%) Google
9 1 (0.70%) Workday