Data Structures Contracts

Data Structures
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Data Structures in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Structures over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 321 274
Rank change year-on-year +29 -47 -20
Contract jobs citing Data Structures 333 436 877
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 0.77% 1.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.59% 2.30% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 294 564
10th Percentile £381 £406 £414
25th Percentile £450 £493 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £722 £750
90th Percentile £779 £934 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £549 £508
% change year-on-year -13.48% +8.18% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £40.10 £18.88 £13.58
25th Percentile £40.25 £27.44 £16.02
Median hourly rate £40.50 £57.72 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year -29.83% +243.16% -61.33%
75th Percentile £55.25 £79.19 £25.70
90th Percentile £64.10 - £38.14
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.25 £79.19 £16.82
% change year-on-year -49.17% +370.81% -

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,877 18,959 28,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.26% 33.28% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,295 13,044 20,250
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £668 £676 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 892 627 718
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.13 £10.63 £17.19
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.25 £22.00 £21.13
% change year-on-year +32.95% +4.14% -11.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Structures.

Daily rate trend for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Structures over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Structures.

Hourly rate trend for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Structures over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Structures in the UK

Data Structures
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +42 280 £591 +2.83% 179
London +43 175 £665 +8.97% 116
Work from Home +107 144 £625 +13.64% 109
UK excluding London +19 111 £475 -13.48% 78
North of England +42 35 £538 +7.50% 21
Midlands +32 25 £606 +1.04% 14
West Midlands +40 24 £563 +7.14% 10
Scotland +40 23 £400 -34.69% 10
North West +28 21 £525 +18.31% 13
South West +16 13 £525 -2.78% 9
East of England +13 12 £463 -7.50% 8
Yorkshire +21 11 £625 +13.64% 6
South East -35 10 £469 -18.48% 10
North East +14 6 £330 -45.00% 2
East Midlands +4 1 £675 +12.50% 4
Wales +4 1 £175 -66.65% 3

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 18 (5.41%) SharePoint
2 15 (4.50%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.30%) Confluence
4 7 (2.10%) SAS
5 5 (1.50%) Apache
5 5 (1.50%) IBM Notes
6 4 (1.20%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.90%) CMS
7 3 (0.90%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.30%) CICS
8 1 (0.30%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.30%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 13 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.60%) Sketch
2 2 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (8.11%) Dynamics AX
2 9 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.60%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.60%) SAP GTS
4 2 (0.60%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.60%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.30%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 115 (34.53%) Azure
2 55 (16.52%) AWS
3 49 (14.71%) Power Platform
4 37 (11.11%) GCP
5 32 (9.61%) Power Automate
5 32 (9.61%) PowerApps
6 31 (9.31%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (9.01%) Dynamics 365
8 19 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (4.80%) Azure Stack
10 15 (4.50%) Amazon S3
11 14 (4.20%) Microsoft Purview
12 13 (3.90%) GitHub
13 9 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (2.70%) Kong
14 7 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (2.10%) Serverless
15 6 (1.80%) Apigee
15 6 (1.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 6 (1.80%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.20%) DNS
2 13 (3.90%) Firewall
3 9 (2.70%) HTTP
3 9 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.70%) VPN
4 4 (1.20%) DHCP
4 4 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.90%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (0.90%) SSL
6 2 (0.60%) RS-485
6 2 (0.60%) SSH
7 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.71%) Power BI
2 42 (12.61%) Relational Database
3 37 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 36 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (5.71%) NoSQL
6 16 (4.80%) Snowflake Schema
7 14 (4.20%) SQL Server
8 13 (3.90%) Big Data
8 13 (3.90%) Metadata
9 12 (3.60%) MongoDB
9 12 (3.60%) Tableau
10 9 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (2.70%) KDB
10 9 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (2.10%) Data Mining
12 6 (1.80%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.50%) Redis
13 5 (1.50%) Star Schema
14 4 (1.20%) Oracle Database
14 4 (1.20%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 28 (8.41%) JIRA
2 22 (6.61%) Jenkins
3 19 (5.71%) Git
4 17 (5.11%) GitLab
5 9 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (2.70%) CircleCI
5 9 (2.70%) Travis CI
6 6 (1.80%) webpack
7 5 (1.50%) ERwin
8 4 (1.20%) Gradle
8 4 (1.20%) Jasmine
8 4 (1.20%) JUnit
8 4 (1.20%) Karma Test Runner
8 4 (1.20%) Mocha
9 3 (0.90%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.90%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.60%) Maven
10 2 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 112 (33.63%) Social Skills
2 94 (28.23%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (25.53%) Finance
4 49 (14.71%) Public Sector
5 34 (10.21%) Retail
6 28 (8.41%) General Ledger
7 20 (6.01%) Banking
8 18 (5.41%) Front Office
9 10 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.80%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.80%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.50%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.50%) Marketing
13 3 (0.90%) Electronics
14 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.60%) Legal
14 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 88 (26.43%) Developer
2 66 (19.82%) Architect
3 42 (12.61%) Consultant
4 40 (12.01%) Analyst
5 39 (11.71%) Senior
6 38 (11.41%) Java Developer
7 37 (11.11%) Data Architect
8 24 (7.21%) Data Analyst
9 21 (6.31%) Technical Architect
10 19 (5.71%) Data Engineer
10 19 (5.71%) Microsoft Consultant
11 14 (4.20%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 13 (3.90%) Lead
12 13 (3.90%) SharePoint Architect
13 12 (3.60%) Python Developer
14 11 (3.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 10 (3.00%) Python Engineer
15 10 (3.00%) React Developer
15 10 (3.00%) Site Engineer
15 10 (3.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (12.01%) JSON
2 38 (11.41%) XML
3 34 (10.21%) React
4 33 (9.91%) Spring
5 31 (9.31%) REST
5 31 (9.31%) RESTful
6 28 (8.41%) Kafka
7 20 (6.01%) CSS
8 19 (5.71%) HTML
9 17 (5.11%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (4.50%) .NET
11 14 (4.20%) Spring Boot
12 13 (3.90%) Node.js
12 13 (3.90%) YAML
13 11 (3.30%) AngularJS
14 10 (3.00%) Web Services
15 9 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
16 8 (2.40%) Django
16 8 (2.40%) JSON Schema
16 8 (2.40%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 104 (31.23%) Algorithms
2 43 (12.91%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (7.81%) Cloud Native
4 22 (6.61%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (5.41%) Product Ownership
6 16 (4.80%) Derivative
6 16 (4.80%) Management Information System
7 15 (4.50%) Reference Data
8 12 (3.60%) Fixed Income
9 9 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.50%) Client/Server
12 5 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.50%) Hedge funds
12 5 (1.50%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.50%) NHS
13 4 (1.20%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
13 4 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (11.71%) Linux
2 17 (5.11%) Unix
3 3 (0.90%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (33.63%) Agile
2 87 (26.13%) Data Modelling
3 70 (21.02%) Business Intelligence
4 68 (20.42%) Microservices
5 67 (20.12%) DevOps
6 62 (18.62%) CI/CD
7 61 (18.32%) Analytics
8 58 (17.42%) Computer Science
9 55 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (16.22%) Migration
11 39 (11.71%) Data Migration
11 39 (11.71%) Requirements Gathering
12 37 (11.11%) ETL
12 37 (11.11%) Scrum
13 35 (10.51%) Data Governance
13 35 (10.51%) Design Patterns
14 34 (10.21%) Data Architecture
15 32 (9.61%) Data Analysis
16 31 (9.31%) Change Management
16 31 (9.31%) OO
Programming Languages
1 88 (26.43%) Python
2 79 (23.72%) Java
3 68 (20.42%) SQL
4 32 (9.61%) JavaScript
5 20 (6.01%) C++
6 18 (5.41%) C#
6 18 (5.41%) Shell Script
7 17 (5.11%) Kotlin
7 17 (5.11%) Scala
8 13 (3.90%) Go
9 12 (3.60%) TypeScript
10 11 (3.30%) Perl
11 10 (3.00%) Bash
12 9 (2.70%) C
12 9 (2.70%) PowerShell
13 8 (2.40%) R
14 5 (1.50%) Rust
15 4 (1.20%) ABAP
16 3 (0.90%) ActionScript
16 3 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 65 (19.52%) Degree
2 31 (9.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (8.11%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.11%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.10%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (0.90%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.90%) PhD
7 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.71%) QA
3 16 (4.80%) GDPR
4 3 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.30%) MiFID
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 40 (12.01%) Docker
2 9 (2.70%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 4 (1.20%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (16.82%) Kubernetes
2 26 (7.81%) Prometheus
3 22 (6.61%) Grafana
4 12 (3.60%) Terraform
5 9 (2.70%) Ansible
5 9 (2.70%) Consul
5 9 (2.70%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (2.70%) Kibana
5 9 (2.70%) logstash
5 9 (2.70%) Progress Chef
5 9 (2.70%) Puppet
6 8 (2.40%) Zipkin
7 4 (1.20%) Data Guard
7 4 (1.20%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.30%) Argo
8 1 (0.30%) Istio
8 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 94 (28.23%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.21%) SAP
3 18 (5.41%) NetApp
3 18 (5.41%) Oracle
3 18 (5.41%) Splunk
4 9 (2.70%) SaltStack
5 7 (2.10%) Ariba
5 7 (2.10%) Databricks
5 7 (2.10%) Google
5 7 (2.10%) ION Trading
6 5 (1.50%) Autodesk
6 5 (1.50%) Lotus
6 5 (1.50%) New Relic
7 4 (1.20%) Sparx
8 3 (0.90%) F5
8 3 (0.90%) Facebook
8 3 (0.90%) Instagram
8 3 (0.90%) Twitter
8 3 (0.90%) YouTube
9 2 (0.60%) Talend