Data Extraction Contracts

Data Extraction
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Extraction skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Extraction over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 434 575
Rank change year-on-year +41 +141 +75
Contract jobs citing Data Extraction 128 148 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.34% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.39% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 89 109
10th Percentile £350 £335 £257
25th Percentile £400 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -11.71% +8.91%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £540
90th Percentile £725 £638 £590
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £538
% change year-on-year - -21.00% +24.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £46.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% - -
75th Percentile £43.75 £52.25 -
90th Percentile - £60.95 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £42.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Extraction falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Data Extraction
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Extraction as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Extraction in the UK

Data Extraction
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Extraction in the UK

Data Extraction
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Extraction over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Extraction in the UK

Data Extraction
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Extraction in the UK

Data Extraction
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Extraction within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +42 108 £500 +5.26% 135
UK excluding London +46 57 £425 - 73
London +34 49 £558 +8.78% 79
Work from Home +33 44 £438 -7.89% 71
Midlands +13 13 £413 +15.22% 15
North of England +8 13 £500 +8.11% 21
South West +56 12 £360 -24.21% 5
South East +43 9 £438 -7.89% 24
Scotland +14 9 £431 +43.75% 3
West Midlands +2 9 £425 +18.72% 7
Yorkshire +4 7 £463 -2.63% 7
North West +14 6 £500 +25.00% 15
East Midlands +11 4 £326 - 6
Wales 0 1 £363 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £400 - 1

Data Extraction
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 16 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 8 (6.25%) SAS
3 7 (5.47%) SharePoint
3 7 (5.47%) WebLogic
4 6 (4.69%) Confluence
5 3 (2.34%) Apache
5 3 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.56%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.78%) IBM Notes
7 1 (0.78%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (7.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.78%) CATIA
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.47%) Oracle Assets
1 7 (5.47%) Oracle Cash Management
1 7 (5.47%) Oracle General Ledger
1 7 (5.47%) Oracle Payables
1 7 (5.47%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.78%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.78%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.78%) Orchard Housing
3 1 (0.78%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.78%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.78%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.78%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.66%) Azure
2 27 (21.09%) AWS
3 26 (20.31%) Power Platform
4 14 (10.94%) GCP
5 9 (7.03%) PowerApps
6 7 (5.47%) Adobe Analytics
6 7 (5.47%) Power Automate
7 6 (4.69%) SaaS
8 5 (3.91%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.91%) GitHub
8 5 (3.91%) OCI
8 5 (3.91%) Snowflake
9 4 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.13%) dbt
9 4 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.13%) Serverless
10 3 (2.34%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (2.34%) Google Sheets
10 3 (2.34%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.13%) Network Security
1 4 (3.13%) VPN
2 2 (1.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.41%) Power BI
2 19 (14.84%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (10.16%) Oracle Reports
4 11 (8.59%) Relational Database
5 10 (7.81%) Tableau
6 9 (7.03%) Data Lake
7 8 (6.25%) Big Data
7 8 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 6 (4.69%) Hadoop
8 6 (4.69%) SQL Server
9 5 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (3.13%) MongoDB
10 4 (3.13%) MySQL
10 4 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (2.34%) Apache Hive
11 3 (2.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (1.56%) Metadata
12 2 (1.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (5.47%) JIRA
2 2 (1.56%) Git
2 2 (1.56%) GitLab
2 2 (1.56%) Introscope
2 2 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.56%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.78%) Ant
3 1 (0.78%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.78%) Flyway
3 1 (0.78%) Gradle
3 1 (0.78%) JUnit
3 1 (0.78%) Liquibase
3 1 (0.78%) LSMW
3 1 (0.78%) Maven
3 1 (0.78%) Mockito
3 1 (0.78%) Postman
General
1 50 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 40 (31.25%) Finance
3 36 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (21.09%) Banking
5 21 (16.41%) Marketing
6 6 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.91%) General Ledger
7 5 (3.91%) Legal
7 5 (3.91%) Retail
8 4 (3.13%) Local Government
8 4 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.34%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.34%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.34%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.56%) Automotive
10 2 (1.56%) Front Office
10 2 (1.56%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (18.75%) Developer
2 23 (17.97%) Analyst
3 19 (14.84%) Senior
4 17 (13.28%) Data Engineer
5 12 (9.38%) Consultant
6 11 (8.59%) Data Analyst
6 11 (8.59%) Oracle Developer
7 10 (7.81%) Data Scientist
8 9 (7.03%) Senior Data Scientist
9 8 (6.25%) Architect
9 8 (6.25%) Lead
10 7 (5.47%) Analytics Manager
10 7 (5.47%) Data Analytics Manager
10 7 (5.47%) Data Manager
10 7 (5.47%) Insight Manager
10 7 (5.47%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (5.47%) Strategy Manager
11 5 (3.91%) Data Consultant
11 5 (3.91%) Python Engineer
11 5 (3.91%) Report Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.59%) Oracle Fusion
1 11 (8.59%) XML
2 10 (7.81%) PySpark
3 7 (5.47%) XSLT
4 6 (4.69%) Pandas
5 5 (3.91%) TensorFlow
6 4 (3.13%) AWS CDK
6 4 (3.13%) Middleware
7 3 (2.34%) .NET
7 3 (2.34%) J2EE
7 3 (2.34%) REST
8 2 (1.56%) Anaconda
8 2 (1.56%) HTML
8 2 (1.56%) Node.js
8 2 (1.56%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.56%) RESTful
8 2 (1.56%) Spring
8 2 (1.56%) Web Services
9 1 (0.78%) MDX
9 1 (0.78%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.16%) Data Structures
2 11 (8.59%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (7.03%) Multi-touch
4 8 (6.25%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.13%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.34%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.34%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.34%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.56%) Genomics
7 2 (1.56%) Omics
8 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.78%) FMCG
8 1 (0.78%) Insider Threat
8 1 (0.78%) NHS
8 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.69%) Unix
2 5 (3.91%) Linux
3 4 (3.13%) Windows
4 2 (1.56%) AIX
5 1 (0.78%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (34.38%) Analytics
2 40 (31.25%) Data Analysis
3 39 (30.47%) ETL
3 39 (30.47%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (28.13%) Migration
5 31 (24.22%) Business Intelligence
6 26 (20.31%) Validation
6 26 (20.31%) Visualisation
7 22 (17.19%) Data Migration
7 22 (17.19%) Data Visualisation
8 21 (16.41%) Actionable Insight
8 21 (16.41%) Data Modelling
9 20 (15.63%) Computer Science
10 19 (14.84%) Agile
11 18 (14.06%) Machine Learning
12 16 (12.50%) CI/CD
12 16 (12.50%) Data Science
13 15 (11.72%) Data Integration
13 15 (11.72%) ERP
14 14 (10.94%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 86 (67.19%) SQL
2 56 (43.75%) Python
3 17 (13.28%) R
4 12 (9.38%) PL/SQL
5 7 (5.47%) Java
6 5 (3.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (3.13%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.34%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.56%) C
9 2 (1.56%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.56%) VBA
10 1 (0.78%) ABAP
10 1 (0.78%) Bash
10 1 (0.78%) C++
10 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.78%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.78%) Scala
10 1 (0.78%) VB
10 1 (0.78%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.78%) VB6
Qualifications
1 20 (15.63%) Degree
2 11 (8.59%) PhD
3 9 (7.03%) Security Cleared
4 8 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.69%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.13%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.78%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.28%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.34%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.78%) Basel III
4 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.78%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.78%) IFRS
4 1 (0.78%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.78%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.78%) QA
4 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (7.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.47%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.34%) Terraform
3 2 (1.56%) CA Wily
4 1 (0.78%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 17 (13.28%) Oracle
3 12 (9.38%) Google
4 9 (7.03%) SAP
5 8 (6.25%) Adobe
6 7 (5.47%) Teradata
7 3 (2.34%) Ariba
7 3 (2.34%) Splunk
7 3 (2.34%) Workday
8 2 (1.56%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.56%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.56%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.56%) Orchard
8 2 (1.56%) Trayport
8 2 (1.56%) VMware
9 1 (0.78%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.78%) Kronos
9 1 (0.78%) Lotus
9 1 (0.78%) NEC
9 1 (0.78%) Pega