Data Extraction Job Trends

Data Extraction
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Data Extraction skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 676 571 687
Rank change year-on-year -105 +116 -22
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 117 117 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.26% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 69 64 61
10th Percentile £29,348 £36,125 £40,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £43,257
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,250
90th Percentile £133,000 £81,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,750 £53,750
% change year-on-year +7.69% -9.30% +7.50%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 80,366 44,460 65,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.09% 88.73% 80.84%
Number of salaries quoted 55,743 25,365 40,240
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -7.07%

Data Extraction
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Extraction relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Extraction job vacancy trend in the UK

Data Extraction
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Extraction.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Data Extraction

Data Extraction
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Extraction over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Extraction in the UK

Data Extraction
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Extraction within the UK over the 6 months to 31 August 2026. 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 -85 108 £55,000 -6.38% 75
UK excluding London -102 85 £52,500 +7.69% 39
Work from Home -22 45 £60,000 +4.35% 25
Midlands -6 40 £52,500 +75.00% 5
East Midlands 0 26 £43,173 - 4
London -61 26 £130,000 +108.00% 47
North of England -73 16 £47,500 -15.56% 11
West Midlands -24 14 £52,500 +75.00% 1
South East -44 11 £47,500 -13.64% 9
South West -60 11 £55,000 - 11
North West -11 6 £56,250 -15.09% 4
Yorkshire -45 5 £28,146 -40.75% 6
North East - 5 £65,000 - 2
East of England -12 3 £85,000 +47.83% 1
Isle of Man - 3 £38,500 - 1
Scotland -9 1 - - 1

Data Extraction
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.27%) Confluence
2 4 (3.42%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.71%) SAS
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.85%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 15 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.84%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Actimize
2 3 (2.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (2.56%) SystmOne
3 2 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 32 (27.35%) Power Platform
2 10 (8.55%) Azure
2 10 (8.55%) SaaS
3 9 (7.69%) AWS
4 8 (6.84%) GitHub
5 7 (5.98%) Anthropic Claude
5 7 (5.98%) GitHub Copilot
5 7 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (4.27%) GCP
7 4 (3.42%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.71%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.71%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.71%) dbt
9 2 (1.71%) Figma
9 2 (1.71%) Lucidchart
9 2 (1.71%) OCI
10 1 (0.85%) AppsFlyer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) DNS
1 2 (1.71%) HTTP
1 2 (1.71%) Internet
1 2 (1.71%) SSL
1 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (27.35%) Power BI
2 9 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.13%) Data Mining
4 5 (4.27%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.42%) Tableau
6 3 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.56%) MySQL
7 2 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.71%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.85%) Big Data
8 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.85%) Flink
8 1 (0.85%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.85%) Metadata
8 1 (0.85%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Claude Code
2 5 (4.27%) JIRA
2 5 (4.27%) Selenium
3 2 (1.71%) Balsamiq
3 2 (1.71%) Git
4 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.85%) GitLab
4 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.85%) JUnit
General
1 56 (47.86%) Finance
2 45 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (27.35%) Social Skills
4 13 (11.11%) Law
5 11 (9.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (8.55%) Manufacturing
7 9 (7.69%) Banking
8 7 (5.98%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.42%) Advertising
9 4 (3.42%) Marketing
10 3 (2.56%) Legal
10 3 (2.56%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.71%) Publishing
11 2 (1.71%) Retail
12 1 (0.85%) Arabic Language
12 1 (0.85%) Billing
12 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.85%) French Language
12 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (39.32%) Analyst
2 37 (31.62%) Senior
3 24 (20.51%) Data Analyst
4 22 (18.80%) Senior Analyst
5 18 (15.38%) Lead
5 18 (15.38%) Senior Data Analyst
6 10 (8.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 9 (7.69%) Technical Leader
8 8 (6.84%) Support Analyst
9 7 (5.98%) Developer
9 7 (5.98%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 6 (5.13%) Consultant
11 5 (4.27%) Business Analyst
11 5 (4.27%) Data Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Financial Analyst
11 5 (4.27%) Lead Data Analyst
11 5 (4.27%) Web Engineer
12 4 (3.42%) Python Engineer
12 4 (3.42%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.13%) XML
2 5 (4.27%) HTML
2 5 (4.27%) Playwright
2 5 (4.27%) Puppeteer
2 5 (4.27%) REST
3 3 (2.56%) EDI
3 3 (2.56%) JSON
3 3 (2.56%) Middleware
3 3 (2.56%) XML Schema
4 2 (1.71%) .NET
4 2 (1.71%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.71%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.71%) Kafka
4 2 (1.71%) RESTful
5 1 (0.85%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.85%) DOM
5 1 (0.85%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.85%) Spring
5 1 (0.85%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.98%) Virtual Team
3 5 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.42%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.71%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (1.71%) NHS
6 2 (1.71%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.85%) Multi-touch
7 1 (0.85%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.71%) Linux
1 2 (1.71%) Windows
2 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (52.99%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (46.15%) Analytics
3 38 (32.48%) Business Intelligence
4 33 (28.21%) Data Management
4 33 (28.21%) Decision-Making
5 32 (27.35%) Data Analytics
6 31 (26.50%) Validation
7 30 (25.64%) Data Analysis
8 29 (24.79%) AI
8 29 (24.79%) ETL
9 26 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
10 25 (21.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 23 (19.66%) Roadmaps
12 22 (18.80%) Data Transformation
12 22 (18.80%) Strategic Thinking
13 21 (17.95%) Trend Analysis
14 17 (14.53%) Dashboard Development
15 15 (12.82%) Data Modelling
16 14 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (70.09%) SQL
2 55 (47.01%) Python
3 4 (3.42%) Java
4 3 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.71%) C#
5 2 (1.71%) Formula Language
5 2 (1.71%) R
6 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (14.53%) Degree
2 7 (5.98%) PhD
3 4 (3.42%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.42%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.56%) ACCA
4 3 (2.56%) CIMA
4 3 (2.56%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.71%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 11 (9.40%) QA
3 5 (4.27%) GDPR
4 3 (2.56%) FATCA
System Software
1 1 (0.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.42%) Databricks
2 4 (3.42%) SYSPRO
3 3 (2.56%) Google
3 3 (2.56%) IBM
3 3 (2.56%) IFS
3 3 (2.56%) SAP
4 2 (1.71%) Oracle
4 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.85%) Aderant
5 1 (0.85%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.85%) Braze
5 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.85%) Workday