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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 462 723
Rank change year-on-year -172 +261 +107
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 93 194 154
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.45% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.48% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 59 105 123
10th Percentile £41,250 £25,000 £39,325
25th Percentile £51,875 £25,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +19.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £145,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £30,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +91.67% -50.00% +20.00%

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 67,307 40,602 82,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.25% 93.30% 85.26%
Number of salaries quoted 42,652 22,587 59,697
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,450 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,446 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

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 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Extraction in the UK

Data Extraction
Top 15 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 9 May 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 -97 87 £60,000 +17.07% 63
UK excluding London -126 52 £57,500 +91.67% 39
London -46 34 £120,000 +84.62% 34
Work from Home -50 17 £60,000 +134.15% 29
Midlands -33 16 £52,500 +23.53% 11
South East -32 13 £57,500 -17.86% 12
West Midlands -31 11 £52,500 +75.00% 6
East of England 0 9 £75,000 +29.87% 7
North of England -89 9 £55,000 +69.23% 5
East Midlands -22 5 - - 5
North West -26 5 £55,000 +10.00% 4
South West -60 4 £25,000 -2.44% 3
Yorkshire -74 2 £42,500 +65.85% 1
North East - 2 £65,000 -
Scotland -32 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 12 (12.90%) Appian
2 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.08%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.08%) SAS
Applications
1 23 (24.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.08%) Visualfiles
2 1 (1.08%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 27 (29.03%) Power Platform
2 19 (20.43%) Anthropic Claude
2 19 (20.43%) Azure
3 16 (17.20%) Power Automate
4 14 (15.05%) AWS
5 12 (12.90%) Azure AI
5 12 (12.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (8.60%) GitHub
7 7 (7.53%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (6.45%) Boomi
8 6 (6.45%) Matillion
9 5 (5.38%) AWS KMS
9 5 (5.38%) PowerApps
10 4 (4.30%) GCP
10 4 (4.30%) SaaS
11 3 (3.23%) Snowflake
12 2 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (1.08%) Amazon Kinesis
13 1 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (1.08%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.68%) Intranet
2 4 (4.30%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (29.03%) Power BI
2 20 (21.51%) SQL Server
3 12 (12.90%) Pinecone
4 11 (11.83%) Relational Database
5 10 (10.75%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (6.45%) Pentaho
6 6 (6.45%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (5.38%) Power Query
7 5 (5.38%) Star Schema
7 5 (5.38%) Tableau
8 3 (3.23%) Data Mining
8 3 (3.23%) SAP BW
9 2 (2.15%) Metadata
9 2 (2.15%) SAP HANA
10 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.08%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.08%) Flink
10 1 (1.08%) QGIS
10 1 (1.08%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 13 (13.98%) MLflow
2 8 (8.60%) Selenium
3 7 (7.53%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.15%) GitLab
4 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.08%) JIRA
General
1 49 (52.69%) Finance
1 49 (52.69%) Social Skills
2 33 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.05%) Law
4 12 (12.90%) Manufacturing
5 9 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.45%) Banking
7 5 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.23%) Marketing
10 2 (2.15%) Advertising
10 2 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.15%) Legal
10 2 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.15%) Retail
11 1 (1.08%) Arabic Language
11 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.08%) French Language
11 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (25.81%) Analyst
2 21 (22.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 19 (20.43%) Data Analyst
4 13 (13.98%) Senior
5 12 (12.90%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (8.60%) Web Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Principal Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Report Analyst
7 7 (7.53%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (6.45%) Lead
8 6 (6.45%) Python Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Senior Data Analyst
9 5 (5.38%) Developer
10 4 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (4.30%) Data Engineer
11 3 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 3 (3.23%) Data Scientist
11 3 (3.23%) Database Manager
11 3 (3.23%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.05%) REST
2 13 (13.98%) OAuth
2 13 (13.98%) PyTorch
2 13 (13.98%) TensorFlow
3 12 (12.90%) Django
3 12 (12.90%) Faiss
3 12 (12.90%) FastAPI
3 12 (12.90%) Flask
3 12 (12.90%) Hugging Face
3 12 (12.90%) JWT
3 12 (12.90%) NumPy
3 12 (12.90%) OpenAPI
3 12 (12.90%) Pandas
3 12 (12.90%) pytest
3 12 (12.90%) RESTful
3 12 (12.90%) scikit-learn
3 12 (12.90%) Swagger
3 12 (12.90%) Web Services
4 8 (8.60%) HTML
4 8 (8.60%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.05%) Legacy Systems
1 14 (15.05%) Low-Code
2 8 (8.60%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.30%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.30%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.15%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.08%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.08%) Blog
6 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.08%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.08%) NHS
6 1 (1.08%) Podcast
6 1 (1.08%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.08%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (37.63%) Analytics
2 34 (36.56%) AI
3 33 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (32.26%) ETL
5 29 (31.18%) Business Intelligence
5 29 (31.18%) Data Engineering
6 26 (27.96%) Validation
7 22 (23.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (23.66%) Task Automation
8 21 (22.58%) Data Modelling
8 21 (22.58%) Workflow
9 20 (21.51%) Generative AI
10 19 (20.43%) Open Source
11 16 (17.20%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (17.20%) Machine Learning
11 16 (17.20%) Requirements Gathering
11 16 (17.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (16.13%) Data Cleansing
12 15 (16.13%) Data Validation
12 15 (16.13%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 66 (70.97%) SQL
2 52 (55.91%) Python
3 4 (4.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (4.30%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.23%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.08%) ABAP
5 1 (1.08%) C#
5 1 (1.08%) Formula Language
5 1 (1.08%) Java
5 1 (1.08%) PROC SQL
5 1 (1.08%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 15 (16.13%) Degree
2 11 (11.83%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.60%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.53%) PhD
5 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.15%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.08%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (45.16%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.53%) GDPR
3 5 (5.38%) HIPAA
3 5 (5.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.38%) NIST
3 5 (5.38%) QA
3 5 (5.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (15.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (15.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (24.73%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.98%) OpenAI
3 12 (12.90%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (12.90%) UiPath
4 7 (7.53%) Informatica
4 7 (7.53%) Talend
5 6 (6.45%) Google
5 6 (6.45%) MuleSoft
6 5 (5.38%) Databricks
7 3 (3.23%) IFS
7 3 (3.23%) SAP
8 2 (2.15%) Oracle
8 2 (2.15%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.08%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.08%) Intapp
9 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.08%) Teradata
9 1 (1.08%) Workday