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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 457 706
Rank change year-on-year -147 +249 +145
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 98 190 163
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.46% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.50% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 63 101 133
10th Percentile £38,100 £25,000 £39,325
25th Percentile £51,875 £25,313 £46,250
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 £144,500 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £31,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +84.00% -47.92% +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 63,474 38,128 79,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.94% 92.95% 86.09%
Number of salaries quoted 39,284 22,513 58,929
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.87% +7.38% -8.26%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -135 91 £60,000 +14.29% 111
UK excluding London -134 53 £57,500 +84.00% 96
London -37 37 £83,750 +34.00% 26
South East -48 17 £57,500 -17.86% 21
Midlands -39 14 £44,000 -2.22% 27
Work from Home -65 13 £60,000 +134.15% 31
West Midlands -8 12 £44,000 -2.22% 16
East of England -24 9 £75,000 +29.87% 10
North of England -93 9 £55,000 +89.25% 19
North West -38 5 £55,000 +69.23% 6
South West -63 3 £58,750 +129.27% 12
East Midlands -51 2 - - 11
Yorkshire -79 2 £42,500 +65.85% 9
North East - 2 £65,000 - 4
Scotland -34 1 - - 3

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 (12.24%) Appian
2 1 (1.02%) SAS
Applications
1 30 (30.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.06%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Visualfiles
2 2 (2.04%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (34.69%) Power Platform
2 22 (22.45%) Azure
3 19 (19.39%) Anthropic Claude
4 17 (17.35%) Power Automate
5 14 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (12.24%) AWS
6 12 (12.24%) Azure AI
7 8 (8.16%) GitHub
8 7 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (6.12%) Boomi
9 6 (6.12%) Matillion
10 5 (5.10%) AWS KMS
10 5 (5.10%) PowerApps
11 4 (4.08%) SaaS
12 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (2.04%) GCP
12 2 (2.04%) Snowflake
13 1 (1.02%) Amazon MSK
13 1 (1.02%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.24%) Intranet
2 3 (3.06%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (34.69%) Power BI
2 24 (24.49%) SQL Server
3 14 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 12 (12.24%) Pinecone
5 10 (10.20%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (6.12%) Pentaho
6 6 (6.12%) Power Query
6 6 (6.12%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (5.10%) Star Schema
8 4 (4.08%) Tableau
9 3 (3.06%) Big Data
10 2 (2.04%) Data Mining
10 2 (2.04%) Metadata
10 2 (2.04%) SAP BW
10 2 (2.04%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (2.04%) SAP HANA
10 2 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (1.02%) Base SAS
11 1 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (13.27%) MLflow
2 7 (7.14%) Claude Code
2 7 (7.14%) Selenium
3 2 (2.04%) JIRA
3 2 (2.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.02%) Git
4 1 (1.02%) GitLab
4 1 (1.02%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 52 (53.06%) Social Skills
2 51 (52.04%) Finance
3 37 (37.76%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (15.31%) Law
4 15 (15.31%) Manufacturing
5 9 (9.18%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.10%) Legal
6 5 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.08%) Retail
8 3 (3.06%) Banking
9 2 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.04%) Marketing
10 1 (1.02%) Advertising
10 1 (1.02%) Arabic Language
10 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.02%) French Language
10 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (29.59%) Analyst
2 21 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 20 (20.41%) Data Analyst
4 12 (12.24%) Automation Engineer
5 10 (10.20%) Report Analyst
5 10 (10.20%) Senior
6 7 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) Web Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) Developer
7 6 (6.12%) Python Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 5 (5.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 5 (5.10%) Lead
8 5 (5.10%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Consultant
9 4 (4.08%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) Business Developer
10 3 (3.06%) Data Scientist
10 3 (3.06%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.27%) PyTorch
1 13 (13.27%) TensorFlow
2 12 (12.24%) Django
2 12 (12.24%) Faiss
2 12 (12.24%) FastAPI
2 12 (12.24%) Flask
2 12 (12.24%) Hugging Face
2 12 (12.24%) JWT
2 12 (12.24%) NumPy
2 12 (12.24%) OAuth
2 12 (12.24%) OpenAPI
2 12 (12.24%) Pandas
2 12 (12.24%) pytest
2 12 (12.24%) REST
2 12 (12.24%) RESTful
2 12 (12.24%) scikit-learn
2 12 (12.24%) Swagger
2 12 (12.24%) Web Services
3 9 (9.18%) PySpark
4 7 (7.14%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 14 (14.29%) Low-Code
2 7 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.04%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.04%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.02%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.02%) Blog
6 1 (1.02%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.02%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.02%) Podcast
6 1 (1.02%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (39.80%) Analytics
2 38 (38.78%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (34.69%) AI
5 30 (30.61%) ETL
6 29 (29.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (29.59%) Data Engineering
7 25 (25.51%) Data Modelling
8 24 (24.49%) Workflow
9 23 (23.47%) Validation
10 22 (22.45%) Task Automation
11 20 (20.41%) Generative AI
12 19 (19.39%) Open Source
13 16 (16.33%) Data Cleansing
13 16 (16.33%) Requirements Gathering
13 16 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (15.31%) CI/CD
14 15 (15.31%) Data Validation
14 15 (15.31%) Decision-Making
14 15 (15.31%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 71 (72.45%) SQL
2 48 (48.98%) Python
3 5 (5.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.06%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.06%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.04%) C
6 1 (1.02%) ABAP
6 1 (1.02%) C++
6 1 (1.02%) PROC SQL
6 1 (1.02%) SAS Macro
6 1 (1.02%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (18.37%) Degree
2 12 (12.24%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.14%) PhD
5 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.04%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.02%) PMP
7 1 (1.02%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (44.90%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.16%) GDPR
3 5 (5.10%) HIPAA
3 5 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.10%) NIST
3 5 (5.10%) QA
3 5 (5.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.02%) P3O
4 1 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (13.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (13.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.27%) OpenAI
3 12 (12.24%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (12.24%) UiPath
4 7 (7.14%) Informatica
4 7 (7.14%) Talend
5 6 (6.12%) MuleSoft
5 6 (6.12%) SAP
6 5 (5.10%) Databricks
6 5 (5.10%) Google
6 5 (5.10%) Oracle
7 3 (3.06%) IFS
7 3 (3.06%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.02%) Intapp
8 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.02%) Teradata