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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 667 560 685
Rank change year-on-year -107 +125 -34
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 126 113 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.23% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.26% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 77 64 51
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,900 £40,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £38,000 £42,286
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £64,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £46,250 £52,000
% change year-on-year +2.70% -11.06% +5.05%

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 82,691 43,965 63,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.84% 88.66% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 57,506 24,819 36,681
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.23%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -79 117 £52,500 -8.70% 133
UK excluding London -89 92 £47,500 +2.70% 52
Work from Home -17 46 £75,000 +30.43% 51
Midlands -28 40 £52,500 +75.00% 7
London -53 28 £130,000 +108.00% 90
East Midlands -8 26 £43,173 - 2
North of England -48 25 £43,500 -22.67% 12
North West -6 15 £43,500 -37.86% 5
West Midlands -36 14 £52,500 +75.00% 5
South West -60 13 £55,000 +46.67% 9
South East -56 9 £47,500 -13.64% 20
Yorkshire -49 6 £28,146 -40.75% 5
Isle of Man - 4 £38,500 -
North East - 4 £65,000 - 2
East of England -31 1 £85,000 +47.83% 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 5 (3.97%) Confluence
2 4 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.59%) SAS
4 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.79%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 13 (10.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.76%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.76%) Actimize
2 5 (3.97%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 3 (2.38%) SystmOne
4 2 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.79%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (26.98%) Power Platform
2 10 (7.94%) SaaS
3 9 (7.14%) Azure
4 8 (6.35%) AWS
5 7 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.76%) GitHub
7 5 (3.97%) Anthropic Claude
7 5 (3.97%) GCP
7 5 (3.97%) GitHub Copilot
8 4 (3.17%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (2.38%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.59%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.59%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.59%) dbt
10 2 (1.59%) Figma
10 2 (1.59%) Lucidchart
10 2 (1.59%) OCI
11 1 (0.79%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.38%) DNS
1 3 (2.38%) Internet
1 3 (2.38%) SSL
1 3 (2.38%) TCP/IP
1 3 (2.38%) VPN
2 2 (1.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (26.98%) Power BI
2 11 (8.73%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.76%) Data Mining
4 5 (3.97%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.17%) Tableau
6 3 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.38%) MySQL
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.59%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.79%) Big Data
8 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.79%) Flink
8 1 (0.79%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.79%) Metadata
8 1 (0.79%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.79%) QGIS
8 1 (0.79%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Claude Code
1 5 (3.97%) JIRA
2 3 (2.38%) Selenium
3 2 (1.59%) Balsamiq
3 2 (1.59%) Git
4 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.79%) GitLab
4 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.79%) JUnit
General
1 66 (52.38%) Finance
2 43 (34.13%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 23 (18.25%) Law
5 13 (10.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (8.73%) Banking
7 10 (7.94%) Military
7 10 (7.94%) Telecoms
8 8 (6.35%) Manufacturing
9 7 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (3.97%) Legal
11 4 (3.17%) Advertising
11 4 (3.17%) Marketing
12 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.59%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.59%) Publishing
12 2 (1.59%) Retail
13 1 (0.79%) Billing
13 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.79%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 48 (38.10%) Analyst
2 38 (30.16%) Senior
3 24 (19.05%) Data Analyst
4 22 (17.46%) Lead
4 22 (17.46%) Senior Analyst
5 18 (14.29%) Senior Data Analyst
6 11 (8.73%) Technical Leader
7 9 (7.14%) Developer
8 8 (6.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 8 (6.35%) Support Analyst
9 7 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Financial Analyst
10 6 (4.76%) Analyst Developer
10 6 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 6 (4.76%) Systems Analyst
11 5 (3.97%) Business Analyst
11 5 (3.97%) Finance Systems Analyst
11 5 (3.97%) Power BI Developer
11 5 (3.97%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (3.97%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.56%) XML
2 5 (3.97%) REST
3 4 (3.17%) XML Schema
4 3 (2.38%) EDI
4 3 (2.38%) HTML
4 3 (2.38%) JSON
4 3 (2.38%) Middleware
4 3 (2.38%) Playwright
4 3 (2.38%) Puppeteer
5 2 (1.59%) .NET
5 2 (1.59%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.59%) Kafka
5 2 (1.59%) RESTful
6 1 (0.79%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.79%) DOM
6 1 (0.79%) OAuth
6 1 (0.79%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.79%) Spring
6 1 (0.79%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.32%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.56%) Virtual Team
3 5 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.97%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 3 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.38%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.59%) NHS
7 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.79%) Multi-touch
7 1 (0.79%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.38%) Linux
1 3 (2.38%) Windows
2 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (56.35%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (43.65%) Analytics
3 44 (34.92%) Validation
4 40 (31.75%) Business Intelligence
4 40 (31.75%) Data Analysis
5 35 (27.78%) Decision-Making
5 35 (27.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 33 (26.19%) Data Analytics
7 32 (25.40%) ETL
8 31 (24.60%) Data Management
9 26 (20.63%) Actionable Insight
10 24 (19.05%) AI
11 23 (18.25%) Data Transformation
12 22 (17.46%) Roadmaps
12 22 (17.46%) Strategic Thinking
13 21 (16.67%) ERP
13 21 (16.67%) Process Improvement
13 21 (16.67%) Trend Analysis
14 20 (15.87%) Migration
15 19 (15.08%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 83 (65.87%) SQL
2 50 (39.68%) Python
3 4 (3.17%) Java
4 3 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.59%) C#
5 2 (1.59%) Formula Language
5 2 (1.59%) R
6 1 (0.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (12.70%) Degree
2 5 (3.97%) ACCA
2 5 (3.97%) CIMA
2 5 (3.97%) PhD
2 5 (3.97%) SC Cleared
2 5 (3.97%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.38%) CREST Certified
3 3 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 14 (11.11%) QA
3 5 (3.97%) GDPR
4 4 (3.17%) FATCA
System Software
1 1 (0.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.94%) Civica
2 10 (7.94%) Sage
3 5 (3.97%) IBM
4 4 (3.17%) Databricks
4 4 (3.17%) SAP
4 4 (3.17%) SYSPRO
5 3 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.59%) Google
6 2 (1.59%) Oracle
7 1 (0.79%) Aderant
7 1 (0.79%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.79%) Braze
7 1 (0.79%) IFS
7 1 (0.79%) Workday