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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 521 749
Rank change year-on-year -110 +228 0
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 108 166 158
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.36% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.39% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 66 94 118
10th Percentile £35,125 £25,000 £40,147
25th Percentile £46,250 £25,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -20.83% +19.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £80,000 £77,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £31,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +68.00% -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 70,129 42,382 86,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 91.66% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 48,378 23,044 61,478
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.12%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% - -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 28 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Extraction in the UK

Data Extraction
Top 14 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 28 June 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 -96 102 £57,500 +9.52% 52
UK excluding London -110 73 £52,500 +68.00% 42
Work from Home -21 39 £60,000 +134.15% 20
Midlands -12 37 £52,500 +75.00% 11
London -42 28 £98,000 +50.77% 17
East Midlands 0 22 £43,173 -13.65% 6
West Midlands -18 15 £52,500 +75.00% 5
South East -30 14 £47,500 -13.64% 9
South West -72 8 £25,000 -2.44% 7
North of England -75 7 £65,000 +36.84% 12
East of England -5 6 £75,000 +2.74% 1
North West -8 5 £55,000 +10.00% 4
North East - 2 £65,000 - 5
Scotland -2 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 (4.63%) Appian
2 4 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.85%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.93%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (17.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.63%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.93%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.93%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 31 (28.70%) Power Platform
2 12 (11.11%) Anthropic Claude
2 12 (11.11%) AWS
3 11 (10.19%) Azure
4 9 (8.33%) Power Automate
4 9 (8.33%) SaaS
5 8 (7.41%) GitHub
6 7 (6.48%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (4.63%) Azure AI
7 5 (4.63%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (4.63%) GCP
7 5 (4.63%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (2.78%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (2.78%) AWS KMS
9 3 (2.78%) Boomi
9 3 (2.78%) Matillion
9 3 (2.78%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.85%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.63%) HTTP
2 4 (3.70%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (28.70%) Power BI
2 11 (10.19%) Relational Database
3 10 (9.26%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.48%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.63%) Pinecone
6 4 (3.70%) Data Mining
6 4 (3.70%) Power Query
6 4 (3.70%) Tableau
7 3 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.78%) Pentaho
7 3 (2.78%) SAP BW
7 3 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (2.78%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.85%) Metadata
8 2 (1.85%) MySQL
8 2 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.85%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.93%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (7.41%) Selenium
2 7 (6.48%) Claude Code
3 6 (5.56%) MLflow
4 2 (1.85%) JIRA
5 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.93%) GitLab
5 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.93%) JUnit
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 50 (46.30%) Analytical Skills
2 46 (42.59%) Finance
3 44 (40.74%) Social Skills
4 10 (9.26%) Law
5 9 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 7 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.56%) Banking
8 5 (4.63%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.78%) Marketing
10 3 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.85%) Advertising
11 2 (1.85%) Legal
11 2 (1.85%) Publishing
12 1 (0.93%) Arabic Language
12 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.93%) French Language
12 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (37.04%) Analyst
2 29 (26.85%) Data Analyst
3 26 (24.07%) Senior
4 18 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 18 (16.67%) Senior Data Analyst
5 13 (12.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 13 (12.04%) Lead
6 8 (7.41%) Web Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Principal Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Support Analyst
8 6 (5.56%) Consultant
8 6 (5.56%) Python Engineer
8 6 (5.56%) Technical Leader
9 5 (4.63%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Developer
9 5 (4.63%) Lead Data Analyst
10 4 (3.70%) Support Assistant
11 3 (2.78%) Administrator
11 3 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.26%) REST
2 8 (7.41%) HTML
2 8 (7.41%) Playwright
2 8 (7.41%) Puppeteer
3 7 (6.48%) RESTful
4 6 (5.56%) OAuth
5 5 (4.63%) Django
5 5 (4.63%) Faiss
5 5 (4.63%) FastAPI
5 5 (4.63%) Flask
5 5 (4.63%) Hugging Face
5 5 (4.63%) JWT
5 5 (4.63%) NumPy
5 5 (4.63%) OpenAPI
5 5 (4.63%) Pandas
5 5 (4.63%) pytest
5 5 (4.63%) scikit-learn
5 5 (4.63%) Swagger
5 5 (4.63%) TensorFlow
5 5 (4.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.96%) Data Structures
2 9 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (6.48%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.63%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.63%) Low-Code
4 5 (4.63%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.85%) NHS
7 1 (0.93%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (56.48%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (45.37%) Analytics
3 34 (31.48%) Decision-Making
3 34 (31.48%) Validation
4 33 (30.56%) Business Intelligence
5 31 (28.70%) ETL
6 30 (27.78%) Actionable Insight
7 29 (26.85%) AI
8 28 (25.93%) Data Analysis
8 28 (25.93%) Data Management
9 26 (24.07%) Data Analytics
9 26 (24.07%) Data Transformation
10 22 (20.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 22 (20.37%) Strategic Thinking
11 21 (19.44%) Data Engineering
11 21 (19.44%) Roadmaps
12 18 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (15.74%) Trend Analysis
14 16 (14.81%) Data Modelling
15 15 (13.89%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 83 (76.85%) SQL
2 62 (57.41%) Python
3 4 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (3.70%) Java
3 4 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.78%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.85%) Formula Language
6 1 (0.93%) ABAP
6 1 (0.93%) C#
6 1 (0.93%) PROC SQL
6 1 (0.93%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 11 (10.19%) Degree
2 7 (6.48%) PhD
3 6 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.63%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.93%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (28.70%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.48%) GDPR
3 5 (4.63%) QA
4 3 (2.78%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.78%) NIST
4 3 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (6.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.56%) Google
2 6 (5.56%) OpenAI
3 5 (4.63%) Automation Anywhere
3 5 (4.63%) SAP
3 5 (4.63%) UiPath
4 4 (3.70%) Informatica
4 4 (3.70%) Talend
5 3 (2.78%) Databricks
5 3 (2.78%) IFS
5 3 (2.78%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle
6 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.93%) Teradata
6 1 (0.93%) Workday