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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 558 604
Rank change year-on-year +6 +46 +273
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 83 151 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.27% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.31% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 53 61 73
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,313 £36,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £43,290 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +19.02%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,487 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.97% - +5.26%

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 48,456 49,466 47,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.78% 90.03% 91.48%
Number of salaries quoted 28,392 24,433 36,177
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +4 78 £56,250 -6.25% 54
UK excluding London +24 52 £50,487 +0.97% 36
London +8 29 £62,500 +4.17% 26
South East +13 15 £57,500 -17.86% 10
Work from Home +31 14 £51,250 +14.77% 25
North of England +13 12 £44,237 +0.40% 8
Midlands +29 10 £35,000 -44.00% 4
West Midlands +32 8 £35,000 -44.00% 1
North West +33 6 £55,000 +114.63% 5
East of England +24 6 £70,000 +51.35% 5
South West +16 6 £37,500 +46.34% 8
Yorkshire -11 6 £38,000 -39.20% 1
Scotland -7 3 £45,000 +77.78% 1
East Midlands - 2 - - 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 7 (8.43%) Appian
2 2 (2.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 27 (32.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.82%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (7.23%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.41%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 44 (53.01%) Power Platform
2 20 (24.10%) Azure
3 11 (13.25%) AWS
4 10 (12.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (10.84%) Power Automate
6 7 (8.43%) Anthropic Claude
6 7 (8.43%) Azure AI
7 6 (7.23%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (4.82%) Boomi
8 4 (4.82%) Matillion
9 3 (3.61%) AWS KMS
9 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.61%) GCP
9 3 (3.61%) SaaS
10 2 (2.41%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.41%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (1.20%) Google Analytics
11 1 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.64%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (53.01%) Power BI
2 20 (24.10%) SQL Server
3 11 (13.25%) Relational Database
4 10 (12.05%) Tableau
5 9 (10.84%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (8.43%) Pinecone
7 6 (7.23%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (6.02%) Pentaho
8 5 (6.02%) Power Query
9 4 (4.82%) Big Data
9 4 (4.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (3.61%) Star Schema
11 2 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (2.41%) Data Lake
11 2 (2.41%) Metadata
11 2 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (1.20%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 1 (1.20%) Looker
12 1 (1.20%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 7 (8.43%) MLflow
2 2 (2.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) Git
3 1 (1.20%) GitLab
3 1 (1.20%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (56.63%) Social Skills
2 38 (45.78%) Finance
3 37 (44.58%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.84%) Law
4 9 (10.84%) Legal
5 8 (9.64%) Manufacturing
6 6 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.23%) Retail
7 4 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Marketing
9 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (42.17%) Analyst
2 20 (24.10%) Data Analyst
3 11 (13.25%) Report Analyst
4 8 (9.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) Developer
4 8 (9.64%) Senior
5 7 (8.43%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (8.43%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (7.23%) Support Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Applications Manager
7 5 (6.02%) Insight Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Operations Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Analyst Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) ERP Manager
8 4 (4.82%) Operational Support Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Operations Support Analyst
9 3 (3.61%) Business Manager
9 3 (3.61%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.61%) Report Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.64%) Pandas
1 8 (9.64%) PyTorch
1 8 (9.64%) scikit-learn
1 8 (9.64%) TensorFlow
2 7 (8.43%) Django
2 7 (8.43%) Faiss
2 7 (8.43%) FastAPI
2 7 (8.43%) Flask
2 7 (8.43%) Hugging Face
2 7 (8.43%) JWT
2 7 (8.43%) NumPy
2 7 (8.43%) OAuth
2 7 (8.43%) OpenAPI
2 7 (8.43%) PySpark
2 7 (8.43%) pytest
2 7 (8.43%) REST
2 7 (8.43%) RESTful
2 7 (8.43%) Swagger
2 7 (8.43%) Web Services
3 1 (1.20%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.25%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (10.84%) Low-Code
3 8 (9.64%) Management Information System
4 7 (8.43%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (8.43%) Onboarding
5 5 (6.02%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.41%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.41%) Housing Association
6 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Blog
7 1 (1.20%) Clustering
7 1 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.20%) Podcast
7 1 (1.20%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Unix
1 2 (2.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.20%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (55.42%) Business Intelligence
2 31 (37.35%) Analytics
3 30 (36.14%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (28.92%) ETL
5 22 (26.51%) Decision-Making
6 20 (24.10%) Data Modelling
7 18 (21.69%) Data Analysis
8 17 (20.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (19.28%) Actionable Insight
9 16 (19.28%) Data Engineering
10 14 (16.87%) Workflow
11 13 (15.66%) Data Management
11 13 (15.66%) ERP
12 12 (14.46%) AI
12 12 (14.46%) Data Cleansing
12 12 (14.46%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (14.46%) Machine Learning
12 12 (14.46%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (13.25%) Data Analytics
14 10 (12.05%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 64 (77.11%) SQL
2 25 (30.12%) Python
3 3 (3.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.41%) C
4 2 (2.41%) Scala
5 1 (1.20%) C++
5 1 (1.20%) Perl
5 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.20%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (16.87%) Degree
2 9 (10.84%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.61%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.20%) PhD
6 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (32.53%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.82%) GDPR
3 3 (3.61%) HIPAA
3 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.61%) NIST
3 3 (3.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.41%) QA
5 1 (1.20%) P3O
5 1 (1.20%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (8.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (8.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 29 (34.94%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.43%) Automation Anywhere
2 7 (8.43%) OpenAI
2 7 (8.43%) SAP
2 7 (8.43%) UiPath
3 5 (6.02%) Alteryx
3 5 (6.02%) Oracle
4 4 (4.82%) Databricks
4 4 (4.82%) Informatica
4 4 (4.82%) MuleSoft
4 4 (4.82%) Talend
5 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.61%) Teradata
6 2 (2.41%) Intapp
7 1 (1.20%) Aderant
7 1 (1.20%) Amplitude
7 1 (1.20%) Cognos
7 1 (1.20%) Google
7 1 (1.20%) iManage
7 1 (1.20%) RedGate