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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 509 644
Rank change year-on-year -73 +135 +242
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 90 175 154
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.36% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.38% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 57 94 119
10th Percentile £35,350 £25,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £25,313 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -25.00% +19.43%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £73,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,700 £81,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £25,625 £60,000
% change year-on-year +114.63% -57.29% +19.83%

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 53,894 45,456 65,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.39% 92.40% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 32,246 22,087 51,057
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,296 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -22 84 £57,500 +27.78% 45
UK excluding London -50 49 £55,000 +114.63% 39
London +5 37 £60,000 - 15
South East +13 14 £57,500 -17.86% 15
Work from Home -26 12 £45,000 +75.61% 29
Midlands +16 11 £40,500 -20.98% 9
West Midlands +20 9 £40,500 -24.65% 6
North of England -41 8 £55,000 +114.63% 6
South West -8 7 £37,500 +46.34% 5
East of England +13 6 £75,000 +50.00% 4
North West +4 6 £55,000 +114.63% 4
Scotland -24 3 £45,000 +77.78% 1
East Midlands -15 2 - - 3
Yorkshire -46 2 £42,500 +65.85% 2

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 (13.33%) Appian
2 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.11%) SAS
Applications
1 30 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (3.33%) Visualfiles
2 2 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (47.78%) Power Platform
2 23 (25.56%) Azure
3 16 (17.78%) Power Automate
4 14 (15.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (13.33%) Anthropic Claude
5 12 (13.33%) Azure AI
6 11 (12.22%) AWS
7 6 (6.67%) Boomi
7 6 (6.67%) Matillion
8 5 (5.56%) AWS KMS
9 4 (4.44%) SaaS
10 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.33%) PowerApps
11 2 (2.22%) GCP
11 2 (2.22%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (1.11%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (1.11%) Collibra
12 1 (1.11%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.22%) Intranet
2 3 (3.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (47.78%) Power BI
2 23 (25.56%) SQL Server
3 15 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 12 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (13.33%) Pinecone
5 8 (8.89%) Snowflake Schema
5 8 (8.89%) Tableau
6 7 (7.78%) Power Query
7 6 (6.67%) Pentaho
8 5 (5.56%) Star Schema
9 3 (3.33%) Big Data
10 2 (2.22%) Metadata
10 2 (2.22%) SAP BW
10 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
11 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.11%) KNIME
11 1 (1.11%) Looker
11 1 (1.11%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 13 (14.44%) MLflow
2 3 (3.33%) Selenium
3 2 (2.22%) JIRA
3 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.11%) Git
4 1 (1.11%) GitLab
4 1 (1.11%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 53 (58.89%) Social Skills
2 45 (50.00%) Finance
3 39 (43.33%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.22%) Manufacturing
5 10 (11.11%) Law
5 10 (11.11%) Legal
6 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.44%) Retail
9 3 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.11%) Advertising
10 1 (1.11%) Banking
10 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.11%) Marketing
10 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (37.78%) Analyst
2 22 (24.44%) Data Analyst
3 13 (14.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 13 (14.44%) Report Analyst
4 12 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (10.00%) Developer
6 8 (8.89%) Senior
7 7 (7.78%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (5.56%) Insight Analyst
9 4 (4.44%) Analyst Developer
9 4 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 4 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (4.44%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Business Developer
10 3 (3.33%) Legal Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Report Developer
10 3 (3.33%) Senior Data Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Support Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.44%) PyTorch
1 13 (14.44%) TensorFlow
2 12 (13.33%) Django
2 12 (13.33%) Faiss
2 12 (13.33%) FastAPI
2 12 (13.33%) Flask
2 12 (13.33%) Hugging Face
2 12 (13.33%) JWT
2 12 (13.33%) NumPy
2 12 (13.33%) OAuth
2 12 (13.33%) OpenAPI
2 12 (13.33%) Pandas
2 12 (13.33%) pytest
2 12 (13.33%) REST
2 12 (13.33%) RESTful
2 12 (13.33%) scikit-learn
2 12 (13.33%) Swagger
2 12 (13.33%) Web Services
3 9 (10.00%) PySpark
4 3 (3.33%) DOM
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.56%) Legacy Systems
1 14 (15.56%) Low-Code
2 10 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.89%) Data Structures
3 8 (8.89%) Onboarding
4 7 (7.78%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.22%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.11%) Blog
6 1 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.11%) Podcast
6 1 (1.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.11%) Linux
1 1 (1.11%) Unix
1 1 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (53.33%) Business Intelligence
2 37 (41.11%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (40.00%) Analytics
4 33 (36.67%) ETL
5 29 (32.22%) Data Engineering
6 27 (30.00%) Data Modelling
7 22 (24.44%) Decision-Making
8 20 (22.22%) AI
8 20 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (22.22%) Validation
8 20 (22.22%) Workflow
9 18 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
10 17 (18.89%) Actionable Insight
10 17 (18.89%) Data Analysis
10 17 (18.89%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (17.78%) LLM
11 16 (17.78%) Machine Learning
12 15 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (16.67%) Data Validation
12 15 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 73 (81.11%) SQL
2 35 (38.89%) Python
3 5 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.22%) C
5 2 (2.22%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.11%) C++
6 1 (1.11%) PROC SQL
6 1 (1.11%) SAS Macro
6 1 (1.11%) Scala
6 1 (1.11%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) Degree
2 13 (14.44%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.33%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (44.44%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.78%) GDPR
3 5 (5.56%) HIPAA
3 5 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.56%) NIST
3 5 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.22%) QA
5 1 (1.11%) P3O
5 1 (1.11%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (14.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (14.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.33%) Automation Anywhere
2 12 (13.33%) OpenAI
2 12 (13.33%) UiPath
3 8 (8.89%) SAP
4 7 (7.78%) Informatica
4 7 (7.78%) Talend
5 6 (6.67%) MuleSoft
6 5 (5.56%) Alteryx
6 5 (5.56%) Databricks
6 5 (5.56%) Oracle
7 4 (4.44%) Teradata
8 3 (3.33%) Google
8 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.11%) Cognos
9 1 (1.11%) Intapp
9 1 (1.11%) Salesforce