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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 545 530 637
Rank change year-on-year -15 +107 +240
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 90 166 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.32% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.35% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 56 78 110
10th Percentile £35,125 £25,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,063 £25,313 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -25.00% +19.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £73,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,200 £80,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £25,625 £60,000
% change year-on-year +114.63% -57.29% +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 50,453 47,821 60,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.27% 91.48% 88.85%
Number of salaries quoted 29,778 22,900 47,030
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 27 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 27 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 85 £57,500 +27.78% 93
UK excluding London -4 51 £55,000 +114.63% 81
London +33 37 £60,000 - 27
South East +17 15 £57,500 -17.86% 25
Work from Home +5 15 £51,250 +100.00% 70
Midlands +12 10 £35,000 -44.00% 16
North of England -8 9 £55,000 +114.63% 17
West Midlands +29 8 £35,000 -44.00% 10
East of England +21 7 £75,000 +62.16% 12
South West -8 7 £37,500 +46.34% 8
North West +20 6 £55,000 +114.63% 7
Scotland -20 3 £45,000 +77.78% 2
Yorkshire -31 3 £42,500 +65.85% 8
East Midlands - 2 - - 6

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 11 (12.22%) Appian
2 2 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.11%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (34.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (3.33%) Visualfiles
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (48.89%) Power Platform
2 23 (25.56%) Azure
3 14 (15.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (14.44%) Power Automate
5 12 (13.33%) AWS
6 11 (12.22%) Anthropic Claude
6 11 (12.22%) Azure AI
7 5 (5.56%) Boomi
7 5 (5.56%) Matillion
8 4 (4.44%) AWS KMS
8 4 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (4.44%) SaaS
9 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.33%) GCP
10 2 (2.22%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.22%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (1.11%) Collibra
11 1 (1.11%) dbt
11 1 (1.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.11%) Intranet
2 2 (2.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (48.89%) Power BI
2 23 (25.56%) SQL Server
3 14 (15.56%) Relational Database
4 11 (12.22%) Pinecone
5 10 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (11.11%) Tableau
6 7 (7.78%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (6.67%) Pentaho
8 5 (5.56%) Power Query
9 4 (4.44%) Big Data
9 4 (4.44%) Star Schema
10 3 (3.33%) Metadata
10 3 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
12 1 (1.11%) KNIME
12 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
12 1 (1.11%) SAP Data Services
12 1 (1.11%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 11 (12.22%) MLflow
2 2 (2.22%) JIRA
2 2 (2.22%) Selenium
2 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.11%) Git
3 1 (1.11%) GitLab
3 1 (1.11%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 54 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 43 (47.78%) Finance
3 38 (42.22%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.11%) Legal
4 10 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 9 (10.00%) Law
6 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (6.67%) Retail
8 4 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.22%) Marketing
10 1 (1.11%) Advertising
10 1 (1.11%) Banking
10 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (40.00%) Analyst
2 23 (25.56%) Data Analyst
3 13 (14.44%) Report Analyst
4 12 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 11 (12.22%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) 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%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Support Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Applications Manager
10 3 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Consultant
10 3 (3.33%) Data Scientist
10 3 (3.33%) Legal Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Report Developer
10 3 (3.33%) Senior Data Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.33%) Pandas
1 12 (13.33%) PyTorch
1 12 (13.33%) scikit-learn
1 12 (13.33%) TensorFlow
2 11 (12.22%) Django
2 11 (12.22%) Faiss
2 11 (12.22%) FastAPI
2 11 (12.22%) Flask
2 11 (12.22%) Hugging Face
2 11 (12.22%) JWT
2 11 (12.22%) NumPy
2 11 (12.22%) OAuth
2 11 (12.22%) OpenAPI
2 11 (12.22%) pytest
2 11 (12.22%) REST
2 11 (12.22%) RESTful
2 11 (12.22%) Swagger
2 11 (12.22%) Web Services
3 8 (8.89%) PySpark
4 2 (2.22%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.44%) Low-Code
2 12 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.89%) Onboarding
4 7 (7.78%) Management Information System
5 6 (6.67%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.22%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.22%) Housing Association
6 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.11%) Blog
7 1 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.11%) Podcast
7 1 (1.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.22%) Unix
2 1 (1.11%) Linux
2 1 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (53.33%) Business Intelligence
2 37 (41.11%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (37.78%) Analytics
4 31 (34.44%) ETL
5 24 (26.67%) Data Engineering
5 24 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 21 (23.33%) Decision-Making
7 19 (21.11%) Data Cleansing
8 18 (20.00%) Data Analysis
8 18 (20.00%) Workflow
9 17 (18.89%) AI
9 17 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (18.89%) Validation
10 16 (17.78%) Data Pipeline
10 16 (17.78%) Machine Learning
10 16 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
11 15 (16.67%) Data Validation
12 14 (15.56%) CI/CD
12 14 (15.56%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 72 (80.00%) SQL
2 34 (37.78%) Python
3 3 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.22%) C
4 2 (2.22%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.22%) Scala
5 1 (1.11%) C++
5 1 (1.11%) Perl
5 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.11%) PROC SQL
5 1 (1.11%) SAS Macro
5 1 (1.11%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) Degree
2 10 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.33%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.11%) PhD
6 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (42.22%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.67%) GDPR
3 4 (4.44%) HIPAA
3 4 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.44%) NIST
3 4 (4.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.22%) QA
5 1 (1.11%) P3O
5 1 (1.11%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.22%) Automation Anywhere
2 11 (12.22%) OpenAI
2 11 (12.22%) UiPath
3 7 (7.78%) SAP
4 6 (6.67%) Informatica
4 6 (6.67%) Oracle
4 6 (6.67%) Talend
5 5 (5.56%) Alteryx
5 5 (5.56%) MuleSoft
6 4 (4.44%) Databricks
6 4 (4.44%) Teradata
7 3 (3.33%) Google
7 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.11%) Amplitude
8 1 (1.11%) Cognos
8 1 (1.11%) Intapp
8 1 (1.11%) Salesforce