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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 442 726
Rank change year-on-year -176 +284 +95
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 96 199 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.48% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.51% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 63 105 128
10th Percentile £40,650 £25,000 £39,325
25th Percentile £51,875 £25,313 £45,240
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -20.83% +19.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £144,500 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £39,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +47.44% -35.00% +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 65,329 38,670 81,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.37% 92.92% 85.97%
Number of salaries quoted 40,301 22,594 59,579
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.51%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.41%

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 April 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 18 April 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 -138 88 £60,000 +11.63% 56
UK excluding London -136 52 £57,500 +47.44% 36
London -28 35 £100,000 +53.85% 25
South East -48 17 £57,500 -17.86% 7
Midlands -29 15 £44,000 -2.22% 14
West Midlands -16 13 £44,000 -2.22% 13
Work from Home -71 12 £60,000 +134.15% 23
East of England -26 9 £75,000 +29.87% 2
North of England -89 9 £55,000 +69.23% 8
North West -31 5 £55,000 +33.33% 5
East Midlands -49 2 - - 1
Yorkshire -90 2 £42,500 +65.85% 1
North East - 2 £65,000 - 2
Scotland -42 1 - -
South West -63 1 £35,000 +36.59% 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 12 (12.50%) Appian
2 1 (1.04%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (29.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (2.08%) Visualfiles
2 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 32 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 19 (19.79%) Anthropic Claude
2 19 (19.79%) Azure
3 16 (16.67%) Power Automate
4 13 (13.54%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (12.50%) AWS
5 12 (12.50%) Azure AI
6 8 (8.33%) GitHub
7 7 (7.29%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (6.25%) Boomi
8 6 (6.25%) Matillion
9 5 (5.21%) AWS KMS
9 5 (5.21%) PowerApps
10 4 (4.17%) SaaS
11 2 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.08%) GCP
11 2 (2.08%) Snowflake
12 1 (1.04%) Azure Machine Learning
12 1 (1.04%) Collibra
12 1 (1.04%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.50%) Intranet
2 4 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (33.33%) Power BI
2 24 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 14 (14.58%) Relational Database
4 12 (12.50%) Pinecone
5 10 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (6.25%) Pentaho
6 6 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (5.21%) Power Query
7 5 (5.21%) Star Schema
7 5 (5.21%) Tableau
8 3 (3.13%) SAP BW
9 2 (2.08%) Big Data
9 2 (2.08%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.08%) Metadata
9 2 (2.08%) SAP Data Services
9 2 (2.08%) SAP HANA
9 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.04%) Looker
10 1 (1.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (1.04%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 13 (13.54%) MLflow
2 8 (8.33%) Selenium
3 7 (7.29%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.08%) JIRA
4 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.04%) GitLab
General
1 52 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 49 (51.04%) Finance
3 35 (36.46%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (15.63%) Law
4 15 (15.63%) Manufacturing
5 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.17%) Legal
7 4 (4.17%) Retail
8 3 (3.13%) Banking
9 2 (2.08%) Advertising
9 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.08%) Marketing
10 1 (1.04%) Arabic Language
10 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.04%) French Language
10 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (27.08%) Analyst
2 21 (21.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 19 (19.79%) Data Analyst
4 12 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
5 10 (10.42%) Report Analyst
5 10 (10.42%) Senior
6 8 (8.33%) Web Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Principal Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Developer
8 6 (6.25%) Lead
8 6 (6.25%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (4.17%) Consultant
10 4 (4.17%) Data Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Administrator
11 3 (3.13%) Data Scientist
11 3 (3.13%) Database Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.54%) PyTorch
1 13 (13.54%) TensorFlow
2 12 (12.50%) Django
2 12 (12.50%) Faiss
2 12 (12.50%) FastAPI
2 12 (12.50%) Flask
2 12 (12.50%) Hugging Face
2 12 (12.50%) JWT
2 12 (12.50%) NumPy
2 12 (12.50%) OAuth
2 12 (12.50%) OpenAPI
2 12 (12.50%) Pandas
2 12 (12.50%) pytest
2 12 (12.50%) REST
2 12 (12.50%) RESTful
2 12 (12.50%) scikit-learn
2 12 (12.50%) Swagger
2 12 (12.50%) Web Services
3 8 (8.33%) HTML
3 8 (8.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.58%) Legacy Systems
1 14 (14.58%) Low-Code
2 8 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.08%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.04%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.04%) Blog
6 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.04%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.04%) Podcast
6 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (39.58%) Analytics
2 36 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (35.42%) AI
4 33 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (32.29%) ETL
6 29 (30.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (30.21%) Data Engineering
7 24 (25.00%) Data Modelling
8 23 (23.96%) Validation
9 22 (22.92%) Task Automation
9 22 (22.92%) Workflow
10 20 (20.83%) Generative AI
11 19 (19.79%) Open Source
12 16 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
12 16 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
12 16 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (15.63%) Data Validation
13 15 (15.63%) LLM
13 15 (15.63%) Machine Learning
14 14 (14.58%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 70 (72.92%) SQL
2 48 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.13%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.04%) ABAP
5 1 (1.04%) C
5 1 (1.04%) C#
5 1 (1.04%) PROC SQL
5 1 (1.04%) SAS Macro
5 1 (1.04%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (17.71%) Degree
2 11 (11.46%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.29%) PhD
5 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.08%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.04%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (46.88%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.33%) GDPR
3 5 (5.21%) HIPAA
3 5 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.21%) NIST
3 5 (5.21%) QA
3 5 (5.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (14.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (14.58%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (27.08%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.54%) OpenAI
3 12 (12.50%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (12.50%) UiPath
4 7 (7.29%) Informatica
4 7 (7.29%) Talend
5 6 (6.25%) Google
5 6 (6.25%) MuleSoft
5 6 (6.25%) SAP
6 4 (4.17%) Databricks
6 4 (4.17%) Oracle
7 3 (3.13%) IFS
7 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.04%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.04%) Intapp
8 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.04%) Teradata