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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 621 472 726
Rank change year-on-year -149 +254 +80
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 96 193 154
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.44% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.48% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 60 107 121
10th Percentile £40,750 £25,000 £39,325
25th Percentile £51,250 £25,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +19.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £145,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £30,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +91.67% -50.00% +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 66,447 40,520 82,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.89% 93.32% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 42,708 22,234 59,552
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -95 90 £60,000 +17.07% 62
UK excluding London -137 56 £57,500 +91.67% 42
London -42 33 £130,000 +92.59% 28
Work from Home -46 20 £60,000 +134.15% 34
Midlands -28 18 £52,500 +44.83% 11
South East -25 13 £57,500 -17.86% 11
West Midlands -21 11 £52,500 +75.00% 5
North of England -51 10 £55,000 +69.23% 7
East of England -6 9 £75,000 +29.87% 6
East Midlands -18 7 - - 6
North West -7 6 £55,000 +10.00% 5
South West -59 5 £25,000 -2.44% 6
Yorkshire -82 2 £42,500 +65.85% 2
North East - 2 £65,000 -
Scotland -18 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 11 (11.46%) Appian
2 3 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.04%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.04%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.04%) Visualfiles
3 1 (1.04%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.25%) Power Platform
2 18 (18.75%) Anthropic Claude
3 17 (17.71%) Azure
4 15 (15.63%) Power Automate
5 13 (13.54%) AWS
6 11 (11.46%) Azure AI
6 11 (11.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (8.33%) GitHub
8 7 (7.29%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (6.25%) Boomi
9 6 (6.25%) Matillion
10 5 (5.21%) AWS KMS
10 5 (5.21%) PowerApps
11 4 (4.17%) SaaS
12 3 (3.13%) GCP
12 3 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (3.13%) Snowflake
13 1 (1.04%) Amazon Kinesis
13 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (1.04%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.38%) Intranet
2 4 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (31.25%) Power BI
2 19 (19.79%) SQL Server
3 11 (11.46%) Pinecone
3 11 (11.46%) Relational Database
4 10 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (6.25%) Pentaho
5 6 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (5.21%) Power Query
6 5 (5.21%) Star Schema
6 5 (5.21%) Tableau
7 4 (4.17%) Data Mining
8 3 (3.13%) SAP BW
9 2 (2.08%) Metadata
9 2 (2.08%) SAP HANA
10 1 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.04%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.04%) Flink
10 1 (1.04%) QGIS
10 1 (1.04%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 12 (12.50%) MLflow
2 8 (8.33%) Selenium
3 7 (7.29%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.08%) GitLab
4 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.04%) JIRA
General
1 50 (52.08%) Finance
2 49 (51.04%) Social Skills
3 36 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.58%) Law
5 12 (12.50%) Manufacturing
6 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.25%) Banking
8 5 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (3.13%) Marketing
10 3 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.08%) Advertising
11 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (2.08%) Legal
11 2 (2.08%) Retail
12 1 (1.04%) Arabic Language
12 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (1.04%) French Language
12 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (27.08%) Analyst
2 21 (21.88%) Data Analyst
3 19 (19.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 15 (15.63%) Senior
5 11 (11.46%) Automation Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (8.33%) Senior Data Analyst
7 8 (8.33%) Web Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Principal Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Report Analyst
9 6 (6.25%) Lead
9 6 (6.25%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Data Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Developer
11 4 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 3 (3.13%) Administrator
12 3 (3.13%) Data Scientist
12 3 (3.13%) Database Manager
12 3 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.54%) REST
2 12 (12.50%) OAuth
3 11 (11.46%) Django
3 11 (11.46%) Faiss
3 11 (11.46%) FastAPI
3 11 (11.46%) Flask
3 11 (11.46%) Hugging Face
3 11 (11.46%) JWT
3 11 (11.46%) NumPy
3 11 (11.46%) OpenAPI
3 11 (11.46%) Pandas
3 11 (11.46%) pytest
3 11 (11.46%) PyTorch
3 11 (11.46%) RESTful
3 11 (11.46%) scikit-learn
3 11 (11.46%) Swagger
3 11 (11.46%) TensorFlow
3 11 (11.46%) Web Services
4 8 (8.33%) Playwright
4 8 (8.33%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.54%) Legacy Systems
1 13 (13.54%) Low-Code
2 9 (9.38%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.21%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.17%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.08%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.08%) NHS
7 1 (1.04%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.04%) Blog
7 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.04%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.04%) Podcast
7 1 (1.04%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.04%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (39.58%) Analytics
2 37 (38.54%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (33.33%) AI
3 32 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 30 (31.25%) ETL
5 28 (29.17%) Data Engineering
6 27 (28.13%) Validation
7 22 (22.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (21.88%) Data Modelling
8 21 (21.88%) Task Automation
9 20 (20.83%) Workflow
10 18 (18.75%) Decision-Making
10 18 (18.75%) Generative AI
10 18 (18.75%) Open Source
11 16 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
12 15 (15.63%) Requirements Gathering
12 15 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (14.58%) Data Cleansing
13 14 (14.58%) Data Validation
13 14 (14.58%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 69 (71.88%) SQL
2 53 (55.21%) Python
3 4 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.13%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.08%) Formula Language
6 1 (1.04%) ABAP
6 1 (1.04%) C#
6 1 (1.04%) Java
6 1 (1.04%) PROC SQL
6 1 (1.04%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 15 (15.63%) 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 42 (43.75%) 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 13 (13.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (13.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (27.08%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.50%) OpenAI
3 11 (11.46%) Automation Anywhere
3 11 (11.46%) UiPath
4 7 (7.29%) Informatica
4 7 (7.29%) Talend
5 6 (6.25%) Google
5 6 (6.25%) MuleSoft
6 5 (5.21%) Databricks
7 3 (3.13%) IFS
7 3 (3.13%) SAP
8 2 (2.08%) Oracle
8 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.04%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.04%) Intapp
9 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.04%) Teradata
9 1 (1.04%) Workday