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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 443 711
Rank change year-on-year -173 +268 +111
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 94 197 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.47% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.50% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 60 105 126
10th Percentile £41,250 £25,000 £39,325
25th Percentile £52,188 £25,313 £45,553
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 £31,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +84.00% -47.92% +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 67,238 39,252 82,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.66% 92.86% 85.61%
Number of salaries quoted 41,831 22,645 59,684
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,516 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 2 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 2 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 -138 87 £60,000 +17.07% 63
UK excluding London -140 53 £57,500 +84.00% 40
London -43 33 £120,000 +77.78% 34
Midlands -27 17 £52,500 +23.53% 8
Work from Home -66 17 £60,000 +134.15% 21
South East -36 14 £57,500 -17.86% 15
West Midlands -18 12 £52,500 +75.00% 6
East of England -11 9 £75,000 +29.87% 7
North of England -88 9 £55,000 +37.50% 5
North West -28 5 £55,000 +10.00% 4
East Midlands -40 5 - - 2
South West -64 3 £30,000 +17.07% 2
Yorkshire -85 2 £42,500 +65.85% 1
North East - 2 £65,000 -
Scotland -48 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 12 (12.77%) Appian
2 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.06%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.06%) SAS
2 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (25.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.06%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 29 (30.85%) Power Platform
2 19 (20.21%) Anthropic Claude
2 19 (20.21%) Azure
3 16 (17.02%) Power Automate
4 13 (13.83%) AWS
5 12 (12.77%) Azure AI
5 12 (12.77%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (8.51%) GitHub
7 7 (7.45%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (6.38%) Boomi
8 6 (6.38%) Matillion
9 5 (5.32%) AWS KMS
9 5 (5.32%) PowerApps
10 4 (4.26%) GCP
11 3 (3.19%) SaaS
11 3 (3.19%) Snowflake
12 1 (1.06%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (1.06%) Amazon MSK
12 1 (1.06%) Collibra
12 1 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.64%) Intranet
2 4 (4.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (30.85%) Power BI
2 21 (22.34%) SQL Server
3 12 (12.77%) Pinecone
3 12 (12.77%) Relational Database
4 10 (10.64%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (6.38%) Pentaho
5 6 (6.38%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (5.32%) Power Query
6 5 (5.32%) Star Schema
6 5 (5.32%) Tableau
7 3 (3.19%) Data Mining
7 3 (3.19%) SAP BW
8 2 (2.13%) Metadata
8 2 (2.13%) SAP HANA
8 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.06%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.06%) Flink
9 1 (1.06%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 13 (13.83%) MLflow
2 8 (8.51%) Selenium
3 7 (7.45%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.06%) GitLab
5 1 (1.06%) JIRA
General
1 50 (53.19%) Finance
2 49 (52.13%) Social Skills
3 35 (37.23%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.89%) Law
5 13 (13.83%) Manufacturing
6 9 (9.57%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.32%) Banking
7 5 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.19%) Marketing
9 3 (3.19%) Retail
10 2 (2.13%) Advertising
10 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.13%) Legal
11 1 (1.06%) Arabic Language
11 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.06%) French Language
11 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (27.66%) Analyst
2 21 (22.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 21 (22.34%) Data Analyst
3 14 (14.89%) Senior
4 12 (12.77%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Report Analyst
5 8 (8.51%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (8.51%) Web Engineer
6 7 (7.45%) Principal Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Developer
7 6 (6.38%) Lead
7 6 (6.38%) Python Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Senior Data Analyst
8 4 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (4.26%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) Administrator
9 3 (3.19%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.19%) Database Manager
9 3 (3.19%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.83%) PyTorch
1 13 (13.83%) REST
1 13 (13.83%) TensorFlow
2 12 (12.77%) Django
2 12 (12.77%) Faiss
2 12 (12.77%) FastAPI
2 12 (12.77%) Flask
2 12 (12.77%) Hugging Face
2 12 (12.77%) JWT
2 12 (12.77%) NumPy
2 12 (12.77%) OAuth
2 12 (12.77%) OpenAPI
2 12 (12.77%) Pandas
2 12 (12.77%) pytest
2 12 (12.77%) RESTful
2 12 (12.77%) scikit-learn
2 12 (12.77%) Swagger
2 12 (12.77%) Web Services
3 8 (8.51%) HTML
3 8 (8.51%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.89%) Legacy Systems
1 14 (14.89%) Low-Code
2 8 (8.51%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.26%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.13%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.06%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.06%) Blog
6 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.06%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.06%) NHS
6 1 (1.06%) Podcast
6 1 (1.06%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.06%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.36%) Analytics
2 34 (36.17%) AI
2 34 (36.17%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (32.98%) Business Intelligence
4 30 (31.91%) ETL
5 29 (30.85%) Data Engineering
6 25 (26.60%) Validation
7 23 (24.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (23.40%) Data Modelling
8 22 (23.40%) Task Automation
9 21 (22.34%) Workflow
10 20 (21.28%) Generative AI
11 19 (20.21%) Open Source
12 16 (17.02%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (17.02%) Machine Learning
12 16 (17.02%) Requirements Gathering
12 16 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (15.96%) Data Cleansing
13 15 (15.96%) Decision-Making
13 15 (15.96%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 69 (73.40%) SQL
2 53 (56.38%) Python
3 4 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (4.26%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.19%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.06%) ABAP
5 1 (1.06%) C
5 1 (1.06%) C#
5 1 (1.06%) Formula Language
5 1 (1.06%) PROC SQL
5 1 (1.06%) SAS Macro
5 1 (1.06%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (15.96%) Degree
2 11 (11.70%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.51%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.45%) PhD
5 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.13%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.06%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (45.74%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.45%) GDPR
3 5 (5.32%) HIPAA
3 5 (5.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.32%) NIST
3 5 (5.32%) QA
3 5 (5.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (14.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (14.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (25.53%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.83%) OpenAI
3 12 (12.77%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (12.77%) UiPath
4 7 (7.45%) Informatica
4 7 (7.45%) Talend
5 6 (6.38%) Google
5 6 (6.38%) MuleSoft
6 5 (5.32%) Databricks
7 3 (3.19%) IFS
7 3 (3.19%) SAP
8 2 (2.13%) Oracle
8 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.06%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.06%) Intapp
9 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.06%) Teradata