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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 479 744
Rank change year-on-year -147 +265 +48
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 96 195 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.44% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.48% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59 112 118
10th Percentile £35,800 £25,000 £38,219
25th Percentile £51,250 £25,313 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £44,827 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.85% -25.29% +19.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,625
90th Percentile £145,000 £80,000 £77,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £30,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +83.33% -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 68,914 40,901 84,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 93.19% 83.44%
Number of salaries quoted 45,055 21,599 60,884
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -107 90 £60,000 +20.00% 83
UK excluding London -110 59 £55,000 +83.33% 43
London -47 30 £130,000 +107.17% 46
Work from Home -29 27 £60,000 +134.15% 35
Midlands -24 25 £52,500 +75.00% 14
West Midlands -27 13 £52,500 +75.00% 6
East Midlands -28 12 - - 8
South East -33 9 £57,500 -17.86% 8
North of England -61 9 £55,000 +69.23% 14
East of England -12 8 £75,000 +2.74% 3
South West -64 7 £25,000 -2.44% 4
North West -15 6 £55,000 +22.22% 7
North East - 2 £65,000 - 3
Scotland -22 1 - -
Yorkshire -74 1 £42,500 +65.85% 5

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 9 (9.38%) Appian
2 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.04%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.04%) Confluence
3 1 (1.04%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (20.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.17%) MS Visio
4 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
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 26 (27.08%) Power Platform
2 16 (16.67%) Anthropic Claude
3 15 (15.63%) Azure
4 13 (13.54%) AWS
4 13 (13.54%) Power Automate
5 9 (9.38%) Azure AI
5 9 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (7.29%) GitHub
6 7 (7.29%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (5.21%) AWS KMS
7 5 (5.21%) Boomi
7 5 (5.21%) Matillion
7 5 (5.21%) PowerApps
8 4 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.13%) GCP
9 3 (3.13%) SaaS
9 3 (3.13%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.08%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (2.08%) Amazon MSK
11 1 (1.04%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) Intranet
2 4 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (27.08%) Power BI
2 15 (15.63%) SQL Server
3 9 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (9.38%) Pinecone
4 7 (7.29%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.21%) Pentaho
5 5 (5.21%) Power Query
5 5 (5.21%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (5.21%) Star Schema
6 4 (4.17%) Data Mining
6 4 (4.17%) Tableau
7 3 (3.13%) SAP BW
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.08%) Metadata
8 2 (2.08%) SAP HANA
9 1 (1.04%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.04%) Flink
9 1 (1.04%) QGIS
9 1 (1.04%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 10 (10.42%) MLflow
2 8 (8.33%) Selenium
3 7 (7.29%) Claude Code
4 1 (1.04%) GitLab
4 1 (1.04%) JIRA
4 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 47 (48.96%) Finance
2 43 (44.79%) Social Skills
3 39 (40.63%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.54%) Law
5 9 (9.38%) Manufacturing
5 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.25%) Banking
7 4 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.13%) Marketing
9 2 (2.08%) Advertising
9 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.08%) Legal
10 1 (1.04%) Arabic Language
10 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.04%) French Language
10 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Publishing
10 1 (1.04%) Retail
10 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (26.04%) Analyst
2 21 (21.88%) Data Analyst
3 20 (20.83%) Senior
4 17 (17.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 13 (13.54%) Senior Analyst
5 13 (13.54%) Senior Data Analyst
6 9 (9.38%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) Web Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Lead
9 6 (6.25%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Consultant
10 5 (5.21%) Data Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Developer
11 4 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 4 (4.17%) Support Assistant
11 4 (4.17%) Technical Leader
12 3 (3.13%) Data Scientist
12 3 (3.13%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.50%) REST
2 10 (10.42%) OAuth
2 10 (10.42%) RESTful
3 9 (9.38%) Django
3 9 (9.38%) Faiss
3 9 (9.38%) FastAPI
3 9 (9.38%) Flask
3 9 (9.38%) Hugging Face
3 9 (9.38%) JWT
3 9 (9.38%) NumPy
3 9 (9.38%) OpenAPI
3 9 (9.38%) Pandas
3 9 (9.38%) pytest
3 9 (9.38%) PyTorch
3 9 (9.38%) scikit-learn
3 9 (9.38%) Swagger
3 9 (9.38%) TensorFlow
3 9 (9.38%) Web Services
4 8 (8.33%) HTML
4 8 (8.33%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (10.42%) Low-Code
3 9 (9.38%) Data Structures
4 6 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.21%) Virtual Team
6 3 (3.13%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.08%) NHS
7 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.04%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.04%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.04%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.04%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.04%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (40.63%) Analytics
3 31 (32.29%) AI
4 29 (30.21%) ETL
5 28 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
5 28 (29.17%) Validation
6 25 (26.04%) Data Engineering
7 24 (25.00%) Decision-Making
8 20 (20.83%) Data Modelling
9 19 (19.79%) Actionable Insight
9 19 (19.79%) Task Automation
10 18 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (18.75%) Data Analysis
10 18 (18.75%) Data Transformation
10 18 (18.75%) Workflow
11 17 (17.71%) Data Management
12 16 (16.67%) Data Analytics
12 16 (16.67%) Open Source
12 16 (16.67%) Roadmaps
12 16 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 69 (71.88%) SQL
2 56 (58.33%) 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
5 2 (2.08%) Java
6 1 (1.04%) ABAP
6 1 (1.04%) C#
6 1 (1.04%) PROC SQL
6 1 (1.04%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 13 (13.54%) Degree
2 10 (10.42%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.29%) PhD
5 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.04%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.04%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (36.46%) 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 11 (11.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (11.46%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (23.96%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.42%) OpenAI
3 9 (9.38%) Automation Anywhere
3 9 (9.38%) UiPath
4 6 (6.25%) Google
4 6 (6.25%) Informatica
4 6 (6.25%) Talend
5 5 (5.21%) MuleSoft
6 4 (4.17%) Databricks
6 4 (4.17%) SAP
7 3 (3.13%) IFS
8 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.04%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.04%) Intapp
9 1 (1.04%) Oracle
9 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.04%) Teradata
9 1 (1.04%) Workday