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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 659 571 671
Rank change year-on-year -88 +100 -20
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 142 102 114
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.24% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 89 63 47
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,850 £40,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £38,000 £43,504
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £62,250
90th Percentile £130,000 £79,000 £79,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,500 £45,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +1.11% -13.46% +5.05%

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 84,843 43,391 61,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.66% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,659 24,441 34,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £41,969 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -82 133 £52,500 -4.55% 164
UK excluding London -107 99 £45,500 +1.11% 78
Work from Home -6 53 £77,500 +63.16% 67
Midlands -15 42 £52,500 +75.00% 18
London -62 37 £87,500 +40.00% 100
North of England -55 30 £43,500 -13.00% 17
East Midlands -2 27 £44,337 - 6
North West -26 20 £43,500 -34.34% 5
West Midlands -45 15 £52,500 +75.00% 12
South West -69 13 £55,000 +46.67% 9
South East -55 9 £47,500 -13.64% 24
Yorkshire -46 7 £28,146 -40.75% 6
Isle of Man - 4 £38,500 -
North East - 3 - - 6
East of England -28 1 £85,000 +47.83% 4

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 5 (3.52%) Confluence
2 4 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.41%) SAS
5 1 (0.70%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 15 (10.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.23%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.11%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (5.63%) Actimize
2 5 (3.52%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 3 (2.11%) SystmOne
4 2 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.70%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (26.76%) Power Platform
2 13 (9.15%) SaaS
3 11 (7.75%) Azure
4 8 (5.63%) AWS
5 7 (4.93%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.23%) GitHub
6 6 (4.23%) Snowflake
7 5 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.52%) GCP
8 3 (2.11%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.11%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (2.11%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (2.11%) Azure Functions
8 3 (2.11%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.11%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.11%) Serverless
9 2 (1.41%) Azure API Management
9 2 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.41%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.82%) DNS
1 4 (2.82%) Internet
1 4 (2.82%) SSL
1 4 (2.82%) TCP/IP
1 4 (2.82%) VPN
2 2 (1.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (26.06%) Power BI
2 15 (10.56%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.23%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.23%) Tableau
4 5 (3.52%) Data Mining
5 3 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.11%) Big Data
5 3 (2.11%) Metadata
5 3 (2.11%) MySQL
5 3 (2.11%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.11%) Power Query
6 2 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.41%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (1.41%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.41%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 5 (3.52%) JIRA
2 3 (2.11%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.41%) Balsamiq
3 2 (1.41%) Git
3 2 (1.41%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (1.41%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.41%) Selenium
3 2 (1.41%) Toad
4 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.70%) GitLab
4 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.70%) JUnit
4 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 75 (52.82%) Finance
2 51 (35.92%) Social Skills
3 49 (34.51%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (19.01%) Law
5 15 (10.56%) Military
5 15 (10.56%) Telecoms
6 14 (9.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (8.45%) Banking
8 8 (5.63%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.93%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (3.52%) Legal
11 4 (2.82%) Advertising
11 4 (2.82%) Public Sector
12 3 (2.11%) Marketing
13 2 (1.41%) General Ledger
13 2 (1.41%) Publishing
13 2 (1.41%) Retail
14 1 (0.70%) Billing
14 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 55 (38.73%) Analyst
2 38 (26.76%) Senior
3 28 (19.72%) Data Analyst
4 24 (16.90%) Lead
5 22 (15.49%) Senior Analyst
6 18 (12.68%) Senior Data Analyst
7 12 (8.45%) Developer
7 12 (8.45%) Technical Leader
8 9 (6.34%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 9 (6.34%) Financial Analyst
9 8 (5.63%) Support Analyst
9 8 (5.63%) Systems Analyst
10 7 (4.93%) Analyst Developer
10 7 (4.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 6 (4.23%) Business Analyst
11 6 (4.23%) Data Engineer
11 6 (4.23%) Finance Systems Analyst
11 6 (4.23%) Systems Developer
12 5 (3.52%) Power BI Analyst
12 5 (3.52%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.93%) REST
1 7 (4.93%) XML
2 6 (4.23%) Middleware
3 4 (2.82%) XML Schema
4 3 (2.11%) EDI
4 3 (2.11%) JSON
4 3 (2.11%) Terraform
5 2 (1.41%) .NET
5 2 (1.41%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.41%) HTML
5 2 (1.41%) Kafka
5 2 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.41%) Playwright
5 2 (1.41%) Puppeteer
5 2 (1.41%) RESTful
6 1 (0.70%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.70%) DOM
6 1 (0.70%) OAuth
6 1 (0.70%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.86%) Data Structures
2 7 (4.93%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (4.93%) Virtual Team
3 6 (4.23%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.82%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.82%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.41%) NHS
7 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.70%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.70%) Multi-touch
7 1 (0.70%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.70%) Replication
7 1 (0.70%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.82%) Linux
1 4 (2.82%) Windows
2 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (57.04%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (41.55%) Analytics
3 54 (38.03%) Validation
4 47 (33.10%) Data Analysis
5 44 (30.99%) Business Intelligence
6 41 (28.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 39 (27.46%) ETL
8 38 (26.76%) Decision-Making
9 36 (25.35%) Data Analytics
10 31 (21.83%) Data Management
11 29 (20.42%) Actionable Insight
12 28 (19.72%) Migration
13 27 (19.01%) ERP
13 27 (19.01%) Process Improvement
14 25 (17.61%) AI
14 25 (17.61%) Roadmaps
15 24 (16.90%) Data Migration
15 24 (16.90%) Data Transformation
16 23 (16.20%) Dashboard Development
17 22 (15.49%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 94 (66.20%) SQL
2 50 (35.21%) Python
3 4 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (2.82%) Java
3 4 (2.82%) R
4 3 (2.11%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.41%) Bicep
5 2 (1.41%) C#
5 2 (1.41%) Formula Language
6 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (9.86%) Degree
2 8 (5.63%) SC Cleared
2 8 (5.63%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.52%) ACCA
3 5 (3.52%) CIMA
4 4 (2.82%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.11%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.11%) PhD
6 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (19.01%) Data Quality
2 15 (10.56%) QA
3 5 (3.52%) GDPR
4 4 (2.82%) FATCA
5 2 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.41%) Grafana
1 2 (1.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (14.08%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.56%) Civica
2 15 (10.56%) Sage
3 6 (4.23%) Databricks
3 6 (4.23%) Oracle
4 5 (3.52%) IBM
5 4 (2.82%) SAP
5 4 (2.82%) SYSPRO
6 3 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.41%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.41%) Google
8 1 (0.70%) Aderant
8 1 (0.70%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.70%) Braze
8 1 (0.70%) Hyland
8 1 (0.70%) IFS
8 1 (0.70%) Kofax
8 1 (0.70%) OpenText
8 1 (0.70%) UiPath
8 1 (0.70%) Workday