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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 669 564 675
Rank change year-on-year -105 +111 +1
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 113 126 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.25% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.28% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 67 63 70
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,150 £39,325
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,625 £41,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £65,250
90th Percentile £143,500 £82,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +5.00%

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 78,515 44,640 67,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.47% 89.25% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 54,079 25,322 43,171
10th Percentile £30,975 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,236 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 16 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Extraction in the UK

Data Extraction
Top 16 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 16 August 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 -94 104 £55,000 -4.35% 102
UK excluding London -95 82 £52,500 +10.53% 51
Work from Home -14 46 £60,000 +2.13% 32
Midlands 0 41 £52,500 +75.00% 11
East Midlands -1 25 £50,337 - 7
London -70 23 £130,000 +108.00% 60
West Midlands -25 16 £52,500 +75.00% 4
South East -53 14 £47,500 -13.64% 8
North of England -63 12 £56,250 -6.25% 15
South West -67 10 £55,000 - 14
North West -9 6 £56,250 -19.64% 6
North East - 4 £65,000 - 3
East of England -29 3 £85,000 +47.83%
Yorkshire -42 2 £28,146 -40.75% 7
Scotland -6 1 - -
Isle of Man - 1 £38,500 - 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 5 (4.42%) Confluence
2 4 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.88%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (15.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (7.08%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.77%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Actimize
1 2 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.77%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 2 (1.77%) SystmOne
2 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.88%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 35 (30.97%) Power Platform
2 11 (9.73%) Azure
3 10 (8.85%) AWS
3 10 (8.85%) SaaS
4 8 (7.08%) GitHub
5 7 (6.19%) Anthropic Claude
5 7 (6.19%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (5.31%) GCP
6 6 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.42%) Snowflake
8 4 (3.54%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.65%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.77%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.77%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.77%) dbt
10 2 (1.77%) Figma
10 2 (1.77%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.77%) HTTP
1 2 (1.77%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (30.97%) Power BI
2 7 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (6.19%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.42%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.65%) MySQL
4 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.65%) Tableau
5 2 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.77%) Power Query
5 2 (1.77%) SAP BW
5 2 (1.77%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.88%) Flink
6 1 (0.88%) Metadata
6 1 (0.88%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.88%) QGIS
6 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (6.19%) Claude Code
2 5 (4.42%) JIRA
2 5 (4.42%) Selenium
3 2 (1.77%) Balsamiq
3 2 (1.77%) Git
4 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.88%) GitLab
4 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) JUnit
General
1 53 (46.90%) Finance
2 47 (41.59%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (30.09%) Social Skills
4 12 (10.62%) Manufacturing
5 8 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (7.08%) Law
6 7 (6.19%) Banking
7 6 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.54%) Advertising
8 4 (3.54%) Marketing
9 3 (2.65%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.77%) Publishing
10 2 (1.77%) Retail
11 1 (0.88%) Arabic Language
11 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.88%) French Language
11 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Legal
11 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (39.82%) Analyst
2 35 (30.97%) Senior
3 24 (21.24%) Data Analyst
4 22 (19.47%) Senior Analyst
5 18 (15.93%) Senior Data Analyst
6 14 (12.39%) Lead
7 10 (8.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Support Analyst
9 7 (6.19%) Principal Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Technical Leader
10 6 (5.31%) Consultant
10 6 (5.31%) Developer
11 5 (4.42%) Business Analyst
11 5 (4.42%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 5 (4.42%) Data Engineer
11 5 (4.42%) Lead Data Analyst
11 5 (4.42%) Web Engineer
12 4 (3.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 4 (3.54%) Power BI Developer
12 4 (3.54%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.42%) HTML
1 5 (4.42%) Playwright
1 5 (4.42%) Puppeteer
1 5 (4.42%) REST
2 4 (3.54%) XML
3 3 (2.65%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.65%) EDI
3 3 (2.65%) JSON
3 3 (2.65%) Middleware
4 2 (1.77%) .NET
4 2 (1.77%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.77%) Kafka
4 2 (1.77%) RESTful
5 1 (0.88%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.88%) DOM
5 1 (0.88%) OAuth
5 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.88%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.88%) Spring
5 1 (0.88%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.62%) Data Structures
2 7 (6.19%) Virtual Team
3 5 (4.42%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.42%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.77%) NHS
6 2 (1.77%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.88%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.88%) Multi-touch
7 1 (0.88%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (55.75%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (49.56%) Analytics
3 38 (33.63%) Business Intelligence
4 33 (29.20%) Data Management
5 32 (28.32%) Data Analytics
5 32 (28.32%) Decision-Making
6 31 (27.43%) Validation
7 30 (26.55%) Data Analysis
8 29 (25.66%) AI
9 28 (24.78%) Actionable Insight
10 26 (23.01%) ETL
10 26 (23.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 24 (21.24%) Roadmaps
12 23 (20.35%) Data Transformation
13 22 (19.47%) Strategic Thinking
14 20 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (17.70%) Trend Analysis
15 16 (14.16%) Dashboard Development
15 16 (14.16%) Data Modelling
16 15 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (73.45%) SQL
2 55 (48.67%) Python
3 5 (4.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.54%) Java
5 2 (1.77%) C#
5 2 (1.77%) Formula Language
5 2 (1.77%) R
5 2 (1.77%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.88%) ABAP
6 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (12.39%) Degree
2 7 (6.19%) PhD
3 3 (2.65%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.77%) ACCA
4 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.77%) CIMA
4 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.77%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.88%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (20.35%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.19%) QA
3 5 (4.42%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) FATCA
System Software
1 1 (0.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.42%) Databricks
3 4 (3.54%) Google
3 4 (3.54%) SAP
3 4 (3.54%) SYSPRO
4 3 (2.65%) IFS
5 2 (1.77%) IBM
5 2 (1.77%) Oracle
5 2 (1.77%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.88%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.88%) Braze
6 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.88%) Workday