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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 457 691
Rank change year-on-year -145 +234 +179
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 96 186 169
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.45% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.49% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 61 101 135
10th Percentile £37,500 £25,000 £39,325
25th Percentile £52,500 £25,313 £47,500
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 £70,500
90th Percentile £145,000 £80,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £25,625 £60,000
% change year-on-year +124.39% -57.29% +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 61,153 38,054 77,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.62% 93.06% 86.41%
Number of salaries quoted 37,653 22,322 57,935
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,097
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 April 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 April 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 -128 90 £60,000 +14.29% 111
UK excluding London -120 52 £57,500 +124.39% 96
London -40 37 £83,750 +39.58% 26
South East -36 17 £57,500 -17.86% 21
Midlands -30 13 £44,000 -2.22% 27
Work from Home -59 13 £60,000 +134.15% 31
West Midlands -12 11 £44,000 -2.22% 16
East of England -18 9 £75,000 +29.87% 10
North of England -91 9 £55,000 +114.63% 19
North West -29 5 £55,000 +89.25% 6
South West -47 3 £58,750 +129.27% 12
East Midlands -48 2 - - 11
Yorkshire -74 2 £42,500 +65.85% 9
North East - 2 £65,000 - 4
Scotland -43 1 - - 3

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 (12.50%) Appian
2 1 (1.04%) SAS
Applications
1 30 (31.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.13%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Visualfiles
2 2 (2.08%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (35.42%) Power Platform
2 22 (22.92%) Azure
3 19 (19.79%) Anthropic Claude
4 17 (17.71%) Power Automate
5 14 (14.58%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (12.50%) AWS
6 12 (12.50%) Azure AI
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 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (2.08%) GCP
12 2 (2.08%) Snowflake
13 1 (1.04%) Amazon MSK
13 1 (1.04%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.50%) Intranet
2 3 (3.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (35.42%) Power BI
2 24 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 14 (14.58%) Relational Database
4 12 (12.50%) Pinecone
5 10 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (6.25%) Pentaho
6 6 (6.25%) Power Query
6 6 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (5.21%) Star Schema
8 4 (4.17%) Tableau
9 2 (2.08%) Big Data
9 2 (2.08%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.08%) Metadata
9 2 (2.08%) SAP BW
9 2 (2.08%) SAP Data Services
9 2 (2.08%) SAP HANA
9 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.04%) Looker
10 1 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.04%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 13 (13.54%) MLflow
2 7 (7.29%) Claude Code
2 7 (7.29%) Selenium
3 2 (2.08%) JIRA
3 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.04%) Git
4 1 (1.04%) GitLab
4 1 (1.04%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 52 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 50 (52.08%) Finance
3 37 (38.54%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (15.63%) Law
4 15 (15.63%) Manufacturing
5 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.21%) Legal
6 5 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.17%) Retail
8 3 (3.13%) Banking
9 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.08%) Marketing
10 1 (1.04%) Advertising
10 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (30.21%) Analyst
2 21 (21.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 20 (20.83%) Data Analyst
4 12 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
5 10 (10.42%) Report Analyst
6 9 (9.38%) Senior
7 7 (7.29%) Principal Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Web Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Developer
8 6 (6.25%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 5 (5.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (5.21%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Consultant
10 4 (4.17%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Lead
11 3 (3.13%) Business Developer
11 3 (3.13%) Data Scientist
11 3 (3.13%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.54%) PyTorch
1 13 (13.54%) TensorFlow
2 12 (12.50%) Django
2 12 (12.50%) Faiss
2 12 (12.50%) FastAPI
2 12 (12.50%) Flask
2 12 (12.50%) Hugging Face
2 12 (12.50%) JWT
2 12 (12.50%) NumPy
2 12 (12.50%) OAuth
2 12 (12.50%) OpenAPI
2 12 (12.50%) Pandas
2 12 (12.50%) pytest
2 12 (12.50%) REST
2 12 (12.50%) RESTful
2 12 (12.50%) scikit-learn
2 12 (12.50%) Swagger
2 12 (12.50%) Web Services
3 9 (9.38%) PySpark
4 7 (7.29%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.58%) Legacy Systems
1 14 (14.58%) Low-Code
2 7 (7.29%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.08%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.04%) Blog
6 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.04%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.04%) Podcast
6 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (40.63%) Analytics
2 38 (39.58%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (34.38%) AI
5 29 (30.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (30.21%) Data Engineering
5 29 (30.21%) ETL
6 25 (26.04%) Data Modelling
7 24 (25.00%) Workflow
8 23 (23.96%) Validation
9 22 (22.92%) Task Automation
10 20 (20.83%) Generative AI
11 19 (19.79%) Open Source
12 16 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
12 16 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
12 16 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (15.63%) CI/CD
13 15 (15.63%) Data Validation
13 15 (15.63%) Decision-Making
13 15 (15.63%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 70 (72.92%) SQL
2 48 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (5.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.13%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.08%) C
6 1 (1.04%) ABAP
6 1 (1.04%) C++
6 1 (1.04%) PROC SQL
6 1 (1.04%) SAS Macro
6 1 (1.04%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (17.71%) Degree
2 12 (12.50%) 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%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.04%) PMP
7 1 (1.04%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (45.83%) 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%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (4.17%) QA
5 1 (1.04%) P3O
5 1 (1.04%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (13.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (13.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.54%) OpenAI
3 12 (12.50%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (12.50%) UiPath
4 7 (7.29%) Informatica
4 7 (7.29%) Talend
5 6 (6.25%) MuleSoft
5 6 (6.25%) SAP
6 5 (5.21%) Databricks
6 5 (5.21%) Google
6 5 (5.21%) Oracle
7 3 (3.13%) IFS
7 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.04%) Intapp
8 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.04%) Teradata