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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 547 618
Rank change year-on-year -10 +71 +254
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 85 158 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.29% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.32% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 52 71 77
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £39,875 £25,313 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -21.74% +15.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,875 £73,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £25,625 £50,000
% change year-on-year +114.63% -48.75% +4.30%

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 48,096 48,629 50,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.07% 90.53% 89.95%
Number of salaries quoted 28,289 23,726 38,360
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%

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 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Extraction in the UK

Data Extraction
Top 14 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 11 January 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 +18 80 £57,500 +21.05% 55
UK excluding London +10 51 £55,000 +114.63% 46
London +15 32 £62,500 +4.17% 17
Work from Home +30 15 £51,250 +100.00% 33
South East +22 15 £57,500 -17.86% 15
North of England +5 11 £45,974 +79.41% 13
Midlands +29 10 £35,000 -44.00% 8
West Midlands +40 8 £35,000 -44.00% 4
North West +22 6 £55,000 +114.63% 4
East of England +14 6 £70,000 +51.35% 7
South West 0 6 £37,500 +46.34% 5
Yorkshire -27 5 £38,000 +48.29% 8
Scotland -5 3 £45,000 +77.78%
East Midlands - 2 - - 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 9 (10.59%) Appian
2 2 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 28 (32.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.53%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.35%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.35%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 44 (51.76%) Power Platform
2 22 (25.88%) Azure
3 12 (14.12%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (12.94%) AWS
4 11 (12.94%) Power Automate
5 9 (10.59%) Anthropic Claude
5 9 (10.59%) Azure AI
6 6 (7.06%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (4.71%) Boomi
7 4 (4.71%) Matillion
7 4 (4.71%) SaaS
8 3 (3.53%) AWS KMS
8 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.53%) GCP
9 2 (2.35%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.35%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (1.18%) GitHub
10 1 (1.18%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.41%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (51.76%) Power BI
2 23 (27.06%) SQL Server
3 11 (12.94%) Relational Database
4 10 (11.76%) Tableau
5 9 (10.59%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (10.59%) Pinecone
6 6 (7.06%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (5.88%) Pentaho
7 5 (5.88%) Power Query
8 4 (4.71%) Big Data
8 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (3.53%) Star Schema
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
10 2 (2.35%) Metadata
10 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (1.18%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 1 (1.18%) Looker
11 1 (1.18%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 9 (10.59%) MLflow
2 2 (2.35%) JIRA
2 2 (2.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.18%) Git
3 1 (1.18%) GitLab
3 1 (1.18%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (57.65%) Social Skills
2 40 (47.06%) Finance
3 36 (42.35%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.59%) Law
4 9 (10.59%) Legal
5 8 (9.41%) Manufacturing
6 7 (8.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (7.06%) Public Sector
7 6 (7.06%) Retail
8 4 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Marketing
10 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (41.18%) Analyst
2 21 (24.71%) Data Analyst
3 11 (12.94%) Report Analyst
4 10 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 9 (10.59%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (9.41%) Developer
6 8 (9.41%) Senior
7 7 (8.24%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (5.88%) Applications Manager
8 5 (5.88%) Insight Analyst
8 5 (5.88%) Support Analyst
9 4 (4.71%) Analyst Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) ERP Manager
9 4 (4.71%) Operations Analyst
10 3 (3.53%) Data Scientist
10 3 (3.53%) Operational Support Analyst
10 3 (3.53%) Operations Support Analyst
10 3 (3.53%) Report Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.76%) Pandas
1 10 (11.76%) PyTorch
1 10 (11.76%) scikit-learn
1 10 (11.76%) TensorFlow
2 9 (10.59%) Django
2 9 (10.59%) Faiss
2 9 (10.59%) FastAPI
2 9 (10.59%) Flask
2 9 (10.59%) Hugging Face
2 9 (10.59%) JWT
2 9 (10.59%) NumPy
2 9 (10.59%) OAuth
2 9 (10.59%) OpenAPI
2 9 (10.59%) pytest
2 9 (10.59%) REST
2 9 (10.59%) RESTful
2 9 (10.59%) Swagger
2 9 (10.59%) Web Services
3 7 (8.24%) PySpark
4 1 (1.18%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) Low-Code
1 11 (12.94%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (10.59%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (9.41%) Management Information System
4 7 (8.24%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.88%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.35%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.35%) Housing Association
6 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) Blog
7 1 (1.18%) Clustering
7 1 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.18%) Podcast
7 1 (1.18%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.35%) Unix
1 2 (2.35%) Windows
2 1 (1.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (54.12%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (37.65%) Analytics
3 31 (36.47%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (30.59%) ETL
5 22 (25.88%) Data Modelling
5 22 (25.88%) Decision-Making
6 19 (22.35%) Data Engineering
7 18 (21.18%) Data Analysis
8 17 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (18.82%) Actionable Insight
9 16 (18.82%) Workflow
10 14 (16.47%) AI
10 14 (16.47%) Data Cleansing
10 14 (16.47%) Data Pipeline
10 14 (16.47%) Machine Learning
10 14 (16.47%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (15.29%) Data Management
11 13 (15.29%) Data Validation
11 13 (15.29%) ERP
11 13 (15.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 67 (78.82%) SQL
2 28 (32.94%) Python
3 3 (3.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.35%) C
4 2 (2.35%) Scala
5 1 (1.18%) C++
5 1 (1.18%) Perl
5 1 (1.18%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.18%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (16.47%) Degree
2 9 (10.59%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.18%) PhD
6 1 (1.18%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (35.29%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.71%) GDPR
3 3 (3.53%) HIPAA
3 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.53%) NIST
3 3 (3.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.35%) QA
5 1 (1.18%) P3O
5 1 (1.18%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (10.59%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (10.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 28 (32.94%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.59%) Automation Anywhere
2 9 (10.59%) OpenAI
2 9 (10.59%) UiPath
3 7 (8.24%) SAP
4 5 (5.88%) Alteryx
4 5 (5.88%) Oracle
5 4 (4.71%) Databricks
5 4 (4.71%) Informatica
5 4 (4.71%) MuleSoft
5 4 (4.71%) Talend
6 3 (3.53%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.53%) Teradata
7 2 (2.35%) Intapp
8 1 (1.18%) Aderant
8 1 (1.18%) Amplitude
8 1 (1.18%) Cognos
8 1 (1.18%) Google
8 1 (1.18%) iManage
8 1 (1.18%) RedGate