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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 667 577 670
Rank change year-on-year -90 +93 -29
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 144 103 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.23% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 91 65 46
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,050 £40,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £38,000 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £78,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year - -11.76% +4.08%

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 85,804 43,854 61,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.05% 88.92% 81.71%
Number of salaries quoted 59,130 24,461 33,915
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,000
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 28 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 28 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 -83 135 £52,500 -4.55% 168
UK excluding London -109 98 £45,000 - 78
Work from Home +4 55 £75,000 +57.89% 73
Midlands -21 41 £52,500 +75.00% 17
London -40 40 £90,000 +44.00% 103
North of England -49 30 £43,500 -8.42% 20
East Midlands -10 27 £44,337 - 4
North West -23 20 £43,500 -25.96% 6
West Midlands -35 14 £52,500 +75.00% 13
South West -74 13 £55,000 +46.67% 7
South East -65 9 £47,500 -13.64% 17
Yorkshire -30 7 £28,146 -40.75% 9
Isle of Man - 4 £38,500 -
North East - 3 - - 5
East of England -29 1 £85,000 +47.83% 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 5 (3.47%) Confluence
2 4 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.39%) SAS
5 1 (0.69%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 15 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.17%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.08%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (5.56%) Actimize
2 5 (3.47%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 3 (2.08%) SystmOne
4 2 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (25.69%) Power Platform
2 13 (9.03%) SaaS
3 11 (7.64%) Azure
4 8 (5.56%) AWS
5 7 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.17%) GitHub
6 6 (4.17%) Snowflake
7 5 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.47%) GCP
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.08%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (2.08%) Azure Functions
8 3 (2.08%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.08%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.08%) Serverless
9 2 (1.39%) Azure API Management
9 2 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.39%) Figma
9 2 (1.39%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.78%) DNS
1 4 (2.78%) Internet
1 4 (2.78%) SSL
1 4 (2.78%) TCP/IP
1 4 (2.78%) VPN
2 2 (1.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (25.00%) Power BI
2 16 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 6 (4.17%) Tableau
4 4 (2.78%) Data Mining
4 4 (2.78%) Metadata
4 4 (2.78%) Power Query
5 3 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.08%) Big Data
5 3 (2.08%) MySQL
5 3 (2.08%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.08%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.39%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.39%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 5 (3.47%) JIRA
2 3 (2.08%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.39%) Balsamiq
3 2 (1.39%) Git
3 2 (1.39%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.39%) Toad
3 2 (1.39%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.69%) GitLab
4 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.69%) JUnit
4 1 (0.69%) Selenium
General
1 76 (52.78%) Finance
2 51 (35.42%) Social Skills
3 49 (34.03%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (18.75%) Law
5 15 (10.42%) Military
5 15 (10.42%) Telecoms
6 14 (9.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (7.64%) Banking
8 8 (5.56%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.86%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (3.47%) Legal
10 5 (3.47%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.78%) Advertising
12 2 (1.39%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.39%) Marketing
12 2 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.39%) Publishing
12 2 (1.39%) Retail
13 1 (0.69%) Arabic Language
13 1 (0.69%) French Language
Job Titles
1 56 (38.89%) Analyst
2 37 (25.69%) Senior
3 28 (19.44%) Data Analyst
4 23 (15.97%) Lead
5 22 (15.28%) Senior Analyst
6 18 (12.50%) Senior Data Analyst
7 14 (9.72%) Developer
8 11 (7.64%) Technical Leader
9 10 (6.94%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 10 (6.94%) Financial Analyst
10 9 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
11 8 (5.56%) Analyst Developer
11 8 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (5.56%) Support Analyst
12 7 (4.86%) Data Engineer
12 7 (4.86%) Finance Systems Analyst
12 7 (4.86%) Systems Developer
13 6 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 6 (4.17%) Business Analyst
14 5 (3.47%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.86%) REST
1 7 (4.86%) XML
2 6 (4.17%) Middleware
3 4 (2.78%) JSON
3 4 (2.78%) XML Schema
4 3 (2.08%) EDI
4 3 (2.08%) Terraform
5 2 (1.39%) .NET
5 2 (1.39%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.39%) Kafka
5 2 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.39%) RESTful
6 1 (0.69%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.69%) DOM
6 1 (0.69%) HTML
6 1 (0.69%) NumPy
6 1 (0.69%) OAuth
6 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.69%) Spring
6 1 (0.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.72%) Data Structures
2 8 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.86%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.17%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 4 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.78%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.39%) NHS
8 1 (0.69%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.69%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.69%) Multi-touch
8 1 (0.69%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.69%) Replication
8 1 (0.69%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.47%) Windows
2 4 (2.78%) Linux
3 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (41.67%) Analytics
3 56 (38.89%) Validation
4 48 (33.33%) Data Analysis
5 44 (30.56%) Business Intelligence
6 41 (28.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 39 (27.08%) Decision-Making
7 39 (27.08%) ETL
8 37 (25.69%) Data Analytics
9 32 (22.22%) Data Management
10 29 (20.14%) Actionable Insight
10 29 (20.14%) Migration
11 27 (18.75%) ERP
11 27 (18.75%) Process Improvement
12 25 (17.36%) AI
12 25 (17.36%) Data Migration
12 25 (17.36%) Roadmaps
13 24 (16.67%) Data Transformation
14 23 (15.97%) Dashboard Development
15 22 (15.28%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 97 (67.36%) SQL
2 50 (34.72%) Python
3 5 (3.47%) Java
4 4 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (2.78%) R
5 3 (2.08%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.39%) Bicep
6 2 (1.39%) C#
6 2 (1.39%) Formula Language
7 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (9.72%) Degree
2 8 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 8 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.47%) ACCA
3 5 (3.47%) CIMA
4 4 (2.78%) CREST Certified
5 3 (2.08%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.08%) PhD
6 2 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (19.44%) Data Quality
2 15 (10.42%) QA
3 5 (3.47%) GDPR
4 4 (2.78%) FATCA
5 2 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.39%) Grafana
1 2 (1.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.42%) Civica
2 15 (10.42%) Sage
3 7 (4.86%) Oracle
4 6 (4.17%) Databricks
5 5 (3.47%) IBM
6 4 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.78%) SAP
6 4 (2.78%) SYSPRO
7 2 (1.39%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.39%) Google
8 1 (0.69%) ABBYY
8 1 (0.69%) Aderant
8 1 (0.69%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.69%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.69%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.69%) Braze
8 1 (0.69%) IFS
8 1 (0.69%) UiPath
8 1 (0.69%) Workday