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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 580 537 641
Rank change year-on-year -43 +104 +246
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 88 163 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.32% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.35% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 54 82 114
10th Percentile £34,675 £25,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,688 £25,313 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -25.00% +19.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £73,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,600 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £25,625 £60,000
% change year-on-year +114.63% -57.29% +23.08%

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 51,797 46,952 64,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.00% 91.85% 88.53%
Number of salaries quoted 30,734 22,742 50,183
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £29,492
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 5 February 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 5 February 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 +12 83 £57,500 +27.78% 69
UK excluding London -18 48 £55,000 +114.63% 48
London +34 38 £60,000 - 29
South East +11 14 £57,500 -17.86% 12
Work from Home -15 11 £45,000 +75.61% 36
Midlands +26 9 £35,000 -33.33% 10
North of England -20 9 £55,000 +114.63% 14
West Midlands +29 7 £35,000 -44.00% 5
South West -1 7 £37,500 +46.34% 5
East of England +17 6 £75,000 +62.16% 5
North West +1 6 £55,000 +114.63% 7
Scotland -18 3 £45,000 +77.78% 2
Yorkshire -36 3 £42,500 +65.85% 7
East Midlands -11 2 - - 5

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 (13.64%) Appian
2 2 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) SAS
Applications
1 28 (31.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (3.41%) Visualfiles
3 2 (2.27%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (45.45%) Power Platform
2 22 (25.00%) Azure
3 14 (15.91%) Azure Data Factory
3 14 (15.91%) Power Automate
4 12 (13.64%) Anthropic Claude
4 12 (13.64%) AWS
4 12 (13.64%) Azure AI
5 6 (6.82%) Boomi
5 6 (6.82%) Matillion
6 5 (5.68%) AWS KMS
7 4 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (4.55%) SaaS
8 3 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.27%) GCP
9 2 (2.27%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.14%) GitHub
10 1 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.36%) Intranet
2 3 (3.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (45.45%) Power BI
2 24 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 14 (15.91%) Relational Database
4 12 (13.64%) Pinecone
5 11 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (7.95%) Pentaho
7 7 (7.95%) Tableau
8 5 (5.68%) Power Query
8 5 (5.68%) Star Schema
9 4 (4.55%) Big Data
10 3 (3.41%) Metadata
11 2 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (1.14%) Base SAS
12 1 (1.14%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (1.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 1 (1.14%) Oracle Database
12 1 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (13.64%) MLflow
2 3 (3.41%) Selenium
3 2 (2.27%) JIRA
3 2 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.14%) Git
4 1 (1.14%) GitLab
4 1 (1.14%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 50 (56.82%) Social Skills
2 42 (47.73%) Finance
3 35 (39.77%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.36%) Law
4 10 (11.36%) Legal
4 10 (11.36%) Manufacturing
5 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.55%) Retail
8 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Advertising
9 1 (1.14%) Banking
9 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Marketing
9 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (37.50%) Analyst
2 22 (25.00%) Data Analyst
3 13 (14.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 13 (14.77%) Report Analyst
4 12 (13.64%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) Developer
5 8 (9.09%) Senior
6 7 (7.95%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (5.68%) Insight Analyst
8 4 (4.55%) Analyst Developer
8 4 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Support Analyst
9 3 (3.41%) Applications Manager
9 3 (3.41%) Consultant
9 3 (3.41%) Legal Analyst
9 3 (3.41%) Report Developer
9 3 (3.41%) Senior Data Analyst
9 3 (3.41%) Systems Manager
9 3 (3.41%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.77%) PyTorch
1 13 (14.77%) TensorFlow
2 12 (13.64%) Django
2 12 (13.64%) Faiss
2 12 (13.64%) FastAPI
2 12 (13.64%) Flask
2 12 (13.64%) Hugging Face
2 12 (13.64%) JWT
2 12 (13.64%) NumPy
2 12 (13.64%) OAuth
2 12 (13.64%) OpenAPI
2 12 (13.64%) Pandas
2 12 (13.64%) pytest
2 12 (13.64%) REST
2 12 (13.64%) RESTful
2 12 (13.64%) scikit-learn
2 12 (13.64%) Swagger
2 12 (13.64%) Web Services
3 9 (10.23%) PySpark
4 3 (3.41%) DOM
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.91%) Low-Code
2 13 (14.77%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (11.36%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (9.09%) Onboarding
5 7 (7.95%) Data Structures
5 7 (7.95%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.27%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.14%) Blog
7 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.14%) Housing Association
7 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.14%) Podcast
7 1 (1.14%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.27%) Unix
2 1 (1.14%) Linux
2 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 35 (39.77%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (37.50%) ETL
4 32 (36.36%) Analytics
5 27 (30.68%) Data Engineering
6 25 (28.41%) Data Modelling
7 19 (21.59%) AI
7 19 (21.59%) Data Cleansing
7 19 (21.59%) Workflow
8 18 (20.45%) Data Analysis
8 18 (20.45%) Decision-Making
8 18 (20.45%) Validation
9 17 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (19.32%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
10 16 (18.18%) Data Validation
10 16 (18.18%) Machine Learning
11 15 (17.05%) CI/CD
11 15 (17.05%) LLM
12 14 (15.91%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 70 (79.55%) SQL
2 34 (38.64%) Python
3 3 (3.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (3.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.27%) C
4 2 (2.27%) Scala
5 1 (1.14%) C++
5 1 (1.14%) Perl
5 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.14%) PROC SQL
5 1 (1.14%) SAS Macro
5 1 (1.14%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (15.91%) Degree
2 11 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (43.18%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.95%) GDPR
3 5 (5.68%) HIPAA
3 5 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.68%) NIST
3 5 (5.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.27%) QA
5 1 (1.14%) P3O
5 1 (1.14%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (14.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (14.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (28.41%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.64%) Automation Anywhere
2 12 (13.64%) OpenAI
2 12 (13.64%) UiPath
3 7 (7.95%) Informatica
3 7 (7.95%) SAP
3 7 (7.95%) Talend
4 6 (6.82%) MuleSoft
4 6 (6.82%) Oracle
5 5 (5.68%) Alteryx
6 4 (4.55%) Databricks
6 4 (4.55%) Teradata
7 3 (3.41%) Google
7 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.14%) Cognos
8 1 (1.14%) Intapp
8 1 (1.14%) Salesforce