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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 543 705
Rank change year-on-year -118 +162 -3
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 107 135 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.27% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.30% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 65 71 81
10th Percentile £37,009 £29,000 £39,325
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,750 £43,257
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £144,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% +10.00%

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 76,038 44,320 69,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 89.51% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52,466 25,228 46,329
10th Percentile £30,603 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 1 August 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 1 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 -83 100 £55,000 -4.35% 71
UK excluding London -85 78 £52,500 +10.53% 38
Midlands -5 42 £52,500 +75.00% 10
Work from Home -14 41 £60,000 +26.32% 25
East Midlands -7 24 £57,500 - 6
London -57 21 £130,000 +114.88% 46
West Midlands -24 18 £52,500 +75.00% 4
South East -45 14 £47,500 -13.64% 5
North of England -52 9 £65,000 -7.14% 7
South West -66 8 £25,000 -2.44% 8
North West -5 5 £56,250 -19.64% 2
East of England -15 4 £85,000 +30.27% 1
North East - 3 £65,000 - 1
Scotland 0 1 - -
Yorkshire -42 1 £28,146 -59.79% 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 4 (3.74%) Confluence
1 4 (3.74%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.93%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 16 (14.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.54%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.93%) SystmOne
2 1 (0.93%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 32 (29.91%) Power Platform
2 10 (9.35%) AWS
2 10 (9.35%) Azure
2 10 (9.35%) SaaS
3 8 (7.48%) GitHub
4 7 (6.54%) Anthropic Claude
4 7 (6.54%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (4.67%) GCP
5 5 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (4.67%) PowerApps
6 4 (3.74%) Power Automate
6 4 (3.74%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.80%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (2.80%) Amazon MSK
7 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.87%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.93%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.80%) HTTP
2 2 (1.87%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (29.91%) Power BI
2 7 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (6.54%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.74%) Data Mining
3 4 (3.74%) Tableau
4 3 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (2.80%) MySQL
4 3 (2.80%) Power Query
4 3 (2.80%) SAP BW
4 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.87%) SAP HANA
5 2 (1.87%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.93%) Big Data
6 1 (0.93%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (6.54%) Claude Code
2 6 (5.61%) Selenium
3 4 (3.74%) JIRA
4 1 (0.93%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.93%) GitLab
4 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.93%) JUnit
4 1 (0.93%) MLflow
General
1 48 (44.86%) Analytical Skills
2 47 (43.93%) Finance
3 35 (32.71%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.21%) Manufacturing
5 8 (7.48%) Law
6 7 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.61%) Banking
8 5 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.80%) Advertising
9 3 (2.80%) Marketing
9 3 (2.80%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.87%) Publishing
10 2 (1.87%) Retail
11 1 (0.93%) Arabic Language
11 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.93%) French Language
11 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (38.32%) Analyst
2 30 (28.04%) Senior
3 24 (22.43%) Data Analyst
4 21 (19.63%) Senior Analyst
5 18 (16.82%) Senior Data Analyst
6 13 (12.15%) Lead
7 8 (7.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (7.48%) Support Analyst
8 7 (6.54%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Consultant
9 6 (5.61%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Technical Leader
9 6 (5.61%) Web Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) Developer
10 5 (4.67%) Lead Data Analyst
10 5 (4.67%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.74%) Business Analyst
11 4 (3.74%) Support Assistant
12 3 (2.80%) Administrator
12 3 (2.80%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.61%) HTML
1 6 (5.61%) Playwright
1 6 (5.61%) Puppeteer
2 5 (4.67%) REST
3 4 (3.74%) JSON
3 4 (3.74%) XML
4 3 (2.80%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.80%) EDI
4 3 (2.80%) Middleware
5 2 (1.87%) .NET
5 2 (1.87%) DOM
5 2 (1.87%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.87%) Kafka
5 2 (1.87%) RESTful
6 1 (0.93%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.93%) OAuth
6 1 (0.93%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.93%) SAP PI
6 1 (0.93%) Spring
6 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.08%) Data Structures
2 7 (6.54%) Virtual Team
3 5 (4.67%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.74%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.87%) NHS
7 1 (0.93%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.93%) Social Media
7 1 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (55.14%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (47.66%) Analytics
3 34 (31.78%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (31.78%) Decision-Making
4 31 (28.97%) Data Management
4 31 (28.97%) Validation
5 30 (28.04%) Actionable Insight
6 29 (27.10%) Data Analytics
7 28 (26.17%) Data Analysis
8 26 (24.30%) AI
8 26 (24.30%) ETL
9 25 (23.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 24 (22.43%) Data Transformation
11 22 (20.56%) Roadmaps
11 22 (20.56%) Strategic Thinking
12 20 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (17.76%) Trend Analysis
14 15 (14.02%) Data Modelling
15 14 (13.08%) Data Governance
16 13 (12.15%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 81 (75.70%) SQL
2 54 (50.47%) Python
3 5 (4.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.74%) Java
5 3 (2.80%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.87%) C#
6 2 (1.87%) Formula Language
6 2 (1.87%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.93%) ABAP
7 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (10.28%) Degree
2 7 (6.54%) PhD
3 4 (3.74%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.80%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.93%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.63%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.61%) QA
3 5 (4.67%) GDPR
4 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) NIST
4 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.87%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (19.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.67%) SAP
3 4 (3.74%) Databricks
3 4 (3.74%) Google
3 4 (3.74%) SYSPRO
4 3 (2.80%) IFS
5 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.93%) Informatica
5 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.93%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle
5 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.93%) Talend
5 1 (0.93%) Workday