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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 635 468 726
Rank change year-on-year -167 +258 +68
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 96 191 156
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.44% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.48% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 60 108 119
10th Percentile £36,025 £25,000 £38,588
25th Percentile £51,250 £25,313 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £44,827 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.85% -25.29% +19.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £145,000 £80,000 £77,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £30,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +87.50% -50.00% +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 68,138 40,050 82,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.73% 93.30% 84.76%
Number of salaries quoted 44,115 21,094 59,611
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,795 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,648 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.59% +8.45% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -123 90 £60,000 +20.00% 61
UK excluding London -113 57 £56,250 +87.50% 40
London -55 32 £130,000 +100.00% 26
Work from Home -43 22 £60,000 +134.15% 30
Midlands -34 19 £52,500 +75.00% 11
South East -49 12 £57,500 -17.86% 10
West Midlands -28 11 £52,500 +75.00% 7
North of England -62 10 £55,000 +89.25% 10
East of England -8 8 £75,000 +2.74% 3
East Midlands -31 8 - - 4
South West -67 7 £25,000 -2.44% 5
North West -11 6 £55,000 +10.00% 5
Yorkshire -65 2 £42,500 +65.85% 5
North East - 2 £65,000 - 1
Scotland -28 1 - -

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 10 (10.42%) Appian
2 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.04%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.04%) Confluence
3 1 (1.04%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.17%) MS Visio
4 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.04%) Visualfiles
3 1 (1.04%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.25%) Power Platform
2 17 (17.71%) Anthropic Claude
3 16 (16.67%) Azure
4 14 (14.58%) Power Automate
5 12 (12.50%) AWS
6 10 (10.42%) Azure AI
6 10 (10.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (8.33%) GitHub
8 7 (7.29%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (5.21%) AWS KMS
9 5 (5.21%) Boomi
9 5 (5.21%) Matillion
9 5 (5.21%) PowerApps
10 4 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (4.17%) SaaS
11 3 (3.13%) GCP
11 3 (3.13%) Snowflake
12 1 (1.04%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (1.04%) Amazon MSK
12 1 (1.04%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.33%) Intranet
2 4 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (31.25%) Power BI
2 17 (17.71%) SQL Server
3 10 (10.42%) Pinecone
3 10 (10.42%) Relational Database
4 9 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.21%) Pentaho
5 5 (5.21%) Power Query
5 5 (5.21%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (5.21%) Star Schema
5 5 (5.21%) Tableau
6 4 (4.17%) Data Mining
7 3 (3.13%) SAP BW
8 2 (2.08%) Metadata
8 2 (2.08%) SAP HANA
9 1 (1.04%) Big Data
9 1 (1.04%) Looker
9 1 (1.04%) QGIS
9 1 (1.04%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (11.46%) MLflow
2 8 (8.33%) Selenium
3 7 (7.29%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.08%) GitLab
4 2 (2.08%) JIRA
4 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 49 (51.04%) Finance
1 49 (51.04%) Social Skills
2 36 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (13.54%) Law
4 12 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.25%) Banking
7 5 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (3.13%) Marketing
10 2 (2.08%) Advertising
10 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.08%) Legal
10 2 (2.08%) Retail
11 1 (1.04%) Arabic Language
11 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.04%) French Language
11 1 (1.04%) Publishing
11 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (27.08%) Analyst
2 21 (21.88%) Data Analyst
3 18 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 16 (16.67%) Senior
5 10 (10.42%) Automation Engineer
5 10 (10.42%) Senior Analyst
6 9 (9.38%) Senior Data Analyst
7 8 (8.33%) Web Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Lead
9 6 (6.25%) Python Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Report Analyst
10 5 (5.21%) Developer
11 4 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 4 (4.17%) Consultant
11 4 (4.17%) Data Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Support Assistant
12 3 (3.13%) Data Scientist
12 3 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.50%) REST
2 11 (11.46%) OAuth
3 10 (10.42%) Django
3 10 (10.42%) Faiss
3 10 (10.42%) FastAPI
3 10 (10.42%) Flask
3 10 (10.42%) Hugging Face
3 10 (10.42%) JWT
3 10 (10.42%) NumPy
3 10 (10.42%) OpenAPI
3 10 (10.42%) Pandas
3 10 (10.42%) pytest
3 10 (10.42%) PyTorch
3 10 (10.42%) RESTful
3 10 (10.42%) scikit-learn
3 10 (10.42%) Swagger
3 10 (10.42%) TensorFlow
3 10 (10.42%) Web Services
4 8 (8.33%) Playwright
4 8 (8.33%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 12 (12.50%) Low-Code
2 8 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.17%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.08%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.08%) NHS
7 1 (1.04%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.04%) Blog
7 1 (1.04%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.04%) Podcast
7 1 (1.04%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.04%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (39.58%) Analytics
3 32 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 31 (32.29%) AI
5 28 (29.17%) ETL
5 28 (29.17%) Validation
6 26 (27.08%) Data Engineering
7 21 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (20.83%) Data Modelling
8 20 (20.83%) Task Automation
9 19 (19.79%) Decision-Making
9 19 (19.79%) Workflow
10 17 (17.71%) Generative AI
10 17 (17.71%) Open Source
11 15 (15.63%) Actionable Insight
11 15 (15.63%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (15.63%) Requirements Gathering
12 14 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (13.54%) Data Analysis
13 13 (13.54%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 68 (70.83%) SQL
2 52 (54.17%) Python
3 4 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.13%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.08%) Formula Language
6 1 (1.04%) ABAP
6 1 (1.04%) C#
6 1 (1.04%) Java
6 1 (1.04%) PROC SQL
6 1 (1.04%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 15 (15.63%) Degree
2 10 (10.42%) 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%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.04%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (40.63%) 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%) QA
3 5 (5.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.46%) OpenAI
3 10 (10.42%) Automation Anywhere
3 10 (10.42%) UiPath
4 6 (6.25%) Google
4 6 (6.25%) Informatica
4 6 (6.25%) Talend
5 5 (5.21%) Databricks
5 5 (5.21%) MuleSoft
6 3 (3.13%) IFS
6 3 (3.13%) SAP
7 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.04%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.04%) Intapp
8 1 (1.04%) Oracle
8 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.04%) Teradata
8 1 (1.04%) Workday