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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 665 553 705
Rank change year-on-year -112 +152 +3
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 104 138 141
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.28% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.31% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 63 76 97
10th Percentile £42,217 £29,000 £40,030
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +19.43%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £144,500 £80,000 £83,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £55,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -14.41% +11.00%

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 73,858 44,154 75,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 89.93% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,064 24,939 51,848
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £93,750
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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -96 97 £57,500 -2.13% 61
UK excluding London -83 74 £52,500 +10.53% 41
Midlands -5 41 £52,500 +68.00% 9
Work from Home -16 37 £60,000 +26.32% 29
East Midlands -7 24 £57,500 +15.00% 3
London -59 22 £130,000 +107.17% 29
West Midlands -25 17 £52,500 +75.00% 6
South East -29 15 £47,500 -17.39% 8
South West -56 7 £25,000 -36.00% 7
North of England -47 6 £65,000 -7.14% 16
East of England -4 4 £85,000 +16.44% 2
North West -6 4 £56,250 -6.25% 6
North East - 2 £65,000 - 3
Scotland +7 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 4 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.92%) Appian
2 2 (1.92%) Confluence
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.96%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.96%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (13.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.81%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.96%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 29 (27.88%) Power Platform
2 10 (9.62%) SaaS
3 9 (8.65%) Anthropic Claude
3 9 (8.65%) AWS
3 9 (8.65%) Azure
4 8 (7.69%) GitHub
5 7 (6.73%) GitHub Copilot
6 6 (5.77%) Power Automate
7 5 (4.81%) GCP
7 5 (4.81%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.88%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (2.88%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (2.88%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.92%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.92%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.92%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.92%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.81%) HTTP
2 2 (1.92%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (27.88%) Power BI
2 8 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.77%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.85%) Data Mining
5 4 (3.85%) Tableau
6 3 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.88%) Power Query
6 3 (2.88%) SAP BW
7 2 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.92%) MySQL
7 2 (1.92%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.92%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.96%) Big Data
8 1 (0.96%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.96%) Flink
8 1 (0.96%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 8 (7.69%) Selenium
2 7 (6.73%) Claude Code
3 3 (2.88%) MLflow
4 2 (1.92%) JIRA
5 1 (0.96%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.96%) GitLab
5 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.96%) JUnit
General
1 46 (44.23%) Analytical Skills
1 46 (44.23%) Finance
2 36 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.62%) Manufacturing
4 8 (7.69%) Law
5 6 (5.77%) Banking
5 6 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.85%) Advertising
6 4 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.88%) Marketing
8 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.92%) Publishing
8 2 (1.92%) Retail
9 1 (0.96%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.96%) French Language
9 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (36.54%) Analyst
2 28 (26.92%) Senior
3 24 (23.08%) Data Analyst
4 20 (19.23%) Senior Analyst
5 18 (17.31%) Senior Data Analyst
6 13 (12.50%) Lead
7 10 (9.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (7.69%) Support Analyst
8 8 (7.69%) Web Engineer
9 7 (6.73%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Consultant
10 6 (5.77%) Python Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Technical Leader
11 5 (4.81%) Data Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Developer
11 5 (4.81%) Lead Data Analyst
12 4 (3.85%) Support Assistant
13 3 (2.88%) Administrator
13 3 (2.88%) Business Analyst
13 3 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.69%) HTML
1 8 (7.69%) Playwright
1 8 (7.69%) Puppeteer
2 7 (6.73%) REST
3 4 (3.85%) DOM
3 4 (3.85%) RESTful
4 3 (2.88%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.88%) JSON
4 3 (2.88%) OAuth
4 3 (2.88%) XML
5 2 (1.92%) Django
5 2 (1.92%) Faiss
5 2 (1.92%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.92%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.92%) Hugging Face
5 2 (1.92%) JWT
5 2 (1.92%) Kafka
5 2 (1.92%) NumPy
5 2 (1.92%) OpenAPI
5 2 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.46%) Data Structures
2 7 (6.73%) Virtual Team
3 5 (4.81%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.81%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.92%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.92%) NHS
5 2 (1.92%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.96%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.96%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.96%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.96%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (54.81%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (44.23%) Analytics
3 33 (31.73%) Decision-Making
4 30 (28.85%) Actionable Insight
4 30 (28.85%) Business Intelligence
4 30 (28.85%) Validation
5 29 (27.88%) Data Management
6 27 (25.96%) ETL
7 26 (25.00%) AI
7 26 (25.00%) Data Analysis
7 26 (25.00%) Data Analytics
8 24 (23.08%) Data Transformation
9 22 (21.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 22 (21.15%) Strategic Thinking
10 21 (20.19%) Roadmaps
11 19 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (18.27%) Trend Analysis
12 15 (14.42%) Data Engineering
13 13 (12.50%) Data Governance
13 13 (12.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 78 (75.00%) SQL
2 55 (52.88%) Python
3 4 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (3.85%) Java
3 4 (3.85%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.88%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.92%) Formula Language
6 1 (0.96%) ABAP
6 1 (0.96%) C#
6 1 (0.96%) PROC SQL
6 1 (0.96%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 10 (9.62%) Degree
2 7 (6.73%) PhD
3 3 (2.88%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.92%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.96%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (21.15%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.81%) QA
3 4 (3.85%) GDPR
4 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.96%) NIST
4 1 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.77%) Google
3 5 (4.81%) SAP
4 3 (2.88%) Databricks
4 3 (2.88%) IFS
4 3 (2.88%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.88%) SYSPRO
5 2 (1.92%) Automation Anywhere
5 2 (1.92%) UiPath
6 1 (0.96%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.96%) Informatica
6 1 (0.96%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.96%) Oracle
6 1 (0.96%) Talend
6 1 (0.96%) Teradata
6 1 (0.96%) Workday