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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 670 566 684
Rank change year-on-year -104 +118 -42
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 133 114 118
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.26% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 82 66 49
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,000 £39,650
25th Percentile £42,750 £38,000 £41,315
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,938 £71,875 £63,750
90th Percentile £130,000 £80,000 £78,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £46,250 £52,000
% change year-on-year +2.70% -11.06% +4.00%

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 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
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 16 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 16 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 -84 124 £50,000 -13.04% 213
UK excluding London -96 99 £47,500 +2.70% 87
Work from Home -3 46 £75,000 +30.43% 83
Midlands -2 41 £52,500 +75.00% 11
North of England -54 31 £43,500 -20.91% 23
London -61 28 £130,000 +108.00% 141
East Midlands -5 27 £44,337 - 3
North West -6 20 £43,500 -34.34% 7
West Midlands -37 14 £52,500 +75.00% 8
South West -62 13 £55,000 +46.67% 10
South East -68 9 £47,500 -13.64% 29
Yorkshire -37 7 £28,146 -40.75% 8
Isle of Man - 4 £38,500 -
North East - 4 £65,000 - 8
East of England -33 1 £85,000 +47.83% 6

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 (3.76%) Confluence
2 4 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.50%) SAS
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.75%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 13 (9.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.51%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.26%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Actimize
2 5 (3.76%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 3 (2.26%) SystmOne
4 2 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 35 (26.32%) Power Platform
2 10 (7.52%) SaaS
3 9 (6.77%) Azure
4 8 (6.02%) AWS
5 7 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.76%) GCP
6 5 (3.76%) GitHub
7 4 (3.01%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (3.01%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (3.01%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.26%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.26%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.50%) dbt
9 2 (1.50%) Figma
9 2 (1.50%) Lucidchart
9 2 (1.50%) OCI
10 1 (0.75%) AppsFlyer
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.01%) DNS
1 4 (3.01%) Internet
1 4 (3.01%) SSL
1 4 (3.01%) TCP/IP
1 4 (3.01%) VPN
2 2 (1.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (26.32%) Power BI
2 11 (8.27%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.51%) Data Mining
4 5 (3.76%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.01%) Tableau
6 3 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.26%) MySQL
7 2 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.50%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.75%) Metadata
8 1 (0.75%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.75%) QGIS
8 1 (0.75%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.75%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.76%) JIRA
2 4 (3.01%) Claude Code
3 3 (2.26%) Selenium
4 2 (1.50%) Balsamiq
4 2 (1.50%) Git
5 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.75%) GitLab
5 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.75%) JUnit
General
1 72 (54.14%) Finance
2 48 (36.09%) Social Skills
3 44 (33.08%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (21.05%) Law
5 15 (11.28%) Military
5 15 (11.28%) Telecoms
6 14 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (9.02%) Banking
8 8 (6.02%) Manufacturing
9 7 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (3.76%) Legal
11 4 (3.01%) Advertising
11 4 (3.01%) Marketing
12 2 (1.50%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.50%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.50%) Publishing
12 2 (1.50%) Retail
13 1 (0.75%) Billing
13 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 50 (37.59%) Analyst
2 38 (28.57%) Senior
3 24 (18.05%) Data Analyst
4 23 (17.29%) Lead
5 22 (16.54%) Senior Analyst
6 18 (13.53%) Senior Data Analyst
7 11 (8.27%) Technical Leader
8 9 (6.77%) Developer
9 8 (6.02%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 8 (6.02%) Financial Analyst
9 8 (6.02%) Support Analyst
10 7 (5.26%) Systems Analyst
11 6 (4.51%) Analyst Developer
11 6 (4.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Business Analyst
11 6 (4.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 5 (3.76%) Data Engineer
12 5 (3.76%) Finance Systems Analyst
12 5 (3.76%) Power BI Analyst
12 5 (3.76%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.26%) XML
2 5 (3.76%) REST
3 4 (3.01%) XML Schema
4 3 (2.26%) EDI
4 3 (2.26%) HTML
4 3 (2.26%) JSON
4 3 (2.26%) Middleware
4 3 (2.26%) Playwright
4 3 (2.26%) Puppeteer
5 2 (1.50%) .NET
5 2 (1.50%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.50%) Kafka
5 2 (1.50%) RESTful
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.75%) DOM
6 1 (0.75%) OAuth
6 1 (0.75%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.75%) Spring
6 1 (0.75%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.77%) Data Structures
2 7 (5.26%) Virtual Team
3 5 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.01%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.01%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.26%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.50%) NHS
7 1 (0.75%) Derivative
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.75%) Multi-touch
7 1 (0.75%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.01%) Linux
1 4 (3.01%) Windows
2 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (57.89%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (41.35%) Analytics
3 50 (37.59%) Validation
4 46 (34.59%) Data Analysis
5 41 (30.83%) Business Intelligence
5 41 (30.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 36 (27.07%) Decision-Making
7 33 (24.81%) Data Analytics
8 32 (24.06%) ETL
9 31 (23.31%) Data Management
10 27 (20.30%) ERP
10 27 (20.30%) Process Improvement
11 26 (19.55%) Actionable Insight
11 26 (19.55%) Migration
12 23 (17.29%) AI
12 23 (17.29%) Data Migration
12 23 (17.29%) Data Transformation
13 22 (16.54%) Roadmaps
13 22 (16.54%) Strategic Thinking
14 21 (15.79%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 85 (63.91%) SQL
2 49 (36.84%) Python
3 4 (3.01%) Java
4 3 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.50%) C#
5 2 (1.50%) Formula Language
5 2 (1.50%) R
6 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (11.28%) Degree
2 6 (4.51%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.51%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.76%) ACCA
3 5 (3.76%) CIMA
4 4 (3.01%) CREST Certified
4 4 (3.01%) PhD
5 3 (2.26%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (18.80%) Data Quality
2 15 (11.28%) QA
3 5 (3.76%) GDPR
4 4 (3.01%) FATCA
System Software
1 1 (0.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (12.78%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.28%) Civica
2 15 (11.28%) Sage
3 5 (3.76%) IBM
4 4 (3.01%) Databricks
4 4 (3.01%) SAP
4 4 (3.01%) SYSPRO
5 3 (2.26%) Oracle
5 3 (2.26%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.50%) Google
7 1 (0.75%) Aderant
7 1 (0.75%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.75%) Braze
7 1 (0.75%) IFS
7 1 (0.75%) Workday