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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 512 669
Rank change year-on-year -72 +157 +197
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 91 177 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.39% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.42% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 57 95 116
10th Percentile £35,350 £25,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £25,313 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -25.00% +19.43%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,875 £70,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,400 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £25,625 £60,000
% change year-on-year +114.63% -57.29% +19.83%

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 56,068 42,498 69,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.66% 93.26% 87.85%
Number of salaries quoted 33,637 21,727 52,919
10th Percentile £29,087 £32,750 £29,290
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £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 £77,125 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -86 82 £57,500 +27.78% 72
UK excluding London -56 50 £55,000 +114.63% 54
London +1 35 £60,000 - 25
South East -15 15 £57,500 -17.86% 14
Work from Home -37 15 £47,500 +85.37% 31
Midlands -9 12 £41,000 -8.89% 9
West Midlands +15 10 £41,000 -8.89% 6
North of England -52 7 £55,000 +114.63% 20
East of England +4 6 £75,000 +29.87% 5
South West -27 6 £37,500 +46.34% 5
North West -6 5 £55,000 +114.63% 7
Scotland -22 4 £45,000 +77.78% 1
East Midlands -31 2 - - 3
Yorkshire -57 2 £42,500 +65.85% 9

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 (13.19%) Appian
2 1 (1.10%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (35.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Visualfiles
2 2 (2.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.20%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (48.35%) Power Platform
2 25 (27.47%) Azure
3 17 (18.68%) Power Automate
4 14 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (13.19%) Anthropic Claude
5 12 (13.19%) AWS
5 12 (13.19%) Azure AI
6 6 (6.59%) Boomi
6 6 (6.59%) Matillion
7 5 (5.49%) AWS KMS
7 5 (5.49%) PowerApps
8 4 (4.40%) SaaS
9 3 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.30%) GCP
10 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.20%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (1.10%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (1.10%) GitHub
11 1 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.19%) Intranet
2 3 (3.30%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (48.35%) Power BI
2 23 (25.27%) SQL Server
3 16 (17.58%) Relational Database
4 12 (13.19%) Pinecone
5 11 (12.09%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (8.79%) Power Query
6 8 (8.79%) Snowflake Schema
6 8 (8.79%) Tableau
7 6 (6.59%) Pentaho
8 5 (5.49%) Star Schema
9 2 (2.20%) Big Data
9 2 (2.20%) SAP BW
9 2 (2.20%) SAP Data Services
9 2 (2.20%) SAP HANA
9 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.10%) Base SAS
10 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (1.10%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 13 (14.29%) MLflow
2 3 (3.30%) Selenium
3 2 (2.20%) JIRA
3 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.10%) Git
4 1 (1.10%) GitLab
4 1 (1.10%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 55 (60.44%) Social Skills
2 47 (51.65%) Finance
3 41 (45.05%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (13.19%) Manufacturing
5 10 (10.99%) Law
6 9 (9.89%) Legal
6 9 (9.89%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.40%) Retail
9 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.10%) Advertising
11 1 (1.10%) Banking
11 1 (1.10%) Marketing
11 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (38.46%) Analyst
2 22 (24.18%) Data Analyst
3 14 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 13 (14.29%) Report Analyst
5 12 (13.19%) Automation Engineer
6 9 (9.89%) Developer
6 9 (9.89%) Senior
7 7 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (5.49%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 5 (5.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Insight Analyst
9 4 (4.40%) Analyst Developer
9 4 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Business Developer
10 3 (3.30%) Consultant
10 3 (3.30%) Legal Analyst
10 3 (3.30%) Report Developer
10 3 (3.30%) Senior Data Analyst
10 3 (3.30%) Support Analyst
10 3 (3.30%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.29%) PyTorch
1 13 (14.29%) TensorFlow
2 12 (13.19%) Django
2 12 (13.19%) Faiss
2 12 (13.19%) FastAPI
2 12 (13.19%) Flask
2 12 (13.19%) Hugging Face
2 12 (13.19%) JWT
2 12 (13.19%) NumPy
2 12 (13.19%) OAuth
2 12 (13.19%) OpenAPI
2 12 (13.19%) Pandas
2 12 (13.19%) pytest
2 12 (13.19%) REST
2 12 (13.19%) RESTful
2 12 (13.19%) scikit-learn
2 12 (13.19%) Swagger
2 12 (13.19%) Web Services
3 9 (9.89%) PySpark
4 3 (3.30%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
1 14 (15.38%) Low-Code
2 9 (9.89%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.79%) Data Structures
4 7 (7.69%) Onboarding
5 6 (6.59%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.20%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.10%) Blog
7 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.10%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.10%) Podcast
7 1 (1.10%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.10%) Linux
1 1 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (52.75%) Business Intelligence
2 38 (41.76%) Analytics
2 38 (41.76%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (35.16%) ETL
4 29 (31.87%) Data Engineering
5 27 (29.67%) Data Modelling
6 23 (25.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (24.18%) Validation
8 21 (23.08%) AI
8 21 (23.08%) Decision-Making
9 20 (21.98%) Workflow
10 19 (20.88%) Actionable Insight
11 18 (19.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (18.68%) Data Analysis
12 17 (18.68%) Data Cleansing
13 16 (17.58%) Data Validation
13 16 (17.58%) LLM
13 16 (17.58%) Machine Learning
13 16 (17.58%) Requirements Gathering
14 15 (16.48%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 74 (81.32%) SQL
2 35 (38.46%) Python
3 6 (6.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.30%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.20%) C
6 1 (1.10%) ABAP
6 1 (1.10%) C++
6 1 (1.10%) PROC SQL
6 1 (1.10%) SAS Macro
6 1 (1.10%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (15.38%) Degree
2 13 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.79%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.30%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.10%) PMP
5 1 (1.10%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (46.15%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.79%) GDPR
3 5 (5.49%) HIPAA
3 5 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.49%) NIST
3 5 (5.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.20%) QA
5 1 (1.10%) P3O
5 1 (1.10%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (29.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.29%) OpenAI
3 12 (13.19%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (13.19%) UiPath
4 8 (8.79%) SAP
5 7 (7.69%) Informatica
5 7 (7.69%) Talend
6 6 (6.59%) Databricks
6 6 (6.59%) MuleSoft
7 5 (5.49%) Alteryx
7 5 (5.49%) Google
7 5 (5.49%) Oracle
8 4 (4.40%) Teradata
9 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.10%) Cognos
10 1 (1.10%) Intapp
10 1 (1.10%) Salesforce