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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 483 725
Rank change year-on-year -145 +242 +63
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 103 190 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.44% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.47% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59 109 119
10th Percentile £35,800 £25,000 £38,588
25th Percentile £51,250 £25,313 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £44,460 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.95% -25.90% +19.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £71,750
90th Percentile £145,000 £80,000 £77,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £30,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +83.33% -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 68,107 40,669 85,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 93.11% 83.11%
Number of salaries quoted 45,062 21,401 61,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,500 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,114 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 June 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 4 June 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 -113 97 £60,000 +20.00% 77
UK excluding London -124 67 £55,000 +83.33% 42
Work from Home -34 37 £60,000 +134.15% 33
Midlands -24 33 £52,500 +75.00% 14
London -45 29 £130,000 +100.00% 41
East Midlands -8 21 - - 9
West Midlands -35 12 £52,500 +75.00% 5
South East -37 9 £57,500 -17.86% 8
North of England -72 9 £55,000 +69.23% 11
East of England -18 8 £75,000 +2.74% 3
South West -62 7 £25,000 -2.44% 6
North West -7 6 £55,000 +22.22% 5
North East - 2 £65,000 - 3
Scotland -13 1 - -
Yorkshire -66 1 £42,500 +65.85% 4

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 8 (7.77%) Appian
2 4 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.97%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.97%) Confluence
3 1 (0.97%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (19.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.88%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.97%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.97%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 25 (24.27%) Power Platform
2 15 (14.56%) Anthropic Claude
3 14 (13.59%) Azure
4 13 (12.62%) AWS
5 11 (10.68%) Power Automate
6 8 (7.77%) Azure AI
6 8 (7.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (6.80%) GitHub
7 7 (6.80%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (4.85%) AWS KMS
8 5 (4.85%) Boomi
8 5 (4.85%) Matillion
9 4 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.88%) PowerApps
10 3 (2.91%) GCP
10 3 (2.91%) SaaS
10 3 (2.91%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.94%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (1.94%) Amazon MSK
12 1 (0.97%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.85%) Intranet
2 4 (3.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (24.27%) Power BI
2 13 (12.62%) SQL Server
3 12 (11.65%) Relational Database
4 8 (7.77%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (7.77%) Pinecone
5 5 (4.85%) Pentaho
5 5 (4.85%) Power Query
5 5 (4.85%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (4.85%) Star Schema
6 4 (3.88%) Data Mining
6 4 (3.88%) Tableau
7 3 (2.91%) SAP BW
8 2 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.94%) Metadata
8 2 (1.94%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.97%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.97%) Flink
9 1 (0.97%) QGIS
9 1 (0.97%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 9 (8.74%) MLflow
2 8 (7.77%) Selenium
3 7 (6.80%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.97%) GitLab
4 1 (0.97%) JIRA
4 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 50 (48.54%) Finance
2 47 (45.63%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (39.81%) Social Skills
4 13 (12.62%) Law
5 9 (8.74%) Manufacturing
6 8 (7.77%) Public Sector
7 7 (6.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (5.83%) Banking
9 4 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.91%) Marketing
11 2 (1.94%) Advertising
11 2 (1.94%) Legal
12 1 (0.97%) Arabic Language
12 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.97%) French Language
12 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.97%) Publishing
12 1 (0.97%) Retail
12 1 (0.97%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (33.01%) Analyst
2 30 (29.13%) Data Analyst
3 24 (23.30%) Senior
4 17 (16.50%) Senior Analyst
4 17 (16.50%) Senior Data Analyst
5 16 (15.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 11 (10.68%) Lead
7 8 (7.77%) Automation Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Web Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Consultant
10 5 (4.85%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Lead Data Analyst
11 4 (3.88%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Developer
11 4 (3.88%) Support Assistant
11 4 (3.88%) Technical Leader
12 3 (2.91%) Data Scientist
12 3 (2.91%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.68%) REST
2 9 (8.74%) OAuth
2 9 (8.74%) RESTful
3 8 (7.77%) Django
3 8 (7.77%) FastAPI
3 8 (7.77%) Flask
3 8 (7.77%) HTML
3 8 (7.77%) Hugging Face
3 8 (7.77%) JWT
3 8 (7.77%) NumPy
3 8 (7.77%) OpenAPI
3 8 (7.77%) Pandas
3 8 (7.77%) Playwright
3 8 (7.77%) Puppeteer
3 8 (7.77%) pytest
3 8 (7.77%) PyTorch
3 8 (7.77%) scikit-learn
3 8 (7.77%) Swagger
3 8 (7.77%) TensorFlow
3 8 (7.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (8.74%) Data Structures
2 9 (8.74%) Low-Code
3 6 (5.83%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.85%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.91%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.94%) NHS
6 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.97%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.97%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.97%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.97%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (49.51%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (46.60%) Analytics
3 33 (32.04%) Decision-Making
4 30 (29.13%) AI
5 29 (28.16%) Actionable Insight
6 28 (27.18%) Data Analysis
6 28 (27.18%) Data Transformation
7 27 (26.21%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (26.21%) ETL
7 27 (26.21%) Validation
8 25 (24.27%) Data Analytics
9 24 (23.30%) Data Engineering
10 22 (21.36%) Data Management
10 22 (21.36%) Strategic Thinking
11 21 (20.39%) Roadmaps
12 20 (19.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (17.48%) Data Modelling
13 18 (17.48%) Task Automation
14 17 (16.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 77 (74.76%) SQL
2 64 (62.14%) Python
3 4 (3.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (3.88%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.91%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.94%) Formula Language
5 2 (1.94%) Java
6 1 (0.97%) ABAP
6 1 (0.97%) C#
6 1 (0.97%) PROC SQL
6 1 (0.97%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 12 (11.65%) Degree
2 9 (8.74%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.80%) PhD
5 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.97%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (32.04%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.77%) GDPR
3 5 (4.85%) HIPAA
3 5 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.85%) NIST
3 5 (4.85%) QA
3 5 (4.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (9.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (9.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (21.36%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.74%) OpenAI
3 8 (7.77%) Automation Anywhere
3 8 (7.77%) UiPath
4 6 (5.83%) Google
4 6 (5.83%) Informatica
4 6 (5.83%) Talend
5 5 (4.85%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.88%) SAP
7 3 (2.91%) Databricks
7 3 (2.91%) IFS
8 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.97%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.97%) Intapp
9 1 (0.97%) Oracle
9 1 (0.97%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.97%) Teradata
9 1 (0.97%) Workday