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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 604 452 684
Rank change year-on-year -152 +232 +175
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 92 180 167
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.44% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.47% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 58 99 132
10th Percentile £37,125 £25,000 £39,325
25th Percentile £51,563 £25,313 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% +19.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £71,625
90th Percentile £106,500 £80,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £25,625 £60,000
% change year-on-year +124.39% -57.29% +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 59,772 38,266 76,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.27% 93.41% 86.72%
Number of salaries quoted 36,377 22,223 57,143
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.42%

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 26 March 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 26 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 -105 86 £60,000 +26.32% 111
UK excluding London -108 51 £57,500 +124.39% 96
London -33 35 £66,750 +11.25% 26
South East -24 17 £57,500 -17.86% 21
Midlands -34 13 £44,000 -2.22% 27
Work from Home -74 13 £60,000 +134.15% 31
West Midlands 0 11 £44,000 -2.22% 16
North of England -80 9 £60,000 +134.15% 19
East of England -12 8 £75,000 +29.87% 10
North West -31 5 £60,000 +134.15% 6
South West -43 3 £58,750 +129.27% 12
East Midlands -43 2 - - 11
Yorkshire -68 2 £42,500 +65.85% 9
North East - 2 £65,000 - 4
Scotland -42 1 - - 3

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 (13.04%) Appian
2 1 (1.09%) SAS
Applications
1 29 (31.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.17%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Visualfiles
2 2 (2.17%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.17%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (36.96%) Power Platform
2 23 (25.00%) Azure
3 17 (18.48%) Power Automate
4 16 (17.39%) Anthropic Claude
5 14 (15.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (13.04%) Azure AI
7 11 (11.96%) AWS
8 6 (6.52%) Boomi
8 6 (6.52%) Matillion
9 5 (5.43%) AWS KMS
9 5 (5.43%) GitHub
9 5 (5.43%) PowerApps
10 4 (4.35%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (4.35%) SaaS
11 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (2.17%) GCP
13 1 (1.09%) Azure Machine Learning
13 1 (1.09%) Snowflake
13 1 (1.09%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.04%) Intranet
2 3 (3.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (36.96%) Power BI
2 25 (27.17%) SQL Server
3 14 (15.22%) Relational Database
4 12 (13.04%) Pinecone
5 10 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (7.61%) Power Query
6 7 (7.61%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (6.52%) Pentaho
8 5 (5.43%) Star Schema
9 3 (3.26%) Tableau
10 2 (2.17%) Big Data
10 2 (2.17%) SAP BW
10 2 (2.17%) SAP Data Services
10 2 (2.17%) SAP HANA
10 2 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (1.09%) Base SAS
11 1 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (1.09%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (1.09%) Data Mining
11 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (14.13%) MLflow
2 7 (7.61%) Selenium
3 4 (4.35%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.17%) JIRA
4 2 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.09%) Git
5 1 (1.09%) GitLab
5 1 (1.09%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 51 (55.43%) Social Skills
2 46 (50.00%) Finance
3 35 (38.04%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (15.22%) Manufacturing
5 13 (14.13%) Law
6 9 (9.78%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.43%) Legal
8 4 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.35%) Retail
9 2 (2.17%) Banking
9 2 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Advertising
10 1 (1.09%) Marketing
10 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (31.52%) Analyst
2 20 (21.74%) Data Analyst
3 18 (19.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 12 (13.04%) Automation Engineer
5 10 (10.87%) Report Analyst
6 8 (8.70%) Senior
7 7 (7.61%) Web Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Developer
8 6 (6.52%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 5 (5.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (5.43%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Consultant
10 4 (4.35%) Lead
10 4 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
11 3 (3.26%) Administrator
11 3 (3.26%) Data Engineer
11 3 (3.26%) Power BI Developer
11 3 (3.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.13%) PyTorch
1 13 (14.13%) TensorFlow
2 12 (13.04%) Django
2 12 (13.04%) Faiss
2 12 (13.04%) FastAPI
2 12 (13.04%) Flask
2 12 (13.04%) Hugging Face
2 12 (13.04%) JWT
2 12 (13.04%) NumPy
2 12 (13.04%) OAuth
2 12 (13.04%) OpenAPI
2 12 (13.04%) Pandas
2 12 (13.04%) pytest
2 12 (13.04%) REST
2 12 (13.04%) RESTful
2 12 (13.04%) scikit-learn
2 12 (13.04%) Swagger
2 12 (13.04%) Web Services
3 9 (9.78%) PySpark
4 7 (7.61%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.22%) Legacy Systems
1 14 (15.22%) Low-Code
2 7 (7.61%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.17%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.09%) Blog
6 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.09%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.09%) Podcast
6 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (41.30%) Business Intelligence
2 36 (39.13%) Analytics
3 34 (36.96%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (31.52%) AI
4 29 (31.52%) Data Engineering
4 29 (31.52%) ETL
5 26 (28.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (27.17%) Data Modelling
7 23 (25.00%) Validation
8 21 (22.83%) Workflow
9 18 (19.57%) Task Automation
10 17 (18.48%) Generative AI
11 16 (17.39%) Data Cleansing
11 16 (17.39%) Data Validation
11 16 (17.39%) Open Source
11 16 (17.39%) Requirements Gathering
11 16 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (16.30%) CI/CD
12 15 (16.30%) Decision-Making
12 15 (16.30%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 68 (73.91%) SQL
2 43 (46.74%) Python
3 5 (5.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.26%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.26%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.17%) C
6 1 (1.09%) ABAP
6 1 (1.09%) C++
6 1 (1.09%) PROC SQL
6 1 (1.09%) SAS Macro
6 1 (1.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (14.13%) Degree
1 13 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.35%) PhD
4 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.17%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.09%) PMP
6 1 (1.09%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (46.74%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.70%) GDPR
3 5 (5.43%) HIPAA
3 5 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.43%) NIST
3 5 (5.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (3.26%) QA
5 1 (1.09%) P3O
5 1 (1.09%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (14.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (14.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.13%) OpenAI
3 12 (13.04%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (13.04%) UiPath
4 7 (7.61%) Informatica
4 7 (7.61%) SAP
4 7 (7.61%) Talend
5 6 (6.52%) MuleSoft
6 5 (5.43%) Databricks
6 5 (5.43%) Google
6 5 (5.43%) Oracle
7 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.17%) IFS
9 1 (1.09%) Intapp
9 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.09%) Teradata