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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 682 547 691
Rank change year-on-year -135 +144 +9
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 106 136 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.27% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.31% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 64 73 77
10th Percentile £36,194 £29,000 £39,325
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £65,250
90th Percentile £144,250 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +5.00%

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 76,247 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,515 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 August 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 August 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 99 £55,000 -4.35% 77
UK excluding London -86 77 £52,500 +10.53% 38
Midlands -13 42 £52,500 +75.00% 13
Work from Home -20 42 £58,750 +17.50% 28
East Midlands +2 24 £57,500 - 9
London -66 21 £130,000 +114.88% 46
West Midlands -27 18 £52,500 +75.00% 4
South East -37 14 £47,500 -13.64% 5
North of England -48 9 £65,000 -7.14% 10
South West -54 8 £25,000 -2.44% 8
North West -8 5 £56,250 -19.64% 3
East of England -25 3 £85,000 +47.83% 1
North East - 3 £65,000 - 1
Scotland -6 1 - -
Yorkshire -45 1 £28,146 -59.79% 7

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 (3.77%) Confluence
1 4 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.94%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 16 (15.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.60%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.94%) SystmOne
2 1 (0.94%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (31.13%) Power Platform
2 10 (9.43%) Azure
2 10 (9.43%) SaaS
3 9 (8.49%) AWS
4 8 (7.55%) GitHub
5 7 (6.60%) Anthropic Claude
5 7 (6.60%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (4.72%) GCP
6 5 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (4.72%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.77%) Power Automate
7 4 (3.77%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.89%) Lucidchart
10 1 (0.94%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.89%) HTTP
1 2 (1.89%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (31.13%) Power BI
2 7 (6.60%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.77%) Data Mining
4 4 (3.77%) Tableau
5 3 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.83%) MySQL
5 3 (2.83%) Power Query
5 3 (2.83%) SAP BW
5 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.89%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.94%) Big Data
7 1 (0.94%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.94%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Claude Code
2 5 (4.72%) Selenium
3 4 (3.77%) JIRA
4 1 (0.94%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.94%) GitLab
4 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.94%) JUnit
4 1 (0.94%) MLflow
General
1 49 (46.23%) Analytical Skills
2 47 (44.34%) Finance
3 36 (33.96%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.32%) Manufacturing
5 7 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.60%) Law
6 6 (5.66%) Banking
7 5 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.83%) Advertising
8 3 (2.83%) Marketing
9 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.89%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.89%) Publishing
9 2 (1.89%) Retail
10 1 (0.94%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.94%) French Language
10 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (39.62%) Analyst
2 31 (29.25%) Senior
3 24 (22.64%) Data Analyst
4 22 (20.75%) Senior Analyst
5 18 (16.98%) Senior Data Analyst
6 13 (12.26%) Lead
7 8 (7.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (7.55%) Support Analyst
8 7 (6.60%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) Consultant
9 6 (5.66%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) Technical Leader
10 5 (4.72%) Developer
10 5 (4.72%) Lead Data Analyst
10 5 (4.72%) Web Engineer
11 4 (3.77%) Business Analyst
11 4 (3.77%) Python Engineer
11 4 (3.77%) Support Assistant
12 3 (2.83%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 3 (2.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.72%) HTML
1 5 (4.72%) Playwright
1 5 (4.72%) Puppeteer
1 5 (4.72%) REST
2 4 (3.77%) JSON
2 4 (3.77%) XML
3 3 (2.83%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.83%) EDI
3 3 (2.83%) Middleware
4 2 (1.89%) .NET
4 2 (1.89%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.89%) Kafka
4 2 (1.89%) RESTful
5 1 (0.94%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.94%) DOM
5 1 (0.94%) OAuth
5 1 (0.94%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.94%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.94%) Spring
5 1 (0.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.26%) Data Structures
2 7 (6.60%) Virtual Team
3 5 (4.72%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.89%) NHS
7 1 (0.94%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.94%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.94%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.94%) Social Media
7 1 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (55.66%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (49.06%) Analytics
3 35 (33.02%) Business Intelligence
4 34 (32.08%) Decision-Making
5 31 (29.25%) Data Management
5 31 (29.25%) Validation
6 30 (28.30%) Actionable Insight
7 29 (27.36%) Data Analytics
8 28 (26.42%) Data Analysis
9 26 (24.53%) AI
9 26 (24.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 25 (23.58%) ETL
11 23 (21.70%) Data Transformation
12 22 (20.75%) Roadmaps
12 22 (20.75%) Strategic Thinking
13 20 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (17.92%) Trend Analysis
15 16 (15.09%) Data Modelling
16 14 (13.21%) Dashboard Development
16 14 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (76.42%) SQL
2 53 (50.00%) Python
3 6 (5.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (3.77%) Java
5 3 (2.83%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.89%) C#
6 2 (1.89%) Formula Language
7 1 (0.94%) ABAP
7 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.94%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (10.38%) Degree
2 7 (6.60%) PhD
3 3 (2.83%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.89%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.94%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (18.87%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.66%) QA
3 4 (3.77%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.72%) SAP
3 4 (3.77%) Databricks
3 4 (3.77%) SYSPRO
4 3 (2.83%) Google
4 3 (2.83%) IFS
5 1 (0.94%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.94%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle
5 1 (0.94%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.94%) Workday