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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 631 485 739
Rank change year-on-year -146 +254 +35
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 102 183 161
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.41% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.44% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59 107 122
10th Percentile £35,800 £25,000 £39,325
25th Percentile £51,250 £25,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -29.17% +19.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £145,000 £80,000 £77,500
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 67,552 41,143 88,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.63% 82.27%
Number of salaries quoted 46,362 21,911 62,510
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,556
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £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 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 13 June 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 13 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 -109 96 £60,000 +20.00% 64
UK excluding London -124 67 £55,000 +83.33% 45
Work from Home -41 37 £60,000 +134.15% 25
Midlands -2 33 £52,500 +75.00% 15
London -31 28 £130,000 +100.00% 29
East Midlands -4 21 - - 9
West Midlands -23 12 £52,500 +75.00% 6
South East -26 10 £57,500 -17.86% 10
East of England -8 8 £75,000 +2.74% 2
North of England -69 8 £60,000 +84.62% 11
South West -65 7 £25,000 -2.44% 7
North West -2 6 £55,000 +22.22% 5
North East - 2 £65,000 - 2
Scotland -7 1 - -

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 7 (6.86%) Appian
2 4 (3.92%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.98%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.98%) Confluence
3 1 (0.98%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (18.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.92%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.98%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.98%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (25.49%) Power Platform
2 14 (13.73%) Anthropic Claude
3 13 (12.75%) AWS
3 13 (12.75%) Azure
4 10 (9.80%) Power Automate
5 8 (7.84%) GitHub
6 7 (6.86%) Azure AI
6 7 (6.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (6.86%) GitHub Copilot
7 5 (4.90%) AWS KMS
7 5 (4.90%) Boomi
7 5 (4.90%) Matillion
7 5 (4.90%) SaaS
8 4 (3.92%) GCP
8 4 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.92%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.94%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.96%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.96%) Amazon MSK
11 1 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.90%) HTTP
2 4 (3.92%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (25.49%) Power BI
2 12 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 11 (10.78%) Relational Database
4 8 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (6.86%) Pinecone
6 5 (4.90%) Pentaho
6 5 (4.90%) Power Query
6 5 (4.90%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (4.90%) Star Schema
7 4 (3.92%) Data Mining
7 4 (3.92%) Tableau
8 3 (2.94%) SAP BW
9 2 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.96%) Metadata
9 2 (1.96%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.98%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.98%) Flink
10 1 (0.98%) QGIS
10 1 (0.98%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 8 (7.84%) MLflow
1 8 (7.84%) Selenium
2 7 (6.86%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.98%) GitLab
3 1 (0.98%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.98%) JIRA
3 1 (0.98%) JUnit
3 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 48 (47.06%) Finance
2 46 (45.10%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (39.22%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.76%) Law
5 8 (7.84%) Manufacturing
5 8 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.88%) Banking
8 4 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.94%) Marketing
10 2 (1.96%) Advertising
10 2 (1.96%) Legal
11 1 (0.98%) Arabic Language
11 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.98%) French Language
11 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.98%) Publishing
11 1 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (34.31%) Analyst
2 29 (28.43%) Data Analyst
3 24 (23.53%) Senior
4 17 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 17 (16.67%) Senior Data Analyst
5 15 (14.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 11 (10.78%) Lead
7 8 (7.84%) Web Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Consultant
10 5 (4.90%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Lead Data Analyst
11 4 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Developer
11 4 (3.92%) Support Assistant
11 4 (3.92%) Technical Leader
12 3 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 3 (2.94%) Database Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.78%) REST
2 8 (7.84%) HTML
2 8 (7.84%) OAuth
2 8 (7.84%) Playwright
2 8 (7.84%) Puppeteer
2 8 (7.84%) RESTful
3 7 (6.86%) Django
3 7 (6.86%) Faiss
3 7 (6.86%) FastAPI
3 7 (6.86%) Flask
3 7 (6.86%) Hugging Face
3 7 (6.86%) JWT
3 7 (6.86%) NumPy
3 7 (6.86%) OpenAPI
3 7 (6.86%) Pandas
3 7 (6.86%) pytest
3 7 (6.86%) scikit-learn
3 7 (6.86%) Swagger
3 7 (6.86%) TensorFlow
3 7 (6.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.78%) Data Structures
2 10 (9.80%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (6.86%) Low-Code
4 5 (4.90%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.90%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.96%) NHS
7 1 (0.98%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.98%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.98%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.98%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (46.08%) Analytics
3 33 (32.35%) Decision-Making
4 29 (28.43%) Actionable Insight
4 29 (28.43%) AI
5 28 (27.45%) Business Intelligence
5 28 (27.45%) Data Analysis
5 28 (27.45%) Data Transformation
5 28 (27.45%) ETL
5 28 (27.45%) Validation
6 25 (24.51%) Data Analytics
7 24 (23.53%) Data Management
8 23 (22.55%) Data Engineering
9 22 (21.57%) Strategic Thinking
10 21 (20.59%) Roadmaps
11 20 (19.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (16.67%) Data Modelling
12 17 (16.67%) Task Automation
12 17 (16.67%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 77 (75.49%) SQL
2 63 (61.76%) Python
3 4 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (3.92%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.94%) Java
4 3 (2.94%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.96%) Formula Language
6 1 (0.98%) ABAP
6 1 (0.98%) C#
6 1 (0.98%) PROC SQL
6 1 (0.98%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 11 (10.78%) Degree
2 9 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.84%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.86%) PhD
5 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.98%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (31.37%) Data Quality
2 9 (8.82%) GDPR
3 5 (4.90%) HIPAA
3 5 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.90%) NIST
3 5 (4.90%) QA
3 5 (4.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (8.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (9.80%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.84%) OpenAI
3 7 (6.86%) Automation Anywhere
3 7 (6.86%) UiPath
4 6 (5.88%) Google
4 6 (5.88%) Informatica
4 6 (5.88%) Talend
5 5 (4.90%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.92%) SAP
7 3 (2.94%) Databricks
7 3 (2.94%) IFS
8 2 (1.96%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.98%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.98%) Oracle
9 1 (0.98%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.98%) Teradata
9 1 (0.98%) Workday