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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 568 671
Rank change year-on-year -83 +103 -10
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 141 108 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.25% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 89 64 50
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,900 £40,075
25th Percentile £42,750 £38,000 £41,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £63,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £80,000 £78,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -11.76% +3.03%

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 84,848 43,853 63,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.08% 88.72% 81.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58,707 24,746 35,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -86 132 £52,500 -8.70% 188
UK excluding London -107 99 £46,500 +3.33% 85
Work from Home -10 51 £75,000 +42.86% 72
Midlands -17 42 £52,500 +75.00% 17
London -68 36 £105,000 +68.00% 117
North of England -57 30 £43,500 -13.00% 20
East Midlands -10 27 £44,337 - 6
North West -7 19 £43,500 -34.34% 8
West Midlands -41 15 £52,500 +75.00% 11
South West -66 13 £55,000 +46.67% 11
South East -63 9 £47,500 -13.64% 26
Yorkshire -45 7 £28,146 -40.75% 7
Isle of Man - 4 £38,500 -
North East - 4 £65,000 - 5
East of England -27 1 £85,000 +47.83% 5

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 5 (3.55%) Confluence
2 4 (2.84%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.42%) SAS
5 1 (0.71%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 14 (9.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.26%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (5.67%) Actimize
2 5 (3.55%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 3 (2.13%) SystmOne
4 2 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.71%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 35 (24.82%) Power Platform
2 12 (8.51%) SaaS
3 9 (6.38%) Azure
4 8 (5.67%) AWS
5 7 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (4.26%) Snowflake
7 5 (3.55%) GCP
7 5 (3.55%) GitHub
8 4 (2.84%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (2.84%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (2.13%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.42%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.42%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.42%) dbt
10 2 (1.42%) Figma
10 2 (1.42%) Lucidchart
10 2 (1.42%) OCI
11 1 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.84%) DNS
1 4 (2.84%) Internet
1 4 (2.84%) SSL
1 4 (2.84%) TCP/IP
1 4 (2.84%) VPN
2 2 (1.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (24.82%) Power BI
2 15 (10.64%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.26%) Tableau
4 5 (3.55%) Data Mining
4 5 (3.55%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.13%) Big Data
5 3 (2.13%) MySQL
6 2 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.42%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.42%) Oracle Database 12c
6 2 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.42%) Power Query
6 2 (1.42%) SQLPlus
6 2 (1.42%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.71%) Metadata
7 1 (0.71%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.71%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 5 (3.55%) JIRA
2 4 (2.84%) Claude Code
3 3 (2.13%) Selenium
4 2 (1.42%) Balsamiq
4 2 (1.42%) Git
4 2 (1.42%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (1.42%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.42%) Toad
5 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.71%) GitLab
5 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.71%) JUnit
5 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 75 (53.19%) Finance
2 49 (34.75%) Social Skills
3 48 (34.04%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (19.86%) Law
5 15 (10.64%) Military
5 15 (10.64%) Telecoms
6 14 (9.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (8.51%) Banking
8 8 (5.67%) Manufacturing
9 7 (4.96%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (3.55%) Legal
11 4 (2.84%) Advertising
12 3 (2.13%) Marketing
13 2 (1.42%) General Ledger
13 2 (1.42%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.42%) Publishing
13 2 (1.42%) Retail
14 1 (0.71%) Billing
14 1 (0.71%) International Banking
14 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (38.30%) Analyst
2 37 (26.24%) Senior
3 27 (19.15%) Data Analyst
4 24 (17.02%) Lead
5 22 (15.60%) Senior Analyst
6 18 (12.77%) Senior Data Analyst
7 12 (8.51%) Developer
7 12 (8.51%) Technical Leader
8 9 (6.38%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 9 (6.38%) Financial Analyst
9 8 (5.67%) Support Analyst
9 8 (5.67%) Systems Analyst
10 7 (4.96%) Analyst Developer
10 7 (4.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 6 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (4.26%) Business Analyst
11 6 (4.26%) Data Engineer
11 6 (4.26%) Finance Systems Analyst
11 6 (4.26%) Systems Developer
12 5 (3.55%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.96%) XML
2 5 (3.55%) Middleware
2 5 (3.55%) REST
3 4 (2.84%) XML Schema
4 3 (2.13%) EDI
4 3 (2.13%) HTML
4 3 (2.13%) JSON
4 3 (2.13%) Playwright
4 3 (2.13%) Puppeteer
5 2 (1.42%) .NET
5 2 (1.42%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.42%) Kafka
5 2 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.42%) RESTful
6 1 (0.71%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.71%) DOM
6 1 (0.71%) OAuth
6 1 (0.71%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.71%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.71%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.22%) Data Structures
2 7 (4.96%) Virtual Team
3 6 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.84%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.84%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 4 (2.84%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.84%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.42%) NHS
8 1 (0.71%) Derivative
8 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.71%) Multi-touch
8 1 (0.71%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.71%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.84%) Linux
1 4 (2.84%) Windows
2 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (56.74%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (41.13%) Analytics
3 51 (36.17%) Validation
4 47 (33.33%) Data Analysis
5 42 (29.79%) Business Intelligence
6 41 (29.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 39 (27.66%) ETL
8 38 (26.95%) Decision-Making
9 36 (25.53%) Data Analytics
10 31 (21.99%) Data Management
11 29 (20.57%) Actionable Insight
12 27 (19.15%) ERP
12 27 (19.15%) Process Improvement
13 26 (18.44%) AI
13 26 (18.44%) Migration
14 23 (16.31%) Dashboard Development
14 23 (16.31%) Data Migration
14 23 (16.31%) Data Transformation
14 23 (16.31%) Roadmaps
15 22 (15.60%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 93 (65.96%) SQL
2 51 (36.17%) Python
3 4 (2.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (2.84%) Java
3 4 (2.84%) R
4 3 (2.13%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.42%) C#
5 2 (1.42%) Formula Language
6 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (10.64%) Degree
2 6 (4.26%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.55%) ACCA
3 5 (3.55%) CIMA
4 4 (2.84%) CREST Certified
4 4 (2.84%) PhD
5 3 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (18.44%) Data Quality
2 14 (9.93%) QA
3 5 (3.55%) GDPR
4 4 (2.84%) FATCA
5 2 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (0.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.64%) Civica
2 15 (10.64%) Sage
3 6 (4.26%) Databricks
4 5 (3.55%) IBM
4 5 (3.55%) Oracle
5 4 (2.84%) SAP
5 4 (2.84%) SYSPRO
6 3 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.42%) Google
8 1 (0.71%) Aderant
8 1 (0.71%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.71%) Braze
8 1 (0.71%) IFS
8 1 (0.71%) Workday