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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 666 551 706
Rank change year-on-year -115 +155 -6
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 106 136 126
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.28% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.31% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 64 73 84
10th Percentile £42,378 £29,000 £39,677
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,000 £43,627
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -2.65% +12.46%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,313
90th Percentile £144,250 £80,000 £81,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% +10.00%

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 74,528 44,262 72,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.71% 89.78% 81.61%
Number of salaries quoted 51,427 25,101 49,118
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -102 99 £57,500 - 53
UK excluding London -91 76 £52,500 +10.53% 37
Midlands -10 41 £52,500 +68.00% 8
Work from Home -21 40 £60,000 +26.32% 21
East Midlands -12 24 £57,500 +15.00% 3
London -50 22 £130,000 +114.88% 26
West Midlands -15 17 £52,500 +75.00% 5
South East -40 15 £47,500 -17.39% 7
South West -61 8 £25,000 -2.44% 4
North of England -50 7 £65,000 -7.14% 15
North West -3 4 £56,250 -19.64% 5
East of England -14 4 £85,000 +16.44% 1
North East - 3 £65,000 - 3
Scotland +7 1 - - 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 4 (3.77%) Confluence
1 4 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.94%) Appian
2 1 (0.94%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.94%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (14.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.60%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.94%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 29 (27.36%) Power Platform
2 10 (9.43%) AWS
2 10 (9.43%) SaaS
3 9 (8.49%) Azure
4 8 (7.55%) Anthropic Claude
4 8 (7.55%) GitHub
5 7 (6.60%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (4.72%) GCP
6 5 (4.72%) Power Automate
6 5 (4.72%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon MSK
8 3 (2.83%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.89%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.89%) Lucidchart
10 1 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.94%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.72%) HTTP
2 2 (1.89%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (27.36%) Power BI
2 8 (7.55%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.72%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.77%) Data Mining
4 4 (3.77%) Tableau
5 3 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.83%) Power Query
5 3 (2.83%) SAP BW
6 2 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.89%) MySQL
6 2 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.89%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.94%) Big Data
7 1 (0.94%) Metadata
7 1 (0.94%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.94%) QGIS
7 1 (0.94%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (7.55%) Selenium
2 7 (6.60%) Claude Code
3 4 (3.77%) JIRA
4 2 (1.89%) MLflow
5 1 (0.94%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.94%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.94%) GitLab
5 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.94%) JUnit
General
1 47 (44.34%) Analytical Skills
1 47 (44.34%) Finance
2 35 (33.02%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.38%) Manufacturing
4 8 (7.55%) Law
5 7 (6.60%) Banking
5 7 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.77%) Advertising
6 4 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Marketing
7 3 (2.83%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Publishing
8 2 (1.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.94%) Arabic Language
9 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.94%) French Language
9 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (37.74%) Analyst
2 28 (26.42%) Senior
3 24 (22.64%) Data Analyst
4 20 (18.87%) Senior Analyst
5 18 (16.98%) Senior Data Analyst
6 13 (12.26%) Lead
7 9 (8.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (7.55%) Support Analyst
8 8 (7.55%) Web Engineer
9 7 (6.60%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Consultant
10 6 (5.66%) Python Engineer
10 6 (5.66%) Technical Leader
11 5 (4.72%) Data Engineer
11 5 (4.72%) Developer
11 5 (4.72%) Lead Data Analyst
12 4 (3.77%) Business Analyst
12 4 (3.77%) Support Assistant
13 3 (2.83%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 3 (2.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.55%) HTML
1 8 (7.55%) Playwright
1 8 (7.55%) Puppeteer
2 6 (5.66%) REST
3 4 (3.77%) DOM
3 4 (3.77%) JSON
3 4 (3.77%) XML
4 3 (2.83%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.83%) EDI
4 3 (2.83%) Middleware
4 3 (2.83%) RESTful
5 2 (1.89%) .NET
5 2 (1.89%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.89%) Kafka
5 2 (1.89%) OAuth
6 1 (0.94%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.94%) Django
6 1 (0.94%) NumPy
6 1 (0.94%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.94%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.21%) Data Structures
2 7 (6.60%) Virtual Team
3 5 (4.72%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.72%) 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%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.94%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.94%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (55.66%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (45.28%) Analytics
3 33 (31.13%) Decision-Making
4 31 (29.25%) Validation
5 30 (28.30%) Actionable Insight
5 30 (28.30%) Business Intelligence
6 29 (27.36%) Data Management
7 27 (25.47%) Data Analysis
7 27 (25.47%) Data Analytics
8 26 (24.53%) AI
8 26 (24.53%) ETL
9 24 (22.64%) Data Transformation
10 23 (21.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 22 (20.75%) Roadmaps
11 22 (20.75%) Strategic Thinking
12 19 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (17.92%) Trend Analysis
13 14 (13.21%) Data Engineering
14 13 (12.26%) Data Governance
14 13 (12.26%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 80 (75.47%) SQL
2 54 (50.94%) Python
3 4 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (3.77%) Java
3 4 (3.77%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.83%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.89%) C#
5 2 (1.89%) Formula Language
6 1 (0.94%) ABAP
6 1 (0.94%) PROC SQL
6 1 (0.94%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 11 (10.38%) Degree
2 7 (6.60%) PhD
3 4 (3.77%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.83%) 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 23 (21.70%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.72%) QA
3 4 (3.77%) GDPR
4 1 (0.94%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.94%) NIST
4 1 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.66%) Google
3 5 (4.72%) SAP
4 3 (2.83%) Databricks
4 3 (2.83%) IFS
4 3 (2.83%) SYSPRO
5 2 (1.89%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.94%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.94%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (0.94%) Informatica
6 1 (0.94%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.94%) Oracle
6 1 (0.94%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.94%) Talend
6 1 (0.94%) Teradata
6 1 (0.94%) UiPath
6 1 (0.94%) Workday