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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 450 742
Rank change year-on-year -169 +292 +92
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 96 199 154
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.47% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.51% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 62 107 127
10th Percentile £40,575 £25,000 £39,325
25th Percentile £51,563 £25,313 £45,785
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -20.83% +19.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £144,750 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £39,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +47.44% -35.00% +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 66,454 39,098 81,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.05% 92.85% 85.76%
Number of salaries quoted 41,096 22,768 59,613
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.90%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -132 88 £60,000 +11.63% 37
UK excluding London -135 54 £57,500 +47.44% 29
London -47 33 £110,000 +57.14% 17
Midlands -38 16 £44,000 +0.57% 10
South East -49 16 £57,500 -17.86% 10
Work from Home -80 15 £60,000 +134.15% 35
West Midlands -21 12 £44,000 +17.33% 9
East of England -25 9 £75,000 +29.87% 4
North of England -76 9 £55,000 +37.50% 2
North West -44 5 £55,000 +10.00% 2
East Midlands -57 4 - - 1
South West -69 3 £30,000 +17.07% 2
Yorkshire -82 2 £42,500 +65.85%
North East - 2 £65,000 -
Scotland -39 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 12 (12.50%) Appian
2 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.04%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.04%) SAS
2 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (29.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (2.08%) Visualfiles
2 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.04%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 33 (34.38%) Power Platform
2 19 (19.79%) Anthropic Claude
2 19 (19.79%) Azure
3 16 (16.67%) Power Automate
4 13 (13.54%) AWS
5 12 (12.50%) Azure AI
5 12 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (8.33%) GitHub
7 7 (7.29%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (6.25%) Boomi
8 6 (6.25%) Matillion
9 5 (5.21%) AWS KMS
9 5 (5.21%) PowerApps
10 4 (4.17%) GCP
11 3 (3.13%) SaaS
11 3 (3.13%) Snowflake
12 1 (1.04%) Amazon MSK
12 1 (1.04%) Collibra
12 1 (1.04%) dbt
12 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.46%) Intranet
2 4 (4.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (34.38%) Power BI
2 22 (22.92%) SQL Server
3 13 (13.54%) Relational Database
4 12 (12.50%) Pinecone
5 10 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (6.25%) Pentaho
6 6 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (5.21%) Power Query
7 5 (5.21%) Star Schema
7 5 (5.21%) Tableau
8 3 (3.13%) SAP BW
9 2 (2.08%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.08%) Metadata
9 2 (2.08%) SAP HANA
9 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.04%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.04%) Flink
10 1 (1.04%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 13 (13.54%) MLflow
2 8 (8.33%) Selenium
3 7 (7.29%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.08%) JIRA
4 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.04%) GitLab
General
1 51 (53.13%) Social Skills
2 50 (52.08%) Finance
3 36 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.58%) Law
4 14 (14.58%) Manufacturing
5 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.21%) Banking
6 5 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.17%) Retail
8 3 (3.13%) Legal
8 3 (3.13%) Marketing
9 2 (2.08%) Advertising
9 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Arabic Language
10 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.04%) French Language
10 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (30.21%) Analyst
2 22 (22.92%) Data Analyst
3 21 (21.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 13 (13.54%) Senior
5 12 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Report Analyst
7 8 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (8.33%) Web Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Developer
9 6 (6.25%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Lead
10 5 (5.21%) Senior Data Analyst
11 4 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 4 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 4 (4.17%) Data Engineer
12 3 (3.13%) Administrator
12 3 (3.13%) Business Developer
12 3 (3.13%) Database Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.54%) PyTorch
1 13 (13.54%) REST
1 13 (13.54%) TensorFlow
2 12 (12.50%) Django
2 12 (12.50%) Faiss
2 12 (12.50%) FastAPI
2 12 (12.50%) Flask
2 12 (12.50%) Hugging Face
2 12 (12.50%) JWT
2 12 (12.50%) NumPy
2 12 (12.50%) OAuth
2 12 (12.50%) OpenAPI
2 12 (12.50%) Pandas
2 12 (12.50%) pytest
2 12 (12.50%) RESTful
2 12 (12.50%) scikit-learn
2 12 (12.50%) Swagger
2 12 (12.50%) Web Services
3 8 (8.33%) HTML
3 8 (8.33%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.58%) Legacy Systems
1 14 (14.58%) Low-Code
2 8 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.08%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.04%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.04%) Blog
6 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.04%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.04%) Podcast
6 1 (1.04%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.04%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (40.63%) Analytics
2 35 (36.46%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (34.38%) AI
5 30 (31.25%) ETL
6 29 (30.21%) Data Engineering
7 25 (26.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (26.04%) Validation
8 24 (25.00%) Data Modelling
9 22 (22.92%) Task Automation
9 22 (22.92%) Workflow
10 20 (20.83%) Generative AI
11 19 (19.79%) Open Source
12 16 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
12 16 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (16.67%) Decision-Making
12 16 (16.67%) Machine Learning
12 16 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
12 16 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (15.63%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 71 (73.96%) SQL
2 53 (55.21%) Python
3 4 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.13%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.04%) ABAP
5 1 (1.04%) C
5 1 (1.04%) C#
5 1 (1.04%) PROC SQL
5 1 (1.04%) SAS Macro
5 1 (1.04%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (16.67%) Degree
2 11 (11.46%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.29%) PhD
5 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.08%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.04%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (46.88%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.29%) GDPR
3 5 (5.21%) HIPAA
3 5 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.21%) NIST
3 5 (5.21%) QA
3 5 (5.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (14.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (14.58%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (26.04%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.54%) OpenAI
3 12 (12.50%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (12.50%) UiPath
4 7 (7.29%) Informatica
4 7 (7.29%) Talend
5 6 (6.25%) Google
5 6 (6.25%) MuleSoft
6 5 (5.21%) Databricks
7 3 (3.13%) IFS
7 3 (3.13%) SAP
8 2 (2.08%) Oracle
8 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.04%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.04%) Intapp
9 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.04%) Teradata