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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 484 670
Rank change year-on-year -102 +186 +198
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 92 179 166
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.41% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.44% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 58 98 127
10th Percentile £35,575 £25,000 £38,995
25th Percentile £42,750 £25,313 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -25.00% +19.43%
75th Percentile £67,125 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,625 £80,000 £79,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £25,625 £60,000
% change year-on-year +119.51% -57.29% +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 56,972 41,045 73,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.05% 93.61% 87.51%
Number of salaries quoted 34,330 22,188 55,854
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%
75th Percentile £77,419 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -90 84 £57,500 +27.78% 62
UK excluding London -74 50 £56,250 +119.51% 47
London -17 36 £60,000 - 20
South East -7 16 £57,500 -17.86% 11
Work from Home -43 15 £55,000 +114.63% 28
Midlands -12 12 £41,000 -8.89% 8
West Midlands -1 10 £41,000 -8.89% 6
East of England 0 7 £75,000 +29.87% 4
North of England -58 7 £55,000 +114.63% 17
North West -13 5 £55,000 +114.63% 8
South West -30 5 £37,500 +46.34% 5
Scotland -31 3 £45,000 +77.78% 1
East Midlands -34 2 - - 2
Yorkshire -61 2 £42,500 +65.85% 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 12 (13.04%) Appian
2 1 (1.09%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (33.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Visualfiles
2 2 (2.17%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.17%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (44.57%) Power Platform
2 25 (27.17%) Azure
3 17 (18.48%) Power Automate
4 14 (15.22%) Anthropic Claude
4 14 (15.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (13.04%) AWS
5 12 (13.04%) Azure AI
6 6 (6.52%) Boomi
6 6 (6.52%) Matillion
7 5 (5.43%) AWS KMS
7 5 (5.43%) PowerApps
8 4 (4.35%) SaaS
9 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.26%) GCP
9 3 (3.26%) GitHub
10 2 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
11 1 (1.09%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (1.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.04%) Intranet
2 3 (3.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (44.57%) Power BI
2 24 (26.09%) SQL Server
3 15 (16.30%) Relational Database
4 12 (13.04%) Pinecone
5 11 (11.96%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (8.70%) Power Query
6 8 (8.70%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (6.52%) Pentaho
7 6 (6.52%) Tableau
8 5 (5.43%) Star Schema
9 2 (2.17%) Big Data
9 2 (2.17%) SAP BW
9 2 (2.17%) SAP Data Services
9 2 (2.17%) SAP HANA
9 2 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.09%) Looker
10 1 (1.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (1.09%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 13 (14.13%) MLflow
2 3 (3.26%) Selenium
3 2 (2.17%) Claude Code
3 2 (2.17%) JIRA
3 2 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.09%) Git
4 1 (1.09%) GitLab
4 1 (1.09%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 54 (58.70%) Social Skills
2 48 (52.17%) Finance
3 39 (42.39%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (14.13%) Manufacturing
5 12 (13.04%) Law
6 9 (9.78%) Public Sector
7 8 (8.70%) Legal
8 6 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (4.35%) Retail
10 3 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.09%) Advertising
12 1 (1.09%) Banking
12 1 (1.09%) Marketing
12 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (36.96%) Analyst
2 22 (23.91%) Data Analyst
3 16 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 12 (13.04%) Automation Engineer
4 12 (13.04%) Report Analyst
5 9 (9.78%) Senior
6 8 (8.70%) Developer
7 7 (7.61%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (5.43%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 5 (5.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Consultant
9 4 (4.35%) Insight Analyst
10 3 (3.26%) Business Developer
10 3 (3.26%) Data Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Lead
10 3 (3.26%) Legal Analyst
10 3 (3.26%) Power BI Developer
10 3 (3.26%) Support Analyst
10 3 (3.26%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.13%) PyTorch
1 13 (14.13%) TensorFlow
2 12 (13.04%) Django
2 12 (13.04%) Faiss
2 12 (13.04%) FastAPI
2 12 (13.04%) Flask
2 12 (13.04%) Hugging Face
2 12 (13.04%) JWT
2 12 (13.04%) NumPy
2 12 (13.04%) OAuth
2 12 (13.04%) OpenAPI
2 12 (13.04%) Pandas
2 12 (13.04%) pytest
2 12 (13.04%) REST
2 12 (13.04%) RESTful
2 12 (13.04%) scikit-learn
2 12 (13.04%) Swagger
2 12 (13.04%) Web Services
3 9 (9.78%) PySpark
4 3 (3.26%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.22%) Legacy Systems
1 14 (15.22%) Low-Code
2 8 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 8 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.52%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.43%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.17%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.09%) Blog
6 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.09%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.09%) Podcast
6 1 (1.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.09%) Linux
1 1 (1.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (48.91%) Business Intelligence
2 38 (41.30%) Analytics
3 37 (40.22%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (33.70%) ETL
5 29 (31.52%) Data Engineering
6 27 (29.35%) Data Modelling
7 25 (27.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (25.00%) AI
9 22 (23.91%) Validation
10 21 (22.83%) Workflow
11 20 (21.74%) Decision-Making
12 18 (19.57%) Actionable Insight
12 18 (19.57%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (18.48%) Data Cleansing
14 16 (17.39%) Data Analysis
14 16 (17.39%) Data Validation
14 16 (17.39%) Generative AI
14 16 (17.39%) LLM
14 16 (17.39%) Machine Learning
14 16 (17.39%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 73 (79.35%) SQL
2 37 (40.22%) Python
3 6 (6.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.26%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.26%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.17%) C
6 1 (1.09%) ABAP
6 1 (1.09%) C++
6 1 (1.09%) PROC SQL
6 1 (1.09%) SAS Macro
6 1 (1.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (16.30%) Degree
2 13 (14.13%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.26%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.17%) PhD
6 1 (1.09%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.09%) PMP
6 1 (1.09%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (45.65%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.70%) GDPR
3 5 (5.43%) HIPAA
3 5 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.43%) NIST
3 5 (5.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.17%) QA
5 1 (1.09%) P3O
5 1 (1.09%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (14.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (14.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.13%) OpenAI
3 12 (13.04%) Automation Anywhere
3 12 (13.04%) UiPath
4 8 (8.70%) SAP
5 7 (7.61%) Informatica
5 7 (7.61%) Talend
6 6 (6.52%) Databricks
6 6 (6.52%) MuleSoft
7 5 (5.43%) Google
7 5 (5.43%) Oracle
8 3 (3.26%) Alteryx
8 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.26%) Teradata
9 1 (1.09%) Cognos
9 1 (1.09%) IFS
9 1 (1.09%) Intapp
9 1 (1.09%) Salesforce