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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 488 744
Rank change year-on-year -148 +256 +18
Permanent jobs citing Data Extraction 107 180 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.40% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.43% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 64 106 118
10th Percentile £37,944 £25,000 £39,325
25th Percentile £46,250 £25,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £42,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.24% -29.17% +19.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £144,250 £80,000 £77,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £30,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +75.00% -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 68,493 41,477 89,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 92.48% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,109 22,216 63,180
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
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 19 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 19 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 -117 101 £57,500 +15.00% 49
UK excluding London -114 72 £52,500 +75.00% 39
Work from Home -37 38 £60,000 +134.15% 16
Midlands 0 36 £52,500 +75.00% 9
London -48 28 £130,000 +100.00% 20
East Midlands -7 22 £43,173 -13.65% 5
West Midlands -12 14 £52,500 +75.00% 4
South East -34 12 £52,500 -16.00% 10
North of England -59 8 £60,000 +65.52% 11
South West -64 8 £25,000 -2.44% 5
East of England -12 7 £75,000 +2.74% 2
North West -6 6 £55,000 +22.22% 4
North East - 2 £65,000 - 4
Scotland -12 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 (6.54%) Appian
2 4 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.87%) Confluence
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.93%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (18.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (4.67%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.93%) Visualfiles
3 1 (0.93%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 29 (27.10%) Power Platform
2 14 (13.08%) Anthropic Claude
3 13 (12.15%) Azure
4 12 (11.21%) AWS
5 10 (9.35%) Power Automate
6 8 (7.48%) GitHub
7 7 (6.54%) Azure AI
7 7 (6.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (6.54%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (6.54%) SaaS
8 4 (3.74%) AWS KMS
8 4 (3.74%) Boomi
8 4 (3.74%) GCP
8 4 (3.74%) Matillion
8 4 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.74%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.80%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.87%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.87%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.87%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) HTTP
2 4 (3.74%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (27.10%) Power BI
2 12 (11.21%) SQL Server
3 11 (10.28%) Relational Database
4 8 (7.48%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (6.54%) Pinecone
6 5 (4.67%) Power Query
7 4 (3.74%) Data Mining
7 4 (3.74%) Pentaho
7 4 (3.74%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (3.74%) Star Schema
7 4 (3.74%) Tableau
8 3 (2.80%) SAP BW
9 2 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.87%) Metadata
9 2 (1.87%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.93%) Flink
10 1 (0.93%) QGIS
10 1 (0.93%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 8 (7.48%) MLflow
1 8 (7.48%) Selenium
2 7 (6.54%) Claude Code
3 2 (1.87%) JIRA
4 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.93%) GitLab
4 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.93%) JUnit
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 48 (44.86%) Analytical Skills
1 48 (44.86%) Finance
2 43 (40.19%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.28%) Law
4 9 (8.41%) Manufacturing
5 7 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.61%) Banking
7 4 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.80%) Marketing
9 2 (1.87%) Advertising
9 2 (1.87%) Legal
9 2 (1.87%) Publishing
10 1 (0.93%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) French Language
10 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (36.45%) Analyst
2 30 (28.04%) Data Analyst
3 25 (23.36%) Senior
4 18 (16.82%) Senior Analyst
4 18 (16.82%) Senior Data Analyst
5 15 (14.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 13 (12.15%) Lead
7 8 (7.48%) Web Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) Principal Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Python Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Technical Leader
10 5 (4.67%) Consultant
10 5 (4.67%) Lead Data Analyst
10 5 (4.67%) Support Analyst
11 4 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (3.74%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.74%) Developer
11 4 (3.74%) Support Assistant
12 3 (2.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.28%) REST
2 8 (7.48%) HTML
2 8 (7.48%) OAuth
2 8 (7.48%) Playwright
2 8 (7.48%) Puppeteer
2 8 (7.48%) RESTful
3 7 (6.54%) Django
3 7 (6.54%) Faiss
3 7 (6.54%) FastAPI
3 7 (6.54%) Flask
3 7 (6.54%) Hugging Face
3 7 (6.54%) JWT
3 7 (6.54%) NumPy
3 7 (6.54%) OpenAPI
3 7 (6.54%) Pandas
3 7 (6.54%) pytest
3 7 (6.54%) PyTorch
3 7 (6.54%) scikit-learn
3 7 (6.54%) Swagger
3 7 (6.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.21%) Data Structures
2 10 (9.35%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (6.54%) Low-Code
3 7 (6.54%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.67%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.74%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.87%) NHS
7 1 (0.93%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (53.27%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (44.86%) Analytics
3 34 (31.78%) Decision-Making
4 32 (29.91%) Validation
5 31 (28.97%) AI
5 31 (28.97%) Business Intelligence
5 31 (28.97%) ETL
6 30 (28.04%) Actionable Insight
7 28 (26.17%) Data Analysis
8 27 (25.23%) Data Transformation
9 26 (24.30%) Data Analytics
9 26 (24.30%) Data Management
10 22 (20.56%) Data Engineering
10 22 (20.56%) Strategic Thinking
11 21 (19.63%) Roadmaps
12 20 (18.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (15.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (15.89%) Data Modelling
13 17 (15.89%) Task Automation
13 17 (15.89%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 82 (76.64%) SQL
2 62 (57.94%) Python
3 4 (3.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (3.74%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.80%) Java
4 3 (2.80%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.87%) Formula Language
6 1 (0.93%) ABAP
6 1 (0.93%) C#
6 1 (0.93%) PROC SQL
6 1 (0.93%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 11 (10.28%) Degree
2 8 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) PhD
3 7 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.93%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (29.91%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.48%) GDPR
3 5 (4.67%) QA
4 4 (3.74%) HIPAA
4 4 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.74%) NIST
4 4 (3.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (8.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (9.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (18.69%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.48%) OpenAI
3 7 (6.54%) Automation Anywhere
3 7 (6.54%) UiPath
4 6 (5.61%) Google
5 5 (4.67%) Informatica
5 5 (4.67%) Talend
6 4 (3.74%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.74%) SAP
7 3 (2.80%) Databricks
7 3 (2.80%) IFS
8 2 (1.87%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle
9 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.93%) Teradata
9 1 (0.93%) Workday