Data Modelling Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Modelling
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Modelling over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 52 81
Rank change year-on-year +13 +29 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 26 20 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.08% 2.29% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 2.74% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 18
10th Percentile £448 £485 £363
25th Percentile £456 £497 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% -9.05%
75th Percentile £525 £544 £710
90th Percentile £532 £550 £825
Scotland median daily rate £428 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -12.07% -2.65% -5.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data Modelling falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 609 731 1,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.60% 83.73% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 420 774
10th Percentile £226 £213 £243
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £467 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -1.63% -2.06%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £612
Scotland median daily rate £463 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +1.59% -4.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 31 6
10th Percentile £17.23 £13.25 £17.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.38 £21.36
Median hourly rate £22.00 £24.18 £32.09
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% -24.64% +23.40%
75th Percentile £29.86 £60.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £60.50 - £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.57 £16.25
% change year-on-year -2.77% +26.62% -56.60%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Data Modelling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Data Modelling in Edinburgh

Data Modelling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Modelling in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Data Modelling in Edinburgh

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Modelling in Edinburgh

Data Modelling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Modelling in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Data Modelling in Edinburgh

Data Modelling
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (19.23%) Confluence
2 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
3 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (11.54%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) GCP
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
4 3 (11.54%) AWS
4 3 (11.54%) OCI
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.85%) Collibra
6 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.85%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Internet
1 1 (3.85%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (19.23%) BigQuery
2 5 (19.23%) Power BI
2 5 (19.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (15.38%) Tableau
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (11.54%) Metadata
4 3 (11.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (11.54%) Star Schema
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (7.69%) Looker
5 2 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (7.69%) PowerCenter
5 2 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.85%) Data Mining
6 1 (3.85%) MS Access
6 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) ER Studio
1 5 (19.23%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 16 (61.54%) Finance
2 14 (53.85%) Social Skills
3 11 (42.31%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (26.92%) Banking
5 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
6 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (7.69%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.85%) Back Office
7 1 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.85%) Digital Health
7 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.85%) Publishing
7 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Analyst
2 10 (38.46%) Data Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Data Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Senior
5 3 (11.54%) Business Data Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Data Modeller
5 3 (11.54%) ETL Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Re-Platforming Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Data Modeller
5 3 (11.54%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Migration Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Migration Specialist
7 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL Specialist
7 1 (3.85%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Kafka
2 1 (3.85%) EDI
2 1 (3.85%) Middleware
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.85%) REST
2 1 (3.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (15.38%) Data Structures
3 3 (11.54%) Derivative
4 2 (7.69%) Equities
4 2 (7.69%) Fixed Income
4 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.85%) CMDB
5 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.85%) Replication
5 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (3.85%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Agile
2 11 (42.31%) Data Analysis
2 11 (42.31%) Migration
3 9 (34.62%) Data Governance
4 8 (30.77%) Data Integration
4 8 (30.77%) Data Transformation
5 7 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (26.92%) Data Architecture
5 7 (26.92%) DevOps
6 6 (23.08%) ETL
6 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (19.23%) Business Analysis
7 5 (19.23%) Data Migration
7 5 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (19.23%) Data Strategy
7 5 (19.23%) Logical Data Model
7 5 (19.23%) Physical Data Model
7 5 (19.23%) Task Automation
7 5 (19.23%) Translating Business Requirements
7 5 (19.23%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) SQL
2 8 (30.77%) Python
3 5 (19.23%) Shell Script
4 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.85%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.85%) PMP
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) Data Quality
1 5 (19.23%) Disclosure Scotland
1 5 (19.23%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Google
3 4 (15.38%) Oracle
4 2 (7.69%) Bloomberg
4 2 (7.69%) Informatica
4 2 (7.69%) Reuters
4 2 (7.69%) Teradata
5 1 (3.85%) Alteryx
5 1 (3.85%) Databricks
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.85%) TSYS