Physical Data Model Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Physical Data Model
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Physical Data Model skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 69 78
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 +32
Contract jobs citing Physical Data Model 11 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.83% 0.16% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 0.18% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £424 - -
25th Percentile £450 £604 £698
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £608 £715
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% -14.97% +36.19%
75th Percentile £625 £612 £733
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £550 £608 £723
% change year-on-year -9.54% -15.85% +37.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £64.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £64.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Physical Data Model 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 540 569 834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.85% 93.59% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 311 500
10th Percentile £190 £195 £220
25th Percentile £406 £389 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £638 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £487
% change year-on-year +2.78% -7.60% +2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 27 24
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.30 £14.10
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.02 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.50 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.29% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £70.50 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £30.74 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +10.05%

Physical Data Model
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Physical Data Model relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Physical Data Model job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Physical Data Model
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Physical Data Model.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Physical Data Model

Physical Data Model
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Physical Data Model in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Physical Data Model in Edinburgh

Physical Data Model
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Snowflake
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (9.09%) Dataform
4 1 (9.09%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
3 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (27.27%) IBM InfoSphere
4 2 (18.18%) Big Data
4 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
4 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
4 2 (18.18%) Metadata
4 2 (18.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) ERwin
2 4 (36.36%) ER Studio
General
1 8 (72.73%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Data Modeller
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Data Architect
3 1 (9.09%) ETL Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 11 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
2 9 (81.82%) Data Architecture
3 6 (54.55%) Data Governance
3 6 (54.55%) UML
4 5 (45.45%) Agile
5 4 (36.36%) Asset Management
5 4 (36.36%) Coaching
5 4 (36.36%) Data Strategy
6 3 (27.27%) Analytics
6 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (27.27%) ETL
7 2 (18.18%) AI
7 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
7 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
7 2 (18.18%) Data Management
7 2 (18.18%) Data Science
7 2 (18.18%) Data Security
7 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (18.18%) SysML
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) IBM
3 2 (18.18%) Informatica
3 2 (18.18%) Talend
4 1 (9.09%) Databricks
4 1 (9.09%) Google