Data Modelling Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Data Modelling
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 61 56
Rank change year-on-year +38 -5 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 50 17 20
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.53% 2.32% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.74% 2.54% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 12 18
10th Percentile £375 £166 -
25th Percentile £408 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £421 £445
Median % change year-on-year +18.87% -5.53% -10.73%
75th Percentile £566 £469 £513
90th Percentile £656 £567 £595
Scotland median daily rate £500 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £19.59 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £19.59 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 572 669 783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.14% 91.39% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 408 509
10th Percentile £300 £311 £349
25th Percentile £400 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -10.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £625
90th Percentile £633 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 17
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.75 £14.05
25th Percentile £16.09 £18.77 -
Median hourly rate £23.75 £24.17 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +51.03% -46.16%
75th Percentile £52.50 £40.50 £19.50
90th Percentile £61.74 £58.71 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £18.41
% change year-on-year -15.22% +28.14% -1.15%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Modelling relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Data Modelling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in Glasgow over the 6 months to 16 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Modelling in Glasgow

Data Modelling
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Data Modelling.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (14.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (12.00%) Apache
2 6 (12.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.00%) Snowflake
2 11 (22.00%) AWS
2 11 (22.00%) Azure
3 8 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (10.00%) GCP
5 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.00%) Serverless
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (4.00%) dbt
7 2 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.00%) Collibra
8 1 (2.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (22.00%) Metadata
2 11 (22.00%) Relational Database
3 8 (16.00%) Big Data
3 8 (16.00%) Data Lake
3 8 (16.00%) Power BI
4 6 (12.00%) Hadoop
4 6 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (8.00%) BigQuery
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (6.00%) NoSQL
6 3 (6.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (2.00%) Data Vault
8 1 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (6.00%) ERwin
2 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.00%) JIRA
3 1 (2.00%) PowerDesigner
General
1 29 (58.00%) Finance
2 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (16.00%) Banking
5 7 (14.00%) Investment Banking
6 5 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (4.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (32.00%) Analyst
2 14 (28.00%) Data Analyst
2 14 (28.00%) Data Modeller
3 11 (22.00%) Data Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Architect
5 5 (10.00%) Data Architect
5 5 (10.00%) Python Data Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Python Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) AWS Architect
6 3 (6.00%) AWS Data Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) DBA
6 3 (6.00%) Senior
6 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Ab Initio Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Salesforce Architect
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Ab Initio Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) REST
2 4 (8.00%) RESTful
3 3 (6.00%) JSON
3 3 (6.00%) Node.js
3 3 (6.00%) PySpark
3 3 (6.00%) XML
4 2 (4.00%) Kafka
4 2 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.00%) SOAP
5 1 (2.00%) NumPy
5 1 (2.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) CMDB
2 6 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (12.00%) Virtual Team
3 5 (10.00%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.00%) Replication
5 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.00%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Linux
2 5 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.00%) Agile
2 18 (36.00%) ETL
3 16 (32.00%) Data Lineage
3 16 (32.00%) Visualisation
4 15 (30.00%) Analytics
4 15 (30.00%) Data Architecture
5 13 (26.00%) Data Governance
5 13 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (24.00%) Data Integration
7 10 (20.00%) Data Management
7 10 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (18.00%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (18.00%) Conceptual Models
8 9 (18.00%) Data Visualisation
8 9 (18.00%) DevOps
8 9 (18.00%) Metadata Management
9 8 (16.00%) API Integration
10 7 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (14.00%) Logical Data Model
10 7 (14.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 28 (56.00%) SQL
2 19 (38.00%) Python
3 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.00%) GDPR
2 2 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (2.00%) Basel III
3 1 (2.00%) COREP
3 1 (2.00%) FINREP
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) Ansible
1 3 (6.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) ServiceNow
2 13 (26.00%) Databricks
3 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.00%) Oracle
5 4 (8.00%) Teradata
6 3 (6.00%) Google
6 3 (6.00%) Greenplum
6 3 (6.00%) Informatica
6 3 (6.00%) Talend
7 2 (4.00%) Ab Initio
7 2 (4.00%) IBM
7 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.00%) Cloudera
8 1 (2.00%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (2.00%) Sparx