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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 42 38
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 69 42 30
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.23% 5.71% 4.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.40% 6.24% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 27 24
10th Percentile £320 £287 £352
25th Percentile £402 £341 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £420 £436
Median % change year-on-year +21.19% -3.56% -12.90%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £475
90th Percentile £600 - £488
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
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 933 673 623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.21% 91.44% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 418 441
10th Percentile £268 £300 £259
25th Percentile £363 £363 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £574 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £588 £650
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -0.54% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 20 12
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.01 £15.19
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.11
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.64 £21.92
Median % change year-on-year +87.79% -14.98% +51.19%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.42 £48.66
90th Percentile £77.50 £29.34 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £17.36 £20.00 £18.69
% change year-on-year -13.20% +7.02% +5.46%

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 31 August 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 4 (5.80%) Apache
1 4 (5.80%) Apache Spark
1 4 (5.80%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) Alfresco
2 2 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.45%) SAP ECC
1 1 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.45%) Sonata
1 1 (1.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (24.64%) Power Platform
2 14 (20.29%) Snowflake
3 10 (14.49%) Azure
4 6 (8.70%) AWS
5 4 (5.80%) Collibra
6 3 (4.35%) GCP
7 2 (2.90%) GitHub
7 2 (2.90%) SaaS
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.45%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.45%) dbt
8 1 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.45%) Serverless
8 1 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (27.54%) Metadata
2 16 (23.19%) Power BI
3 15 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (17.39%) Relational Database
5 10 (14.49%) Snowflake Schema
6 9 (13.04%) Data Vault
6 9 (13.04%) SQL Server
7 8 (11.59%) Tableau
8 7 (10.14%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (8.70%) Data Lake
9 6 (8.70%) MySQL
10 5 (7.25%) NoSQL
10 5 (7.25%) Oracle Database
10 5 (7.25%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (5.80%) Big Data
12 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (4.35%) Star Schema
13 2 (2.90%) DataStage
13 2 (2.90%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 13 (18.84%) Git
2 4 (5.80%) ER Studio
2 4 (5.80%) ERwin
2 4 (5.80%) JIRA
2 4 (5.80%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (4.35%) GitLab
3 3 (4.35%) Subversion
4 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.90%) PVCS
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.45%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (1.45%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.45%) tSQLt
General
1 38 (55.07%) Finance
2 26 (37.68%) Social Skills
3 18 (26.09%) Banking
4 14 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (15.94%) Investment Banking
6 6 (8.70%) Aviation
7 5 (7.25%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.45%) Law
9 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.45%) Retail
9 1 (1.45%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.45%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (27.54%) Data Modeller
2 12 (17.39%) Developer
3 10 (14.49%) Data Engineer
4 9 (13.04%) Analyst
5 7 (10.14%) Senior
6 6 (8.70%) Data Analyst
6 6 (8.70%) Site Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Lead
7 5 (7.25%) Oracle Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Architect
9 3 (4.35%) Business Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) Lead Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 2 (2.90%) Data Integration Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Integration Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) ITSM Analyst
10 2 (2.90%) Python Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.70%) PySpark
2 5 (7.25%) REST
2 5 (7.25%) RESTful
3 4 (5.80%) JSON
3 4 (5.80%) Kafka
3 4 (5.80%) Streamlit
4 3 (4.35%) FastAPI
4 3 (4.35%) pydantic
4 3 (4.35%) Spring
4 3 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.35%) YAML
5 2 (2.90%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (1.45%) boto
6 1 (1.45%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.45%) LESS
6 1 (1.45%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.45%) React
6 1 (1.45%) Sass
6 1 (1.45%) Swagger
6 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.59%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.90%) Derivative
5 2 (2.90%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.45%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.45%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.45%) IoT
6 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.45%) Replication
6 1 (1.45%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.59%) Linux
2 7 (10.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (40.58%) Analytics
2 27 (39.13%) Agile
3 23 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 21 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (27.54%) Data Governance
6 17 (24.64%) Validation
7 16 (23.19%) CI/CD
8 15 (21.74%) AI
9 14 (20.29%) Data Transformation
9 14 (20.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (17.39%) Dimensional Modelling
10 12 (17.39%) Logical Data Model
10 12 (17.39%) Physical Data Model
11 11 (15.94%) DevOps
11 11 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (15.94%) Translating Business Requirements
12 10 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (14.49%) Data Engineering
12 10 (14.49%) Observability
12 10 (14.49%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 34 (49.28%) SQL
2 28 (40.58%) Python
3 7 (10.14%) Java
4 5 (7.25%) PL/SQL
5 3 (4.35%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.90%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.90%) Scala
7 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.35%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.90%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (31.88%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.70%) QA
3 4 (5.80%) GDPR
4 3 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.45%) GRC
5 1 (1.45%) MiFID
5 1 (1.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.90%) Grafana
3 1 (1.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (23.19%) Oracle
2 10 (14.49%) Microsoft
3 9 (13.04%) Databricks
4 5 (7.25%) Informatica
5 4 (5.80%) Talend
6 2 (2.90%) Google
6 2 (2.90%) SAP
7 1 (1.45%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.45%) FNZ
7 1 (1.45%) GoldenSource
7 1 (1.45%) Greenplum
7 1 (1.45%) IBM
7 1 (1.45%) Sparx
7 1 (1.45%) Workday