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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 53 45
Rank change year-on-year +27 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 60 29 29
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 7.88% 3.77% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.43% 4.03% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 18 19
10th Percentile £341 £266 £373
25th Percentile £371 £300 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £408 £436
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% -6.54% -20.73%
75th Percentile £581 £484 £490
90th Percentile £672 £538 £590
Scotland median daily rate £488 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -10.00% -5.66%

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 636 719 786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.57% 93.50% 92.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 452 502
10th Percentile £310 £308 £275
25th Percentile £368 £394 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% -2.21% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £451 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.59% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 38
10th Percentile £16.13 £16.75 £12.11
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.79 £16.00
Median hourly rate £23.71 £19.83 £27.88
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% -28.87% +95.63%
75th Percentile £56.40 £45.08 £50.55
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.24 £66.25
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.34
% change year-on-year -4.49% +8.30% +17.18%

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 10 May 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 8 (13.33%) Apache Spark
2 6 (10.00%) Confluence
3 3 (5.00%) Apache
4 2 (3.33%) Alfresco
4 2 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) SAP ECC
1 2 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.33%) Azure
2 13 (21.67%) Snowflake
3 10 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 8 (13.33%) AWS
5 7 (11.67%) Collibra
6 6 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (6.67%) GCP
8 3 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon Neptune
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (30.00%) Metadata
2 10 (16.67%) Power BI
3 9 (15.00%) Big Data
3 9 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (15.00%) Relational Database
3 9 (15.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 7 (11.67%) Data Vault
4 7 (11.67%) NoSQL
4 7 (11.67%) SQL Server
5 6 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (10.00%) Hadoop
5 6 (10.00%) MySQL
6 5 (8.33%) Tableau
7 4 (6.67%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
8 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
8 2 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) Git
2 6 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (1.67%) GitLab
3 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (46.67%) Finance
2 15 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (21.67%) Banking
4 8 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 6 (10.00%) Aviation
6 5 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Marketing
9 1 (1.67%) Billing
9 1 (1.67%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (31.67%) Data Modeller
2 10 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) Architect
4 7 (11.67%) Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Site Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Data Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Data Architect
6 5 (8.33%) Scrum Master
7 3 (5.00%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) DBA
7 3 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
8 2 (3.33%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Data Integration Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Finance Modeller
8 2 (3.33%) Integration Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) ITSM Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Senior
9 1 (1.67%) Financial Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) PySpark
1 5 (8.33%) REST
2 4 (6.67%) Kafka
3 3 (5.00%) JSON
3 3 (5.00%) Spring
3 3 (5.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (5.00%) Streamlit
3 3 (5.00%) XML
4 2 (3.33%) OAuth
4 2 (3.33%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.33%) RESTful
4 2 (3.33%) SOAP
4 2 (3.33%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.67%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.67%) JPA
5 1 (1.67%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 10 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 6 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (10.00%) Reference Data
4 5 (8.33%) Virtual Team
5 4 (6.67%) Data Structures
5 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
6 3 (5.00%) Replication
7 2 (3.33%) CMDB
7 2 (3.33%) W3C
8 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.67%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) Linux
2 6 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (43.33%) Analytics
2 25 (41.67%) Agile
3 19 (31.67%) ETL
4 17 (28.33%) CI/CD
4 17 (28.33%) Data Architecture
4 17 (28.33%) Data Pipeline
5 14 (23.33%) DevOps
5 14 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (21.67%) Data Engineering
6 13 (21.67%) Data Ingestion
6 13 (21.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (21.67%) Validation
7 12 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 12 (20.00%) Data Transformation
7 12 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
7 12 (20.00%) Observability
7 12 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (18.33%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (18.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.33%) Python
2 19 (31.67%) SQL
3 3 (5.00%) Java
4 2 (3.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.33%) Degree
1 5 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (13.33%) GDPR
3 7 (11.67%) QA
4 2 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Grafana
2 3 (5.00%) Ansible
2 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Oracle
2 8 (13.33%) Databricks
2 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.33%) Informatica
3 5 (8.33%) Talend
4 3 (5.00%) Google
4 3 (5.00%) Greenplum
4 3 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.33%) SAP
6 1 (1.67%) IBM
6 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud