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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 58 58
Rank change year-on-year +34 0 -15
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 61 27 23
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 8.16% 3.39% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.81% 3.62% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 16 14
10th Percentile £341 £284 £400
25th Percentile £371 £300 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £408 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% -14.21% -13.64%
75th Percentile £581 £478 £527
90th Percentile £672 £544 £597
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -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 622 746 807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.16% 93.60% 92.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 478 515
10th Percentile £308 £311 £275
25th Percentile £372 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £601 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 41
10th Percentile £16.12 £16.18 £12.38
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.33 £19.83 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.52% +10.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £40.94
90th Percentile £70.74 £76.83 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £21.59 £18.79
% change year-on-year -7.36% +14.90% +7.59%

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 2 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 (13.11%) Apache Spark
2 6 (9.84%) Confluence
3 3 (4.92%) Apache
4 2 (3.28%) Alfresco
4 2 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) SAP ECC
1 2 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.95%) Azure
2 13 (21.31%) Snowflake
3 10 (16.39%) Power Platform
4 8 (13.11%) AWS
5 7 (11.48%) Collibra
6 6 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.56%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (6.56%) GCP
8 3 (4.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon Neptune
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.28%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (3.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (27.87%) Metadata
2 10 (16.39%) Power BI
3 9 (14.75%) Big Data
3 9 (14.75%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (14.75%) Relational Database
4 8 (13.11%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (11.48%) NoSQL
5 7 (11.48%) SQL Server
6 6 (9.84%) Data Vault
6 6 (9.84%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (9.84%) Hadoop
6 6 (9.84%) MySQL
7 5 (8.20%) Tableau
8 4 (6.56%) Data Lake
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (3.28%) DynamoDB
9 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (3.28%) Flink
9 2 (3.28%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (18.03%) Git
2 6 (9.84%) JIRA
3 1 (1.64%) GitLab
3 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (45.90%) Finance
2 16 (26.23%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.67%) Banking
4 7 (11.48%) Investment Banking
5 5 (8.20%) Aviation
5 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.56%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.28%) Marketing
9 1 (1.64%) Billing
9 1 (1.64%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (31.15%) Data Modeller
2 10 (16.39%) Data Engineer
3 9 (14.75%) Architect
4 7 (11.48%) Analyst
5 6 (9.84%) Site Engineer
5 6 (9.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Data Analyst
6 5 (8.20%) Data Architect
6 5 (8.20%) Scrum Master
7 3 (4.92%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.92%) DBA
7 3 (4.92%) Salesforce Architect
8 2 (3.28%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Data Integration Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Finance Modeller
8 2 (3.28%) Integration Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) ITSM Analyst
8 2 (3.28%) Senior
9 1 (1.64%) Agile Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) PySpark
1 5 (8.20%) REST
2 4 (6.56%) Kafka
3 3 (4.92%) JSON
3 3 (4.92%) Spring
3 3 (4.92%) Spring Boot
3 3 (4.92%) Streamlit
3 3 (4.92%) XML
4 2 (3.28%) OAuth
4 2 (3.28%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.28%) RESTful
4 2 (3.28%) SOAP
4 2 (3.28%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.64%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.64%) JPA
5 1 (1.64%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.87%) Cloud Native
2 10 (16.39%) Product Ownership
3 6 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (9.84%) Reference Data
4 5 (8.20%) Data Structures
4 5 (8.20%) Virtual Team
5 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.92%) Replication
7 2 (3.28%) CMDB
7 2 (3.28%) W3C
8 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.64%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.64%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.11%) Linux
2 6 (9.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (40.98%) Agile
1 25 (40.98%) Analytics
2 19 (31.15%) ETL
3 18 (29.51%) Data Architecture
4 17 (27.87%) CI/CD
4 17 (27.87%) Data Pipeline
5 14 (22.95%) DevOps
5 14 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (22.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (21.31%) Data Engineering
6 13 (21.31%) Data Ingestion
6 13 (21.31%) Validation
7 12 (19.67%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (19.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (19.67%) Data Governance
7 12 (19.67%) Logical Data Model
7 12 (19.67%) Observability
7 12 (19.67%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (18.03%) Data Transformation
8 11 (18.03%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.70%) Python
2 20 (32.79%) SQL
3 3 (4.92%) Java
4 2 (3.28%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) Degree
1 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (24.59%) Data Quality
2 8 (13.11%) GDPR
3 7 (11.48%) QA
4 2 (3.28%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (4.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) Grafana
2 3 (4.92%) Ansible
2 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (18.03%) Oracle
2 8 (13.11%) Databricks
2 8 (13.11%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.20%) Informatica
3 5 (8.20%) Talend
4 3 (4.92%) Google
4 3 (4.92%) Greenplum
4 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.92%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.28%) SAP
6 1 (1.64%) IBM
6 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud