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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 31 36
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 45 30 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.20% 4.44% 4.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.80% 4.98% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 25 34
10th Percentile £301 £352 -
25th Percentile £346 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £435 £497
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% -12.47% -5.33%
75th Percentile £525 £475 £557
90th Percentile £574 £486 £587
Scotland median daily rate £470 £450 £497
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.46% -5.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.59 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £19.59 -

All Process and 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 662 603 779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.18% 89.33% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 432 523
10th Percentile £300 £275 £338
25th Percentile £370 £374 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £575
90th Percentile £613 £675 £675
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 13 25
10th Percentile £15.01 £15.38 £12.05
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £17.72 £24.15 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.61% +66.55% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.42 £34.50 £47.73
90th Percentile £29.34 £58.81 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -4.48% +9.16% -12.82%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Data Modelling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Data Modelling 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 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (13.33%) Apache Spark
2 5 (11.11%) SAS
3 4 (8.89%) Apache
3 4 (8.89%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 7 (15.56%) Snowflake
3 4 (8.89%) Azure
4 3 (6.67%) AWS
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (4.44%) dbt
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.22%) Collibra
6 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.11%) Relational Database
2 9 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (20.00%) Power BI
3 4 (8.89%) Big Data
3 4 (8.89%) Hadoop
3 4 (8.89%) Metadata
4 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.67%) Power Query
5 2 (4.44%) CockroachDB
5 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.22%) DB2
6 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) JIRA
3 2 (4.44%) ERwin
General
1 26 (57.78%) Finance
2 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 10 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (17.78%) Banking
5 6 (13.33%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Back Office
8 1 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (64.44%) Analyst
2 15 (33.33%) Data Analyst
3 12 (26.67%) Business Analyst
4 8 (17.78%) Data Engineer
4 8 (17.78%) Data Modeller
5 7 (15.56%) Architect
5 7 (15.56%) Data Architect
6 6 (13.33%) ITSM Analyst
7 5 (11.11%) ITSM Architect
7 5 (11.11%) Python Data Engineer
7 5 (11.11%) Python Engineer
7 5 (11.11%) SAS Analyst
7 5 (11.11%) SAS Architect
7 5 (11.11%) SAS Data Analyst
7 5 (11.11%) SAS Modeller
8 4 (8.89%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (8.89%) Technical Business Analyst
9 3 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 3 (6.67%) Developer
9 3 (6.67%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) REST
2 4 (8.89%) RESTful
3 3 (6.67%) PySpark
4 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.44%) Django
4 2 (4.44%) React
5 1 (2.22%) Kafka
5 1 (2.22%) NumPy
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (2.22%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) CMDB
2 6 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 5 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (11.11%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (46.67%) Agile
2 17 (37.78%) Data Analysis
3 15 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 12 (26.67%) ETL
4 12 (26.67%) ITIL
4 12 (26.67%) ITSM
5 10 (22.22%) Change Control
6 9 (20.00%) Analytics
6 9 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (17.78%) Data Architecture
7 8 (17.78%) Data Lineage
7 8 (17.78%) Data Visualisation
8 7 (15.56%) Data Governance
8 7 (15.56%) Data Management
9 6 (13.33%) Business Analysis
9 6 (13.33%) Configuration Management
9 6 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (11.11%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 22 (48.89%) SQL
2 16 (35.56%) Python
3 3 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (6.67%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.44%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.22%) R
5 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.22%) CBAP
3 1 (2.22%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) Data Quality
1 4 (8.89%) GDPR
1 4 (8.89%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Basel III
2 1 (2.22%) COREP
2 1 (2.22%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.22%) FINREP
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) ServiceNow
2 11 (24.44%) Databricks
3 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (2.22%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.22%) Greenplum