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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 40 30
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 71 42 34
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 6.05% 5.84% 4.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.24% 6.41% 5.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 31 27
10th Percentile £321 £300 £339
25th Percentile £404 £341 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £429 £435
Median % change year-on-year +11.77% -1.38% -12.47%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £475
90th Percentile £600 £575 £494
Scotland median daily rate £480 £464 £450
% change year-on-year +3.40% +3.06% -8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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 981 655 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.56% 91.10% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 403 436
10th Percentile £281 £300 £273
25th Percentile £363 £378 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +0.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £564
90th Percentile £675 £613 £674
Scotland median daily rate £475 £467 £450
% change year-on-year +1.66% +3.83% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 21 14
10th Percentile £13.37 £14.32 £15.73
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.77
Median hourly rate £35.00 £17.45 £21.87
Median % change year-on-year +100.63% -20.23% +50.83%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.15 £32.17
90th Percentile £77.50 £26.21 £43.58
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £20.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year -15.70% +0.31% +3.95%

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 21 September 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 (5.63%) Apache
1 4 (5.63%) Apache Spark
1 4 (5.63%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) Alfresco
2 2 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.41%) Sonata
1 1 (1.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.94%) Power Platform
2 15 (21.13%) Snowflake
3 10 (14.08%) Azure
4 7 (9.86%) Collibra
5 6 (8.45%) AWS
6 4 (5.63%) ChatGPT
7 3 (4.23%) Anthropic Claude
7 3 (4.23%) GCP
7 3 (4.23%) GitHub
7 3 (4.23%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (2.82%) SaaS
9 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.41%) dbt
9 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.41%) OCI
9 1 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (30.99%) Metadata
2 16 (22.54%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (22.54%) Power BI
3 13 (18.31%) Relational Database
4 9 (12.68%) Snowflake Schema
4 9 (12.68%) SQL Server
5 8 (11.27%) Data Vault
5 8 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (11.27%) Tableau
6 7 (9.86%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (8.45%) Data Lake
7 6 (8.45%) MySQL
8 5 (7.04%) Oracle Database
8 5 (7.04%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (5.63%) Big Data
9 4 (5.63%) NoSQL
10 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (4.23%) Star Schema
11 2 (2.82%) DataStage
11 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 17 (23.94%) Git
2 4 (5.63%) ER Studio
2 4 (5.63%) ERwin
2 4 (5.63%) JIRA
2 4 (5.63%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (4.23%) Subversion
4 2 (2.82%) GitLab
4 2 (2.82%) PVCS
5 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.41%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.41%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (1.41%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.41%) tSQLt
General
1 40 (56.34%) Finance
2 28 (39.44%) Social Skills
3 20 (28.17%) Banking
4 18 (25.35%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (15.49%) Investment Banking
6 5 (7.04%) Aviation
6 5 (7.04%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.41%) Law
8 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Retail
8 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.41%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (22.54%) Data Modeller
2 14 (19.72%) Developer
3 10 (14.08%) Data Engineer
4 9 (12.68%) Analyst
4 9 (12.68%) Senior
5 6 (8.45%) Data Analyst
5 6 (8.45%) Site Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Lead
6 5 (7.04%) Oracle Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Architect
7 4 (5.63%) Python Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.23%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Python Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 2 (2.82%) Integration Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.27%) JSON
1 8 (11.27%) REST
2 7 (9.86%) FastAPI
2 7 (9.86%) pydantic
2 7 (9.86%) YAML
3 6 (8.45%) PySpark
4 5 (7.04%) RESTful
5 4 (5.63%) Kafka
5 4 (5.63%) Streamlit
6 2 (2.82%) Spark Streaming
6 2 (2.82%) Spring
6 2 (2.82%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.41%) boto
7 1 (1.41%) CSS
7 1 (1.41%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.41%) HTML
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.41%) React
7 1 (1.41%) Terraform
7 1 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) Data Structures
2 8 (11.27%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.23%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.82%) Derivative
5 2 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.41%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.41%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.41%) IoT
6 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.41%) Replication
6 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.68%) Linux
2 8 (11.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (39.44%) Analytics
2 27 (38.03%) Agile
3 23 (32.39%) Data Governance
3 23 (32.39%) Data Pipeline
4 21 (29.58%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (28.17%) AI
5 20 (28.17%) Validation
6 19 (26.76%) CI/CD
7 14 (19.72%) Logical Data Model
7 14 (19.72%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (18.31%) Data Transformation
8 13 (18.31%) Metadata Management
8 13 (18.31%) Physical Data Model
9 12 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (15.49%) Data Engineering
10 11 (15.49%) DevOps
10 11 (15.49%) Dimensional Modelling
10 11 (15.49%) Translating Business Requirements
11 10 (14.08%) Risk Management
11 10 (14.08%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 37 (52.11%) SQL
2 33 (46.48%) Python
3 6 (8.45%) Java
4 5 (7.04%) PL/SQL
5 3 (4.23%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.82%) Scala
7 1 (1.41%) C++
7 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.23%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (38.03%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.45%) QA
3 5 (7.04%) GDPR
4 3 (4.23%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.41%) GRC
5 1 (1.41%) MiFID
5 1 (1.41%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (4.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.82%) Grafana
3 1 (1.41%) Ansible
3 1 (1.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (22.54%) Oracle
2 10 (14.08%) Databricks
2 10 (14.08%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.45%) Informatica
4 4 (5.63%) Talend
5 2 (2.82%) Google
6 1 (1.41%) Avaloq
6 1 (1.41%) FNZ
6 1 (1.41%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.41%) Greenplum
6 1 (1.41%) IBM
6 1 (1.41%) SAP
6 1 (1.41%) Sparx
6 1 (1.41%) Workday