Data Modelling Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Data Modelling
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 69 77
Rank change year-on-year +40 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 95 48 53
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 5.85% 2.88% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.07% 3.10% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 28 29
10th Percentile £350 £274 £400
25th Percentile £400 £300 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £444 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% -15.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £526 £588
90th Percentile £636 £584 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £64.00 £19.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +226.70% - -
75th Percentile £66.50 - -
90th Percentile £68.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £69.00 £54.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +27.78% +16.93% -20.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,344 1,550 2,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 82.71% 93.15% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 946 1,218
10th Percentile £244 £245 £254
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £563 £538 £588
90th Percentile £656 £612 £677
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 39 91
10th Percentile £12.60 £16.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.30 £19.05 £16.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +17.31% +20.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £24.42 £44.47
90th Percentile £69.00 £47.00 £60.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Modelling relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in Scotland

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Modelling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Modelling in Scotland

Data Modelling
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Modelling.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Modelling within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +37 58 £488 +18.18% 10
Edinburgh +17 34 £456 -13.10% 8
Data Modelling
UK

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 10 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 9 (9.47%) Apache
2 9 (9.47%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (7.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) SAP ECC
1 2 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.05%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.58%) Azure
2 20 (21.05%) AWS
3 19 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 11 (11.58%) GCP
5 9 (9.47%) Power Platform
6 7 (7.37%) Amazon S3
7 6 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (6.32%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (6.32%) Serverless
8 5 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (5.26%) Collibra
9 4 (4.21%) Amazon EMR
9 4 (4.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.21%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.16%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (3.16%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (3.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) DSL
1 2 (2.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (28.42%) Metadata
2 15 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (13.68%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (12.63%) Big Data
4 12 (12.63%) Data Lake
5 10 (10.53%) Hadoop
5 10 (10.53%) Relational Database
6 9 (9.47%) SQL Server
7 8 (8.42%) Power BI
8 7 (7.37%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (6.32%) Data Vault
10 5 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (5.26%) BigQuery
11 4 (4.21%) MySQL
12 3 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (3.16%) IBM InfoSphere
12 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
13 2 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (2.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (12.63%) Git
2 8 (8.42%) ERwin
3 7 (7.37%) JIRA
4 4 (4.21%) ER Studio
4 4 (4.21%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.11%) GitLab
6 1 (1.05%) PowerDesigner
General
1 40 (42.11%) Finance
2 26 (27.37%) Social Skills
3 21 (22.11%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (20.00%) Banking
5 12 (12.63%) Public Sector
6 9 (9.47%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (8.42%) Investment Banking
8 4 (4.21%) Aviation
9 2 (2.11%) Marketing
9 2 (2.11%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.05%) Billing
10 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Local Government
10 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (28.42%) Data Modeller
2 20 (21.05%) Analyst
3 17 (17.89%) Architect
4 15 (15.79%) Data Analyst
5 12 (12.63%) Data Engineer
6 11 (11.58%) Data Architect
7 6 (6.32%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.32%) Consultant
8 5 (5.26%) Scrum Master
8 5 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.21%) Developer
9 4 (4.21%) Senior
10 3 (3.16%) AWS Architect
10 3 (3.16%) AWS Data Architect
10 3 (3.16%) AWS Data Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Business Consultant
10 3 (3.16%) DBA
10 3 (3.16%) Design Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Consultant
10 3 (3.16%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.37%) PySpark
1 7 (7.37%) REST
2 6 (6.32%) Kafka
3 4 (4.21%) XML
4 3 (3.16%) JSON
4 3 (3.16%) Node.js
4 3 (3.16%) SOAP
4 3 (3.16%) Streamlit
5 2 (2.11%) FHIR
5 2 (2.11%) OAuth
5 2 (2.11%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.11%) Web Services
6 1 (1.05%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.05%) JPA
6 1 (1.05%) NumPy
6 1 (1.05%) Pandas
6 1 (1.05%) Spring
6 1 (1.05%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.05%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.68%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.63%) Product Ownership
3 10 (10.53%) Virtual Team
4 8 (8.42%) Data Structures
5 6 (6.32%) Onboarding
5 6 (6.32%) Reference Data
6 5 (5.26%) CMDB
7 3 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.16%) Replication
7 3 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.11%) NHS
8 2 (2.11%) W3C
9 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.05%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.26%) Linux
2 3 (3.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.89%) Data Architecture
2 31 (32.63%) Agile
3 28 (29.47%) Analytics
3 28 (29.47%) Data Governance
4 27 (28.42%) ETL
5 26 (27.37%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (25.26%) Logical Data Model
7 19 (20.00%) Migration
7 19 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (18.95%) Data Lineage
8 18 (18.95%) Physical Data Model
9 16 (16.84%) DevOps
10 15 (15.79%) Data Engineering
10 15 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
10 15 (15.79%) Data Transformation
11 14 (14.74%) CI/CD
11 14 (14.74%) Data Integration
11 14 (14.74%) Metadata Management
12 13 (13.68%) Data Management
13 11 (11.58%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 49 (51.58%) SQL
2 23 (24.21%) Python
3 2 (2.11%) PL/SQL
3 2 (2.11%) SPARQL
4 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.05%) Java
4 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (12.63%) Degree
1 12 (12.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.21%) Master's Degree
2 4 (4.21%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.16%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.16%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.11%) CISM
4 2 (2.11%) CISSP
4 2 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (31.58%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.42%) GDPR
3 6 (6.32%) QA
4 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.11%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.05%) GRC
5 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.21%) Terraform
2 3 (3.16%) Ansible
3 2 (2.11%) Grafana
3 2 (2.11%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.05%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (16.84%) Oracle
2 15 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.42%) Databricks
4 7 (7.37%) Informatica
4 7 (7.37%) ServiceNow
4 7 (7.37%) Talend
5 5 (5.26%) Google
5 5 (5.26%) IBM
5 5 (5.26%) Teradata
6 3 (3.16%) Greenplum
6 3 (3.16%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.11%) Ab Initio
7 2 (2.11%) Avaloq
7 2 (2.11%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (2.11%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.11%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.11%) SAP
8 1 (1.05%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) Sparx