Data Modelling Contracts in Scotland

Data Modelling
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Modelling over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 68 82
Rank change year-on-year +10 +14 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 60 60 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.66% 2.77% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 3.13% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 37 55
10th Percentile £269 £400 £410
25th Percentile £300 £436 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £590
90th Percentile £572 £628 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £46.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.65% +33.57% -38.60%

All Process and 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 1,536 1,916 2,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.60% 88.38% 92.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 1,164 1,814
10th Percentile £261 £225 £261
25th Percentile £372 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +0.48%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £559
90th Percentile £606 £656 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 90 56
10th Percentile £16.21 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.75 £12.04
Median hourly rate £20.94 £19.34 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.30% +18.98% -58.02%
75th Percentile £24.66 £46.24 £49.24
90th Percentile £50.06 £60.93 £65.78
UK median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -22.16% +0.69% +41.16%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Modelling in Scotland

Data Modelling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Modelling in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Data Modelling in Scotland

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Modelling in Scotland

Data Modelling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Modelling in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Data Modelling in Scotland

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 11 May 2025. 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 -5 29 £408 -6.54% 17
Edinburgh +8 26 £523 -0.48% 25
Stirling - 1 £400 -
Fife - 1 £472 - 1
Data Modelling
UK

Data Modelling
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 13 (21.67%) Confluence
2 4 (6.67%) SAS
3 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (5.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.33%) Power Platform
2 10 (16.67%) Azure
3 4 (6.67%) Snowflake
4 3 (5.00%) OCI
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.33%) AWS
5 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.33%) GCP
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.67%) Collibra
6 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.67%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Internet
1 1 (1.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) Oracle Database
2 10 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (16.67%) Power BI
3 7 (11.67%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.67%) Tableau
5 3 (5.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (5.00%) RDBMS
5 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.33%) CockroachDB
6 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.33%) Metadata
6 2 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (3.33%) PowerCenter
7 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.67%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (1.67%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 13 (21.67%) Git
1 13 (21.67%) JIRA
2 9 (15.00%) Oracle Forms
2 9 (15.00%) PVCS
2 9 (15.00%) Subversion
3 2 (3.33%) ER Studio
3 2 (3.33%) GitLab
General
1 28 (46.67%) Finance
2 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
3 12 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (18.33%) Banking
5 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.67%) Back Office
6 4 (6.67%) Investment Banking
7 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Publishing
8 2 (3.33%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (38.33%) Analyst
2 14 (23.33%) Developer
3 11 (18.33%) Architect
4 10 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 10 (16.67%) Data Architect
4 10 (16.67%) Oracle Developer
5 9 (15.00%) Data Analyst
6 8 (13.33%) Senior
7 7 (11.67%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (10.00%) Senior Developer
9 5 (8.33%) Data Engineer
9 5 (8.33%) Data Modeller
10 4 (6.67%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 4 (6.67%) Systems Analyst
10 4 (6.67%) Technical Business Analyst
11 3 (5.00%) ETL Analyst
11 3 (5.00%) ITSM Architect
11 3 (5.00%) Re-Platforming Analyst
11 3 (5.00%) SAS Analyst
11 3 (5.00%) SAS Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) Java EE
2 3 (5.00%) REST
3 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.33%) Django
3 2 (3.33%) React
4 1 (1.67%) EDI
4 1 (1.67%) Kafka
4 1 (1.67%) Middleware
4 1 (1.67%) Node.js
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.67%) PySpark
4 1 (1.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) CMDB
1 7 (11.67%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.00%) Derivative
5 2 (3.33%) Equities
5 2 (3.33%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.33%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.67%) Industry 4.0
6 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.67%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.67%) SCADA
6 1 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.00%) Agile
2 19 (31.67%) Data Analysis
2 19 (31.67%) ETL
3 12 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 10 (16.67%) DevOps
4 10 (16.67%) ITSM
4 10 (16.67%) Migration
5 9 (15.00%) Data Design
5 9 (15.00%) ETL Development
5 9 (15.00%) ITIL
5 9 (15.00%) Technical Analysis
5 9 (15.00%) Unit Testing
6 8 (13.33%) Business Analysis
6 8 (13.33%) Data Governance
6 8 (13.33%) Data Integration
6 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (11.67%) Data Migration
7 7 (11.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (51.67%) SQL
2 14 (23.33%) PL/SQL
3 9 (15.00%) C
3 9 (15.00%) Java
3 9 (15.00%) ProC
4 7 (11.67%) Python
5 3 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.33%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.67%) CBAP
3 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.67%) IIBA
3 1 (1.67%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.67%) PMP
3 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.33%) Data Quality
2 9 (15.00%) QA
3 4 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.67%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.67%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) Oracle
2 13 (21.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.67%) ServiceNow
4 6 (10.00%) Databricks
5 3 (5.00%) Informatica
5 3 (5.00%) Teradata
6 2 (3.33%) Bloomberg
6 2 (3.33%) Pega
6 2 (3.33%) Reuters
7 1 (1.67%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.67%) Google
7 1 (1.67%) Greenplum
7 1 (1.67%) Hitachi
7 1 (1.67%) IDERA
7 1 (1.67%) SAP
7 1 (1.67%) Sparx
7 1 (1.67%) TSYS