Physical Data Model Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Physical Data Model
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Physical Data Model skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 118 135
Rank change year-on-year +19 +17 +26
Contract jobs citing Physical Data Model 12 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.79% 0.061% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.067% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £428 - £699
25th Percentile £450 £604 £702
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £608 £723
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% -15.85% +37.62%
75th Percentile £625 £612 £742
90th Percentile £700 - £744
UK median daily rate £575 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +15.00% -23.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £64.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £64.00 - £65.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

Physical Data Model 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 1,301 1,484 2,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 85.65% 91.04% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 715 881 1,313
10th Percentile £232 £230 £264
25th Percentile £385 £365 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £487
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -7.60% +2.53%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 43 79
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.23 £11.97
25th Percentile £17.23 £20.62 £16.13
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +10.05%
75th Percentile £31.50 £24.18 £60.38
90th Percentile £63.70 £40.90 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

Physical Data Model
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Physical Data Model job vacancy trend in Scotland

Physical Data Model
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Physical Data Model

Physical Data Model
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Physical Data Model in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Physical Data Model in Scotland

Physical Data Model
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 Physical Data Model within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
Edinburgh +14 11 £500 -17.76% 1
Glasgow - 1 £750 - 1
Physical Data Model
UK

Physical Data Model
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 2 (16.67%) Apache
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (8.33%) Dataform
4 1 (8.33%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (25.00%) IBM InfoSphere
3 3 (25.00%) Metadata
4 2 (16.67%) Big Data
4 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (16.67%) Hadoop
4 2 (16.67%) MySQL
5 1 (8.33%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) ERwin
2 4 (33.33%) ER Studio
3 1 (8.33%) PowerDesigner
General
1 9 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Data Modeller
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) ETL Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 12 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
2 10 (83.33%) Data Architecture
3 7 (58.33%) Data Governance
4 6 (50.00%) UML
5 5 (41.67%) Agile
6 4 (33.33%) Asset Management
6 4 (33.33%) Coaching
6 4 (33.33%) Data Strategy
7 3 (25.00%) Analytics
7 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
7 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (25.00%) ETL
7 3 (25.00%) Metadata Management
8 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
8 2 (16.67%) Data Management
8 2 (16.67%) Data Science
8 2 (16.67%) Data Security
8 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) IBM
3 2 (16.67%) Informatica
3 2 (16.67%) Talend
4 1 (8.33%) Databricks
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) Sparx