Data Modelling Job Trends in Edinburgh

Data Modelling
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 65 93
Rank change year-on-year +38 +28 +20
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 78 24 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 6.54% 2.48% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.09% 2.53% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 12
10th Percentile £41,500 £49,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,447 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +6.90% +11.54%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £109,000 £110,000 £84,125
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £61,872 £70,576
% change year-on-year +13.14% -12.33% +8.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data Modelling falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 964 947 1,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 80.80% 98.03% 90.21%
Number of salaries quoted 504 444 936
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £33,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,375 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% - -2.37%
75th Percentile £73,750 £79,648 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £46,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.36% +4.76% -10.43%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Data Modelling
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Modelling.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 24 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Modelling in Edinburgh

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 7 (8.97%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.85%) Apache
3 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.28%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 64 (82.05%) Azure
2 41 (52.56%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (51.28%) GitHub
3 40 (51.28%) GitHub Copilot
3 40 (51.28%) Snowflake
4 27 (34.62%) dbt
5 24 (30.77%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (12.82%) Salesforce Einstein
6 10 (12.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 10 (12.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 8 (10.26%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (8.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (6.41%) AWS
9 5 (6.41%) Power Platform
10 4 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (5.13%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (5.13%) Amazon S3
10 4 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (5.13%) GCP
10 4 (5.13%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (39.74%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (19.23%) Metadata
3 10 (12.82%) Snowflake Schema
4 8 (10.26%) Data Lake
5 7 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (7.69%) SQL Server
7 5 (6.41%) Power BI
8 4 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (5.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.85%) BigQuery
9 3 (3.85%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.56%) Big Data
10 2 (2.56%) Data Vault
10 2 (2.56%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.28%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (1.28%) MySQL
11 1 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (16.67%) JIRA
2 7 (8.97%) ERwin
3 6 (7.69%) ER Studio
4 5 (6.41%) Git
5 1 (1.28%) Subversion
5 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (76.92%) Finance
2 31 (39.74%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (39.74%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.82%) Marketing
4 4 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (37.18%) Senior
2 8 (10.26%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (10.26%) Data Modeller
3 7 (8.97%) Data Engineer
4 4 (5.13%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (5.13%) Applications Support
4 4 (5.13%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (5.13%) Informatica Engineer
4 4 (5.13%) Support Engineer
5 3 (3.85%) Architect
5 3 (3.85%) Data Architect
5 3 (3.85%) Lead
5 3 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (2.56%) Big Data Engineer
6 2 (2.56%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (2.56%) Senior Big Data Engineer
7 1 (1.28%) Lead Architect
7 1 (1.28%) Lead Data Architect
7 1 (1.28%) Principal Architect
7 1 (1.28%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (30.77%) REST
1 24 (30.77%) SOAP
2 20 (25.64%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (10.26%) YAML
4 2 (2.56%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.28%) CSS
5 1 (1.28%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 20 (25.64%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.28%) Replication
4 1 (1.28%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.13%) Linux
1 4 (5.13%) Unix
1 4 (5.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (78.21%) Agile
2 60 (76.92%) Asset Management
2 60 (76.92%) Coaching
3 56 (71.79%) CI/CD
4 55 (70.51%) DevOps
5 41 (52.56%) AI
6 40 (51.28%) Test Automation
7 38 (48.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (42.31%) Clean Code
8 33 (42.31%) Sprint Planning
8 33 (42.31%) Sprint Retrospective
9 32 (41.03%) Observability
10 26 (33.33%) Analytics
11 24 (30.77%) Architectural Patterns
12 23 (29.49%) Data Architecture
12 23 (29.49%) Data Governance
13 21 (26.92%) Data Pipeline
13 21 (26.92%) ETL
14 19 (24.36%) Data Integration
14 19 (24.36%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 37 (47.44%) SQL
2 27 (34.62%) Python
3 20 (25.64%) Apex Code
4 12 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.97%) T-SQL
6 4 (5.13%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.28%) C
7 1 (1.28%) C++
7 1 (1.28%) Java
7 1 (1.28%) Perl
7 1 (1.28%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.28%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (25.64%) Data Quality
2 8 (10.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (14.10%) Terraform
2 4 (5.13%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 20 (25.64%) Salesforce
3 7 (8.97%) Databricks
4 6 (7.69%) Oracle
5 5 (6.41%) IBM
6 4 (5.13%) Ab Initio
6 4 (5.13%) Informatica
7 3 (3.85%) Google
8 1 (1.28%) FIS
8 1 (1.28%) Siemens