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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 53 91
Rank change year-on-year +20 +38 +40
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 85 46 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 8.11% 4.05% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.48% 4.20% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 5 13 10
10th Percentile - £36,584 £47,500
25th Percentile £86,250 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £85,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +41.67% -
75th Percentile £107,500 £125,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £112,000 - £73,689
Scotland median annual salary £87,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +52.17% +15.00% -16.67%

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 897 1,094 961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.59% 96.30% 91.87%
Number of salaries quoted 380 410 774
10th Percentile £26,000 £36,225 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,875 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%

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 10 January 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 4 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 77 (90.59%) Azure
2 52 (61.18%) Snowflake
3 49 (57.65%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (56.47%) GitHub
4 48 (56.47%) GitHub Copilot
5 33 (38.82%) dbt
6 23 (27.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (14.12%) Salesforce Einstein
8 10 (11.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 10 (11.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 8 (9.41%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (8.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (4.71%) AWS
11 4 (4.71%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.71%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (4.71%) Power Platform
11 4 (4.71%) SaaS
11 4 (4.71%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (42.35%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (18.82%) Snowflake Schema
3 12 (14.12%) Metadata
4 7 (8.24%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.71%) Power BI
5 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.53%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.35%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 19 (22.35%) JIRA
2 12 (14.12%) ER Studio
2 12 (14.12%) ERwin
3 4 (4.71%) Git
General
1 74 (87.06%) Finance
2 41 (48.24%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (38.82%) Social Skills
4 10 (11.76%) Marketing
5 4 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (40.00%) Senior
2 14 (16.47%) Data Modeller
3 8 (9.41%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (4.71%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (4.71%) Applications Support
4 4 (4.71%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (4.71%) Informatica Engineer
4 4 (4.71%) Support Engineer
5 3 (3.53%) Data Engineer
5 3 (3.53%) Lead
6 2 (2.35%) Architect
6 2 (2.35%) Data Architect
6 2 (2.35%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (1.18%) Lead Architect
7 1 (1.18%) Lead Data Architect
7 1 (1.18%) Principal Architect
7 1 (1.18%) Principal Data Architect
7 1 (1.18%) Principal Data Engineer
7 1 (1.18%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (30.59%) REST
1 26 (30.59%) SOAP
2 22 (25.88%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (9.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (35.29%) Cloud Native
2 22 (25.88%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.71%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.71%) Linux
1 4 (4.71%) Unix
1 4 (4.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (87.06%) Asset Management
1 74 (87.06%) Coaching
2 72 (84.71%) Agile
3 64 (75.29%) CI/CD
4 60 (70.59%) DevOps
5 48 (56.47%) AI
5 48 (56.47%) Test Automation
6 46 (54.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (48.24%) Clean Code
7 41 (48.24%) Sprint Planning
7 41 (48.24%) Sprint Retrospective
8 34 (40.00%) Observability
9 32 (37.65%) Analytics
10 27 (31.76%) Data Governance
11 26 (30.59%) Data Architecture
11 26 (30.59%) ETL
11 26 (30.59%) Mentoring
12 25 (29.41%) Architectural Patterns
13 19 (22.35%) Data Pipeline
13 19 (22.35%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 37 (43.53%) SQL
2 29 (34.12%) Python
3 22 (25.88%) Apex Code
4 12 (14.12%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.24%) T-SQL
6 4 (4.71%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.82%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (9.41%) Terraform
2 4 (4.71%) Control-M
Vendors
1 22 (25.88%) Salesforce
2 19 (22.35%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.24%) Databricks
4 4 (4.71%) Ab Initio
4 4 (4.71%) IBM
4 4 (4.71%) Informatica
4 4 (4.71%) Oracle