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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 64 92
Rank change year-on-year +35 +28 +15
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 64 27 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 5.35% 2.96% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.28% 3.04% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 14
10th Percentile £41,500 £49,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,447 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £77,500 £67,788
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +14.33% +4.29%
75th Percentile £107,500 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £115,500 £91,000 -
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £63,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.08% -

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 879 889 1,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 73.49% 97.37% 89.16%
Number of salaries quoted 496 430 973
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £79,912 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,125 £98,474 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -8.94%

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 29 April 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 (10.94%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.69%) Apache
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.56%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 50 (78.13%) Azure
2 34 (53.13%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (48.44%) GitHub
4 30 (46.88%) GitHub Copilot
4 30 (46.88%) Snowflake
5 21 (32.81%) dbt
6 19 (29.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 8 (12.50%) Salesforce Einstein
7 8 (12.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 8 (12.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 6 (9.38%) AWS
9 5 (7.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (7.81%) GCP
10 4 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (39.06%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (17.19%) Metadata
3 7 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (9.38%) Data Lake
4 6 (9.38%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (4.69%) BigQuery
6 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.69%) Power BI
7 2 (3.13%) Big Data
7 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.13%) Tableau
8 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.56%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.56%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (1.56%) MySQL
8 1 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) JIRA
2 5 (7.81%) ERwin
2 5 (7.81%) Git
3 4 (6.25%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.56%) Subversion
4 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (71.88%) Finance
2 25 (39.06%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (39.06%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.50%) Marketing
4 4 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (35.94%) Senior
2 16 (25.00%) Salesforce Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Applications Support
5 4 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Architect
5 4 (6.25%) Data Modeller
5 4 (6.25%) Informatica Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Data Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Big Data Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Lead
7 2 (3.13%) Senior Big Data Engineer
8 1 (1.56%) Junior Data Engineer
8 1 (1.56%) Lead Data Engineer
8 1 (1.56%) Principal Data Architect
8 1 (1.56%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (31.25%) REST
1 20 (31.25%) SOAP
2 16 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (12.50%) YAML
4 2 (3.13%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.56%) CSS
5 1 (1.56%) HTML
5 1 (1.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.69%) Cloud Native
2 16 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.56%) Replication
4 1 (1.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Linux
1 4 (6.25%) Unix
1 4 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (76.56%) Agile
2 47 (73.44%) CI/CD
3 46 (71.88%) Asset Management
3 46 (71.88%) Coaching
3 46 (71.88%) DevOps
4 32 (50.00%) AI
5 30 (46.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 30 (46.88%) Test Automation
6 26 (40.63%) Observability
7 25 (39.06%) Clean Code
7 25 (39.06%) Sprint Planning
7 25 (39.06%) Sprint Retrospective
8 19 (29.69%) Architectural Patterns
8 19 (29.69%) Data Pipeline
9 18 (28.13%) Analytics
9 18 (28.13%) ETL
10 17 (26.56%) Data Governance
10 17 (26.56%) Data Integration
11 16 (25.00%) Data Architecture
12 13 (20.31%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 33 (51.56%) SQL
2 23 (35.94%) Python
3 16 (25.00%) Apex Code
4 12 (18.75%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.81%) T-SQL
6 4 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.56%) C
7 1 (1.56%) C++
7 1 (1.56%) Java
7 1 (1.56%) Perl
7 1 (1.56%) R
7 1 (1.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.44%) Data Quality
2 8 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (17.19%) Terraform
2 4 (6.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 18 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 16 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 6 (9.38%) Databricks
3 6 (9.38%) Oracle
4 5 (7.81%) IBM
5 4 (6.25%) Ab Initio
5 4 (6.25%) Informatica
6 3 (4.69%) Google
7 1 (1.56%) FIS
7 1 (1.56%) Siemens