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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 53 92
Rank change year-on-year +19 +39 +33
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 83 52 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 8.04% 4.36% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.32% 4.57% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 11
10th Percentile - £35,105 £47,500
25th Percentile £86,250 £40,651 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £77,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +40.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £107,500 £123,125 £72,433
90th Percentile £112,000 £125,000 £74,000
Scotland median annual salary £87,500 £52,500 £47,557
% change year-on-year +66.67% +10.39% -20.74%

All Process and 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 891 1,138 961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 86.34% 95.47% 92.85%
Number of salaries quoted 382 441 768
10th Percentile £26,000 £36,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £28,438 £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 £88,750 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -7.08%

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 27 December 2025.

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 2 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 77 (92.77%) Azure
2 52 (62.65%) Snowflake
3 49 (59.04%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (57.83%) GitHub
4 48 (57.83%) GitHub Copilot
5 33 (39.76%) dbt
6 23 (27.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (14.46%) Salesforce Einstein
8 10 (12.05%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 10 (12.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 8 (9.64%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (8.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (4.82%) Power Platform
12 2 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (2.41%) AWS
12 2 (2.41%) AWS CodePipeline
12 2 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.41%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (2.41%) Azure Stack
12 2 (2.41%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (43.37%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (19.28%) Snowflake Schema
3 12 (14.46%) Metadata
4 7 (8.43%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.82%) Power BI
6 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.41%) Data Vault
7 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (22.89%) JIRA
2 12 (14.46%) ER Studio
2 12 (14.46%) ERwin
3 2 (2.41%) Git
General
1 74 (89.16%) Finance
2 39 (46.99%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (37.35%) Social Skills
4 10 (12.05%) Marketing
5 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (40.96%) Senior
2 14 (16.87%) Data Modeller
3 8 (9.64%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (4.82%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (4.82%) Applications Support
4 4 (4.82%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (4.82%) Support Engineer
5 3 (3.61%) Data Engineer
5 3 (3.61%) Lead
6 2 (2.41%) Architect
6 2 (2.41%) Data Architect
6 2 (2.41%) Informatica Engineer
6 2 (2.41%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (1.20%) Lead Architect
7 1 (1.20%) Lead Data Architect
7 1 (1.20%) Principal Architect
7 1 (1.20%) Principal Data Architect
7 1 (1.20%) Principal Data Engineer
7 1 (1.20%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (28.92%) REST
1 24 (28.92%) SOAP
2 22 (26.51%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (9.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (36.14%) Cloud Native
2 22 (26.51%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.82%) Windows
2 2 (2.41%) Linux
2 2 (2.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (89.16%) Asset Management
1 74 (89.16%) Coaching
2 72 (86.75%) Agile
3 62 (74.70%) CI/CD
4 60 (72.29%) DevOps
5 48 (57.83%) AI
5 48 (57.83%) Test Automation
6 46 (55.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (49.40%) Clean Code
7 41 (49.40%) Sprint Planning
7 41 (49.40%) Sprint Retrospective
8 34 (40.96%) Observability
9 32 (38.55%) Analytics
10 26 (31.33%) Data Architecture
10 26 (31.33%) ETL
10 26 (31.33%) Mentoring
11 25 (30.12%) Architectural Patterns
11 25 (30.12%) Data Governance
12 19 (22.89%) Migration
13 17 (20.48%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 35 (42.17%) SQL
2 29 (34.94%) Python
3 22 (26.51%) Apex Code
4 12 (14.46%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.43%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.87%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.64%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (4.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (9.64%) Terraform
2 2 (2.41%) Control-M
Vendors
1 22 (26.51%) Salesforce
2 19 (22.89%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.43%) Databricks
4 4 (4.82%) Ab Initio
4 4 (4.82%) IBM
5 2 (2.41%) Informatica
5 2 (2.41%) Oracle