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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 53 87
Rank change year-on-year +1 +34 +35
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 44 42 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 5.01% 3.28% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.51% 3.65% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 12
10th Percentile £64,178 - £47,500
25th Percentile £68,570 £35,105 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,292 £81,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +47.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £95,313 £125,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £107,125 - £73,843
Scotland median annual salary £68,792 £52,500 £47,557
% change year-on-year +31.03% +10.39% -13.53%

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 798 1,150 952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 90.89% 89.70% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 359 474 764
10th Percentile £25,684 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,500 £46,407 £45,384
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £59,430 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% -4.91% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68,125 £75,000 £76,385
90th Percentile £87,750 £88,750 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%

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 14 November 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 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 39 (88.64%) Azure
2 27 (61.36%) Snowflake
3 24 (54.55%) GitHub
3 24 (54.55%) GitHub Copilot
4 22 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (36.36%) dbt
6 7 (15.91%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (11.36%) Salesforce Einstein
8 3 (6.82%) AWS
8 3 (6.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
8 3 (6.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 3 (6.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.27%) Azure Stack
9 1 (2.27%) Collibra
9 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (29.55%) Snowflake Schema
3 6 (13.64%) Metadata
4 3 (6.82%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.82%) Power BI
5 2 (4.55%) Data Vault
6 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (31.82%) JIRA
2 9 (20.45%) ERwin
3 8 (18.18%) ER Studio
General
1 40 (90.91%) Finance
2 22 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Marketing
4 3 (6.82%) Private Banking
5 1 (2.27%) Legal
5 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (43.18%) Senior
2 10 (22.73%) Data Modeller
3 3 (6.82%) Head of Analytics
3 3 (6.82%) Head of Data Analytics
4 2 (4.55%) Architect
4 2 (4.55%) Data Architect
4 2 (4.55%) Senior Manager
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Business Analyst
5 1 (2.27%) Data Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Data Manager
5 1 (2.27%) Lead
5 1 (2.27%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (2.27%) Principal Architect
5 1 (2.27%) Principal Data Architect
5 1 (2.27%) Product Manager
5 1 (2.27%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.27%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (2.27%) Senior Product Manager
5 1 (2.27%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.18%) Lightning Web Components
1 8 (18.18%) REST
1 8 (18.18%) SOAP
2 1 (2.27%) HTML
2 1 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 8 (18.18%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (79.55%) Asset Management
1 35 (79.55%) Coaching
2 34 (77.27%) Agile
3 28 (63.64%) AI
4 25 (56.82%) Analytics
4 25 (56.82%) CI/CD
4 25 (56.82%) DevOps
5 24 (54.55%) Test Automation
6 22 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (47.73%) Clean Code
7 21 (47.73%) Sprint Planning
7 21 (47.73%) Sprint Retrospective
8 19 (43.18%) Data Architecture
9 16 (36.36%) Mentoring
10 15 (34.09%) Data Governance
11 14 (31.82%) ETL
12 13 (29.55%) Migration
12 13 (29.55%) Observability
13 12 (27.27%) Data Strategy
14 11 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) SQL
2 13 (29.55%) Python
3 8 (18.18%) Apex Code
4 3 (6.82%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Salesforce
2 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.82%) Databricks
4 1 (2.27%) Informatica