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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 70 94
Rank change year-on-year +43 +24 +21
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 73 26 17
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 6.14% 2.77% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.86% 2.85% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 10 7 13
10th Percentile £43,250 £49,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £49,375 £56,447 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +9.81% +4.99%
75th Percentile £105,625 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £115,250 £91,000 -
Scotland median annual salary £78,750 £63,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -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 929 913 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 78.20% 97.44% 90.04%
Number of salaries quoted 502 443 970
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £34,950
25th Percentile £33,750 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.17%
75th Percentile £73,250 £79,608 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +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 8 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 (9.59%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.11%) Apache
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.37%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 59 (80.82%) Azure
2 38 (52.05%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (50.68%) GitHub
4 36 (49.32%) GitHub Copilot
4 36 (49.32%) Snowflake
5 25 (34.25%) dbt
6 24 (32.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (13.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 10 (13.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 8 (10.96%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (10.96%) Salesforce Einstein
9 7 (9.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (8.22%) AWS
10 6 (8.22%) Power Platform
11 5 (6.85%) GCP
12 4 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (5.48%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (5.48%) SaaS
12 4 (5.48%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (39.73%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (20.55%) Metadata
3 8 (10.96%) Data Lake
3 8 (10.96%) Snowflake Schema
4 7 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (8.22%) Power BI
5 6 (8.22%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (5.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (5.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (4.11%) BigQuery
7 3 (4.11%) Data Vault
7 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.74%) Big Data
8 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.74%) Tableau
9 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.37%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.37%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (15.07%) JIRA
2 5 (6.85%) ERwin
2 5 (6.85%) Git
3 4 (5.48%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.37%) Subversion
4 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (73.97%) Finance
2 29 (39.73%) Social Skills
3 27 (36.99%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.70%) Marketing
5 4 (5.48%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.37%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (34.25%) Senior
2 18 (24.66%) Salesforce Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Data Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Data Modeller
6 4 (5.48%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Applications Support
6 4 (5.48%) Applications Support Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Architect
6 4 (5.48%) Informatica Engineer
6 4 (5.48%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.11%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.11%) Lead
7 3 (4.11%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Big Data Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (2.74%) Senior Big Data Engineer
9 1 (1.37%) Junior Data Engineer
9 1 (1.37%) Principal Data Architect
9 1 (1.37%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (30.14%) REST
1 22 (30.14%) SOAP
2 18 (24.66%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (10.96%) YAML
4 2 (2.74%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.37%) CSS
5 1 (1.37%) HTML
5 1 (1.37%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 23 (31.51%) Cloud Native
2 18 (24.66%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.37%) Replication
4 1 (1.37%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Linux
1 4 (5.48%) Unix
1 4 (5.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (75.34%) Agile
2 54 (73.97%) Asset Management
2 54 (73.97%) Coaching
3 53 (72.60%) CI/CD
4 52 (71.23%) DevOps
5 38 (52.05%) AI
6 36 (49.32%) Test Automation
7 34 (46.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (41.10%) Observability
9 29 (39.73%) Clean Code
9 29 (39.73%) Sprint Planning
9 29 (39.73%) Sprint Retrospective
10 25 (34.25%) Analytics
11 22 (30.14%) Architectural Patterns
12 21 (28.77%) Data Architecture
12 21 (28.77%) Data Governance
12 21 (28.77%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (27.40%) ETL
14 19 (26.03%) Data Integration
15 15 (20.55%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 36 (49.32%) SQL
2 26 (35.62%) Python
3 18 (24.66%) Apex Code
4 12 (16.44%) PowerShell
5 7 (9.59%) T-SQL
6 4 (5.48%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.37%) C
7 1 (1.37%) C++
7 1 (1.37%) Java
7 1 (1.37%) Perl
7 1 (1.37%) R
7 1 (1.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.37%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (27.40%) Data Quality
2 8 (10.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.37%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (5.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (15.07%) Terraform
2 4 (5.48%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (28.77%) Microsoft
2 18 (24.66%) Salesforce
3 8 (10.96%) Databricks
4 6 (8.22%) Oracle
5 5 (6.85%) IBM
6 4 (5.48%) Ab Initio
6 4 (5.48%) Informatica
7 3 (4.11%) Google
8 1 (1.37%) FIS
8 1 (1.37%) Siemens