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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 57 85
Rank change year-on-year +8 +28 +32
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 40 38 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 4.67% 3.04% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 3.41% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 12
10th Percentile £57,165 - £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £35,105 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,084 £85,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +54.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £88,750 £125,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £104,500 - £73,843
Scotland median annual salary £62,500 £52,000 £47,557
% change year-on-year +20.19% +9.34% -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 784 1,113 948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.59% 89.11% 93.95%
Number of salaries quoted 338 461 768
10th Percentile £25,684 £35,000 £30,675
25th Percentile £29,563 £46,306 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £58,800 £61,400
Median % change year-on-year -31.97% -4.23% +2.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £89,125
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -30.91% +5.77% -5.45%

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 7 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 (2.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 34 (85.00%) Azure
2 23 (57.50%) Snowflake
3 19 (47.50%) GitHub
3 19 (47.50%) GitHub Copilot
4 16 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (30.00%) dbt
6 6 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (10.00%) Salesforce Einstein
8 3 (7.50%) AWS
8 3 (7.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
9 2 (5.00%) Collibra
9 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (2.50%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (30.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 7 (17.50%) Metadata
4 3 (7.50%) Data Lake
4 3 (7.50%) Power BI
5 2 (5.00%) Data Vault
6 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) JIRA
2 10 (25.00%) ERwin
3 8 (20.00%) ER Studio
General
1 37 (92.50%) Finance
2 19 (47.50%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Private Banking
5 2 (5.00%) Marketing
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Senior
2 11 (27.50%) Data Modeller
3 4 (10.00%) Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 3 (7.50%) Head of Analytics
4 3 (7.50%) Head of Data Analytics
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Data Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Finance Modeller
6 1 (2.50%) Lead
6 1 (2.50%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Principal Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Principal Data Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Product Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Senior Product Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 6 (15.00%) REST
1 6 (15.00%) SOAP
2 1 (2.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (32.50%) Cloud Native
2 6 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (72.50%) Agile
1 29 (72.50%) Asset Management
1 29 (72.50%) Coaching
2 23 (57.50%) AI
2 23 (57.50%) Analytics
3 21 (52.50%) Data Architecture
4 19 (47.50%) CI/CD
4 19 (47.50%) DevOps
4 19 (47.50%) Test Automation
5 17 (42.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (40.00%) Clean Code
6 16 (40.00%) Data Governance
6 16 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
6 16 (40.00%) Sprint Retrospective
7 14 (35.00%) Mentoring
8 12 (30.00%) Data Strategy
9 11 (27.50%) ETL
9 11 (27.50%) Migration
10 10 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
10 10 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) SQL
2 12 (30.00%) Python
3 6 (15.00%) Apex Code
4 3 (7.50%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Salesforce
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) Databricks
4 2 (5.00%) Informatica