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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 52 66
Rank change year-on-year -13 +14 +23
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 9 21 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.83% 2.65% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 2.84% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 9 4 12
10th Percentile £45,000 £56,484 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £59,548 £35,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,792 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% +5.83% +18.18%
75th Percentile £91,250 £80,618 £76,250
90th Percentile £99,500 £83,247 -
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £61,250 £61,250
% change year-on-year +14.29% - +22.50%

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 738 739 1,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 67.77% 93.43% 85.08%
Number of salaries quoted 445 344 734
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,851 £47,235
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,445 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.94% -15.93% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £74,786
90th Percentile £99,000 £93,394 £95,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £43,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.61% -21.36% -

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 24 August 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 4 (44.44%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) GCP
1 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Composer
2 3 (33.33%) Dataform
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Dagster
4 1 (11.11%) dbt
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (11.11%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Metadata
2 4 (44.44%) Power BI
3 3 (33.33%) BigQuery
3 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (22.22%) Big Data
4 2 (22.22%) Data Vault
5 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
5 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Big Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Big Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Great Expectations
3 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Reference Data
1 1 (11.11%) Sports Betting
1 1 (11.11%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (55.56%) Analytics
2 5 (55.56%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (55.56%) Data Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
2 5 (55.56%) Metadata Management
3 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
3 4 (44.44%) Data Transformation
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) ETL
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Customer Insight
4 3 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (33.33%) Data Lineage
4 3 (33.33%) Data Security
4 3 (33.33%) Quality Management
4 3 (33.33%) Risk Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 3 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks