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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 57 81
Rank change year-on-year +23 +24 +16
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 34 28 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 3.18% 3.21% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 3.31% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 9 4 13
10th Percentile £41,500 £46,082 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,456 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £58,471 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +49.65% -17.15% +8.58%
75th Percentile £95,000 £69,063 £76,250
90th Percentile £103,500 £78,625 -
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -

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 743 846 1,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 69.50% 97.02% 86.30%
Number of salaries quoted 462 359 933
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,875 £98,474 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -8.70%

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 1 June 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 8 (23.53%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.82%) Apache
3 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Markit EDM
2 1 (2.94%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 21 (61.76%) Azure
2 12 (35.29%) Snowflake
3 11 (32.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (29.41%) GitHub
5 9 (26.47%) GitHub Copilot
6 7 (20.59%) AWS
6 7 (20.59%) dbt
7 5 (14.71%) GCP
8 4 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (11.76%) Amazon S3
8 4 (11.76%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (11.76%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (11.76%) SaaS
8 4 (11.76%) Serverless
9 3 (8.82%) Azure Key Vault
9 3 (8.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (20.59%) Metadata
2 7 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (17.65%) SQL Server
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (11.76%) Data Lake
4 4 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (8.82%) BigQuery
5 3 (8.82%) Power BI
6 2 (5.88%) Big Data
6 2 (5.88%) Data Vault
6 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.88%) Tableau
7 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.94%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.94%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (2.94%) MySQL
7 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) ERwin
3 3 (8.82%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.94%) Subversion
4 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (55.88%) Finance
2 12 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (8.82%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Games
6 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Senior
2 7 (20.59%) Data Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Salesforce Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Informatica Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Applications Support
5 3 (8.82%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Data Modeller
5 3 (8.82%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Big Data Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Big Data Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Junior Data Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Lead
7 1 (2.94%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (29.41%) REST
1 10 (29.41%) SOAP
2 6 (17.65%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (8.82%) YAML
4 2 (5.88%) Great Expectations
5 1 (2.94%) CSS
5 1 (2.94%) HTML
5 1 (2.94%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Cloud Native
2 6 (17.65%) Product Ownership
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.94%) Replication
4 1 (2.94%) SCADA
4 1 (2.94%) Sports Betting
4 1 (2.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Linux
1 4 (11.76%) Unix
2 3 (8.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Agile
2 20 (58.82%) CI/CD
3 19 (55.88%) DevOps
4 18 (52.94%) Asset Management
4 18 (52.94%) Coaching
5 13 (38.24%) Data Governance
5 13 (38.24%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (35.29%) Data Architecture
7 11 (32.35%) AI
8 9 (26.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (26.47%) Data Integration
8 9 (26.47%) Observability
8 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (26.47%) Test Automation
9 8 (23.53%) Architectural Patterns
9 8 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (20.59%) Clean Code
10 7 (20.59%) Data Strategy
11 6 (17.65%) Data Engineering
11 6 (17.65%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 25 (73.53%) SQL
2 16 (47.06%) Python
3 6 (17.65%) Apex Code
3 6 (17.65%) PowerShell
4 4 (11.76%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.82%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.94%) C
6 1 (2.94%) C++
6 1 (2.94%) Java
6 1 (2.94%) Perl
6 1 (2.94%) R
6 1 (2.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (44.12%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Terraform
2 4 (11.76%) Control-M
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) Oracle
2 6 (17.65%) Salesforce
3 4 (11.76%) Databricks
3 4 (11.76%) IBM
3 4 (11.76%) Informatica
4 3 (8.82%) Ab Initio
4 3 (8.82%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) FIS
5 1 (2.94%) Siemens