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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 57 65
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 +19
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 8 23 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.76% 2.71% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 2.86% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 14
10th Percentile £45,000 £56,484 £35,105
25th Percentile £53,750 £59,548 £41,954
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,792 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% +0.06% +5.77%
75th Percentile £93,125 £80,618 £76,250
90th Percentile £104,000 £83,247 £79,750
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% +1.92% +4.00%

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 709 803 1,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 67.72% 94.47% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 468 377 804
10th Percentile £29,525 £26,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £71,500 £76,840 £73,886
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% -12.04% -1.82%

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 27 July 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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (37.50%) Apache
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Composer
2 3 (37.50%) Dataform
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Dagster
4 1 (12.50%) dbt
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (12.50%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Metadata
2 3 (37.50%) BigQuery
3 2 (25.00%) Big Data
3 2 (25.00%) Data Vault
3 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (25.00%) Power BI
4 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
4 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (12.50%) Tableau
General
1 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Games
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
1 4 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Big Data Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Data Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Big Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Great Expectations
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Reference Data
1 1 (12.50%) Sports Betting
1 1 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
2 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
2 3 (37.50%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) Metadata Management
2 3 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (12.50%) API Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) R
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks