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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 54 84
Rank change year-on-year -4 +30 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 12 24 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 1.14% 2.81% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.93% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 14
10th Percentile £38,000 £56,484 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £59,548 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,792 £67,788
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +1.48% +4.29%
75th Percentile £93,125 £80,618 £76,250
90th Percentile £104,000 £83,247 -
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £63,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -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 720 818 1,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 68.12% 95.90% 84.75%
Number of salaries quoted 478 360 933
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,861 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,951 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,914 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 29 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 6 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) GCP
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Composer
2 3 (25.00%) Dataform
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) dbt
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (25.00%) BigQuery
3 3 (25.00%) Metadata
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (16.67%) Big Data
4 2 (16.67%) Data Vault
4 2 (16.67%) Power BI
4 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (16.67%) Tableau
5 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (8.33%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (8.33%) MySQL
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) ERwin
2 1 (8.33%) Subversion
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Games
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Data Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Big Data Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Data Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Informatica Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Big Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Data Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Junior
5 1 (8.33%) Junior Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Great Expectations
1 2 (16.67%) REST
1 2 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Reference Data
2 1 (8.33%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) SCADA
2 1 (8.33%) Sports Betting
2 1 (8.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 4 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) API Integration
3 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (16.67%) AI
4 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 2 (16.67%) ETL
4 2 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) C
4 1 (8.33%) C++
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) Perl
4 1 (8.33%) R
4 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) Google
3 2 (16.67%) Informatica
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Databricks
4 1 (8.33%) FIS
4 1 (8.33%) IBM
4 1 (8.33%) Siemens