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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 58 78
Rank change year-on-year +15 +20 +13
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 22 25 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 2.10% 2.95% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 3.04% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 13
10th Percentile £41,500 £55,803 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £57,846 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £62,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -11.44% +8.58%
75th Percentile £95,000 £74,375 £76,250
90th Percentile £103,500 £80,750 -
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £62,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.55% -3.46% -

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 714 822 1,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 68.13% 96.93% 85.33%
Number of salaries quoted 462 358 961
10th Percentile £29,775 £25,969 £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% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £73,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £46,000 £50,890 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.61% -3.07% -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 15 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 (36.36%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (13.64%) Apache
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) FIS Private Capital Suite
1 1 (4.55%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) AWS
3 5 (22.73%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (22.73%) GCP
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 4 (18.18%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (18.18%) GitHub
4 4 (18.18%) SaaS
4 4 (18.18%) Serverless
4 4 (18.18%) Snowflake
5 3 (13.64%) Cloud Composer
5 3 (13.64%) Dataform
5 3 (13.64%) dbt
5 3 (13.64%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 5 (22.73%) Metadata
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (13.64%) BigQuery
5 3 (13.64%) Power BI
6 2 (9.09%) Big Data
6 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
6 2 (9.09%) Data Vault
6 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
6 2 (9.09%) Tableau
7 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
7 1 (4.55%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (4.55%) MySQL
7 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) ERwin
3 1 (4.55%) ER Studio
3 1 (4.55%) Subversion
3 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Finance
3 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.55%) Games
6 1 (4.55%) Marketing
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Data Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Informatica Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Big Data Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Salesforce Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Big Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Junior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Principal Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) REST
1 6 (27.27%) SOAP
2 2 (9.09%) Great Expectations
2 2 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (4.55%) CSS
3 1 (4.55%) HTML
3 1 (4.55%) PySpark
3 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
4 1 (4.55%) Replication
4 1 (4.55%) SCADA
4 1 (4.55%) Sports Betting
4 1 (4.55%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
1 4 (18.18%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 9 (40.91%) Agile
2 9 (40.91%) Data Governance
2 9 (40.91%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (40.91%) DevOps
3 8 (36.36%) Data Architecture
4 7 (31.82%) Data Integration
4 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (27.27%) Asset Management
5 6 (27.27%) Coaching
5 6 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (22.73%) AI
6 5 (22.73%) API Integration
6 5 (22.73%) Data Strategy
7 4 (18.18%) Analytics
7 4 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (18.18%) Data Engineering
7 4 (18.18%) Event-Driven
7 4 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
7 4 (18.18%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) SQL
2 10 (45.45%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) Shell Script
4 2 (9.09%) Apex Code
4 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) C
5 1 (4.55%) C++
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) Perl
5 1 (4.55%) R
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
5 1 (4.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (59.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Control-M
1 4 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle
2 4 (18.18%) Informatica
3 3 (13.64%) Google
4 2 (9.09%) Databricks
4 2 (9.09%) IBM
4 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.55%) Ab Initio
5 1 (4.55%) FIS
5 1 (4.55%) Siemens