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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 54 87
Rank change year-on-year +5 +33 +31
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 37 37 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 4.69% 2.97% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.07% 3.35% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 14
10th Percentile £56,484 - £47,500
25th Percentile £59,548 £35,105 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,792 £98,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.34% +79.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £81,555 £125,000 £71,825
90th Percentile £85,872 - £73,530
Scotland median annual salary £61,250 £48,750 £48,779
% change year-on-year +25.64% -0.06% -11.31%

All Process and 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 730 1,105 975
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.52% 88.68% 93.93%
Number of salaries quoted 302 475 792
10th Percentile £25,684 £35,000 £30,525
25th Percentile £31,750 £46,306 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £59,430 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £66,875 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.91% +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 24 October 2025.

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 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 29 (78.38%) Azure
2 19 (51.35%) Snowflake
3 15 (40.54%) GitHub
3 15 (40.54%) GitHub Copilot
4 14 (37.84%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (27.03%) dbt
6 4 (10.81%) Salesforce Einstein
7 3 (8.11%) AWS
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.41%) Collibra
8 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Stack
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (35.14%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (27.03%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (10.81%) Metadata
4 2 (5.41%) Power BI
5 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.70%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.70%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) ERwin
1 10 (27.03%) JIRA
2 8 (21.62%) ER Studio
General
1 34 (91.89%) Finance
2 20 (54.05%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Banking
4 3 (8.11%) Private Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
6 1 (2.70%) Marketing
6 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Senior
2 11 (29.73%) Data Modeller
3 4 (10.81%) Architect
3 4 (10.81%) Data Architect
4 3 (8.11%) Head of Analytics
4 3 (8.11%) Head of Data Analytics
5 2 (5.41%) Finance Modeller
5 2 (5.41%) Senior Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.70%) Data Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Data Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Developer
6 1 (2.70%) Lead
6 1 (2.70%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Product Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Product Manager
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) REST
2 5 (13.51%) Lightning Web Components
2 5 (13.51%) SOAP
3 1 (2.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.51%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (70.27%) Agile
2 24 (64.86%) Asset Management
2 24 (64.86%) Coaching
3 19 (51.35%) AI
4 18 (48.65%) Analytics
4 18 (48.65%) Data Architecture
5 15 (40.54%) CI/CD
5 15 (40.54%) DevOps
5 15 (40.54%) Test Automation
6 14 (37.84%) Clean Code
6 14 (37.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (37.84%) Sprint Planning
6 14 (37.84%) Sprint Retrospective
7 13 (35.14%) Mentoring
8 12 (32.43%) Data Governance
8 12 (32.43%) Data Strategy
9 11 (29.73%) Migration
10 10 (27.03%) ETL
11 9 (24.32%) Logical Data Model
11 9 (24.32%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) Python
1 11 (29.73%) SQL
2 5 (13.51%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.70%) Cypher
3 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.41%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.41%) Informatica
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) Databricks