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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 59 91
Rank change year-on-year +26 +32 +29
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 88 36 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 8.04% 3.29% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.41% 3.40% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 11
10th Percentile £56,875 £53,750 -
25th Percentile £86,250 £66,447 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £93,750 £100,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +81.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £105,625 £125,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £111,250 - -
Scotland median annual salary £87,500 £59,122 £50,000
% change year-on-year +48.00% +18.24% -16.67%

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 935 1,060 1,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.47% 96.80% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 407 404 825
10th Percentile £26,150 £36,075 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% -1.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,583 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,250 £93,778 £92,274
Scotland median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £51,514
% change year-on-year -22.73% +6.77% -10.41%

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 21 January 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 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.14%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 78 (88.64%) Azure
2 52 (59.09%) Snowflake
3 49 (55.68%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (54.55%) GitHub
4 48 (54.55%) GitHub Copilot
5 33 (37.50%) dbt
6 24 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (13.64%) Salesforce Einstein
8 10 (11.36%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 10 (11.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 8 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (7.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (5.68%) AWS
11 5 (5.68%) Power Platform
12 4 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (4.55%) Amazon S3
12 4 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (4.55%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (40.91%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (18.18%) Snowflake Schema
3 12 (13.64%) Metadata
4 7 (7.95%) Data Lake
5 6 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.82%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.68%) Power BI
7 4 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.41%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.27%) Data Vault
9 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.14%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (1.14%) MySQL
10 1 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (21.59%) JIRA
2 13 (14.77%) ERwin
3 12 (13.64%) ER Studio
4 5 (5.68%) Git
5 1 (1.14%) Subversion
5 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 74 (84.09%) Finance
2 43 (48.86%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 10 (11.36%) Marketing
5 4 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (38.64%) Senior
2 14 (15.91%) Data Modeller
3 8 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (4.55%) Applications Support
4 4 (4.55%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (4.55%) Data Engineer
4 4 (4.55%) Informatica Engineer
4 4 (4.55%) Support Engineer
5 3 (3.41%) Lead
6 2 (2.27%) Architect
6 2 (2.27%) Data Architect
6 2 (2.27%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (1.14%) Junior
7 1 (1.14%) Junior Data Engineer
7 1 (1.14%) Lead Architect
7 1 (1.14%) Lead Data Architect
7 1 (1.14%) Principal Architect
7 1 (1.14%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (1.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (29.55%) REST
1 26 (29.55%) SOAP
2 22 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (9.09%) YAML
4 1 (1.14%) CSS
4 1 (1.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (34.09%) Cloud Native
2 22 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.14%) Replication
4 1 (1.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.55%) Linux
1 4 (4.55%) Unix
1 4 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (84.09%) Asset Management
1 74 (84.09%) Coaching
2 72 (81.82%) Agile
3 64 (72.73%) CI/CD
4 60 (68.18%) DevOps
5 49 (55.68%) AI
6 48 (54.55%) Test Automation
7 46 (52.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (46.59%) Clean Code
8 41 (46.59%) Sprint Planning
8 41 (46.59%) Sprint Retrospective
9 34 (38.64%) Observability
10 32 (36.36%) Analytics
11 28 (31.82%) Data Architecture
11 28 (31.82%) Data Governance
12 26 (29.55%) ETL
12 26 (29.55%) Mentoring
13 25 (28.41%) Architectural Patterns
14 19 (21.59%) Data Pipeline
14 19 (21.59%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 39 (44.32%) SQL
2 30 (34.09%) Python
3 22 (25.00%) Apex Code
4 12 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.95%) T-SQL
6 4 (4.55%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.14%) C
7 1 (1.14%) C++
7 1 (1.14%) Java
7 1 (1.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.32%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (9.09%) Terraform
2 4 (4.55%) Control-M
Vendors
1 22 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 20 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.95%) Databricks
4 6 (6.82%) Oracle
5 5 (5.68%) IBM
6 4 (4.55%) Ab Initio
6 4 (4.55%) Informatica
7 1 (1.14%) FIS
7 1 (1.14%) Siemens