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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 58 82
Rank change year-on-year +13 +24 +42
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 49 42 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 5.63% 3.24% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.23% 3.61% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 12
10th Percentile £64,178 - £47,500
25th Percentile £68,570 £35,105 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,292 £81,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +47.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £95,313 £125,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £107,125 - £73,843
Scotland median annual salary £68,792 £52,500 £47,557
% change year-on-year +31.03% +10.39% -15.45%

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 787 1,165 955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 90.36% 89.96% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 352 480 766
10th Percentile £25,691 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,500 £46,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £59,430 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% -4.91% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £89,875 £90,000 £91,934
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 17 November 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 (2.04%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 44 (89.80%) Azure
2 30 (61.22%) Snowflake
3 28 (57.14%) GitHub
3 28 (57.14%) GitHub Copilot
4 27 (55.10%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (38.78%) dbt
6 8 (16.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (12.24%) Salesforce Einstein
8 4 (8.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 4 (8.16%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (6.12%) AWS
9 3 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (6.12%) Power Platform
10 2 (4.08%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (2.04%) Azure Stack
11 1 (2.04%) Collibra
11 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (46.94%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (28.57%) Snowflake Schema
3 6 (12.24%) Metadata
4 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
4 3 (6.12%) Power BI
5 2 (4.08%) Data Vault
6 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (32.65%) JIRA
2 9 (18.37%) ERwin
3 8 (16.33%) ER Studio
General
1 45 (91.84%) Finance
2 24 (48.98%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (30.61%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Marketing
5 3 (6.12%) Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Private Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Legal
6 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (44.90%) Senior
2 10 (20.41%) Data Modeller
3 3 (6.12%) Head of Analytics
3 3 (6.12%) Head of Data Analytics
4 2 (4.08%) Architect
4 2 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (4.08%) Data Architect
4 2 (4.08%) Senior Manager
5 1 (2.04%) Business Analyst
5 1 (2.04%) Data Engineer
5 1 (2.04%) Data Manager
5 1 (2.04%) Lead
5 1 (2.04%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (2.04%) Principal Architect
5 1 (2.04%) Principal Data Architect
5 1 (2.04%) Product Manager
5 1 (2.04%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.04%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (2.04%) Senior Product Manager
5 1 (2.04%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.41%) Lightning Web Components
1 10 (20.41%) REST
1 10 (20.41%) SOAP
2 2 (4.08%) YAML
3 1 (2.04%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (36.73%) Cloud Native
2 10 (20.41%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (81.63%) Asset Management
1 40 (81.63%) Coaching
2 39 (79.59%) Agile
3 32 (65.31%) AI
4 30 (61.22%) CI/CD
4 30 (61.22%) DevOps
5 28 (57.14%) Test Automation
6 27 (55.10%) Analytics
7 26 (53.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (51.02%) Clean Code
8 25 (51.02%) Sprint Planning
8 25 (51.02%) Sprint Retrospective
9 19 (38.78%) Data Architecture
10 18 (36.73%) Mentoring
11 16 (32.65%) ETL
11 16 (32.65%) Observability
12 15 (30.61%) Data Governance
12 15 (30.61%) Migration
13 12 (24.49%) Architectural Patterns
13 12 (24.49%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.61%) SQL
2 14 (28.57%) Python
3 10 (20.41%) Apex Code
4 3 (6.12%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.04%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Salesforce
2 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.12%) Databricks
4 1 (2.04%) Informatica