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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 48 59
Rank change year-on-year -18 +11 +25
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 5 33 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.42% 4.30% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 4.64% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile - £55,803 -
25th Percentile £67,500 £57,846 £35,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -19.35% +40.91%
75th Percentile £91,250 £71,453 £125,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £76,075 -
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +15.38% +4.00%

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 765 711 1,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 64.23% 92.70% 87.48%
Number of salaries quoted 468 284 515
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,684 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,000 £46,731
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £41,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.58% -31.25% +0.80%
75th Percentile £77,681 £64,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,738 £90,900
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £38,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +44.74% -30.91% +4.76%

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 5 October 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Dagster
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
2 1 (20.00%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (60.00%) Metadata
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Data Vault
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Reference Data
1 1 (20.00%) Sports Betting
1 1 (20.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Architecture
1 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (80.00%) Data Transformation
1 4 (80.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Insight
2 3 (60.00%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (60.00%) Data Lineage
2 3 (60.00%) Data Security
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Lakehouse
2 3 (60.00%) Metadata Management
2 3 (60.00%) Quality Management
2 3 (60.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft