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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 55 85
Rank change year-on-year +5 +30 +33
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 28 34 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.69% 2.70% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 3.12% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 13
10th Percentile £56,484 - £47,500
25th Percentile £59,548 £35,105 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,792 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,618 £101,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,247 £125,000 £72,433
Scotland median annual salary £61,250 £53,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.95% +7.50% -9.09%

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 702 1,089 1,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.61% 86.36% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 297 586 861
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,851 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +0.80% +0.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,243 £95,000 £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

Job postings citing Data Modelling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Data Modelling 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 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Modelling in Edinburgh

Data Modelling
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) Azure
2 10 (35.71%) Snowflake
3 6 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (21.43%) GitHub
3 6 (21.43%) GitHub Copilot
4 5 (17.86%) dbt
5 3 (10.71%) AWS
6 2 (7.14%) Collibra
6 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.57%) GCP
7 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Einstein
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (17.86%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (7.14%) Metadata
4 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.57%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) ERwin
2 6 (21.43%) JIRA
3 5 (17.86%) ER Studio
General
1 22 (78.57%) Finance
2 13 (46.43%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (10.71%) Private Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Legal
6 1 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Senior
2 7 (25.00%) Data Modeller
3 5 (17.86%) Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Data Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Head of Analytics
5 3 (10.71%) Head of Data Analytics
5 3 (10.71%) NetSuite Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Finance Modeller
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Data Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Product Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Product Owner
7 1 (3.57%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Product Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
2 2 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (3.57%) HTML
3 1 (3.57%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (3.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Agile
2 14 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 11 (39.29%) Analytics
3 11 (39.29%) Asset Management
3 11 (39.29%) Coaching
4 10 (35.71%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (28.57%) Data Governance
5 8 (28.57%) Data Strategy
6 7 (25.00%) Data Management
6 7 (25.00%) DevOps
6 7 (25.00%) Migration
7 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
7 6 (21.43%) Clean Code
7 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (21.43%) Decision-Making
7 6 (21.43%) ETL
7 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
7 6 (21.43%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (21.43%) Sprint Retrospective
7 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) Python
1 6 (21.43%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.57%) Apex Code
3 1 (3.57%) Cypher
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (7.14%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Informatica
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Salesforce