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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 53 84
Rank change year-on-year +13 +31 +38
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 63 46 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 6.82% 3.54% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.67% 3.86% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4 15 12
10th Percentile £75,582 £35,105 £47,500
25th Percentile £82,440 £44,428 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,250 £77,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.19% +40.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £109,375 £123,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £112,750 £125,000 £73,843
Scotland median annual salary £81,292 £57,500 £47,557
% change year-on-year +41.38% +20.91% -20.74%

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 821 1,191 963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.85% 91.62% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 358 492 767
10th Percentile £25,730 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,314 £59,430 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.12% -4.91% +4.17%
75th Percentile £71,462 £75,000 £76,385
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +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 29 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 59 (93.65%) Azure
2 40 (63.49%) Azure DevOps
2 40 (63.49%) Snowflake
3 39 (61.90%) GitHub
3 39 (61.90%) GitHub Copilot
4 27 (42.86%) dbt
5 13 (20.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (14.29%) Salesforce Einstein
7 7 (11.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 7 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 5 (7.94%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (6.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (4.76%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.59%) AWS
11 1 (1.59%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (47.62%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (25.40%) Snowflake Schema
3 8 (12.70%) Metadata
4 4 (6.35%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.76%) Power BI
6 2 (3.17%) Data Vault
6 2 (3.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (30.16%) JIRA
2 9 (14.29%) ER Studio
2 9 (14.29%) ERwin
General
1 57 (90.48%) Finance
2 31 (49.21%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (36.51%) Social Skills
4 7 (11.11%) Marketing
5 1 (1.59%) Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Legal
5 1 (1.59%) Private Banking
5 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (46.03%) Senior
2 11 (17.46%) Data Modeller
3 5 (7.94%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (3.17%) Architect
4 2 (3.17%) Data Architect
4 2 (3.17%) Lead
5 1 (1.59%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (1.59%) Applications Support
5 1 (1.59%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (1.59%) Data Manager
5 1 (1.59%) Head of Analytics
5 1 (1.59%) Head of Data Analytics
5 1 (1.59%) Lead Architect
5 1 (1.59%) Lead Data Architect
5 1 (1.59%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (1.59%) Principal Architect
5 1 (1.59%) Product Manager
5 1 (1.59%) Senior Manager
5 1 (1.59%) Senior Product Manager
5 1 (1.59%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (25.40%) Lightning Web Components
1 16 (25.40%) REST
1 16 (25.40%) SOAP
2 5 (7.94%) YAML
3 1 (1.59%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (38.10%) Cloud Native
2 16 (25.40%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (88.89%) Asset Management
1 56 (88.89%) Coaching
2 54 (85.71%) Agile
3 45 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 45 (71.43%) DevOps
4 41 (65.08%) AI
5 39 (61.90%) Test Automation
6 37 (58.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (55.56%) Clean Code
7 35 (55.56%) Sprint Planning
7 35 (55.56%) Sprint Retrospective
8 30 (47.62%) Analytics
9 25 (39.68%) Observability
10 23 (36.51%) Mentoring
11 22 (34.92%) ETL
12 19 (30.16%) Data Architecture
12 19 (30.16%) Migration
13 18 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
14 16 (25.40%) Data Governance
15 13 (20.63%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 20 (31.75%) SQL
2 19 (30.16%) Python
3 16 (25.40%) Apex Code
4 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.35%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (25.40%) Salesforce
2 11 (17.46%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.35%) Databricks
4 1 (1.59%) Ab Initio
4 1 (1.59%) IBM