Data Modelling Job Trends in Scotland

Data Modelling
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 92 95
Rank change year-on-year +25 +3 +60
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 92 54 129
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.28% 2.12% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 2.27% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7 24 22
10th Percentile £48,500 £33,282 £40,250
25th Percentile £70,625 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +52.17% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £103,750 £88,750 £71,825
90th Percentile £110,500 £125,000 £82,618
UK median annual salary £70,932 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.13% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,235 2,378 3,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.65% 93.18% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,086 1,001 1,858
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,420 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,856 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,014
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +5.74% -9.54%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Modelling relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in Scotland

Data Modelling
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Modelling.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Modelling in Scotland

Data Modelling
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Modelling within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +33 87 £100,000 +8.11% 19
Glasgow +15 5 £51,250 +17.14% 11
Data Modelling
UK

Data Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.09%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 79 (85.87%) Azure
2 53 (57.61%) Snowflake
3 49 (53.26%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (52.17%) GitHub
4 48 (52.17%) GitHub Copilot
5 33 (35.87%) dbt
6 24 (26.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (13.04%) Salesforce Einstein
8 10 (10.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 10 (10.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 8 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (5.43%) Power Platform
11 4 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (4.35%) AWS
11 4 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (4.35%) SaaS
11 4 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (40.22%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (17.39%) Snowflake Schema
3 13 (14.13%) Metadata
4 7 (7.61%) Data Lake
4 7 (7.61%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (5.43%) Power BI
7 4 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.26%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.17%) Data Vault
9 2 (2.17%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.09%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (1.09%) MySQL
10 1 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.09%) QlikView
10 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (20.65%) JIRA
2 13 (14.13%) ER Studio
2 13 (14.13%) ERwin
3 5 (5.43%) Git
4 1 (1.09%) Subversion
General
1 76 (82.61%) Finance
2 43 (46.74%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (39.13%) Social Skills
4 10 (10.87%) Marketing
5 4 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Legal
6 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (36.96%) Senior
2 15 (16.30%) Data Modeller
3 8 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (4.35%) Applications Support
4 4 (4.35%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (4.35%) Informatica Engineer
4 4 (4.35%) Support Engineer
5 3 (3.26%) Architect
5 3 (3.26%) Data Architect
5 3 (3.26%) Data Engineer
5 3 (3.26%) Lead
6 2 (2.17%) Analyst
6 2 (2.17%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (1.09%) Lead Data Architect
7 1 (1.09%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (1.09%) SAS Data Analyst
7 1 (1.09%) SAS Modeller
7 1 (1.09%) Service Analyst
7 1 (1.09%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (28.26%) REST
1 26 (28.26%) SOAP
2 22 (23.91%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (8.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (32.61%) Cloud Native
2 22 (23.91%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.09%) Replication
5 1 (1.09%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.35%) Linux
1 4 (4.35%) Unix
1 4 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (80.43%) Asset Management
1 74 (80.43%) Coaching
2 72 (78.26%) Agile
3 64 (69.57%) CI/CD
4 60 (65.22%) DevOps
5 50 (54.35%) AI
6 48 (52.17%) Test Automation
7 47 (51.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (44.57%) Clean Code
8 41 (44.57%) Sprint Planning
8 41 (44.57%) Sprint Retrospective
9 35 (38.04%) Analytics
10 34 (36.96%) Observability
11 29 (31.52%) Data Governance
12 28 (30.43%) Data Architecture
13 27 (29.35%) ETL
14 26 (28.26%) Mentoring
15 25 (27.17%) Architectural Patterns
16 19 (20.65%) Data Pipeline
16 19 (20.65%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 42 (45.65%) SQL
2 30 (32.61%) Python
3 22 (23.91%) Apex Code
4 12 (13.04%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.61%) T-SQL
6 4 (4.35%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.09%) C
7 1 (1.09%) C++
7 1 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.09%) Java
7 1 (1.09%) Perl
7 1 (1.09%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (1.09%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.48%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (8.70%) Terraform
2 4 (4.35%) Control-M
Vendors
1 22 (23.91%) Salesforce
2 20 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.70%) Databricks
4 6 (6.52%) Oracle
5 5 (5.43%) IBM
6 4 (4.35%) Ab Initio
6 4 (4.35%) Informatica
7 1 (1.09%) Siemens