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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 83 90
Rank change year-on-year +21 +7 +64
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 78 70 88
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.85% 2.52% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 2.75% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6 30 28
10th Percentile £46,875 £34,845 £35,000
25th Percentile £59,003 £39,375 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,292 £55,000 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year +47.80% +15.65% -19.05%
75th Percentile £102,813 £82,188 £58,125
90th Percentile £111,250 £125,000 £72,903
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £66,750
% change year-on-year +7.69% -2.62% +2.69%

All Process and 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 2,240 2,547 2,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 81.81% 91.52% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,142 1,118 1,721
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,656 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,927 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 +21 74 £96,250 +24.19% 19
Glasgow +8 4 £51,250 +13.89% 16
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 1 (1.28%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 71 (91.03%) Azure
2 49 (62.82%) Snowflake
3 46 (58.97%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (57.69%) GitHub
4 45 (57.69%) GitHub Copilot
5 31 (39.74%) dbt
6 20 (25.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (14.10%) Salesforce Einstein
8 9 (11.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 9 (11.54%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 7 (8.97%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (8.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (5.13%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.28%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (43.59%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (20.51%) Snowflake Schema
3 10 (12.82%) Metadata
4 6 (7.69%) Data Lake
5 4 (5.13%) Power BI
6 2 (2.56%) Data Vault
6 2 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.56%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (2.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.28%) QlikView
7 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (24.36%) JIRA
2 12 (15.38%) ER Studio
3 11 (14.10%) ERwin
General
1 70 (89.74%) Finance
2 36 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (38.46%) Social Skills
4 9 (11.54%) Marketing
5 1 (1.28%) Legal
5 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.28%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (42.31%) Senior
2 14 (17.95%) Data Modeller
3 7 (8.97%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (3.85%) Applications Support
4 3 (3.85%) Applications Support Engineer
4 3 (3.85%) Support Engineer
5 2 (2.56%) Analyst
5 2 (2.56%) Architect
5 2 (2.56%) Data Architect
5 2 (2.56%) Lead
6 1 (1.28%) Data Analyst
6 1 (1.28%) Developer
6 1 (1.28%) Lead Data Architect
6 1 (1.28%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (1.28%) Principal Architect
6 1 (1.28%) Qlik Developer
6 1 (1.28%) SAS Data Analyst
6 1 (1.28%) Senior Manager
6 1 (1.28%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.64%) Lightning Web Components
1 20 (25.64%) REST
1 20 (25.64%) SOAP
2 7 (8.97%) YAML
3 1 (1.28%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (35.90%) Cloud Native
2 20 (25.64%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (87.18%) Asset Management
1 68 (87.18%) Coaching
2 66 (84.62%) Agile
3 55 (70.51%) CI/CD
3 55 (70.51%) DevOps
4 47 (60.26%) AI
5 45 (57.69%) Test Automation
6 44 (56.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (50.00%) Clean Code
7 39 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
7 39 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
8 33 (42.31%) Analytics
9 31 (39.74%) Observability
10 25 (32.05%) ETL
10 25 (32.05%) Mentoring
11 22 (28.21%) Architectural Patterns
11 22 (28.21%) Data Architecture
12 21 (26.92%) Data Governance
13 19 (24.36%) Migration
14 15 (19.23%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 32 (41.03%) SQL
2 26 (33.33%) Python
3 20 (25.64%) Apex Code
4 10 (12.82%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.69%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.28%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (1.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.97%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (8.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (25.64%) Salesforce
2 15 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.69%) Databricks
4 3 (3.85%) Ab Initio
4 3 (3.85%) IBM