Data Modelling Jobs in Scotland

Data Modelling
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Modelling over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 98 129
Rank change year-on-year -5 +31 +14
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 68 208 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.08% 3.19% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 3.60% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 7 45 46
10th Percentile £51,365 £41,850 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,721 £43,750 £37,114
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - +22.64%
75th Percentile £75,828 £76,250 £74,750
90th Percentile £81,494 £79,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,900 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.27% +0.59% +0.75%

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 2,891 5,773 3,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 88.46% 88.54% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,360 2,512 2,047
10th Percentile £28,950 £28,275 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,040 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,125 £80,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Modelling in Scotland

Data Modelling
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Modelling in Scotland.

Salary trend for Data Modelling in Scotland

Data Modelling
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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
Glasgow +37 31 £63,000 -1.18% 34
Edinburgh +34 25 £68,792 -2.53% 48
West Lothian - 4 - - 2
Midlothian - 2 - - 5
Aberdeen +34 1 - - 6
Lanarkshire -19 1 - - 2
East Lothian - 1 - -
Fife - 1 - - 2
Data Modelling
UK

Data Modelling
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 15 (22.06%) Oracle Application Server
2 5 (7.35%) SAS
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.59%) AWS
2 9 (13.24%) Azure
3 5 (7.35%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (2.94%) Collibra
4 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.47%) GCP
5 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.18%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (32.35%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (22.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 15 (22.06%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (7.35%) Power BI
4 3 (4.41%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.41%) Metadata
5 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.47%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.47%) Power Query
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.35%) ER Studio
1 5 (7.35%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.88%) Git
2 4 (5.88%) Maven
2 4 (5.88%) Subversion
3 2 (2.94%) ERwin
4 1 (1.47%) JIRA
General
1 40 (58.82%) Finance
2 33 (48.53%) Social Skills
3 28 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (22.06%) Military
6 12 (17.65%) Banking
7 7 (10.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (8.82%) Legal
9 4 (5.88%) Law
10 3 (4.41%) Private Banking
11 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (25.00%) Senior
2 15 (22.06%) Analyst
3 11 (16.18%) Senior Analyst
4 9 (13.24%) Architect
5 7 (10.29%) Data Architect
5 7 (10.29%) Data Modeller
5 7 (10.29%) Finance Modeller
5 7 (10.29%) Lead
6 6 (8.82%) Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Database Engineer
7 5 (7.35%) SAS Modeller
8 4 (5.88%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.88%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Data Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) Financial Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) SAS Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) SAS Data Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.88%) Hibernate
1 4 (5.88%) Kafka
1 4 (5.88%) Spring
2 3 (4.41%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.94%) HTML
4 1 (1.47%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.47%) CSS
4 1 (1.47%) jQuery
4 1 (1.47%) PySpark
4 1 (1.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.18%) Social Media
2 4 (5.88%) Equities
3 2 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.47%) CMDB
4 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.47%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.71%) Analytics
2 25 (36.76%) Agile
3 23 (33.82%) Data Management
4 19 (27.94%) ITIL
5 18 (26.47%) Customer Experience
5 18 (26.47%) DevOps
6 17 (25.00%) Data Analysis
6 17 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (23.53%) Data Integration
7 16 (23.53%) Service Management
8 15 (22.06%) Business Analysis
9 13 (19.12%) Data Architecture
10 12 (17.65%) Project Delivery
11 11 (16.18%) Benchmarking
11 11 (16.18%) Compliance Audit
12 10 (14.71%) Data Strategy
13 8 (11.76%) Decision-Making
14 7 (10.29%) Software Engineering
15 6 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
15 6 (8.82%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.18%) SQL
2 7 (10.29%) Python
3 5 (7.35%) Java
3 5 (7.35%) R
4 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.47%) C#
5 1 (1.47%) Cypher
5 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (22.06%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.47%) HND
2 1 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (1.47%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.94%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (35.29%) Oracle
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.94%) Databricks
3 2 (2.94%) Informatica
4 1 (1.47%) Epicor
4 1 (1.47%) Google
4 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.47%) StreamSets