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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 80 94
Rank change year-on-year +20 +14 +66
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 87 69 91
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.17% 2.51% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% 2.73% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8 29 26
10th Percentile £50,125 £34,584 £35,000
25th Percentile £67,008 £38,750 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £52,500 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +10.39% -20.74%
75th Percentile £101,875 £82,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £109,750 £125,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -

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 2,241 2,530 2,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 81.58% 91.97% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,139 1,100 1,710
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,492 £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% -6.68%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,219 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,625 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%

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 23 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 23 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 +18 83 £93,750 +20.97% 24
Glasgow +16 4 £51,250 +17.14% 24
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 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.15%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 78 (89.66%) Azure
2 53 (60.92%) Snowflake
3 49 (56.32%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (55.17%) GitHub
4 48 (55.17%) GitHub Copilot
5 33 (37.93%) dbt
6 24 (27.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (13.79%) Salesforce Einstein
8 10 (11.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 10 (11.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 8 (9.20%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (9.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (5.75%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.30%) Azure Stack
12 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
12 1 (1.15%) AWS
12 1 (1.15%) AWS CodePipeline
12 1 (1.15%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (1.15%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (42.53%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (18.39%) Snowflake Schema
3 12 (13.79%) Metadata
4 7 (8.05%) Data Lake
5 5 (5.75%) Power BI
6 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.30%) Data Vault
7 2 (2.30%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.15%) QlikView
8 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (21.84%) JIRA
2 13 (14.94%) ER Studio
3 12 (13.79%) ERwin
4 1 (1.15%) Git
General
1 76 (87.36%) Finance
2 39 (44.83%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (37.93%) Social Skills
4 10 (11.49%) Marketing
5 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Legal
5 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (40.23%) Senior
2 15 (17.24%) Data Modeller
3 8 (9.20%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (4.60%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (4.60%) Applications Support
4 4 (4.60%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (4.60%) Support Engineer
5 3 (3.45%) Data Engineer
5 3 (3.45%) Lead
6 2 (2.30%) Analyst
6 2 (2.30%) Architect
6 2 (2.30%) Data Architect
6 2 (2.30%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (1.15%) Business Manager
7 1 (1.15%) Data Analyst
7 1 (1.15%) Data Manager
7 1 (1.15%) Developer
7 1 (1.15%) Product Manager
7 1 (1.15%) Senior Manager
7 1 (1.15%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (26.44%) REST
1 23 (26.44%) SOAP
2 22 (25.29%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (9.20%) YAML
4 1 (1.15%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (34.48%) Cloud Native
2 22 (25.29%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Windows
2 1 (1.15%) Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (85.06%) Asset Management
1 74 (85.06%) Coaching
2 72 (82.76%) Agile
3 61 (70.11%) CI/CD
4 60 (68.97%) DevOps
5 50 (57.47%) AI
6 48 (55.17%) Test Automation
7 47 (54.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (47.13%) Clean Code
8 41 (47.13%) Sprint Planning
8 41 (47.13%) Sprint Retrospective
9 35 (40.23%) Analytics
10 34 (39.08%) Observability
11 27 (31.03%) ETL
12 26 (29.89%) Data Architecture
12 26 (29.89%) Mentoring
13 25 (28.74%) Architectural Patterns
13 25 (28.74%) Data Governance
14 19 (21.84%) Migration
15 16 (18.39%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 38 (43.68%) SQL
2 30 (34.48%) Python
3 22 (25.29%) Apex Code
4 12 (13.79%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.05%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.15%) R
6 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (1.15%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.94%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (4.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (9.20%) Terraform
2 1 (1.15%) Control-M
Vendors
1 22 (25.29%) Salesforce
2 19 (21.84%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.05%) Databricks
4 4 (4.60%) Ab Initio
4 4 (4.60%) IBM
5 1 (1.15%) Informatica
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle