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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 79 97
Rank change year-on-year +17 +18 +50
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 87 71 102
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.13% 2.60% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 2.82% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 7 29 25
10th Percentile £48,500 £34,584 £35,500
25th Percentile £70,625 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £52,500 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +10.39% -20.74%
75th Percentile £103,750 £82,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £110,500 £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 2,250 2,517 2,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 80.99% 92.13% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,129 1,089 1,773
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,100 £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% -7.08%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 27 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 27 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 +19 83 £100,000 +29.03% 25
Glasgow +3 4 £51,250 +17.14% 18
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 2 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
2 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%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.30%) AWS
11 2 (2.30%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.30%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (2.30%) Azure Stack
11 2 (2.30%) 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
6 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.30%) Data Vault
7 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.30%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.15%) QlikView
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 2 (2.30%) Git
General
1 76 (87.36%) Finance
2 40 (45.98%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (39.08%) Social Skills
4 10 (11.49%) Marketing
5 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (39.08%) 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%) Informatica Engineer
6 2 (2.30%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (1.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (1.15%) Business Manager
7 1 (1.15%) Developer
7 1 (1.15%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (1.15%) SAS Analyst
7 1 (1.15%) SAS Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (27.59%) REST
1 24 (27.59%) SOAP
2 22 (25.29%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (9.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (34.48%) Cloud Native
2 22 (25.29%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Windows
2 2 (2.30%) Linux
2 2 (2.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (85.06%) Asset Management
1 74 (85.06%) Coaching
2 72 (82.76%) Agile
3 62 (71.26%) CI/CD
4 60 (68.97%) DevOps
5 49 (56.32%) 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 34 (39.08%) Analytics
9 34 (39.08%) Observability
10 27 (31.03%) ETL
11 26 (29.89%) Data Architecture
11 26 (29.89%) Data Governance
11 26 (29.89%) Mentoring
12 25 (28.74%) Architectural Patterns
13 19 (21.84%) Migration
14 17 (19.54%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 39 (44.83%) SQL
2 30 (34.48%) Python
3 22 (25.29%) Apex Code
4 12 (13.79%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.05%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.15%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (1.15%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.09%) 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 2 (2.30%) 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 2 (2.30%) Informatica
5 2 (2.30%) Oracle