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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 88 114
Rank change year-on-year -5 +26 +44
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 55 60 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.03% 1.85% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 2.19% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 7 24 33
10th Percentile £48,165 £33,282 £35,000
25th Percentile £54,721 £35,105 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,000 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year +20.19% +9.34% -13.53%
75th Percentile £83,953 £83,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £99,250 £125,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £68,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.74% - +3.85%

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 2,425 2,739 2,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.52% 84.35% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,102 1,295 1,804
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +6.28% -5.91%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,100 £82,548
UK median annual salary £54,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.58% - -

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 5 November 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 November 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 +7 40 £75,084 -11.67% 24
Glasgow -9 13 £51,250 +20.59% 13
West Lothian - 2 - - 3
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 6 (10.91%) SAS
2 1 (1.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (63.64%) Azure
2 24 (43.64%) Snowflake
3 19 (34.55%) GitHub
3 19 (34.55%) GitHub Copilot
4 16 (29.09%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (21.82%) dbt
6 7 (12.73%) AWS
6 7 (12.73%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (7.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (7.27%) Power Platform
7 4 (7.27%) Salesforce Einstein
8 2 (3.64%) Collibra
8 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (3.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (3.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.82%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (30.91%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (21.82%) Snowflake Schema
3 7 (12.73%) Metadata
4 4 (7.27%) Power BI
5 3 (5.45%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.64%) Data Vault
6 2 (3.64%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (3.64%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.82%) QlikView
7 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (25.45%) ER Studio
2 11 (20.00%) JIRA
3 10 (18.18%) ERwin
4 4 (7.27%) Git
4 4 (7.27%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.27%) Maven
4 4 (7.27%) Subversion
General
1 48 (87.27%) Finance
2 24 (43.64%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Banking
5 4 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.27%) Law
6 3 (5.45%) Private Banking
7 2 (3.64%) Marketing
8 1 (1.82%) Legal
8 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (32.73%) Senior
2 17 (30.91%) Data Modeller
3 7 (12.73%) Analyst
3 7 (12.73%) Finance Modeller
4 6 (10.91%) SAS Modeller
5 4 (7.27%) Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Data Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Data Architect
5 4 (7.27%) Financial Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Java Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) SAS Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) SAS Data Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Service Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Software Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) SQL Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) SQL Data Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Head of Analytics
6 3 (5.45%) Head of Data Analytics
7 2 (3.64%) Statistical Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) Lightning Web Components
1 6 (10.91%) REST
1 6 (10.91%) SOAP
2 4 (7.27%) Hibernate
2 4 (7.27%) Kafka
2 4 (7.27%) Spring
3 1 (1.82%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.91%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.27%) Equities
4 2 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.64%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (60.00%) Agile
2 29 (52.73%) Asset Management
2 29 (52.73%) Coaching
3 27 (49.09%) Analytics
4 24 (43.64%) AI
5 23 (41.82%) CI/CD
6 21 (38.18%) Data Architecture
7 19 (34.55%) DevOps
7 19 (34.55%) Test Automation
8 18 (32.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (30.91%) Data Governance
10 16 (29.09%) Clean Code
10 16 (29.09%) Data Strategy
10 16 (29.09%) Sprint Planning
10 16 (29.09%) Sprint Retrospective
11 14 (25.45%) Mentoring
12 12 (21.82%) Decision-Making
12 12 (21.82%) ETL
12 12 (21.82%) Logical Data Model
12 12 (21.82%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 22 (40.00%) SQL
2 18 (32.73%) Python
3 6 (10.91%) Apex Code
3 6 (10.91%) R
4 4 (7.27%) Java
5 3 (5.45%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (1.82%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.36%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 4 (7.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) Salesforce
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.27%) Oracle
3 3 (5.45%) Databricks
4 2 (3.64%) Informatica