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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 98 96
Rank change year-on-year -25 -2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 24 51 154
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.68% 2.02% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 2.24% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 10 8 41
10th Percentile £45,000 £44,350 £35,105
25th Percentile £63,750 £52,518 £42,479
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £94,063 £74,164 £76,250
90th Percentile £104,000 £80,910 £77,500
UK median annual salary £69,973 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.66% -3.57% +4.47%

All Process & 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 2,482 2,272 4,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 69.88% 89.94% 87.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,411 1,000 1,956
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,851 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 17 August 2026.

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 17 August 2026. 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 -1 9 £95,000 +75.12% 23
Edinburgh -11 9 £70,000 +1.76% 18
Midlothian - 3 - - 15
West Lothian +4 2 - - 2
Aberdeen -15 1 - -
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 4 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (12.50%) Apache
3 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) GCP
2 7 (29.17%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Azure
3 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
4 3 (12.50%) Cloud Composer
4 3 (12.50%) Dataform
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Dagster
5 1 (4.17%) dbt
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.17%) OCI
5 1 (4.17%) Prefect
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) Metadata
2 5 (20.83%) Power BI
3 4 (16.67%) BigQuery
3 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (8.33%) Big Data
5 2 (8.33%) Data Vault
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (8.33%) Tableau
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
6 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.17%) Looker
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.17%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Claude Code
2 1 (4.17%) ER Studio
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Forms
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 8 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
4 5 (20.83%) Banking
5 4 (16.67%) Law
6 3 (12.50%) Retail
7 2 (8.33%) Front Office
7 2 (8.33%) Legal
8 1 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (4.17%) Games
8 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Data Manager
3 4 (16.67%) Data Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Lead
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Principal Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Product Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Big Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Principal Data Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Big Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Principal Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Principal Technical Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Product Director
6 1 (4.17%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Great Expectations
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) Node.js
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.17%) PySpark
2 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Reference Data
2 2 (8.33%) AI Agents
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (4.17%) Derivative
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.17%) Social Media
3 1 (4.17%) Sports Betting
3 1 (4.17%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Data Architecture
2 10 (41.67%) Data Governance
3 9 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 9 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 8 (33.33%) AI
4 8 (33.33%) Analytics
5 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (29.17%) Data Security
6 6 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (25.00%) Data Strategy
6 6 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 6 (25.00%) ETL
6 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (25.00%) Quality Management
7 5 (20.83%) Agile
7 5 (20.83%) Business Strategy
7 5 (20.83%) Data Engineering
7 5 (20.83%) DevOps
7 5 (20.83%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.17%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) R
4 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) CCA
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (54.17%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Google
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) Databricks