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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 67 85
Rank change year-on-year +2 +18 +64
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 91 73 192
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.04% 3.20% 4.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.87% 3.42% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10 24 21
10th Percentile £56,750 £41,625 -
25th Percentile £70,000 £47,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £61,872 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.42% -6.96% +10.83%
75th Percentile £99,063 £88,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £108,250 £125,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £70,932 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +13.49% -7.41% +3.85%

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 2,352 2,136 4,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 78.66% 93.52% 93.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,231 924 2,085
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £25,200
25th Percentile £31,000 £40,000 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +7.84% -11.30%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,375 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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
Edinburgh +21 83 £93,750 -6.25% 7
Glasgow -14 6 £70,000 +40.00% 11
Aberdeen -5 1 - - 2
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 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.10%) SAS
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.10%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 76 (83.52%) Azure
2 48 (52.75%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (51.65%) Snowflake
4 45 (49.45%) GitHub
4 45 (49.45%) GitHub Copilot
5 30 (32.97%) dbt
6 25 (27.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (13.19%) Salesforce Einstein
8 10 (10.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 10 (10.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 8 (8.79%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (8.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (8.79%) Power Platform
10 5 (5.49%) AWS
11 4 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (4.40%) Amazon S3
11 4 (4.40%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (4.40%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (4.40%) SaaS
11 4 (4.40%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (37.36%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (14.29%) Metadata
2 13 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
3 8 (8.79%) Data Lake
4 7 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.59%) Power BI
6 4 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.20%) Data Vault
8 2 (2.20%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.10%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (1.10%) MySQL
9 1 (1.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (17.58%) JIRA
2 10 (10.99%) ER Studio
2 10 (10.99%) ERwin
3 5 (5.49%) Git
4 1 (1.10%) Subversion
4 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 70 (76.92%) Finance
2 39 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (39.56%) Social Skills
4 10 (10.99%) Marketing
5 4 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.10%) Legal
7 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (37.36%) Senior
2 12 (13.19%) Data Modeller
3 8 (8.79%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (6.59%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.49%) Lead
6 4 (4.40%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) Applications Support
6 4 (4.40%) Applications Support Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) Informatica Engineer
6 4 (4.40%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.30%) Architect
7 3 (3.30%) Data Architect
7 3 (3.30%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (2.20%) Analyst
8 2 (2.20%) Consultant
8 2 (2.20%) Power Platform Consultant
8 2 (2.20%) Senior Consultant
9 1 (1.10%) Junior
9 1 (1.10%) Service Analyst
9 1 (1.10%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (28.57%) REST
1 26 (28.57%) SOAP
2 22 (24.18%) Lightning Web Components
3 8 (8.79%) YAML
4 1 (1.10%) CSS
4 1 (1.10%) HTML
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 28 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 22 (24.18%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.10%) Replication
4 1 (1.10%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.40%) Linux
1 4 (4.40%) Unix
1 4 (4.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (74.73%) Asset Management
1 68 (74.73%) Coaching
2 67 (73.63%) Agile
3 61 (67.03%) CI/CD
4 59 (64.84%) DevOps
5 48 (52.75%) AI
6 45 (49.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 45 (49.45%) Test Automation
7 38 (41.76%) Clean Code
7 38 (41.76%) Sprint Planning
7 38 (41.76%) Sprint Retrospective
8 34 (37.36%) Observability
9 33 (36.26%) Analytics
10 26 (28.57%) Data Architecture
10 26 (28.57%) Data Governance
10 26 (28.57%) ETL
11 25 (27.47%) Architectural Patterns
12 24 (26.37%) Mentoring
13 19 (20.88%) Data Integration
13 19 (20.88%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 40 (43.96%) SQL
2 30 (32.97%) Python
3 22 (24.18%) Apex Code
4 12 (13.19%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.69%) T-SQL
6 4 (4.40%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.20%) R
8 1 (1.10%) C
8 1 (1.10%) C++
8 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.10%) Java
8 1 (1.10%) Perl
8 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.10%) Degree
1 1 (1.10%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (19.78%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.10%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (8.79%) Terraform
2 4 (4.40%) Control-M
Vendors
1 24 (26.37%) Microsoft
2 22 (24.18%) Salesforce
3 8 (8.79%) Databricks
4 7 (7.69%) Oracle
5 5 (5.49%) IBM
6 4 (4.40%) Ab Initio
6 4 (4.40%) Informatica
7 1 (1.10%) FIS
7 1 (1.10%) Siemens