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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 104 110
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 25 38 116
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.68% 1.50% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.66% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 12 6 36
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,596 £35,105
25th Percentile £50,625 £54,581 £42,584
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £92,188 £75,618 £76,250
90th Percentile £101,750 £82,078 £78,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £68,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% -1.46% +2.23%

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 2,557 2,288 4,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 69.52% 90.08% 86.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,475 1,016 1,825
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,851 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%

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 31 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 31 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 +8 10 £75,000 +46.34% 21
Edinburgh -7 9 £70,000 +1.76% 12
Midlothian - 3 - - 4
West Lothian +1 2 - -
Stirling - 1 £32,500 - 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 5 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (12.00%) Apache
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) GCP
2 8 (32.00%) Azure
3 7 (28.00%) AWS
4 6 (24.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (12.00%) Cloud Composer
5 3 (12.00%) Dataform
6 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Dagster
6 2 (8.00%) dbt
6 2 (8.00%) Prefect
6 2 (8.00%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Databricks
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) Metadata
2 6 (24.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (24.00%) Power BI
3 5 (20.00%) BigQuery
4 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (8.00%) Big Data
5 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (8.00%) Data Vault
5 2 (8.00%) Tableau
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
6 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.00%) Looker
6 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
6 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Claude Code
2 1 (4.00%) ER Studio
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Finance
3 7 (28.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (20.00%) Banking
5 4 (16.00%) Law
6 3 (12.00%) Retail
7 2 (8.00%) Front Office
7 2 (8.00%) Legal
8 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (4.00%) Games
8 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Data Manager
3 4 (16.00%) Data Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) Lead
4 3 (12.00%) Principal Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Product Manager
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Big Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Principal Data Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Big Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Databricks Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Principal Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Principal Technical Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Great Expectations
2 2 (8.00%) PySpark
3 1 (4.00%) Kafka
3 1 (4.00%) Node.js
3 1 (4.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Reference Data
2 2 (8.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Replication
3 1 (4.00%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Derivative
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) NHS
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.00%) Social Media
3 1 (4.00%) Sports Betting
3 1 (4.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Data Architecture
2 11 (44.00%) Data Governance
3 9 (36.00%) Risk Management
4 8 (32.00%) AI
4 8 (32.00%) Analytics
4 8 (32.00%) Roadmaps
5 7 (28.00%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (28.00%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (28.00%) Decision-Making
5 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (24.00%) Agile
6 6 (24.00%) Data Engineering
6 6 (24.00%) Data Security
6 6 (24.00%) Data Strategy
6 6 (24.00%) DevOps
6 6 (24.00%) ETL
6 6 (24.00%) Lakehouse
6 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (24.00%) Quality Management
7 5 (20.00%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) SQL
2 10 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) Java
3 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.00%) R
3 1 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) CCA
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (56.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Databricks
2 3 (12.00%) Google
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle