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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 80 91
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 +26
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 45 60 266
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.42% 2.88% 4.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 3.08% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 13 10 39
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,325 £42,591
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,438 £48,170
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £71,125 £76,250
90th Percentile £99,250 £77,125 £80,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,400
% change year-on-year +7.69% -0.61% -3.11%

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 2,252 1,945 5,842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 71.06% 93.37% 90.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1,263 826 2,450
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,225
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,661 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 May 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 May 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 34 £87,500 +49.65% 13
Glasgow -15 6 £70,000 +11.11% 5
Midlothian - 3 - - 7
Aberdeen -17 1 - - 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 8 (17.78%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.67%) Apache
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Markit EDM
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.22%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) Azure
2 13 (28.89%) Snowflake
3 12 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (24.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (22.22%) GitHub
6 9 (20.00%) AWS
6 9 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (15.56%) dbt
8 5 (11.11%) GCP
8 5 (11.11%) Power Platform
9 4 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
9 4 (8.89%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (8.89%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (8.89%) SaaS
9 4 (8.89%) Serverless
10 3 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (24.44%) Metadata
2 9 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (17.78%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (8.89%) Data Lake
5 4 (8.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (6.67%) BigQuery
6 3 (6.67%) Power BI
7 2 (4.44%) Big Data
7 2 (4.44%) Data Vault
7 2 (4.44%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
7 2 (4.44%) Tableau
8 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.22%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.22%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (2.22%) MySQL
8 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Git
2 4 (8.89%) ERwin
3 3 (6.67%) ER Studio
4 1 (2.22%) Subversion
4 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (48.89%) Finance
2 13 (28.89%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.67%) Legal
5 3 (6.67%) Marketing
5 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.67%) Retail
6 1 (2.22%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Senior
2 8 (17.78%) Data Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Architect
3 6 (13.33%) Lead
3 6 (13.33%) Salesforce Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Data Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Informatica Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Applications Support
6 3 (6.67%) Applications Support Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Data Modeller
6 3 (6.67%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Big Data Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Principal Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Principal Data Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.22%) REST
1 10 (22.22%) SOAP
2 6 (13.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (6.67%) YAML
4 2 (4.44%) Great Expectations
5 1 (2.22%) CSS
5 1 (2.22%) HTML
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (2.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (6.67%) Replication
5 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.22%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.22%) SCADA
6 1 (2.22%) Sports Betting
6 1 (2.22%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
1 4 (8.89%) Unix
2 3 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Agile
2 21 (46.67%) DevOps
3 20 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 19 (42.22%) Data Governance
5 18 (40.00%) Asset Management
5 18 (40.00%) Coaching
6 16 (35.56%) Data Architecture
7 14 (31.11%) AI
8 13 (28.89%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (22.22%) Data Engineering
9 10 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (20.00%) Analytics
10 9 (20.00%) Data Integration
10 9 (20.00%) Observability
10 9 (20.00%) Test Automation
11 8 (17.78%) Architectural Patterns
11 8 (17.78%) Data Strategy
11 8 (17.78%) ETL
11 8 (17.78%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (57.78%) SQL
2 19 (42.22%) Python
3 6 (13.33%) Apex Code
3 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.89%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.67%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.22%) C
6 1 (2.22%) C++
6 1 (2.22%) Java
6 1 (2.22%) Perl
6 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.22%) R
6 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) CCA
2 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (42.22%) Data Quality
2 6 (13.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Terraform
2 4 (8.89%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) Oracle
3 6 (13.33%) Salesforce
4 5 (11.11%) Databricks
5 4 (8.89%) IBM
5 4 (8.89%) Informatica
6 3 (6.67%) Ab Initio
6 3 (6.67%) Google
7 1 (2.22%) FIS
7 1 (2.22%) Siemens