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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 107 112
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 24 42 104
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.62% 1.66% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.84% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 11 6 32
10th Percentile £36,250 £46,596 £35,105
25th Percentile £48,750 £54,581 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,250 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +13.95% +7.50%
75th Percentile £93,125 £75,618 £68,438
90th Percentile £102,500 £82,078 £82,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £69,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.72% -0.71% +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 2,667 2,279 3,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.42% 89.94% 85.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,576 995 1,616
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,217 £41,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.16% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £78,750 £82,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +3 11 £55,000 +7.32% 52
Edinburgh -10 7 £70,000 +1.76% 39
Midlothian - 3 - - 19
West Lothian 0 2 - - 5
Stirling - 1 £32,500 - 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 3 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) GCP
2 7 (29.17%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) Dagster
3 2 (8.33%) dbt
3 2 (8.33%) Prefect
3 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (4.17%) Dataform
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Metadata
1 7 (29.17%) Power BI
2 6 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (12.50%) BigQuery
4 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (8.33%) Data Vault
4 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (8.33%) Tableau
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.17%) Big Data
5 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.17%) Looker
5 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (4.17%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Claude Code
2 1 (4.17%) ER Studio
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (37.50%) Finance
3 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 5 (20.83%) Banking
4 5 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
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
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.83%) Data Manager
3 4 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Data Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Lead
4 3 (12.50%) Principal Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Product Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Data Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Principal Data Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Messaging Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Principal Technical Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) PySpark
2 1 (4.17%) Great Expectations
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) Node.js
2 1 (4.17%) React
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
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%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Derivative
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
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
4 8 (33.33%) AI
4 8 (33.33%) Analytics
4 8 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 7 (29.17%) Decision-Making
5 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 6 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (25.00%) Data Security
6 6 (25.00%) Data Strategy
6 6 (25.00%) ETL
6 6 (25.00%) Lakehouse
6 6 (25.00%) Quality Management
7 5 (20.83%) Business Strategy
7 5 (20.83%) Data Management
7 5 (20.83%) Data Transformation
7 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.17%) R
3 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 12 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Databricks
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Google