Data Modelling Jobs in Scotland

Data Modelling
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Modelling over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 94 125
Rank change year-on-year +25 +31 +4
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 90 275 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.21% 4.08% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 4.39% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 35 40 42
10th Percentile - £42,605 £36,510
25th Percentile - £48,505 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +30.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £76,250 £76,875
90th Percentile £77,000 £80,375 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £67,003
% change year-on-year - -2.99% +3.08%

All Process and 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 2,584 6,258 4,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.12% 92.83% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,340 2,424 2,253
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,490
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.94% +9.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £73,875
90th Percentile £83,739 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Data Modelling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Modelling in Scotland

Data Modelling
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Modelling in Scotland.

Salary trend for Data Modelling in Scotland

Data Modelling
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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 2 May 2025. 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 +29 29 £69,122 +1.97% 19
Glasgow +54 28 £57,500 -11.54% 16
Renfrewshire -2 18 £52,000 +17.02% 8
Inverclyde - 12 £52,000 -
Aberdeen +29 1 - - 2
Dundee - 1 £57,500 - 1
Data Modelling
UK

Data Modelling
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (16.67%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.11%) Apache
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.11%) SAS
3 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 34 (37.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 11 (12.22%) AWS
2 9 (10.00%) Azure
2 9 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (5.56%) Snowflake
4 4 (4.44%) dbt
5 3 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.22%) GitHub
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.11%) GCP
7 1 (1.11%) OCI
7 1 (1.11%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (44.44%) Tableau
2 23 (25.56%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (17.78%) Oracle Reports
4 15 (16.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 9 (10.00%) Power BI
6 6 (6.67%) Metadata
7 4 (4.44%) Data Lake
7 4 (4.44%) Looker
7 4 (4.44%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.33%) Data Mining
8 3 (3.33%) Data Vault
9 2 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.22%) Big Data
9 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.11%) Data Mart
10 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.11%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 33 (36.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.11%) Git
2 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
General
1 38 (42.22%) Social Skills
2 31 (34.44%) Finance
3 25 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (18.89%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (16.67%) Military
6 8 (8.89%) Banking
7 5 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (5.56%) Legal
8 3 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.33%) Marketing
9 2 (2.22%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.11%) Electronics
10 1 (1.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 33 (36.67%) Principal Engineer
2 12 (13.33%) Lead
3 11 (12.22%) Architect
4 7 (7.78%) Analyst
4 7 (7.78%) Senior
5 6 (6.67%) Developer
6 5 (5.56%) Data Architect
6 5 (5.56%) Database Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.44%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.33%) Azure Architect
8 3 (3.33%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.33%) Lead Architect
8 3 (3.33%) Lead Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.33%) NetSuite Developer
8 3 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Data Architect
9 2 (2.22%) Data Scientist
9 2 (2.22%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.33%) AngularJS
1 3 (3.33%) PySpark
2 1 (1.11%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (1.11%) CSS
2 1 (1.11%) HTML
2 1 (1.11%) jQuery
2 1 (1.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (2.22%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (1.11%) CMDB
2 1 (1.11%) Data Fabric
2 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.11%) Reference Data
2 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (64.44%) Analytics
2 55 (61.11%) Data Management
3 42 (46.67%) Data Governance
4 35 (38.89%) Data Analytics
5 26 (28.89%) Agile
6 19 (21.11%) Customer Experience
6 19 (21.11%) DevOps
7 18 (20.00%) Data Integration
8 16 (17.78%) Business Analysis
8 16 (17.78%) ITIL
8 16 (17.78%) Service Management
9 12 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (12.22%) Data Architecture
11 8 (8.89%) TOGAF
11 8 (8.89%) Visualisation
12 7 (7.78%) Business Strategy
12 7 (7.78%) Decision-Making
12 7 (7.78%) Mentoring
12 7 (7.78%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.56%) SQL
2 7 (7.78%) Python
3 4 (4.44%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.22%) Java
5 1 (1.11%) C#
5 1 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.11%) PHP
5 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) DBS Check
2 2 (2.22%) Degree
2 2 (2.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.11%) HND
3 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (47.78%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.22%) QA
3 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 21 (23.33%) Oracle
3 4 (4.44%) Databricks
4 2 (2.22%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.11%) Epicor
5 1 (1.11%) Google
5 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow