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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 90 98
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +25
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 25 60 212
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.75% 2.58% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 2.80% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 11 9 44
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,350 £42,521
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,441 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.08% -
75th Percentile £93,125 £76,250 £76,563
90th Percentile £96,250 £80,325 £81,750
UK median annual salary £69,973 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.65% -3.70% -

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 2,345 2,142 5,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.61% 92.01% 88.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,359 912 2,523
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,933 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,300
90th Percentile £80,250 £87,450 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.12%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -4 12 £65,000 -5.51% 10
Glasgow -7 7 £70,000 +11.11% 8
Midlothian - 3 - - 5
West Lothian -2 1 - -
Aberdeen -17 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 6 (24.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (12.00%) Apache
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.00%) FIS Private Capital Suite
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) GCP
3 5 (20.00%) Azure
4 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) Cloud Composer
5 3 (12.00%) Dataform
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
6 2 (8.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
6 2 (8.00%) SaaS
6 2 (8.00%) Serverless
7 1 (4.00%) dbt
7 1 (4.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Metadata
1 7 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.00%) BigQuery
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (12.00%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (8.00%) Big Data
4 2 (8.00%) Data Vault
4 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.00%) Power BI
4 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (8.00%) Tableau
5 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.00%) IBM InfoSphere
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (4.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) ERwin
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (4.00%) Subversion
2 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (12.00%) Legal
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.00%) Retail
4 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Data Engineer
1 7 (28.00%) Senior
2 6 (24.00%) Architect
3 5 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 5 (20.00%) Lead
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Big Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Informatica Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Power Platform Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Principal Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Principal Data Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Big Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Principal Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Great Expectations
1 2 (8.00%) REST
1 2 (8.00%) SOAP
2 1 (4.00%) CSS
2 1 (4.00%) HTML
2 1 (4.00%) Node.js
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.00%) Replication
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.00%) SCADA
3 1 (4.00%) Sports Betting
3 1 (4.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Linux
1 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 9 (36.00%) Data Architecture
3 7 (28.00%) Data Engineering
3 7 (28.00%) Roadmaps
4 6 (24.00%) AI
4 6 (24.00%) DevOps
4 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.00%) Agile
5 5 (20.00%) Analytics
5 5 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (16.00%) Conceptual Models
6 4 (16.00%) Data Management
6 4 (16.00%) Data Security
6 4 (16.00%) Data Strategy
6 4 (16.00%) ETL
6 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (12.00%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) SQL
2 10 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.00%) C
4 1 (4.00%) C++
4 1 (4.00%) Java
4 1 (4.00%) Perl
4 1 (4.00%) R
4 1 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) CCA
2 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (52.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.00%) Google
4 2 (8.00%) Databricks
4 2 (8.00%) Informatica
5 1 (4.00%) FIS
5 1 (4.00%) IBM
5 1 (4.00%) Siemens