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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 107 115
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +40
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 42 103 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.66% 2.36% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 2.75% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 6 33 41
10th Percentile £46,596 £35,105 £36,250
25th Percentile £54,581 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,618 £71,250 £69,649
90th Percentile £82,078 £114,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £69,500 £69,650 £67,003
% change year-on-year -0.22% +3.95% +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 2,276 3,750 2,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.92% 85.83% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 999 1,592 2,004
10th Percentile £26,924 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,950 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +10 28 £68,792 +5.83% 10
Glasgow +38 12 £51,250 -6.82% 4
West Lothian - 2 - -
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 6 (14.29%) SAS
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (38.10%) Azure
2 11 (26.19%) Snowflake
3 7 (16.67%) AWS
4 6 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (14.29%) GitHub
4 6 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (11.90%) dbt
6 2 (4.76%) Collibra
6 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.38%) GCP
7 1 (2.38%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (11.90%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (4.76%) Metadata
3 2 (4.76%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.38%) Neo4j
4 1 (2.38%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) ER Studio
2 7 (16.67%) ERwin
3 6 (14.29%) JIRA
4 4 (9.52%) Git
4 4 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.52%) Maven
4 4 (9.52%) Subversion
General
1 32 (76.19%) Finance
2 17 (40.48%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
4 7 (16.67%) Banking
4 7 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (9.52%) Law
6 3 (7.14%) Private Banking
7 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Legal
8 1 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Data Modeller
1 13 (30.95%) Senior
2 8 (19.05%) Finance Modeller
3 7 (16.67%) Analyst
4 6 (14.29%) SAS Modeller
5 5 (11.90%) Architect
5 5 (11.90%) Data Architect
5 5 (11.90%) Developer
6 4 (9.52%) Data Analyst
6 4 (9.52%) Financial Analyst
6 4 (9.52%) Java Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) SAS Analyst
6 4 (9.52%) SAS Data Analyst
6 4 (9.52%) Service Analyst
6 4 (9.52%) Software Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) SQL Analyst
6 4 (9.52%) SQL Data Analyst
7 3 (7.14%) Head of Analytics
7 3 (7.14%) Head of Data Analytics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) Hibernate
1 4 (9.52%) Kafka
1 4 (9.52%) Spring
2 3 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.76%) REST
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (2.38%) HTML
4 1 (2.38%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Equities
3 2 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.76%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Agile
2 14 (33.33%) Analytics
2 14 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 12 (28.57%) Data Strategy
4 11 (26.19%) Asset Management
4 11 (26.19%) Coaching
5 10 (23.81%) Artificial Intelligence
5 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
6 9 (21.43%) Data Governance
7 8 (19.05%) Data Analysis
7 8 (19.05%) Decision-Making
8 7 (16.67%) Data Management
8 7 (16.67%) DevOps
8 7 (16.67%) ETL
8 7 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
8 7 (16.67%) Migration
8 7 (16.67%) Physical Data Model
9 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) SQL
2 12 (28.57%) Python
3 6 (14.29%) R
4 4 (9.52%) Java
4 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.38%) Cypher
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Oracle
2 2 (4.76%) Informatica
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.38%) Salesforce