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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 95 111
Rank change year-on-year -7 +16 +45
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 51 60 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.92% 1.80% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 2.14% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 24 36
10th Percentile £46,596 £33,282 £35,000
25th Percentile £54,581 £35,105 £38,257
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £48,750 £48,779
Median % change year-on-year +25.64% -0.06% -11.31%
75th Percentile £75,618 £81,563 £60,000
90th Percentile £83,953 £125,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £68,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +0.74% - +3.85%

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 2,410 2,807 2,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.60% 84.29% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,030 1,338 1,883
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,150 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 +14 37 £68,792 -30.34% 14
Glasgow +4 12 £51,250 +17.14% 9
West Lothian - 2 - - 3
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 (11.76%) SAS
2 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 29 (56.86%) Azure
2 20 (39.22%) Snowflake
3 15 (29.41%) GitHub
3 15 (29.41%) GitHub Copilot
4 14 (27.45%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (19.61%) dbt
6 7 (13.73%) AWS
7 4 (7.84%) Salesforce Einstein
8 3 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.92%) Collibra
9 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.96%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (1.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (27.45%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (19.61%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (7.84%) Metadata
4 2 (3.92%) Power BI
4 2 (3.92%) Qlik Sense
4 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.96%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.96%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.96%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 14 (27.45%) ER Studio
2 10 (19.61%) ERwin
2 10 (19.61%) JIRA
3 4 (7.84%) Git
3 4 (7.84%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.84%) Maven
3 4 (7.84%) Subversion
General
1 44 (86.27%) Finance
2 24 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 7 (13.73%) Banking
5 4 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.84%) Law
6 3 (5.88%) Private Banking
7 2 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Legal
8 1 (1.96%) Marketing
8 1 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Data Modeller
1 17 (33.33%) Senior
2 8 (15.69%) Finance Modeller
3 7 (13.73%) Analyst
4 6 (11.76%) SAS Modeller
5 4 (7.84%) Architect
5 4 (7.84%) Data Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Data Architect
5 4 (7.84%) Financial Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Java Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) SAS Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) SAS Data Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Service Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) Software Engineer
5 4 (7.84%) SQL Analyst
5 4 (7.84%) SQL Data Analyst
6 3 (5.88%) Head of Analytics
6 3 (5.88%) Head of Data Analytics
7 2 (3.92%) Statistical Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) REST
2 5 (9.80%) Lightning Web Components
2 5 (9.80%) SOAP
3 4 (7.84%) Hibernate
3 4 (7.84%) Kafka
3 4 (7.84%) Spring
4 1 (1.96%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.80%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.84%) Equities
4 2 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.92%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (58.82%) Agile
2 24 (47.06%) Asset Management
2 24 (47.06%) Coaching
3 21 (41.18%) Analytics
4 19 (37.25%) AI
4 19 (37.25%) CI/CD
5 18 (35.29%) Data Architecture
6 16 (31.37%) Data Strategy
7 15 (29.41%) DevOps
7 15 (29.41%) Test Automation
8 14 (27.45%) Clean Code
8 14 (27.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (27.45%) Sprint Planning
8 14 (27.45%) Sprint Retrospective
9 13 (25.49%) Data Governance
9 13 (25.49%) Mentoring
10 11 (21.57%) ETL
10 11 (21.57%) Logical Data Model
10 11 (21.57%) Migration
10 11 (21.57%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 19 (37.25%) SQL
2 17 (33.33%) Python
3 6 (11.76%) R
4 5 (9.80%) Apex Code
5 4 (7.84%) Java
6 1 (1.96%) Cypher
6 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.96%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.92%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 4 (7.84%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (9.80%) Salesforce
2 4 (7.84%) Oracle
3 2 (3.92%) Informatica
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.96%) Databricks