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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 93 115
Rank change year-on-year +4 +22 +42
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 64 63 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.30% 1.91% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 2.25% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 6 25 32
10th Percentile £46,875 £33,542 £35,000
25th Percentile £56,563 £35,105 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,792 £52,500 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% +10.39% -13.53%
75th Percentile £86,352 £82,500 £58,125
90th Percentile £101,875 £125,000 £72,493
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% - +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 2,433 2,806 2,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.52% 84.93% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,162 1,313 1,797
10th Percentile £26,500 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £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 £61,250 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,975 £82,500 £82,548
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 15 November 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 15 November 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 +15 49 £81,292 +0.05% 27
Glasgow -3 13 £51,250 +20.59% 16
West Lothian - 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 6 (9.38%) SAS
2 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 45 (70.31%) Azure
2 31 (48.44%) Snowflake
3 28 (43.75%) GitHub
3 28 (43.75%) GitHub Copilot
4 27 (42.19%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (29.69%) dbt
6 9 (14.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (10.94%) AWS
8 6 (9.38%) Salesforce Einstein
9 4 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
9 4 (6.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 4 (6.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.56%) Azure Stack
11 1 (1.56%) Collibra
11 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (21.88%) Snowflake Schema
3 6 (9.38%) Metadata
4 4 (6.25%) Power BI
5 3 (4.69%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.13%) Data Vault
6 2 (3.13%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.56%) QlikView
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (25.00%) JIRA
2 14 (21.88%) ER Studio
3 9 (14.06%) ERwin
4 4 (6.25%) Git
4 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.25%) Maven
4 4 (6.25%) Subversion
General
1 56 (87.50%) Finance
2 29 (45.31%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (34.38%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.94%) Banking
5 4 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.25%) Law
5 4 (6.25%) Marketing
6 3 (4.69%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Legal
7 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (37.50%) Senior
2 16 (25.00%) Data Modeller
3 7 (10.94%) Analyst
4 6 (9.38%) Finance Modeller
4 6 (9.38%) SAS Modeller
5 4 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 4 (6.25%) Financial Analyst
5 4 (6.25%) Java Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) SAS Analyst
5 4 (6.25%) SAS Data Analyst
5 4 (6.25%) Service Analyst
5 4 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) SQL Analyst
5 4 (6.25%) SQL Data Analyst
6 3 (4.69%) Head of Analytics
6 3 (4.69%) Head of Data Analytics
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (3.13%) Statistical Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.63%) Lightning Web Components
1 10 (15.63%) REST
1 10 (15.63%) SOAP
2 4 (6.25%) Hibernate
2 4 (6.25%) Kafka
2 4 (6.25%) Spring
3 2 (3.13%) YAML
4 1 (1.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (28.13%) Cloud Native
2 10 (15.63%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.25%) Equities
4 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.13%) Social Media
5 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (67.19%) Agile
2 40 (62.50%) Asset Management
2 40 (62.50%) Coaching
3 34 (53.13%) CI/CD
4 33 (51.56%) AI
5 31 (48.44%) Analytics
6 30 (46.88%) DevOps
7 28 (43.75%) Test Automation
8 27 (42.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (39.06%) Clean Code
9 25 (39.06%) Sprint Planning
9 25 (39.06%) Sprint Retrospective
10 19 (29.69%) Data Architecture
11 18 (28.13%) Mentoring
12 17 (26.56%) ETL
13 16 (25.00%) Data Governance
13 16 (25.00%) Data Strategy
13 16 (25.00%) Observability
14 15 (23.44%) Migration
15 13 (20.31%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 24 (37.50%) SQL
2 20 (31.25%) Python
3 10 (15.63%) Apex Code
4 6 (9.38%) R
5 4 (6.25%) Java
6 3 (4.69%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (1.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Salesforce
2 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.25%) Oracle
4 3 (4.69%) Databricks
5 1 (1.56%) Informatica