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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 96 135
Rank change year-on-year +20 +39 -10
Permanent jobs citing Data Modelling 92 275 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.13% 4.10% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 4.44% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 36 39 41
10th Percentile - £42,591 £36,510
25th Percentile - £48,170 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £61,250 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,875 £80,750 £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 2,732 6,198 4,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.86% 92.47% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,371 2,412 2,190
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,231
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +8.49%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,525
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 9 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 9 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 +36 32 £60,743 -13.93% 18
Glasgow +54 27 £57,500 -11.54% 14
Renfrewshire -3 18 £52,000 +17.02% 6
Inverclyde - 12 £52,000 -
Aberdeen +31 1 - - 1
Dundee - 1 £57,500 -
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 (16.30%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.09%) Apache
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.09%) SAS
3 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 34 (36.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.96%) AWS
2 10 (10.87%) Azure
3 9 (9.78%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.43%) Snowflake
5 4 (4.35%) dbt
6 3 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.17%) GitHub
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.09%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.09%) Collibra
8 1 (1.09%) GCP
8 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.09%) OCI
8 1 (1.09%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (43.48%) Tableau
2 23 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (17.39%) Oracle Reports
4 15 (16.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 9 (9.78%) Power BI
6 7 (7.61%) Metadata
7 4 (4.35%) Data Lake
7 4 (4.35%) Looker
7 4 (4.35%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.26%) Data Vault
9 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.17%) Big Data
9 2 (2.17%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.17%) Neo4j
9 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.09%) Data Mart
10 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (35.87%) JIRA
2 1 (1.09%) ERwin
2 1 (1.09%) Git
2 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
General
1 39 (42.39%) Social Skills
2 33 (35.87%) Finance
3 25 (27.17%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (18.48%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (16.30%) Military
6 8 (8.70%) Banking
7 5 (5.43%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (5.43%) Legal
8 3 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.26%) Marketing
9 2 (2.17%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.09%) Electronics
10 1 (1.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 33 (35.87%) Principal Engineer
2 13 (14.13%) Architect
3 12 (13.04%) Lead
4 7 (7.61%) Data Architect
4 7 (7.61%) Developer
4 7 (7.61%) Senior
5 6 (6.52%) Analyst
6 5 (5.43%) Database Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.26%) Azure Architect
8 3 (3.26%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.26%) Lead Architect
8 3 (3.26%) Lead Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.26%) NetSuite Developer
8 3 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.17%) Data Consultant
9 2 (2.17%) Data Scientist
9 2 (2.17%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.26%) AngularJS
1 3 (3.26%) PySpark
2 1 (1.09%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (1.09%) CSS
2 1 (1.09%) HTML
2 1 (1.09%) jQuery
2 1 (1.09%) Kafka
2 1 (1.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (2.17%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (1.09%) CMDB
2 1 (1.09%) Data Fabric
2 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.09%) Reference Data
2 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (64.13%) Analytics
2 57 (61.96%) Data Management
3 43 (46.74%) Data Governance
4 35 (38.04%) Data Analytics
5 27 (29.35%) Agile
6 19 (20.65%) Customer Experience
6 19 (20.65%) DevOps
7 18 (19.57%) Data Integration
8 16 (17.39%) Business Analysis
8 16 (17.39%) ITIL
8 16 (17.39%) Service Management
9 13 (14.13%) Data Architecture
9 13 (14.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (9.78%) TOGAF
12 8 (8.70%) Business Strategy
12 8 (8.70%) Decision-Making
12 8 (8.70%) Roadmaps
12 8 (8.70%) Visualisation
13 7 (7.61%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.22%) SQL
2 8 (8.70%) Python
3 5 (5.43%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.17%) Java
5 1 (1.09%) C#
5 1 (1.09%) Cypher
5 1 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.09%) PHP
5 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (16.30%) DBS Check
2 2 (2.17%) Degree
2 2 (2.17%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.09%) HND
3 1 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (45.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.17%) QA
3 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.09%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (1.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 21 (22.83%) Oracle
3 4 (4.35%) Databricks
4 2 (2.17%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.09%) Epicor
5 1 (1.09%) Google
5 1 (1.09%) Informatica
5 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow