Tableau Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Tableau
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Tableau skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 58 69
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 +22
Contract jobs citing Tableau 5 12 12
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.80% 1.84% 1.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.17% 8.57% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £530 £535 £413
25th Percentile £556 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £648 £610 £569
90th Percentile £670 £622 £654
Scotland median daily rate £450 £458 £525
% change year-on-year -1.64% -12.86% +0.96%

All Database & BI Skills
Edinburgh

Tableau falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 120 140 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.23% 21.47% 20.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 84 124
10th Percentile £375 £413 £413
25th Percentile £423 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £523
Median % change year-on-year +6.17% -5.36% +7.18%
75th Percentile £613 £539 £575
90th Percentile £686 £638 £663
Scotland median daily rate £450 £458 £484
% change year-on-year -1.64% -5.38% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £26.32 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £27.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +96.53% - -
75th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 -
90th Percentile £65.50 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £23.05 £21.64
% change year-on-year +116.97% +6.49% -27.87%

Tableau
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Tableau relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Tableau job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Tableau
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Tableau.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Tableau

Tableau
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tableau in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Tableau in Edinburgh

Tableau
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (40.00%) SAS
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (20.00%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) SAS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) SAS Macro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) COREP
2 1 (20.00%) IFRS
2 1 (20.00%) IFRS 9