Power BI Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Power BI
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Power BI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 76 55
Rank change year-on-year +38 -21 +32
Contract jobs citing Power BI 93 38 71
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 4.70% 2.40% 3.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.44% 10.95% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 28 48
10th Percentile - £249 £198
25th Percentile £320 £287 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £448 £481 £541
90th Percentile £508 £525 £663
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £11.42 - £24.60
25th Percentile £11.66 - £29.04
Median hourly rate £12.20 - £37.07
75th Percentile £12.61 - £45.72
90th Percentile £12.79 - £50.54
UK median hourly rate £25.78 £31.64 £24.43
% change year-on-year -18.54% +29.51% -50.72%

All Database & BI Skills
Scotland

Power BI 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 327 347 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.54% 21.88% 17.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 212 285
10th Percentile £313 £287 £322
25th Percentile £358 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £460
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% +2.17% -7.72%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £533
90th Percentile £633 £588 £611
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 2
10th Percentile £17.32 £22.88 £24.60
25th Percentile £36.25 £27.82 £29.04
Median hourly rate £50.00 £37.30 £37.07
Median % change year-on-year +34.07% +0.61% +5.91%
75th Percentile £55.00 £48.02 £45.72
90th Percentile £64.00 £53.71 £50.54
UK median hourly rate £42.11 £34.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +23.15% -14.53% -33.33%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Power BI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Power BI job vacancy trend in Scotland

Power BI
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Power BI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Power BI

Power BI
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in Scotland

Power BI
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Power BI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Power BI

Power BI
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 June 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +31 52 £320 -22.89% 8
Edinburgh +15 35 £425 -5.56% 11
Renfrewshire - 2 - - 1
Aberdeen -2 1 £475 +35.71% 2
West Lothian - 1 - -
Highlands - 1 £350 - 1
Perth and Kinross - 1 £375 -
Power BI
UK

Power BI
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 18 (19.35%) SharePoint
2 15 (16.13%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.08%) Apache
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 26 (27.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (8.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (8.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.23%) Primavera
3 2 (2.15%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (2.15%) iTrent
3 2 (2.15%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (1.08%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 93 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 30 (32.26%) Power Automate
3 29 (31.18%) Azure
4 24 (25.81%) PowerApps
4 24 (25.81%) Snowflake
5 22 (23.66%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (16.13%) Entra ID
7 10 (10.75%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (8.60%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.08%) AWS
10 1 (1.08%) dbt
10 1 (1.08%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.08%) Matillion
10 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) Internet
1 1 (1.08%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.28%) Tableau
2 11 (11.83%) Big Data
3 8 (8.60%) Relational Database
4 7 (7.53%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.45%) Power Query
6 5 (5.38%) MySQL
6 5 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.30%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (2.15%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.15%) QlikView
9 1 (1.08%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.08%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.08%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 13 (13.98%) Git
2 4 (4.30%) JIRA
General
1 29 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.81%) Documentation Skills
3 23 (24.73%) Finance
4 19 (20.43%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (18.28%) Public Sector
6 13 (13.98%) Banking
7 10 (10.75%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.23%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Front Office
10 1 (1.08%) Marketing
10 1 (1.08%) Military
10 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (32.26%) Analyst
2 27 (29.03%) Developer
3 15 (16.13%) SharePoint Developer
4 12 (12.90%) Data Analyst
4 12 (12.90%) Data Engineer
5 10 (10.75%) Report Analyst
6 9 (9.68%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 9 (9.68%) Security Analyst
7 7 (7.53%) Business Analyst
7 7 (7.53%) Data Integration Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Kafka Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Power Platform Developer
7 7 (7.53%) Python Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Site Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (7.53%) Snowflake Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Business Data Analyst
9 4 (4.30%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.30%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.20%) REST
2 15 (16.13%) CSS
2 15 (16.13%) HTML
2 15 (16.13%) React
2 15 (16.13%) SPFx
3 10 (10.75%) Kafka
4 1 (1.08%) .NET
4 1 (1.08%) WCF
4 1 (1.08%) WinForms
4 1 (1.08%) WPF
4 1 (1.08%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.90%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.45%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.08%) CMDB
5 1 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.08%) Derivative
5 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.08%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.08%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.08%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.45%) Linux
2 5 (5.38%) Unix
3 1 (1.08%) Windows
3 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (92.47%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (32.26%) Analytics
3 29 (31.18%) Agile
4 26 (27.96%) CI/CD
5 21 (22.58%) AI
5 21 (22.58%) Visualisation
6 17 (18.28%) Data Pipeline
7 16 (17.20%) Change Management
8 15 (16.13%) Document Management
8 15 (16.13%) Risk Management
9 14 (15.05%) ETL
9 14 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (13.98%) Data Engineering
10 13 (13.98%) Data Modelling
10 13 (13.98%) Decision-Making
11 12 (12.90%) Use Case
12 11 (11.83%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (11.83%) Data Integration
12 11 (11.83%) Validation
13 10 (10.75%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 32 (34.41%) SQL
2 25 (26.88%) Python
3 22 (23.66%) JavaScript
4 15 (16.13%) TypeScript
5 8 (8.60%) C#
6 7 (7.53%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (19.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (7.53%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.23%) SnowPro
5 2 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.08%) CCAB
6 1 (1.08%) Degree
6 1 (1.08%) FFIEC
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.90%) QA
2 6 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.38%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.15%) ISO 20022
5 2 (2.15%) ISO 8583
5 2 (2.15%) PMO
5 2 (2.15%) SLA
5 2 (2.15%) WCAG
6 1 (1.08%) Basel III
6 1 (1.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (4.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (10.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (27.96%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.83%) Databricks
3 9 (9.68%) Oracle
4 3 (3.23%) Alteryx
4 3 (3.23%) SAP
5 2 (2.15%) FIS
5 2 (2.15%) Fiserv
5 2 (2.15%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.15%) SmartStream
6 1 (1.08%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.08%) Google
6 1 (1.08%) Teradata