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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 66 64
Rank change year-on-year +21 -2 +22
Contract jobs citing Power BI 96 54 50
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 4.38% 3.25% 2.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.51% 13.74% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 37 31
10th Percentile - £271 £128
25th Percentile £320 £375 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -2.70%
75th Percentile £480 £519 £509
90th Percentile £538 £545 £625
UK median daily rate £489 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £12.90 - -
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £31.64 £30.30
% change year-on-year -5.31% +4.44% -6.27%

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 349 393 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 15.93% 23.65% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 225 189
10th Percentile £314 £300 £305
25th Percentile £373 £413 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.09% +8.67% -8.77%
75th Percentile £489 £538 £513
90th Percentile £575 £596 £578
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £22.24 - £17.45
25th Percentile £36.25 £52.50 £18.26
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +180.76% -69.57%
75th Percentile - £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +10.00% +1.55% -37.34%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 +17 59 £400 -11.11% 30
Edinburgh +13 33 £405 -10.00% 19
Aberdeen -1 2 £438 +25.00% 7
Renfrewshire - 1 - -
Highlands - 1 £350 -
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UK

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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 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 15 (15.63%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.04%) Confluence
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (17.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.04%) AutoCAD
4 1 (1.04%) Navisworks
4 1 (1.04%) ProjectWise
4 1 (1.04%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (4.17%) Primavera
3 2 (2.08%) iTrent
4 1 (1.04%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (1.04%) Sonata
4 1 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 96 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 30 (31.25%) Azure
3 25 (26.04%) Power Automate
4 24 (25.00%) Snowflake
5 21 (21.88%) PowerApps
6 20 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (16.67%) Entra ID
8 8 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (2.08%) AWS
10 2 (2.08%) GCP
10 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (1.04%) Cloud Run
11 1 (1.04%) Google Analytics
11 1 (1.04%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) Internet
1 1 (1.04%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.71%) Tableau
2 10 (10.42%) Big Data
2 10 (10.42%) Relational Database
3 8 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (7.29%) Power Query
5 6 (6.25%) Metadata
5 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.21%) Data Lake
6 5 (5.21%) MySQL
6 5 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (5.21%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (4.17%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (2.08%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (2.08%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.04%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.04%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.04%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.04%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (1.04%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (1.04%) ER Studio
2 1 (1.04%) ERwin
2 1 (1.04%) JIRA
2 1 (1.04%) PowerDesigner
General
1 33 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 28 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (27.08%) Finance
4 22 (22.92%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (11.46%) Public Sector
6 10 (10.42%) Banking
7 9 (9.38%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.08%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.04%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.04%) Local Government
10 1 (1.04%) Military
10 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (30.21%) Developer
2 25 (26.04%) Analyst
3 15 (15.63%) SharePoint Developer
4 12 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 11 (11.46%) Data Analyst
6 10 (10.42%) Senior
7 8 (8.33%) Consultant
8 7 (7.29%) Data Integration Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Kafka Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Python Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Site Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Snowflake Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Business Data Analyst
9 5 (5.21%) Power BI Consultant
9 5 (5.21%) Project Manager
10 4 (4.17%) Accountant
10 4 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Consultant
10 4 (4.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.71%) REST
2 15 (15.63%) CSS
2 15 (15.63%) HTML
2 15 (15.63%) React
2 15 (15.63%) SPFx
3 11 (11.46%) Kafka
4 4 (4.17%) .NET
5 2 (2.08%) PySpark
6 1 (1.04%) JSON
6 1 (1.04%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.63%) Data Structures
2 7 (7.29%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.04%) CMDB
6 1 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.04%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.04%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.04%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.21%) Linux
1 5 (5.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (96.88%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (31.25%) Analytics
3 28 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 25 (26.04%) Agile
5 24 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 21 (21.88%) Visualisation
7 20 (20.83%) AI
8 18 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
8 18 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (18.75%) Validation
9 17 (17.71%) Change Management
9 17 (17.71%) Decision-Making
10 15 (15.63%) Document Management
10 15 (15.63%) ETL
10 15 (15.63%) Risk Management
11 13 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (13.54%) Data Engineering
11 13 (13.54%) Data Governance
11 13 (13.54%) Data Integration
11 13 (13.54%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 28 (29.17%) SQL
2 23 (23.96%) Python
3 22 (22.92%) JavaScript
4 15 (15.63%) TypeScript
5 7 (7.29%) C#
6 4 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.08%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (17.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (7.29%) SC Cleared
2 7 (7.29%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.13%) SnowPro
4 2 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.04%) CCAB
5 1 (1.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.71%) Data Quality
2 13 (13.54%) QA
3 4 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.08%) GDPR
5 1 (1.04%) ISO 19650
5 1 (1.04%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (10.42%) Grafana
Vendors
1 30 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.54%) Databricks
3 6 (6.25%) Oracle
4 3 (3.13%) Google
4 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.08%) SAP
6 1 (1.04%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.04%) Informatica
6 1 (1.04%) Sparx
6 1 (1.04%) Talend
6 1 (1.04%) Teradata