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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 76 65
Rank change year-on-year +30 -11 +11
Contract jobs citing Power BI 112 45 49
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 4.74% 2.83% 2.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.64% 12.13% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 28 22
10th Percentile £288 £293 £116
25th Percentile £340 £398 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £431
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +15.94% -4.17%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £547
90th Percentile £600 - £631
UK median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -

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 391 371 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.56% 23.30% 16.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 207 198
10th Percentile £313 £313 £330
25th Percentile £363 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.79% +8.33% -6.98%
75th Percentile £509 £538 £531
90th Percentile £588 £625 £641
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.24% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £17.72
25th Percentile - £52.50 £18.92
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year - +180.76% -69.57%
75th Percentile - £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £38.85 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.38% +10.99% -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 October 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 October 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 +10 55 £425 -15.00% 39
Edinburgh +18 44 £400 -11.11% 34
Aberdeen +4 8 £498 +42.14% 23
Highlands - 4 £786 - 3
Lanarkshire - 1 £625 - 15
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 19 (16.96%) SharePoint
2 8 (7.14%) SharePoint Server
3 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.68%) Apache
4 3 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 24 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.79%) Navisworks
4 2 (1.79%) ProjectWise
4 2 (1.79%) Revit
5 1 (0.89%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.89%) Civil 3D
5 1 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (5.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.57%) Primavera
3 1 (0.89%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.89%) Sonata
3 1 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 112 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 33 (29.46%) Azure
3 26 (23.21%) Snowflake
4 25 (22.32%) Power Automate
5 24 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (19.64%) PowerApps
7 18 (16.07%) Entra ID
8 7 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (5.36%) AWS
9 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (4.46%) OneDrive
11 4 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.68%) dbt
12 3 (2.68%) Fivetran
13 2 (1.79%) GCP
14 1 (0.89%) Google Analytics
14 1 (0.89%) SaaS
14 1 (0.89%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.39%) Tableau
2 12 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (10.71%) Metadata
3 11 (9.82%) Power Query
4 10 (8.93%) Relational Database
5 9 (8.04%) Big Data
6 7 (6.25%) SQL Server
7 6 (5.36%) Data Lake
7 6 (5.36%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (4.46%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (3.57%) MySQL
9 4 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.79%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.89%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.89%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.89%) Metadata Repository
11 1 (0.89%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (9.82%) Git
2 3 (2.68%) GitLab
3 2 (1.79%) JIRA
4 1 (0.89%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.89%) ERwin
4 1 (0.89%) PowerDesigner
General
1 46 (41.07%) Social Skills
2 41 (36.61%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (25.00%) Finance
4 14 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (11.61%) Public Sector
6 12 (10.71%) Banking
7 9 (8.04%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.57%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.79%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.89%) Advertising
12 1 (0.89%) Local Government
12 1 (0.89%) Military
12 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (28.57%) Analyst
2 22 (19.64%) Developer
3 16 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 15 (13.39%) Data Analyst
5 12 (10.71%) Senior
6 11 (9.82%) Project Manager
7 10 (8.93%) Snowflake Engineer
8 8 (7.14%) Consultant
8 8 (7.14%) SharePoint Developer
9 7 (6.25%) Data Integration Engineer
9 7 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
9 7 (6.25%) Python Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Kafka Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Site Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (5.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 5 (4.46%) Microsoft 365 Manager
11 5 (4.46%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
11 5 (4.46%) Power BI Consultant
11 5 (4.46%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.82%) REST
2 10 (8.93%) Kafka
3 8 (7.14%) CSS
3 8 (7.14%) HTML
3 8 (7.14%) React
3 8 (7.14%) SPFx
4 4 (3.57%) .NET
5 2 (1.79%) PySpark
6 1 (0.89%) JSON
6 1 (0.89%) Middleware
6 1 (0.89%) MIDP
6 1 (0.89%) OpenJDK
6 1 (0.89%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.39%) Data Structures
2 8 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.46%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.79%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.89%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.89%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.89%) CMDB
7 1 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.89%) IoT
7 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (0.89%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.89%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.89%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.57%) Linux
1 4 (3.57%) Unix
2 1 (0.89%) AIX
2 1 (0.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (98.21%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (30.36%) Agile
2 34 (30.36%) Analytics
3 28 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 27 (24.11%) Visualisation
5 25 (22.32%) CI/CD
5 25 (22.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 23 (20.54%) Data Pipeline
7 21 (18.75%) AI
7 21 (18.75%) Validation
8 20 (17.86%) Data Governance
8 20 (17.86%) Decision-Making
8 20 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (16.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (16.07%) Change Management
10 18 (16.07%) Data Engineering
11 17 (15.18%) ETL
11 17 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (14.29%) Data Analysis
13 15 (13.39%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 34 (30.36%) SQL
2 31 (27.68%) Python
3 14 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.36%) C#
6 5 (4.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (3.57%) R
8 3 (2.68%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.89%) Java
9 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.89%) Scala
9 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (8.93%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 8 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.79%) Degree
3 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.79%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 14 (12.50%) QA
3 7 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
3 7 (6.25%) GDPR
4 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.79%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.89%) GxP
6 1 (0.89%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (5.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (8.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 40 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.71%) Databricks
3 5 (4.46%) Oracle
4 3 (2.68%) Google
5 2 (1.79%) Autodesk
5 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.89%) Informatica
6 1 (0.89%) Sparx
6 1 (0.89%) Talend
6 1 (0.89%) Teradata