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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 65 56
Rank change year-on-year +20 -9 +36
Contract jobs citing Power BI 82 53 79
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 4.58% 3.27% 3.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.47% 15.27% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 29 57
10th Percentile - £253 £248
25th Percentile £320 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £488 £475 £525
90th Percentile £575 £535 £663
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £11.42 £25.36 £24.60
25th Percentile £11.66 £25.52 £29.04
Median hourly rate £12.20 £26.93 £37.07
Median % change year-on-year -54.69% -27.37% -
75th Percentile £12.61 £28.22 £45.72
90th Percentile £12.79 £28.32 £50.54
UK median hourly rate £28.03 £29.07 £23.82
% change year-on-year -3.59% +22.03% -55.68%

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 322 347 396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.99% 21.41% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 220 294
10th Percentile £313 £299 £325
25th Percentile £358 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.57% -1.05% -4.23%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £559
90th Percentile £633 £589 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 2
10th Percentile £19.53 £20.72 £24.60
25th Percentile £39.69 £22.42 £29.04
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £37.07
Median % change year-on-year +88.68% -28.51% +5.91%
75th Percentile £54.69 £28.07 £45.72
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.25 £50.54
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +44.61% -13.56% -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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +27 42 £381 +1.67% 5
Edinburgh +10 33 £450 -10.00% 6
Renfrewshire - 2 - - 1
West Lothian - 1 - -
Highlands - 1 £350 -
Perth and Kinross - 1 £375 -
Aberdeen - 1 £475 - 1
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 14 (17.07%) SharePoint
2 11 (13.41%) SharePoint Server
3 4 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.66%) Apache
4 3 (3.66%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 23 (28.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.44%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (10.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.44%) IntelliMatch
2 2 (2.44%) iTrent
2 2 (2.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.22%) Infor M3
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.22%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 82 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 28 (34.15%) Azure
2 28 (34.15%) Power Automate
3 22 (26.83%) PowerApps
4 20 (24.39%) Snowflake
5 17 (20.73%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (13.41%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (13.41%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (13.41%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.66%) AWS
8 2 (2.44%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.44%) GCP
8 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.44%) Serverless
9 1 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.22%) Boomi
9 1 (1.22%) dbt
9 1 (1.22%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.22%) Internet
1 1 (1.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.07%) Tableau
2 9 (10.98%) Big Data
3 7 (8.54%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (6.10%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.88%) MySQL
5 4 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.66%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (3.66%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.66%) Metadata
6 3 (3.66%) Power Query
7 2 (2.44%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.44%) QlikView
8 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.22%) BusinessObjects XI
8 1 (1.22%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (13.41%) Git
2 4 (4.88%) JIRA
General
1 26 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 24 (29.27%) Finance
3 20 (24.39%) Public Sector
4 18 (21.95%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (13.41%) Banking
7 5 (6.10%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.44%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Front Office
9 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.22%) Marketing
9 1 (1.22%) Military
9 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (32.93%) Analyst
2 22 (26.83%) Developer
3 11 (13.41%) SharePoint Developer
4 10 (12.20%) Data Analyst
4 10 (12.20%) Data Engineer
5 9 (10.98%) Report Analyst
6 8 (9.76%) Business Analyst
6 8 (9.76%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 8 (9.76%) Security Analyst
7 7 (8.54%) Power Platform Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Consultant
8 4 (4.88%) Kafka Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.88%) Site Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Snowflake Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Data Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.66%) Risk Analyst
9 3 (3.66%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.73%) REST
2 12 (14.63%) CSS
2 12 (14.63%) HTML
3 11 (13.41%) React
3 11 (13.41%) SPFx
4 6 (7.32%) Kafka
5 3 (3.66%) .NET
6 2 (2.44%) JSON
7 1 (1.22%) NumPy
7 1 (1.22%) Pandas
7 1 (1.22%) PySpark
7 1 (1.22%) SOAP
7 1 (1.22%) WCF
7 1 (1.22%) WinForms
7 1 (1.22%) WPF
7 1 (1.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.98%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.66%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.66%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.44%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.22%) CMDB
4 1 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.22%) Derivative
4 1 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.22%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (1.22%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.22%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.54%) Linux
2 4 (4.88%) Unix
3 1 (1.22%) Windows
3 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (92.68%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (34.15%) Agile
3 24 (29.27%) Analytics
4 22 (26.83%) CI/CD
5 16 (19.51%) Visualisation
6 15 (18.29%) Data Modelling
7 14 (17.07%) AI
7 14 (17.07%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (17.07%) Risk Management
8 13 (15.85%) ETL
9 12 (14.63%) Data Integration
10 11 (13.41%) DevOps
10 11 (13.41%) Document Management
11 10 (12.20%) Change Management
11 10 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (12.20%) Migration
11 10 (12.20%) Validation
12 9 (10.98%) Data Engineering
12 9 (10.98%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 28 (34.15%) SQL
2 20 (24.39%) JavaScript
3 19 (23.17%) Python
4 13 (15.85%) TypeScript
5 10 (12.20%) C#
6 7 (8.54%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.22%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (17.07%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (3.66%) SnowPro
3 2 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.22%) CCAB
4 1 (1.22%) Degree
4 1 (1.22%) FFIEC
4 1 (1.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.98%) Data Quality
1 9 (10.98%) QA
2 6 (7.32%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (3.66%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.66%) GDPR
4 2 (2.44%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.44%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.44%) PMO
4 2 (2.44%) SLA
4 2 (2.44%) WCAG
5 1 (1.22%) Basel III
System Software
1 3 (3.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (7.32%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (31.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.98%) Databricks
3 8 (9.76%) Oracle
4 4 (4.88%) SAP
5 3 (3.66%) Alteryx
5 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.44%) FIS
6 2 (2.44%) Fiserv
6 2 (2.44%) SmartStream
7 1 (1.22%) Ariba
7 1 (1.22%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.22%) Infor
7 1 (1.22%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.22%) Salesforce