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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 72 61
Rank change year-on-year +26 -11 +11
Contract jobs citing Power BI 112 44 54
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 4.73% 2.76% 2.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.64% 12.09% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 28 27
10th Percentile £288 £300 £179
25th Percentile £363 £407 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £538 £525 £519
90th Percentile £600 £540 £600
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 391 364 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.52% 22.81% 16.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 206 193
10th Percentile £313 £319 £333
25th Percentile £375 £413 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +8.50% -6.25%
75th Percentile £507 £538 £519
90th Percentile £588 £625 £635
UK median daily rate £502 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.42% -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 £40.18 £39.48 £34.47
% change year-on-year +1.77% +14.55% -34.35%

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 11 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 11 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 +9 54 £425 -15.00% 61
Edinburgh +19 43 £400 -11.11% 39
Aberdeen +5 9 £475 +35.71% 15
Highlands - 4 £786 - 2
Stirling - 1 - -
Lanarkshire - 1 £625 - 25
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 17 (15.18%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.36%) 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 27 (24.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.68%) Revit
4 2 (1.79%) AutoCAD
4 2 (1.79%) Civil 3D
4 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.79%) Navisworks
4 2 (1.79%) ProjectWise
5 1 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (4.46%) 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 31 (27.68%) Azure
3 24 (21.43%) Snowflake
4 22 (19.64%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (19.64%) Power Automate
5 19 (16.96%) PowerApps
6 16 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.36%) AWS
7 6 (5.36%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Copilot
7 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.46%) OneDrive
9 4 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.68%) dbt
10 3 (2.68%) Fivetran
11 2 (1.79%) GCP
11 2 (1.79%) SaaS
12 1 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.89%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.39%) Metadata
2 14 (12.50%) Tableau
3 13 (11.61%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (10.71%) Power Query
5 10 (8.93%) Relational Database
6 8 (7.14%) Big Data
7 7 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (5.36%) Data Lake
8 6 (5.36%) SQL Server
9 5 (4.46%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (2.68%) MySQL
10 3 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.79%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.89%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.89%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.89%) BusinessObjects XI
12 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.89%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.93%) Git
2 3 (2.68%) GitLab
2 3 (2.68%) JIRA
3 1 (0.89%) ER Studio
3 1 (0.89%) ERwin
3 1 (0.89%) PowerDesigner
General
1 47 (41.96%) Social Skills
2 45 (40.18%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (24.11%) Finance
4 13 (11.61%) Public Sector
5 12 (10.71%) Banking
6 11 (9.82%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (8.04%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.57%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.79%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.89%) Advertising
11 1 (0.89%) Local Government
11 1 (0.89%) Military
11 1 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (28.57%) Analyst
2 19 (16.96%) Developer
3 16 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 16 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 12 (10.71%) Senior
5 10 (8.93%) Project Manager
5 10 (8.93%) Snowflake Engineer
6 8 (7.14%) Consultant
7 7 (6.25%) Data Integration Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Python Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) SharePoint Developer
8 6 (5.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Microsoft 365 Manager
9 5 (4.46%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
9 5 (4.46%) Power BI Consultant
9 5 (4.46%) Site Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Technical Manager
9 5 (4.46%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.04%) Kafka
1 9 (8.04%) REST
2 6 (5.36%) CSS
2 6 (5.36%) HTML
2 6 (5.36%) React
2 6 (5.36%) SPFx
3 4 (3.57%) .NET
4 2 (1.79%) PySpark
5 1 (0.89%) JSON
5 1 (0.89%) Middleware
5 1 (0.89%) MIDP
5 1 (0.89%) OpenJDK
5 1 (0.89%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.39%) Data Structures
2 9 (8.04%) 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%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.79%) IoT
6 2 (1.79%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.89%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (0.89%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.89%) NHS
7 1 (0.89%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.89%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.68%) Linux
1 3 (2.68%) Unix
2 1 (0.89%) AIX
2 1 (0.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (98.21%) Business Intelligence
2 36 (32.14%) Analytics
3 32 (28.57%) Agile
4 29 (25.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 29 (25.89%) Visualisation
5 28 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 23 (20.54%) Validation
7 22 (19.64%) CI/CD
7 22 (19.64%) Data Pipeline
7 22 (19.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (18.75%) Decision-Making
9 20 (17.86%) AI
9 20 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (17.86%) Data Governance
10 19 (16.96%) Data Engineering
11 18 (16.07%) Data Analysis
12 17 (15.18%) Change Management
12 17 (15.18%) ETL
12 17 (15.18%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (13.39%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 34 (30.36%) SQL
2 32 (28.57%) Python
3 11 (9.82%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.36%) C#
4 6 (5.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (5.36%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.57%) R
6 3 (2.68%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.89%) Java
7 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.89%) Scala
7 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (8.04%) SC Cleared
1 9 (8.04%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (1.79%) Degree
3 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.89%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (24.11%) Data Quality
2 15 (13.39%) QA
3 7 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
3 7 (6.25%) GDPR
4 4 (3.57%) ISO 19650
5 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
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 8 (7.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 39 (34.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.82%) Databricks
3 4 (3.57%) Oracle
4 3 (2.68%) Autodesk
4 3 (2.68%) Google
5 1 (0.89%) Informatica
5 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.89%) Sparx
5 1 (0.89%) Talend
5 1 (0.89%) Teradata