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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 77 60
Rank change year-on-year +36 -17 +23
Contract jobs citing Power BI 98 48 64
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 4.40% 2.81% 3.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.65% 12.31% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 32 39
10th Percentile - £266 £156
25th Percentile £320 £350 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -2.78% -
75th Percentile £450 £500 £544
90th Percentile £535 £524 £653
UK median daily rate £485 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +2.11% -2.06% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £24.60
25th Percentile - - £29.04
Median hourly rate £12.90 - £37.07
75th Percentile - - £45.72
90th Percentile - - £50.54
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £31.64 £27.22
% change year-on-year -8.34% +16.26% -26.45%

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 382 390 352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.14% 22.83% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 227 251
10th Percentile £313 £295 £316
25th Percentile £355 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -8.16%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £516
90th Percentile £588 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 4
10th Percentile £35.13 £26.17 £17.72
25th Percentile £46.56 £36.05 £18.92
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £20.62
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +166.80% -41.10%
75th Percentile £57.25 £57.50 £29.67
90th Percentile £64.00 - £44.12
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.86% -9.09% -33.67%

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 July 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 July 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 +25 54 £339 -20.24% 12
Edinburgh +12 38 £425 -5.56% 4
Aberdeen -1 1 £475 +35.71%
Renfrewshire - 1 - - 1
West Lothian - 1 - -
Highlands - 1 £350 -
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 17 (17.35%) SharePoint
2 15 (15.31%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 20 (20.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (4.08%) Primavera
3 2 (2.04%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (2.04%) iTrent
3 2 (2.04%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (1.02%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 98 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 27 (27.55%) Azure
3 24 (24.49%) Power Automate
3 24 (24.49%) Snowflake
4 23 (23.47%) PowerApps
5 22 (22.45%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (15.31%) Entra ID
7 7 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.02%) AWS
10 1 (1.02%) dbt
10 1 (1.02%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.02%) Matillion
10 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) Internet
1 1 (1.02%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.33%) Tableau
2 10 (10.20%) Big Data
3 8 (8.16%) Relational Database
4 7 (7.14%) Power Query
4 7 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.10%) MySQL
5 5 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.06%) Metadata
7 3 (3.06%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (2.04%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (2.04%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.04%) QlikView
8 2 (2.04%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.02%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Git
2 2 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 28 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 26 (26.53%) Finance
3 24 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (24.49%) Documentation Skills
4 17 (17.35%) Public Sector
5 12 (12.24%) Banking
6 10 (10.20%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.06%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Front Office
9 1 (1.02%) Marketing
9 1 (1.02%) Military
9 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (28.57%) Developer
2 25 (25.51%) Analyst
3 15 (15.31%) SharePoint Developer
4 12 (12.24%) Data Engineer
5 10 (10.20%) Data Analyst
6 8 (8.16%) Consultant
7 7 (7.14%) Data Integration Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Kafka Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Python Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Site Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Snowflake Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Business Analyst
8 6 (6.12%) Power Platform Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Report Analyst
9 5 (5.10%) Business Data Analyst
9 5 (5.10%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 5 (5.10%) Security Analyst
9 5 (5.10%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.31%) CSS
1 15 (15.31%) HTML
1 15 (15.31%) React
1 15 (15.31%) REST
1 15 (15.31%) SPFx
2 10 (10.20%) Kafka
3 1 (1.02%) .NET
3 1 (1.02%) PySpark
3 1 (1.02%) WCF
3 1 (1.02%) WinForms
3 1 (1.02%) WPF
3 1 (1.02%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.12%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.02%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.02%) CMDB
6 1 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.02%) Derivative
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.02%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.02%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.02%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.10%) Linux
1 5 (5.10%) Unix
2 1 (1.02%) Windows
2 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (93.88%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (32.65%) Analytics
3 30 (30.61%) Agile
4 26 (26.53%) CI/CD
5 22 (22.45%) Visualisation
6 21 (21.43%) AI
7 19 (19.39%) Data Pipeline
8 18 (18.37%) Data Modelling
9 17 (17.35%) Decision-Making
10 16 (16.33%) Change Management
11 15 (15.31%) Document Management
11 15 (15.31%) Risk Management
11 15 (15.31%) Validation
12 14 (14.29%) ETL
13 13 (13.27%) Data Engineering
13 13 (13.27%) Use Case
14 12 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (11.22%) Data Integration
16 10 (10.20%) Data Governance
16 10 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 30 (30.61%) SQL
2 25 (25.51%) Python
3 21 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 15 (15.31%) TypeScript
5 7 (7.14%) C#
6 6 (6.12%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (18.37%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.06%) SnowPro
5 2 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.02%) CCAB
6 1 (1.02%) Degree
6 1 (1.02%) FFIEC
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.27%) QA
2 9 (9.18%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.08%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.04%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.04%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.04%) SLA
4 2 (2.04%) WCAG
5 1 (1.02%) Basel III
5 1 (1.02%) GDPR
5 1 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (4.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (10.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 30 (30.61%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.24%) Databricks
3 9 (9.18%) Oracle
4 3 (3.06%) Alteryx
4 3 (3.06%) SAP
4 3 (3.06%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.04%) FIS
5 2 (2.04%) Fiserv
5 2 (2.04%) SmartStream
6 1 (1.02%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.02%) Google
6 1 (1.02%) Teradata