Tableau Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Tableau
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Tableau skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 91 134
Rank change year-on-year -14 +43 0
Contract jobs citing Tableau 13 20 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.81% 1.07% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.42% 6.80% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 10
10th Percentile - £327 £415
25th Percentile £475 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +10.26% -2.50%
75th Percentile £531 £576 £538
90th Percentile £543 £640 £550
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

Tableau 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 380 294 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 23.74% 15.79% 17.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 193 327
10th Percentile £313 £334 £393
25th Percentile £414 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% -3.65% -2.04%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £543
90th Percentile £625 £648 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £535 £543
% change year-on-year -6.54% -1.43% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile - £17.45 £29.14
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.26 £41.53
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £64.38
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% -69.57% +179.89%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £67.66
90th Percentile - - £68.31
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -36.36% +22.66%

Tableau
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Tableau as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Tableau in Scotland

Tableau
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Tableau.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Tableau

Tableau
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Tableau.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Tableau

Tableau
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 Tableau within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 September 2025. 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 -18 7 £500 -6.98% 10
Edinburgh +2 6 £525 -16.00% 5
Tableau
UK

Tableau
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Power Platform
2 3 (23.08%) OCI
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Power BI
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (15.38%) Power Query
4 2 (15.38%) QlikView
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
3 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
5 2 (15.38%) Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
1 4 (30.77%) Data Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) HR Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) HR Data Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle HRMS Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Manager
4 1 (7.69%) SAS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (7.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (53.85%) Data Analysis
3 4 (30.77%) Analytics
3 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
3 4 (30.77%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (30.77%) ERP
3 4 (30.77%) Migration
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Visualisation
4 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
4 3 (23.08%) Identity Management
5 2 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 2 (15.38%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
5 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
5 2 (15.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (15.38%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 3 (23.08%) GDPR
3 1 (7.69%) COREP
3 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (7.69%) IFRS
3 1 (7.69%) IFRS 9
3 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) MobileIron
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce