Power BI Job Trends in Edinburgh

Microsoft Power BI
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Power BI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 68 59
Rank change year-on-year +18 -9 +58
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 58 35 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 5.64% 3.00% 4.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.21% 13.89% 17.33%
Number of salaries quoted 14 8 45
10th Percentile - £39,176 £42,439
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,590 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +21.05% -1.55%
75th Percentile £48,750 £63,750 £61,016
90th Percentile £76,750 - £84,056
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £43,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +9.20% -8.42% +18.75%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

Power BI falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 192 252 277
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 18.66% 21.58% 26.95%
Number of salaries quoted 64 105 226
10th Percentile £25,225 £36,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £27,563 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £73,125 £68,114 £79,429
90th Percentile £78,790 £74,658 £93,498
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £52,250 £56,318
% change year-on-year -9.09% -7.22% +2.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Power BI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Power BI job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Power BI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Power BI

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Power BI in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (29.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (20.69%) Confluence
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (29.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (29.31%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (18.97%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 58 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 45 (77.59%) Azure
3 36 (62.07%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (41.38%) GitHub
4 24 (41.38%) GitHub Copilot
5 17 (29.31%) OCI
6 14 (24.14%) Snowflake
7 11 (18.97%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (18.97%) PowerApps
8 8 (13.79%) Power Automate
9 5 (8.62%) Azure AI
10 2 (3.45%) Azure Stack
10 2 (3.45%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (58.62%) Tableau
2 14 (24.14%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (10.34%) Metadata
4 4 (6.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.45%) Data Vault
5 2 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (50.00%) JIRA
2 17 (29.31%) Git
2 17 (29.31%) Jenkins
2 17 (29.31%) Oracle Forms
General
1 38 (65.52%) Finance
2 16 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (25.86%) Social Skills
4 11 (18.97%) Manufacturing
5 8 (13.79%) Marketing
6 1 (1.72%) Billing
6 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (48.28%) Analyst
2 24 (41.38%) Applications Engineer
3 17 (29.31%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (18.97%) Applications Support
4 11 (18.97%) Applications Support Analyst
4 11 (18.97%) Support Analyst
5 8 (13.79%) Business Analyst
6 5 (8.62%) Data Analyst
6 5 (8.62%) Junior
6 5 (8.62%) Junior Analyst
6 5 (8.62%) Junior Data Analyst
7 4 (6.90%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (6.90%) Systems Analyst
7 4 (6.90%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (6.90%) Technical Business Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Data Modeller
8 2 (3.45%) Lead
8 2 (3.45%) Lead Data Engineer
9 1 (1.72%) PMO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (29.31%) OAuth
1 17 (29.31%) OAuth2
1 17 (29.31%) RESTful
1 17 (29.31%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (29.31%) Cloud Native
1 17 (29.31%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (20.69%) Product Ownership
3 9 (15.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (13.79%) Management Information System
4 8 (13.79%) Onboarding
5 7 (12.07%) Low-Code
5 7 (12.07%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 38 (65.52%) Asset Management
2 38 (65.52%) Coaching
3 37 (63.79%) Agile
3 37 (63.79%) AI
4 36 (62.07%) DevOps
5 28 (48.28%) ERP
6 24 (41.38%) CI/CD
6 24 (41.38%) Test Automation
7 22 (37.93%) Analytics
8 19 (32.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (29.31%) API Integration
9 17 (29.31%) Clean Code
9 17 (29.31%) Event-Driven
9 17 (29.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 17 (29.31%) Microservices
9 17 (29.31%) RBAC
9 17 (29.31%) SOA
10 14 (24.14%) Visualisation
11 12 (20.69%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 54 (93.10%) SQL
2 43 (74.14%) Python
3 28 (48.28%) PL/SQL
4 17 (29.31%) Java
4 17 (29.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (8.62%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) P3O
3 1 (1.72%) PMO
Systems Management
1 17 (29.31%) Single Sign-On
1 17 (29.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (48.28%) Oracle
2 27 (46.55%) Microsoft
3 11 (18.97%) Concur
3 11 (18.97%) SAP