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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 71 63
Rank change year-on-year +26 -8 +28
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 26 17 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 2.47% 1.98% 2.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 36.11% 11.18% 17.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 29
10th Percentile £42,500 £54,375 £46,306
25th Percentile £60,813 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,500 £74,870 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% +36.13% +15.54%
75th Percentile £110,313 £83,738 £71,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £87,124 £73,200
Scotland median annual salary £49,750 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% -0.44%

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 72 152 202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 6.83% 17.67% 14.73%
Number of salaries quoted 31 87 152
10th Percentile - £25,313 £39,775
25th Percentile £35,000 £49,750 £47,496
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -1.64% -6.15%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,751 £72,450
90th Percentile £107,500 £98,474 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £51,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.30% +9.52% -12.50%

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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 7 June 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 2 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (69.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (3.85%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 25 (96.15%) Azure
3 17 (65.38%) Azure AI
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) GitHub
5 2 (7.69%) AWS
5 2 (7.69%) GCP
5 2 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (7.69%) OCI
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Stack
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (84.62%) Tableau
2 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.85%) Data Vault
3 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.85%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (73.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) Junior
2 17 (65.38%) Analyst
2 17 (65.38%) Data Analyst
2 17 (65.38%) Junior Analyst
2 17 (65.38%) Junior Data Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Applications Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Data Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Data Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Junior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Lead
5 1 (3.85%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) OAuth
1 2 (7.69%) OAuth2
1 2 (7.69%) RESTful
1 2 (7.69%) SAML
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) CSS
2 1 (3.85%) HTML
2 1 (3.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (96.15%) Business Intelligence
2 22 (84.62%) AI
3 8 (30.77%) Analytics
4 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 4 (15.38%) Data Strategy
4 4 (15.38%) DevOps
5 3 (11.54%) Agile
5 3 (11.54%) Data Architecture
5 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
5 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.54%) RBAC
6 2 (7.69%) Asset Management
6 2 (7.69%) Clean Code
6 2 (7.69%) Data Governance
6 2 (7.69%) ERP
6 2 (7.69%) ETL
6 2 (7.69%) Event-Driven
6 2 (7.69%) Machine Learning
6 2 (7.69%) SOA
6 2 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (92.31%) Python
1 24 (92.31%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) Java
2 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
2 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.85%) C#
3 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) MCT
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (92.31%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) FIS