Power BI Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Power BI
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Power BI skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 53 63
Rank change year-on-year -20 +10 +45
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 81 118 115
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.92% 3.65% 4.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.64% 22.82% 21.34%
Number of salaries quoted 32 60 94
10th Percentile £38,000 £27,500 £34,345
25th Percentile £44,375 £35,000 £42,439
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.63% +11.90%
75th Percentile £57,813 £52,500 £61,835
90th Percentile £63,750 £64,350 £81,039
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 304 517 539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.95% 15.99% 22.46%
Number of salaries quoted 105 234 432
10th Percentile £25,850 £35,000 £35,733
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,457 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £51,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -10.43% +9.52%
75th Percentile £71,750 £65,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £78,250 £74,743 £84,906
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Power BI job vacancy trend in Scotland

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Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Power BI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Power BI

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Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Power BI in Scotland

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Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +15 52 £47,500 +5.56% 8
Glasgow -29 17 £45,000 +5.88% 18
Aberdeen -1 2 - - 4
Dundee - 2 - - 3
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £60,000 - 2
North Lanarkshire - 1 £45,000 -
Highlands - 1 £52,500 - 1
Power BI
UK

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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 14 (17.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (14.81%) Confluence
3 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 26 (32.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (17.28%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (13.58%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.23%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 81 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 49 (60.49%) Azure
3 33 (40.74%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (25.93%) GitHub
4 21 (25.93%) GitHub Copilot
5 16 (19.75%) Snowflake
6 14 (17.28%) OCI
7 13 (16.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (16.05%) PowerApps
8 10 (12.35%) Power Automate
9 8 (9.88%) Azure AI
10 5 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (2.47%) AWS
11 2 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (2.47%) dbt
12 1 (1.23%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (1.23%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (1.23%) Azure Stack
12 1 (1.23%) Miro
12 1 (1.23%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (49.38%) Tableau
2 14 (17.28%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (8.64%) Metadata
4 6 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (4.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.47%) Data Vault
7 2 (2.47%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.23%) Power Query
8 1 (1.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (33.33%) JIRA
2 14 (17.28%) Git
2 14 (17.28%) Jenkins
2 14 (17.28%) Oracle Forms
General
1 45 (55.56%) Finance
2 27 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (28.40%) Social Skills
4 11 (13.58%) Manufacturing
5 8 (9.88%) Marketing
6 5 (6.17%) Law
7 3 (3.70%) Legal
7 3 (3.70%) Retail
8 2 (2.47%) Billing
9 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (49.38%) Analyst
2 21 (25.93%) Applications Engineer
3 14 (17.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (14.81%) Applications Support
4 12 (14.81%) Applications Support Analyst
4 12 (14.81%) Support Analyst
5 10 (12.35%) Business Analyst
6 9 (11.11%) Data Analyst
7 8 (9.88%) Junior
7 8 (9.88%) Junior Analyst
7 8 (9.88%) Junior Data Analyst
8 7 (8.64%) Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Insight Analyst
10 4 (4.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Data Business Analyst
10 4 (4.94%) Systems Analyst
10 4 (4.94%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (4.94%) Technical Business Analyst
11 3 (3.70%) Senior
11 3 (3.70%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.28%) OAuth
1 14 (17.28%) OAuth2
1 14 (17.28%) RESTful
1 14 (17.28%) SAML
2 1 (1.23%) REST
2 1 (1.23%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.28%) Cloud Native
1 14 (17.28%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (14.81%) Low-Code
2 12 (14.81%) Product Ownership
3 11 (13.58%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (12.35%) Management Information System
5 8 (9.88%) Onboarding
5 8 (9.88%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.47%) Life Science
7 1 (1.23%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 42 (51.85%) AI
3 37 (45.68%) Agile
4 35 (43.21%) Asset Management
4 35 (43.21%) Coaching
5 33 (40.74%) DevOps
6 28 (34.57%) ERP
7 25 (30.86%) Analytics
8 22 (27.16%) CI/CD
8 22 (27.16%) Test Automation
8 22 (27.16%) Visualisation
9 21 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (23.46%) ETL
11 15 (18.52%) API Integration
12 14 (17.28%) Clean Code
12 14 (17.28%) Event-Driven
12 14 (17.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 14 (17.28%) Microservices
12 14 (17.28%) RBAC
12 14 (17.28%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 70 (86.42%) SQL
2 43 (53.09%) Python
3 25 (30.86%) PL/SQL
4 15 (18.52%) Shell Script
5 14 (17.28%) Java
6 3 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.23%) Bash
7 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (9.88%) Azure Certification
2 6 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (1.23%) ACCA
3 1 (1.23%) CIMA
3 1 (1.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.88%) Accessibility
2 6 (7.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.23%) P3O
3 1 (1.23%) PMO
3 1 (1.23%) QA
Systems Management
1 14 (17.28%) Single Sign-On
1 14 (17.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (34.57%) Oracle
2 27 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 11 (13.58%) Concur
3 11 (13.58%) SAP
4 5 (6.17%) Alteryx
5 3 (3.70%) Teradata
6 1 (1.23%) CyberArk