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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 110 106
Rank change year-on-year +54 -4 -17
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 87 45 147
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.59% 1.81% 2.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 43.07% 12.10% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 19 35 121
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,850 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,875 £38,375 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £72,375 £63,044 £61,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £83,738 £71,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% -3.91% +4.55%

All Database & 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 202 372 1,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.02% 14.99% 23.13%
Number of salaries quoted 101 126 366
10th Percentile £27,125 £34,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,388 £57,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +11.65% -11.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £64,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,737 £73,886
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,182 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.93% +1.97% -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

Power BI
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Power BI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Power BI

Power BI
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Power BI in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Power BI in Scotland

Power BI
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 25 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +17 26 £67,500 +68.75% 13
Edinburgh +18 22 £90,750 +43.65% 9
Aberdeen -5 15 - - 1
Dundee - 15 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire +3 4 - -
North Lanarkshire - 4 £35,000 -
Fife - 1 £27,000 -
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 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 61 (70.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.60%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.30%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 87 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 78 (89.66%) Azure
3 60 (68.97%) Azure AI
4 6 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.60%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.30%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.15%) AWS
8 1 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.15%) GCP
8 1 (1.15%) GitHub
8 1 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.15%) SaaS
8 1 (1.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.45%) Broadband
2 2 (2.30%) DHCP
2 2 (2.30%) DNS
2 2 (2.30%) Firewall
2 2 (2.30%) Mobile Broadband
2 2 (2.30%) Softphone
2 2 (2.30%) VLAN
2 2 (2.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (71.26%) Tableau
2 5 (5.75%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.30%) MySQL
5 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.15%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.15%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.15%) Metadata
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Oracle Forms
General
1 68 (78.16%) Social Skills
2 4 (4.60%) Billing
2 4 (4.60%) Finance
3 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.30%) Law
4 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.15%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (75.86%) Analyst
2 64 (73.56%) Junior
3 60 (68.97%) Data Analyst
3 60 (68.97%) Junior Analyst
3 60 (68.97%) Junior Data Analyst
4 9 (10.34%) Developer
5 6 (6.90%) Support Analyst
6 4 (4.60%) Applications Support
6 4 (4.60%) Applications Support Analyst
6 4 (4.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 4 (4.60%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 4 (4.60%) Junior Business Intelligence Developer
6 4 (4.60%) Junior Developer
7 3 (3.45%) Architect
8 2 (2.30%) 2nd Line Support
8 2 (2.30%) Administrator
8 2 (2.30%) Data Architect
8 2 (2.30%) Data Manager
8 2 (2.30%) IT Support Analyst
8 2 (2.30%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.75%) .NET
2 2 (2.30%) ODBC
2 2 (2.30%) Web Services
3 1 (1.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (4.60%) Management Information System
1 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.30%) Data Fabric
2 2 (2.30%) iPhone
3 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.30%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.30%) Windows
1 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (98.85%) Business Intelligence
2 63 (72.41%) AI
3 10 (11.49%) Analytics
3 10 (11.49%) Customer Service
4 8 (9.20%) Agile
5 7 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (6.90%) CI/CD
6 6 (6.90%) DevOps
6 6 (6.90%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (5.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (4.60%) Change Management
8 4 (4.60%) CRM
8 4 (4.60%) Data Migration
8 4 (4.60%) Data Security
8 4 (4.60%) Data Strategy
8 4 (4.60%) Migration
8 4 (4.60%) Process Improvement
8 4 (4.60%) Regression Testing
8 4 (4.60%) Storyboarding
8 4 (4.60%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 67 (77.01%) SQL
2 64 (73.56%) Python
3 5 (5.75%) C#
3 5 (5.75%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.15%) Scala
5 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (68.97%) Azure Certification
2 4 (4.60%) Degree
2 4 (4.60%) HND
3 1 (1.15%) MCT
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.60%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.60%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.30%) BitLocker
1 2 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 77 (88.51%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.60%) Adobe
2 4 (4.60%) Freshdesk
2 4 (4.60%) Nintex
3 3 (3.45%) Oracle
4 2 (2.30%) Bomgar
4 2 (2.30%) iManage
4 2 (2.30%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.15%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.15%) Databricks