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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 98 105
Rank change year-on-year +29 +7 -40
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 70 52 133
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.94% 2.07% 2.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 33.82% 14.73% 12.59%
Number of salaries quoted 23 38 106
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,925 £27,500
25th Percentile £48,625 £39,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% +17.65% -19.05%
75th Percentile £89,750 £62,188 £59,500
90th Percentile £116,500 £83,738 £71,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

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 207 353 1,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.75% 14.05% 21.07%
Number of salaries quoted 111 114 320
10th Percentile £27,125 £36,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +11.65% -10.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £86,750 £75,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 22 August 2026.

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 22 August 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 +14 22 £67,500 +68.75% 28
Edinburgh -8 21 £105,000 +75.00% 24
Aberdeen -8 11 - - 5
Dundee - 11 - - 1
North Lanarkshire - 4 £35,000 - 1
Fife - 1 £27,000 - 3
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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 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 45 (64.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 60 (85.71%) Azure
3 44 (62.86%) Azure AI
4 4 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (5.71%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.86%) AWS
5 2 (2.86%) GCP
5 2 (2.86%) SaaS
6 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.43%) GitHub
6 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (67.14%) Tableau
2 6 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.29%) Metadata
5 2 (2.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.86%) MySQL
5 2 (2.86%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.43%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Oracle Forms
General
1 52 (74.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Finance
4 2 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (2.86%) Law
4 2 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 48 (68.57%) Junior
2 45 (64.29%) Analyst
2 45 (64.29%) Data Analyst
3 44 (62.86%) Junior Analyst
3 44 (62.86%) Junior Data Analyst
4 10 (14.29%) Developer
5 5 (7.14%) Architect
6 4 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 4 (5.71%) Data Architect
6 4 (5.71%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 4 (5.71%) Junior Business Intelligence Developer
6 4 (5.71%) Junior Developer
7 3 (4.29%) Data Manager
7 3 (4.29%) Senior
7 3 (4.29%) Senior Developer
8 2 (2.86%) Administrator
8 2 (2.86%) DBA
8 2 (2.86%) Lead
8 2 (2.86%) Senior Systems Developer
8 2 (2.86%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.71%) .NET
2 2 (2.86%) ODBC
3 1 (1.43%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.86%) Data Fabric
3 2 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (67.14%) AI
3 13 (18.57%) Analytics
4 7 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (8.57%) Data Architecture
5 6 (8.57%) Data Strategy
5 6 (8.57%) Decision-Making
6 5 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 5 (7.14%) Data Governance
6 5 (7.14%) Data Modelling
6 5 (7.14%) Data Security
6 5 (7.14%) ETL
6 5 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (5.71%) Business Strategy
7 4 (5.71%) Change Management
7 4 (5.71%) CRM
7 4 (5.71%) Customer Service
7 4 (5.71%) Migration
7 4 (5.71%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (5.71%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 54 (77.14%) SQL
2 48 (68.57%) Python
3 5 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.71%) C#
5 2 (2.86%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.86%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.43%) R
6 1 (1.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (62.86%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.43%) MCT
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.86%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 58 (82.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.71%) Oracle
3 2 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.43%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.43%) Databricks