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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 51 57
Rank change year-on-year -29 +6 +50
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 74 115 122
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.66% 3.52% 5.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.72% 23.71% 23.87%
Number of salaries quoted 39 58 101
10th Percentile £36,650 £27,500 £35,733
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -12.37% +14.12%
75th Percentile £57,500 £51,688 £62,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £63,825 £77,500
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 312 485 511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.20% 14.84% 21.19%
Number of salaries quoted 109 218 432
10th Percentile £25,950 £33,750 £35,784
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -11.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,938 £72,450
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -2.83%

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 8 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 8 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 +17 44 £47,500 +5.56% 10
Glasgow -33 21 £45,000 +5.88% 20
West Dunbartonshire - 2 £57,500 -
North Lanarkshire - 1 £45,000 -
Highlands - 1 £52,500 - 1
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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 12 (16.22%) Confluence
2 10 (13.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (4.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (25.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (14.86%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (13.51%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.35%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 74 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 36 (48.65%) Azure
3 26 (35.14%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (22.97%) Snowflake
5 14 (18.92%) GitHub
5 14 (18.92%) GitHub Copilot
6 13 (17.57%) PowerApps
7 12 (16.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (13.51%) OCI
9 7 (9.46%) Power Automate
10 5 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (4.05%) AWS
12 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.70%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (2.70%) dbt
12 2 (2.70%) SaaS
12 2 (2.70%) Serverless
13 1 (1.35%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (39.19%) Tableau
2 16 (21.62%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (10.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (9.46%) Metadata
5 6 (8.11%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 4 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.70%) Data Vault
7 2 (2.70%) Oracle ODI
7 2 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.70%) Power Query
7 2 (2.70%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (2.70%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 24 (32.43%) JIRA
2 10 (13.51%) Git
2 10 (13.51%) Jenkins
2 10 (13.51%) Oracle Forms
General
1 42 (56.76%) Finance
2 24 (32.43%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.22%) Manufacturing
3 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
4 8 (10.81%) Marketing
5 6 (8.11%) Law
6 4 (5.41%) Legal
6 4 (5.41%) Retail
7 2 (2.70%) Billing
8 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (48.65%) Analyst
2 14 (18.92%) Applications Engineer
3 12 (16.22%) Applications Support
3 12 (16.22%) Applications Support Analyst
3 12 (16.22%) Support Analyst
4 10 (13.51%) Business Analyst
4 10 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (12.16%) Developer
6 8 (10.81%) Insight Analyst
7 6 (8.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 5 (6.76%) Report Analyst
9 4 (5.41%) Data Business Analyst
9 4 (5.41%) Senior
9 4 (5.41%) Systems Analyst
9 4 (5.41%) Technical Analyst
9 4 (5.41%) Technical Business Analyst
10 3 (4.05%) Analyst Developer
10 3 (4.05%) Lead
10 3 (4.05%) Report Developer
10 3 (4.05%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.51%) OAuth
1 10 (13.51%) OAuth2
1 10 (13.51%) RESTful
1 10 (13.51%) SAML
2 1 (1.35%) REST
2 1 (1.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.22%) Product Ownership
2 11 (14.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (13.51%) Cloud Native
3 10 (13.51%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (13.51%) Low-Code
3 10 (13.51%) Management Information System
4 8 (10.81%) Onboarding
5 5 (6.76%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.70%) Life Science
6 2 (2.70%) Replication
7 1 (1.35%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (43.24%) Agile
3 30 (40.54%) AI
4 29 (39.19%) Coaching
5 28 (37.84%) Asset Management
6 26 (35.14%) Analytics
6 26 (35.14%) DevOps
7 25 (33.78%) ERP
8 22 (29.73%) ETL
9 20 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (25.68%) Visualisation
11 16 (21.62%) CI/CD
11 16 (21.62%) Test Automation
12 13 (17.57%) Validation
13 12 (16.22%) Acceptance Criteria
13 12 (16.22%) Decision-Making
13 12 (16.22%) ITIL
13 12 (16.22%) User Stories
14 11 (14.86%) Actionable Insight
14 11 (14.86%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 60 (81.08%) SQL
2 29 (39.19%) Python
3 21 (28.38%) PL/SQL
4 11 (14.86%) Shell Script
5 10 (13.51%) Java
6 4 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.35%) Bash
7 1 (1.35%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (10.81%) Degree
2 2 (2.70%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 1 (1.35%) ACCA
3 1 (1.35%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.81%) Accessibility
2 6 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.70%) QA
4 1 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.35%) P3O
4 1 (1.35%) PMO
Systems Management
1 10 (13.51%) Single Sign-On
1 10 (13.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (35.14%) Oracle
2 15 (20.27%) Microsoft
3 11 (14.86%) Concur
3 11 (14.86%) SAP
4 6 (8.11%) Alteryx
5 3 (4.05%) Teradata
6 1 (1.35%) CyberArk