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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 56 58
Rank change year-on-year -33 +2 +50
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 67 115 126
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.55% 3.46% 5.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.65% 22.37% 23.03%
Number of salaries quoted 41 60 104
10th Percentile £36,750 £27,500 £35,733
25th Percentile £42,500 £29,584 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +31.25%
75th Percentile £58,750 £49,750 £62,313
90th Percentile £63,750 £61,525 £76,450
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 341 514 547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.99% 15.46% 21.85%
Number of salaries quoted 104 218 459
10th Percentile £25,825 £33,450 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,375 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £64,938 £72,433
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £83,811
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +6.56% +1.67%

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 +26 39 £47,500 +26.67% 13
Glasgow -23 19 £45,000 +5.88% 13
West Dunbartonshire - 2 £57,500 -
North Lanarkshire - 1 £45,000 -
Highlands - 1 £52,500 -
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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 (17.91%) Confluence
2 9 (13.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (25.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (16.42%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (13.43%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.49%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 67 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 27 (40.30%) Azure
3 21 (31.34%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (22.39%) Snowflake
5 13 (19.40%) PowerApps
6 9 (13.43%) GitHub
6 9 (13.43%) GitHub Copilot
6 9 (13.43%) OCI
7 5 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.48%) AWS
9 3 (4.48%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.99%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.99%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.99%) SaaS
10 2 (2.99%) Serverless
11 1 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.49%) Azure Stack
11 1 (1.49%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (44.78%) Tableau
2 14 (20.90%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (8.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (7.46%) Metadata
5 4 (5.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 4 (5.97%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.99%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.99%) Power Query
6 2 (2.99%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.49%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 23 (34.33%) JIRA
2 9 (13.43%) Git
2 9 (13.43%) Jenkins
2 9 (13.43%) Oracle Forms
General
1 35 (52.24%) Finance
2 20 (29.85%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (17.91%) Manufacturing
4 8 (11.94%) Marketing
5 6 (8.96%) Law
6 4 (5.97%) Legal
6 4 (5.97%) Retail
6 4 (5.97%) Social Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Billing
7 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (52.24%) Analyst
2 12 (17.91%) Applications Support
2 12 (17.91%) Applications Support Analyst
2 12 (17.91%) Support Analyst
3 10 (14.93%) Business Analyst
4 9 (13.43%) Applications Engineer
4 9 (13.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (13.43%) Developer
5 7 (10.45%) Insight Analyst
6 6 (8.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 5 (7.46%) Lead
7 5 (7.46%) Report Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Data Business Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Senior
8 4 (5.97%) Systems Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (5.97%) Technical Business Analyst
9 3 (4.48%) Analyst Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Report Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.43%) OAuth
1 9 (13.43%) OAuth2
1 9 (13.43%) RESTful
1 9 (13.43%) SAML
2 1 (1.49%) REST
2 1 (1.49%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Product Ownership
2 10 (14.93%) Management Information System
3 9 (13.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (13.43%) Cloud Native
3 9 (13.43%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (11.94%) Onboarding
5 6 (8.96%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.99%) Life Science
6 2 (2.99%) Replication
7 1 (1.49%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 27 (40.30%) Agile
3 26 (38.81%) AI
4 24 (35.82%) ERP
5 23 (34.33%) Analytics
6 22 (32.84%) Coaching
6 22 (32.84%) ETL
7 21 (31.34%) Asset Management
7 21 (31.34%) DevOps
8 15 (22.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (22.39%) Visualisation
9 13 (19.40%) Validation
10 12 (17.91%) Acceptance Criteria
10 12 (17.91%) Decision-Making
10 12 (17.91%) ITIL
10 12 (17.91%) User Stories
11 11 (16.42%) Actionable Insight
11 11 (16.42%) CI/CD
11 11 (16.42%) Test Automation
12 10 (14.93%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 53 (79.10%) SQL
2 24 (35.82%) Python
3 20 (29.85%) PL/SQL
4 10 (14.93%) Shell Script
5 9 (13.43%) Java
6 2 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.49%) Bash
7 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (10.45%) Degree
2 1 (1.49%) ACCA
2 1 (1.49%) CIMA
2 1 (1.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.99%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.99%) QA
4 1 (1.49%) P3O
4 1 (1.49%) PMO
Systems Management
1 9 (13.43%) Single Sign-On
1 9 (13.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (37.31%) Oracle
2 14 (20.90%) Microsoft
3 11 (16.42%) Concur
3 11 (16.42%) SAP
4 6 (8.96%) Alteryx
5 3 (4.48%) Teradata
6 1 (1.49%) CyberArk