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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 73 120
Rank change year-on-year +30 +47 -3
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 125 50 184
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.70% 2.65% 2.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 47.17% 16.67% 10.05%
Number of salaries quoted 10 34 151
10th Percentile £35,600 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,563 £37,125 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £49,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.61% +3.68% -
75th Percentile £69,188 £64,566 £59,750
90th Percentile £91,625 £81,669 £71,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%

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 265 300 1,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.85% 15.89% 28.88%
Number of salaries quoted 74 182 488
10th Percentile £27,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,063 £40,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,625 £98,004 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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
Edinburgh +15 39 £79,500 +26.52% 6
Glasgow -7 31 £51,000 +14.61% 6
Aberdeen -6 21 - - 1
Dundee - 21 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 12 - -
Argyll and Bute - 1 £38,000 -
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 8 (6.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.80%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 87 (69.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (9.60%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.60%) Alphatax
3 1 (0.80%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 125 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 120 (96.00%) Azure
3 84 (67.20%) Azure AI
4 26 (20.80%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (12.80%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (11.20%) GitHub
7 13 (10.40%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (8.80%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (6.40%) OCI
10 7 (5.60%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.60%) AWS
11 2 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.60%) GCP
11 2 (1.60%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.60%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.80%) dbt
12 1 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) Broadband
1 2 (1.60%) DHCP
1 2 (1.60%) DNS
1 2 (1.60%) Firewall
1 2 (1.60%) Mobile Broadband
1 2 (1.60%) Softphone
1 2 (1.60%) VLAN
1 2 (1.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (76.00%) Tableau
2 7 (5.60%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.60%) Data Vault
4 2 (1.60%) Metadata
4 2 (1.60%) MySQL
4 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.80%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Git
1 8 (6.40%) Jenkins
1 8 (6.40%) JIRA
1 8 (6.40%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 96 (76.80%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.20%) Finance
3 13 (10.40%) Billing
4 10 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.80%) Games
6 1 (0.80%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 99 (79.20%) Analyst
2 85 (68.00%) Junior
3 84 (67.20%) Data Analyst
3 84 (67.20%) Junior Analyst
3 84 (67.20%) Junior Data Analyst
4 14 (11.20%) Support Analyst
5 13 (10.40%) Applications Engineer
6 12 (9.60%) Applications Support
6 12 (9.60%) Applications Support Analyst
7 8 (6.40%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (2.40%) Data Engineer
9 2 (1.60%) 2nd Line Support
9 2 (1.60%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
9 2 (1.60%) Architect
9 2 (1.60%) DBA
9 2 (1.60%) IT Analyst
9 2 (1.60%) IT Support
9 2 (1.60%) IT Support Analyst
9 2 (1.60%) SQL DBA
10 1 (0.80%) Applications Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.40%) OAuth
1 8 (6.40%) OAuth2
1 8 (6.40%) RESTful
1 8 (6.40%) SAML
2 2 (1.60%) .NET
2 2 (1.60%) ODBC
2 2 (1.60%) Web Services
3 1 (0.80%) CSS
3 1 (0.80%) HTML
3 1 (0.80%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.60%) Management Information System
1 12 (9.60%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.20%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.40%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (4.80%) Low-Code
4 6 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.60%) iPhone
6 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.80%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.80%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.60%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.60%) Windows
1 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (99.20%) Business Intelligence
2 100 (80.00%) AI
3 29 (23.20%) Agile
4 27 (21.60%) DevOps
5 16 (12.80%) Analytics
5 16 (12.80%) Coaching
6 15 (12.00%) CI/CD
7 14 (11.20%) Asset Management
7 14 (11.20%) Customer Service
7 14 (11.20%) Process Improvement
7 14 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (10.40%) Requirements Gathering
8 13 (10.40%) Test Automation
9 12 (9.60%) Regression Testing
9 12 (9.60%) Storyboarding
9 12 (9.60%) Waterfall
10 10 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (8.00%) Visualisation
11 9 (7.20%) RBAC
12 8 (6.40%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 107 (85.60%) SQL
2 103 (82.40%) Python
3 8 (6.40%) Java
3 8 (6.40%) PL/SQL
3 8 (6.40%) Shell Script
4 3 (2.40%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.60%) C#
5 2 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.80%) Scala
Qualifications
1 84 (67.20%) Azure Certification
2 15 (12.00%) Degree
3 12 (9.60%) HND
4 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.80%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.80%) PMP
4 1 (0.80%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.60%) Accessibility
1 12 (9.60%) SLA
2 4 (3.20%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (1.60%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.60%) BitLocker
1 2 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (6.40%) Single Sign-On
1 8 (6.40%) Terraform
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 114 (91.20%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.60%) Adobe
2 12 (9.60%) Freshdesk
2 12 (9.60%) Nintex
3 8 (6.40%) Oracle
4 2 (1.60%) Bomgar
4 2 (1.60%) iManage
4 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.80%) Anaplan
5 1 (0.80%) Databricks
5 1 (0.80%) Dataiku
5 1 (0.80%) FIS
5 1 (0.80%) Genesys
5 1 (0.80%) Meraki
5 1 (0.80%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.80%) Verint