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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 86 97
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 -37
Permanent jobs citing Power BI 65 60 122
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.73% 2.40% 2.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 31.25% 17.54% 13.85%
Number of salaries quoted 24 41 87
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £43,813 £42,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £48,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +39.18% +14.12% -12.37%
75th Percentile £83,375 £60,000 £59,500
90th Percentile £116,000 £83,738 £68,114
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 208 342 881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.52% 13.69% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 117 102 286
10th Percentile £27,125 £33,425 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £50,750
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +4.43% -11.74%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £64,563
90th Percentile £106,000 £83,738 £73,818
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 5 September 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 5 September 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 +5 20 £67,500 +51.69% 43
Edinburgh -8 20 £105,000 +82.61% 27
Aberdeen - 10 - - 8
Dundee - 9 - - 2
North Lanarkshire 0 4 £35,000 -22.22% 5
Stirling - 1 £32,500 - 3
Fife - 1 £27,000 - 1
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 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 37 (56.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 52 (80.00%) Azure
3 36 (55.38%) Azure AI
4 5 (7.69%) Power Automate
5 4 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.08%) AWS
6 2 (3.08%) GCP
6 2 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (3.08%) SaaS
7 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.54%) GitHub
7 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.54%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (60.00%) Tableau
2 7 (10.77%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 4 (6.15%) Metadata
5 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.08%) MySQL
5 2 (3.08%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.54%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.54%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.54%) Looker
6 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Oracle Forms
General
1 46 (70.77%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.23%) Finance
4 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Law
4 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Local Government
5 1 (1.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 40 (61.54%) Junior
2 38 (58.46%) Analyst
2 38 (58.46%) Data Analyst
3 36 (55.38%) Junior Analyst
3 36 (55.38%) Junior Data Analyst
4 10 (15.38%) Developer
5 5 (7.69%) Architect
6 4 (6.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Data Architect
6 4 (6.15%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Junior Business Intelligence Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Junior Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Senior
7 3 (4.62%) Data Manager
7 3 (4.62%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.08%) Administrator
8 2 (3.08%) DBA
8 2 (3.08%) Senior Systems Developer
8 2 (3.08%) SQL DBA
8 2 (3.08%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) .NET
2 2 (3.08%) ODBC
3 1 (1.54%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.08%) Data Fabric
3 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.54%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 40 (61.54%) AI
3 13 (20.00%) Analytics
4 7 (10.77%) Lakehouse
4 7 (10.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (9.23%) Data Architecture
5 6 (9.23%) Data Governance
5 6 (9.23%) Data Modelling
5 6 (9.23%) Data Strategy
5 6 (9.23%) Decision-Making
5 6 (9.23%) ETL
6 5 (7.69%) CI/CD
6 5 (7.69%) Data Migration
6 5 (7.69%) Data Security
6 5 (7.69%) Migration
6 5 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (6.15%) Business Strategy
7 4 (6.15%) Customer Service
7 4 (6.15%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (6.15%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 47 (72.31%) SQL
2 41 (63.08%) Python
3 5 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.15%) C#
5 2 (3.08%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.08%) R
5 2 (3.08%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (55.38%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.54%) Degree
2 1 (1.54%) MCT
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.54%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.54%) GDPR
Vendors
1 52 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) Oracle
3 2 (3.08%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.54%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.54%) Databricks