Tableau Job Trends in Scotland

Tableau
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Tableau skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 115 160
Rank change year-on-year +40 +45 +7
Permanent jobs citing Tableau 66 33 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.39% 1.29% 1.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.19% 6.73% 4.68%
Number of salaries quoted 16 8 19
10th Percentile - £35,426 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £48,840 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -4.56% +41.76%
75th Percentile £45,625 £67,063 £84,056
90th Percentile £47,500 £81,350 £87,458
UK median annual salary £45,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -22.41% +0.87% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

Tableau 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 262 490 833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.48% 19.12% 26.46%
Number of salaries quoted 95 218 415
10th Percentile £26,100 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £42,640
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,375 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% -4.77% -
75th Percentile £64,375 £63,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £77,274 £75,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -4.00%

Tableau
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Tableau relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Tableau job vacancy trend in Scotland

Tableau
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Tableau.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Tableau

Tableau
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tableau in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Tableau in Scotland

Tableau
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tableau within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 January 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 +12 43 £40,000 -18.30% 5
Glasgow +22 12 £42,500 -30.33% 1
Dundee +3 5 - -
Aberdeen - 5 - - 4
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £60,000 -
Tableau
UK

Tableau
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 17 (25.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 44 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (25.76%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 54 (81.82%) Power Platform
2 49 (74.24%) Azure
3 29 (43.94%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (30.30%) Azure AI
5 17 (25.76%) GitHub
5 17 (25.76%) GitHub Copilot
5 17 (25.76%) OCI
6 12 (18.18%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (81.82%) Power BI
2 12 (18.18%) Data Mining
2 12 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.06%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (43.94%) JIRA
2 17 (25.76%) Git
2 17 (25.76%) Jenkins
2 17 (25.76%) Oracle Forms
General
1 44 (66.67%) Finance
2 25 (37.88%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (31.82%) Social Skills
4 8 (12.12%) Marketing
5 1 (1.52%) Games
5 1 (1.52%) Law
5 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (72.73%) Analyst
2 32 (48.48%) Data Analyst
3 20 (30.30%) Junior
3 20 (30.30%) Junior Analyst
3 20 (30.30%) Junior Data Analyst
4 17 (25.76%) Applications Engineer
4 17 (25.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (18.18%) Trainee
5 12 (18.18%) Trainee Analyst
5 12 (18.18%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 9 (13.64%) Business Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Systems Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Technical Business Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Analyst Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Insight Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Report Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Report Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.76%) OAuth
1 17 (25.76%) OAuth2
1 17 (25.76%) RESTful
1 17 (25.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.76%) Cloud Native
1 17 (25.76%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 8 (12.12%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (12.12%) Management Information System
3 8 (12.12%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (81.82%) Business Intelligence
2 45 (68.18%) AI
3 32 (48.48%) Analytics
4 29 (43.94%) Agile
4 29 (43.94%) Asset Management
4 29 (43.94%) Coaching
4 29 (43.94%) DevOps
5 17 (25.76%) API Integration
5 17 (25.76%) CI/CD
5 17 (25.76%) Clean Code
5 17 (25.76%) ERP
5 17 (25.76%) Event-Driven
5 17 (25.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 17 (25.76%) Microservices
5 17 (25.76%) RBAC
5 17 (25.76%) SOA
5 17 (25.76%) Test Automation
6 15 (22.73%) Data Analytics
7 13 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (19.70%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (98.48%) SQL
2 61 (92.42%) Python
3 17 (25.76%) Java
3 17 (25.76%) PL/SQL
3 17 (25.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (30.30%) Azure Certification
2 4 (6.06%) Degree
3 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.12%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 17 (25.76%) Single Sign-On
1 17 (25.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (74.24%) Microsoft
2 18 (27.27%) Oracle
3 4 (6.06%) Alteryx
4 3 (4.55%) Teradata
5 1 (1.52%) Anaplan
5 1 (1.52%) Genesys
5 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.52%) Verint