Power BI Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Power BI
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Power BI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Power BI over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 82 82
Rank change year-on-year +28 0 +11
Contract jobs citing Power BI 75 82 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.49% 3.03% 2.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.28% 14.14% 16.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 64 65
10th Percentile £238 £363 £328
25th Percentile £363 £405 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £445
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +6.74% +5.95%
75th Percentile £541 £541 £525
90th Percentile £663 £600 £553
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £24.60 - £25.90
25th Percentile £29.04 - £26.50
Median hourly rate £37.07 - £29.50
75th Percentile £45.72 - £34.00
90th Percentile £50.54 - £35.50
UK median hourly rate £24.43 £49.57 £23.00
% change year-on-year -50.72% +115.52% +6.98%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

Power BI is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 389 580 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.08% 21.46% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 450 409
10th Percentile £324 £400 £362
25th Percentile £400 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £481
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +1.87% +13.18%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £642 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -3.67% - +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £15.73
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £17.50
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £36.50
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £43.40
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +30.43% +73.58%

Power BI
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Power BI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Power BI in Scotland

Power BI
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Power BI in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Power BI in Scotland

Power BI
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Power BI in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Power BI in Scotland

Power BI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Power BI in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Power BI in Scotland

Power BI
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Power BI in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Power BI in Scotland

Power BI
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Power BI within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +25 40 £410 -15.90% 10
Edinburgh +25 28 £550 +15.79% 8
South Lanarkshire +7 5 £458 -12.86%
Fife +1 1 - -
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 2
Power BI
UK

Power BI
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (10.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.67%) Apache
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.00%) Maximo
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 75 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 20 (26.67%) Power Automate
3 18 (24.00%) PowerApps
4 17 (22.67%) Azure
5 7 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.00%) GCP
9 2 (2.67%) AWS
9 2 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.67%) Google Data Studio
9 2 (2.67%) Google Sheets
9 2 (2.67%) OCI
9 2 (2.67%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.33%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.33%) Star Schema
2 4 (5.33%) Tableau
3 3 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.67%) Big Data
4 2 (2.67%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.33%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.33%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.33%) DTS
5 1 (1.33%) Metadata
5 1 (1.33%) Power Query
5 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (14.67%) JIRA
2 3 (4.00%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 25 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 21 (28.00%) Finance
3 20 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (26.67%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.67%) Legal
6 4 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.67%) Marketing
9 1 (1.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 39 (52.00%) Analyst
2 20 (26.67%) Data Analyst
3 11 (14.67%) Senior
4 10 (13.33%) Developer
5 8 (10.67%) Consultant
5 8 (10.67%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (10.67%) Senior Data Analyst
6 7 (9.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (8.00%) Power BI Developer
8 5 (6.67%) Power Platform Consultant
8 5 (6.67%) Report Analyst
9 4 (5.33%) Lead
9 4 (5.33%) Operations Analyst
9 4 (5.33%) PMO Analyst
9 4 (5.33%) Vulnerability Analyst
9 4 (5.33%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
10 3 (4.00%) Architect
10 3 (4.00%) Data Modeller
10 3 (4.00%) Data Scientist
10 3 (4.00%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (2.67%) ADO
2 2 (2.67%) NumPy
2 2 (2.67%) Pandas
2 2 (2.67%) PySpark
2 2 (2.67%) REST
2 2 (2.67%) SOAP
3 1 (1.33%) .NET
3 1 (1.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Beam
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) DTCC
1 5 (6.67%) Market Risk
1 5 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (5.33%) CMDB
3 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.67%) Social Media
5 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.33%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Linux
1 1 (1.33%) Unix
1 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (34.67%) Analytics
3 19 (25.33%) Visualisation
4 18 (24.00%) Data Visualisation
5 15 (20.00%) Data Analysis
6 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (13.33%) Data Management
8 8 (10.67%) Agile
8 8 (10.67%) Data Modelling
8 8 (10.67%) Decision-Making
8 8 (10.67%) Project Governance
9 6 (8.00%) CRM
9 6 (8.00%) DevOps
9 6 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (6.67%) CI/CD
10 5 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (6.67%) Portfolio Management
10 5 (6.67%) Project Delivery
10 5 (6.67%) Resource Management
10 5 (6.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.33%) SQL
2 6 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 6 (8.00%) Python
3 1 (1.33%) Java
3 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.33%) Scala
3 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) CISM
3 4 (5.33%) CISSP
4 3 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.00%) PMO
2 4 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.67%) QA
4 2 (2.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 35 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.67%) Atlassian
3 10 (13.33%) Databricks
4 6 (8.00%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.67%) Oracle
6 4 (5.33%) Qualys
7 3 (4.00%) Cadence
7 3 (4.00%) Google
7 3 (4.00%) IDERA
8 2 (2.67%) Brandwatch
8 2 (2.67%) Facebook
8 2 (2.67%) Hootsuite
8 2 (2.67%) Informatica
8 2 (2.67%) Instagram
8 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.67%) Twitter
8 2 (2.67%) YouTube
9 1 (1.33%) IFS
9 1 (1.33%) Sybase