SQL Server Analysis Services Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring SQL Server Analysis Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 - 120
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 8 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.20% - 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.77% - 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile £374 - £359
25th Percentile £438 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £438
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.41%
75th Percentile £531 - £456
90th Percentile £546 - -
England median daily rate £488 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -9.30% +2.38% -

All Database & BI Skills
North West

SQL Server Analysis Services falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 452 333 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 11.50% 14.99% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 242 218
10th Percentile £375 £313 £354
25th Percentile £413 £363 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £446 £454
Median % change year-on-year +7.74% -1.71% -5.37%
75th Percentile £591 £537 £538
90th Percentile £675 £588 £610
England median daily rate £500 £513 £545
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 4 6
10th Percentile £21.08 - £25.00
25th Percentile £29.96 £21.02 £29.75
Median hourly rate £60.50 £30.64 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +97.49% -25.73% -16.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £52.19 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £74.13 £69.25
England median hourly rate £38.25 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.29% - -36.36%

SQL Server Analysis Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Server Analysis Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

SQL Server Analysis Services job vacancy trend in the North West

SQL Server Analysis Services
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SQL Server Analysis Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SQL Server Analysis Services

SQL Server Analysis Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services in the North West over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Analysis Services in the North West

SQL Server Analysis Services
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SQL Server Analysis Services.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SQL Server Analysis Services

SQL Server Analysis Services
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester - 5 £470 - 1
Cheshire - 3 £513 -
SQL Server Analysis Services
England

SQL Server Analysis Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Snowflake
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (62.50%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (37.50%) Data Lake
4 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (12.50%) DTS
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Manufacturing
3 3 (37.50%) Retail
4 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) DBA
1 5 (62.50%) SQL DBA
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server DBA
3 3 (37.50%) Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Business Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Data Business Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Sybase DBA
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Clustering
2 3 (37.50%) Replication
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (50.00%) High Availability
4 3 (37.50%) Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Data Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Data Mapping
4 3 (37.50%) Database Mirroring
4 3 (37.50%) Database Tuning
4 3 (37.50%) ETL
4 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) Logistics
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (37.50%) Systems Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 5 (62.50%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) BMC
2 3 (37.50%) Databricks
2 3 (37.50%) Remedy
3 1 (12.50%) Sybase