SQL Server Reporting Services Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring SQL Server Reporting Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 117 118
Rank change year-on-year -34 +1 +26
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 14 6 20
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.44% 0.31% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.23% 1.80% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 13
10th Percentile £406 £268 £363
25th Percentile £429 £275 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £320 £425
Median % change year-on-year +48.44% -24.71% -4.23%
75th Percentile £531 £438 £456
90th Percentile £580 £490 £494
England median daily rate £475 £500 £530
% change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.63
Median hourly rate - - £46.18
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £36.00 £29.07 £46.18
% change year-on-year +23.84% -37.05% +69.78%

All Database & BI Skills
North West

SQL Server Reporting 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 434 334 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.50% 17.07% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 252 322
10th Percentile £336 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £402 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.86% +2.95%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £634
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 12 19
10th Percentile £30.90 £22.72 £26.85
25th Percentile £46.98 £22.92 £39.44
Median hourly rate £62.25 £25.43 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +144.79% -40.16% -14.26%
75th Percentile £75.75 £29.85 £46.18
90th Percentile £90.00 £66.00 £69.50
England median hourly rate £46.90 £32.05 £40.25
% change year-on-year +46.33% -20.37% -31.30%

SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

SQL Server Reporting Services job vacancy trend in the North West

SQL Server Reporting Services
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

SQL Server Reporting Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services in the North West over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

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

SQL Server Reporting Services
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

SQL Server Reporting 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 Reporting Services within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 May 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 -29 7 £450 +5.88% 11
Cheshire -7 4 £513 +72.27% 2
Lancashire -5 2 £475 - 3
SQL Server Reporting Services
England

SQL Server Reporting 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Advent Geneva
2 3 (21.43%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (14.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server
2 6 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (35.71%) DB2
3 5 (35.71%) MySQL
3 5 (35.71%) Relational Database
4 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 2 (14.29%) Tableau
7 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (7.14%) Data Vault
7 1 (7.14%) DTS
7 1 (7.14%) Power BI
7 1 (7.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Claude Code
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
1 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 2 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) DBA
2 4 (28.57%) SQL DBA
3 3 (21.43%) SQL Server DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Integration Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Integration Specialist
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (7.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Clustering
1 3 (21.43%) Replication
1 3 (21.43%) Virtual Team
2 2 (14.29%) Robotics
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
1 4 (28.57%) Fund Accounting
1 4 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
1 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (21.43%) Database Mirroring
2 3 (21.43%) Database Tuning
2 3 (21.43%) High Availability
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) Service Management
3 2 (14.29%) AI
3 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 2 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (14.29%) Data Extraction
3 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
3 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (14.29%) ERP
3 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 2 (14.29%) ITSM
3 2 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) T-SQL
3 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (7.14%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) Advent
3 3 (21.43%) BMC
3 3 (21.43%) Remedy
4 2 (14.29%) SAP
4 2 (14.29%) SYSPRO
5 1 (7.14%) Sybase