SQL Server Reporting Services Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SQL Server Reporting Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server Reporting Services over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 326 320
Rank change year-on-year +30 -6 -57
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 40 73 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.35% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.98% 2.81% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 54 120
10th Percentile £324 £366 £215
25th Percentile £368 £400 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -10.53% +13.10%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £563
90th Percentile £675 £580 £665
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -8.18% +10.00% +3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £22.73 - £19.19
25th Percentile £23.11 £37.63 £20.72
Median hourly rate £23.74 £46.18 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year -48.59% +87.53% -29.64%
75th Percentile £24.37 - £32.72
90th Percentile £24.75 - £36.10
UK median hourly rate £27.70 £46.18 £25.25
% change year-on-year -40.03% +82.89% -35.53%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,019 2,594 3,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 12.49% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,827 2,673
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 96 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.96
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.03 £32.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SQL Server Reporting Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK excluding London

SQL Server Reporting Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK excluding London

SQL Server Reporting Services
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK excluding London

SQL Server Reporting Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK excluding London

SQL Server Reporting Services
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
South West +53 11 £500 +25.00% 37
South East +38 9 £410 -3.53% 67
North of England +2 8 £375 -11.76% 47
Midlands +12 7 £410 -8.89% 51
North West +3 6 £320 -24.71% 25
West Midlands +3 5 £400 -5.88% 34
Scotland +12 2 £500 +6.95% 17
East Midlands +11 2 £420 -11.58% 14
Yorkshire +7 2 £375 -6.25% 17
East of England +28 1 £438 -8.85% 32
Wales -5 1 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4
SQL Server Reporting Services
UK

SQL Server Reporting Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (7.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.00%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.50%) Elite 3E
2 1 (2.50%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Azure
2 15 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 6 (15.00%) Entra ID
3 6 (15.00%) Google Workspace
3 6 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (7.50%) AWS
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.50%) Boomi
7 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (37.50%) Power BI
2 15 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (22.50%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (12.50%) GIS
5 4 (10.00%) MariaDB
5 4 (10.00%) Metadata
5 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
6 3 (7.50%) Tableau
7 2 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (5.00%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (5.00%) MSDE
7 2 (5.00%) OLAP
7 2 (5.00%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (2.50%) Big Data
8 1 (2.50%) MySQL
8 1 (2.50%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (2.50%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Legal
3 4 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Local Government
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (22.50%) Developer
2 8 (20.00%) DBA
3 7 (17.50%) Analyst
3 7 (17.50%) SQL DBA
4 6 (15.00%) Administrator
5 5 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) SQL Server DBA
6 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Data Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Site Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) SQL Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Consultant
7 3 (7.50%) Lead
7 3 (7.50%) Report Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Solutions Consultant
8 2 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Lead Data Analyst
8 2 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Report Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (10.00%) SOAP
3 3 (7.50%) .NET
4 2 (5.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.50%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Replication
2 3 (7.50%) Clustering
2 3 (7.50%) Operational Technology
2 3 (7.50%) SCADA
3 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.50%) FMCG
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) NHS
3 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (45.00%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (32.50%) Agile
3 9 (22.50%) Migration
4 8 (20.00%) ETL
5 7 (17.50%) Data Modelling
6 6 (15.00%) Change Management
6 6 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (15.00%) ITIL
6 6 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (15.00%) Validation
7 5 (12.50%) Data Integration
8 4 (10.00%) Analytics
8 4 (10.00%) Case Management
8 4 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (10.00%) High Availability
8 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (10.00%) Visualisation
9 3 (7.50%) Cartography
9 3 (7.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 36 (90.00%) SQL
2 8 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 5 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 3 (7.50%) Perl
5 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.50%) Python
5 1 (2.50%) R
5 1 (2.50%) X++
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Perfmon
1 1 (2.50%) SCOM
1 1 (2.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 20 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) Google
3 2 (5.00%) Liquidlogic
3 2 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) Cognos
4 1 (2.50%) Intapp
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle
4 1 (2.50%) Remedy
4 1 (2.50%) VMware