SQL Server Analysis Services Contracts

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SQL Server Analysis Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server Analysis Services over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 515 477
Rank change year-on-year +15 -38 +40
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 19 85 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.19% 0.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.34% 1.16% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 72 192
10th Percentile £368 £400 £388
25th Percentile £447 £417 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% +5.39%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £531
% change year-on-year - -5.88% +19.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £32.66
25th Percentile - £17.50 £33.05
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £34.90
Median % change year-on-year - -42.69% -0.29%
75th Percentile - £22.50 £36.64
90th Percentile - - £36.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £20.00 £34.90
% change year-on-year - -42.69% -0.29%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

SQL Server Analysis Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SQL Server Analysis Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Analysis Services in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server Analysis Services in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Analysis Services in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server Analysis Services in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +2 19 £525 - 55
London -1 9 £650 +14.54% 30
UK excluding London +28 8 £500 - 26
Work from Home +25 8 £525 - 21
South East +37 4 £513 +20.59% 5
South West +34 2 £563 +4.65% 8
East of England +33 1 £438 - 2
Midlands +18 1 - - 4
West Midlands +12 1 - - 3

SQL Server Analysis Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
1 12 (63.16%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.26%) Datadog
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.26%) Matillion
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.26%) Route 53
4 1 (5.26%) SaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
4 1 (5.26%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (78.95%) SQL Server
1 15 (78.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 12 (63.16%) Power BI
3 11 (57.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (47.37%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (26.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 4 (21.05%) Tableau
7 3 (15.79%) Big Data
8 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
8 2 (10.53%) OLAP
9 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (5.26%) Data Mining
9 1 (5.26%) Metadata
9 1 (5.26%) OLAP Cube
9 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
9 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Back Office
4 1 (5.26%) Military
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Head of Business Intelligence
3 4 (21.05%) SQL Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) DBA
4 2 (10.53%) SQL DBA
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.26%) ETRM Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Report Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) SQL BI Developer
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Reporting Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) REST
1 4 (21.05%) SOAP
2 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) PySpark
2 2 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.26%) MDX
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) WS-I
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Clustering
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) FMCG
2 1 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (42.11%) Data Engineering
3 6 (31.58%) Data Governance
3 6 (31.58%) Data Strategy
3 6 (31.58%) Visualisation
4 5 (26.32%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (26.32%) Data Integration
4 5 (26.32%) Data Modelling
4 5 (26.32%) Data Protection
4 5 (26.32%) Data Visualisation
4 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
4 5 (26.32%) ETL
4 5 (26.32%) Migration
4 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (21.05%) Analytics
5 4 (21.05%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (21.05%) Data Analysis
5 4 (21.05%) Performance Measurement
5 4 (21.05%) SOA
5 4 (21.05%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) T-SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Python
4 1 (5.26%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) CITP
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) GDPR
2 5 (26.32%) Data Quality
3 4 (21.05%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Cognos
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce