SQL Server Reporting Services Contract Job Trends

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SQL Server Reporting Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
29 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 385 405
Rank change year-on-year -117 +20 -67
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 91 151 191
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.45% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.43% 2.50% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 104 155
10th Percentile £363 £330 £363
25th Percentile £404 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £522 £625 £638
90th Percentile £571 £696 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £20.74 £46.02
25th Percentile - £21.86 £46.05
Median hourly rate - £23.66 £46.09
Median % change year-on-year - -48.67% +31.69%
75th Percentile - £27.07 £46.14
90th Percentile - £31.08 £46.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £22.48 £46.09
% change year-on-year - -51.23% +31.69%

All Database & BI Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,348 6,030 7,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.21% 18.10% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,387 3,985 5,107
10th Percentile £325 £345 £350
25th Percentile £408 £425 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 83 142
10th Percentile £20.72 £18.66 £16.12
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.60 £22.77
Median hourly rate £52.00 £30.59 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +69.99% -33.76% -16.04%
75th Percentile £72.57 £64.61 £64.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.00 £77.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +113.64% -40.45% -7.64%

SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SQL Server Reporting Services job vacancy trend in the UK

SQL Server Reporting Services
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

SQL Server Reporting Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK

SQL Server Reporting Services
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

SQL Server Reporting Services
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 December 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 -101 85 £450 -14.29% 209
London -25 50 £463 -15.91% 26
UK excluding London -87 35 £450 - 199
Work from Home -17 30 £450 -10.00% 69
North of England -48 16 £450 -19.86% 32
North West -17 13 £415 +22.78% 16
Midlands -64 10 £425 -5.56% 46
West Midlands -45 9 £425 -24.31% 20
Scotland +5 3 £550 - 7
South East -14 3 £550 +30.95% 54
Yorkshire -49 3 £500 -11.82% 14
South West -17 2 £388 -32.61% 24
East of England -21 1 - - 33
East Midlands -26 1 - - 23

SQL Server Reporting Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (1.10%) Confluence
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.10%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (1.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (9.89%) Advent Geneva
2 4 (4.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (3.30%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 48 (52.75%) Power Platform
2 33 (36.26%) Azure
3 15 (16.48%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (10.99%) SaaS
5 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (5.49%) PowerApps
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.40%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.30%) AWS
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (2.20%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.20%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.20%) GitHub
10 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.20%) PaaS
10 2 (2.20%) Serverless
10 2 (2.20%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.10%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) HTTP
1 1 (1.10%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.10%) LAN
1 1 (1.10%) SAN
1 1 (1.10%) Skype
1 1 (1.10%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.10%) VPN
1 1 (1.10%) VXLAN
1 1 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (63.74%) SQL Server
2 46 (50.55%) Power BI
3 29 (31.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 18 (19.78%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (15.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 11 (12.09%) Relational Database
7 9 (9.89%) DB2
7 9 (9.89%) MySQL
8 8 (8.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (5.49%) Power Query
10 4 (4.40%) Data Lake
10 4 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (4.40%) Tableau
11 2 (2.20%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (2.20%) Metadata
11 2 (2.20%) OLAP
11 2 (2.20%) OLAP Cube
11 2 (2.20%) Oracle Database
11 2 (2.20%) PowerPivot
11 2 (2.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Visual Studio
2 4 (4.40%) Git
3 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (2.20%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.10%) JIRA
General
1 34 (37.36%) Finance
2 24 (26.37%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.79%) Manufacturing
6 7 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.49%) Banking
8 4 (4.40%) General Ledger
8 4 (4.40%) Local Government
8 4 (4.40%) Retail
9 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.20%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.20%) Legal
11 1 (1.10%) Law
Job Titles
1 37 (40.66%) Developer
2 12 (13.19%) Data Engineer
3 11 (12.09%) Consultant
4 9 (9.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 7 (7.69%) Architect
6 6 (6.59%) DBA
6 6 (6.59%) Senior
6 6 (6.59%) SQL DBA
7 5 (5.49%) Data Migration Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 5 (5.49%) Migration Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Power BI Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Analyst
8 4 (4.40%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.40%) SQL Developer
8 4 (4.40%) SQL Server DBA
9 3 (3.30%) Business Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Report Developer
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Business Consultant
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.98%) .NET
2 4 (4.40%) .NET Framework
2 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET
2 4 (4.40%) REST
3 3 (3.30%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.30%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (3.30%) SOAP
3 3 (3.30%) WCF
4 2 (2.20%) CSS
4 2 (2.20%) Entity Framework
4 2 (2.20%) HTML
4 2 (2.20%) HTML5
4 2 (2.20%) Playwright
4 2 (2.20%) pytest
4 2 (2.20%) WPF
4 2 (2.20%) XML
5 1 (1.10%) CSS3
5 1 (1.10%) Kafka
5 1 (1.10%) Node.js
5 1 (1.10%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Virtual Team
2 6 (6.59%) Credit Risk
3 5 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.40%) NHS
5 3 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.20%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.10%) FMCG
7 1 (1.10%) IoT
7 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.10%) Replication
7 1 (1.10%) SCADA
7 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Windows
2 3 (3.30%) Linux
3 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (50.55%) Business Intelligence
2 27 (29.67%) Migration
3 24 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (20.88%) Data Migration
5 16 (17.58%) DevOps
5 16 (17.58%) ETL
6 14 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
6 14 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (13.19%) Data Governance
7 12 (13.19%) Data Integration
7 12 (13.19%) Visualisation
8 11 (12.09%) ERP
9 10 (10.99%) Data Analysis
9 10 (10.99%) Data Modelling
10 9 (9.89%) Asset Management
10 9 (9.89%) Integration Patterns
10 9 (9.89%) Mentoring
11 8 (8.79%) Agile
11 8 (8.79%) CI/CD
11 8 (8.79%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 66 (72.53%) SQL
2 12 (13.19%) C#
3 9 (9.89%) T-SQL
4 7 (7.69%) X++
5 6 (6.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.30%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.30%) Python
7 2 (2.20%) VBA
8 1 (1.10%) Perl
8 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.89%) Degree
3 7 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.49%) Accessibility
1 5 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.40%) GDPR
3 1 (1.10%) GRC
3 1 (1.10%) QA
3 1 (1.10%) SLA
3 1 (1.10%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.10%) SCCM
2 1 (1.10%) SCOM
2 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (41.76%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.89%) Advent
3 7 (7.69%) Oracle
4 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.20%) UiPath
5 1 (1.10%) Databricks
5 1 (1.10%) Epicor
5 1 (1.10%) Informatica
5 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.10%) Palantir
5 1 (1.10%) SAP
5 1 (1.10%) Veeam
5 1 (1.10%) VMware
227 SQL Server Reporting Services jobs Nationwide