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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 410 385
Rank change year-on-year -140 -25 -18
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 85 116 192
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.41% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.16% 2.14% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 85 153
10th Percentile £281 £296 £365
25th Percentile £400 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £638
90th Percentile £600 £674 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +15.15% -2.94% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile - £25.53 -
25th Percentile £26.50 £26.32 £37.63
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.07 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +23.84% -37.05% +61.47%
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £25.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +44.00% -45.86% +69.78%

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 7,312 5,410 7,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.06% 18.91% 17.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,922 3,714 5,229
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 94 148
10th Percentile £14.17 £19.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.12 £23.69 £20.93
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.53% -17.60% -31.73%
75th Percentile £72.25 £65.62 £61.53
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.13 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £31.64 £38.50
% change year-on-year +31.83% -17.82% -32.40%

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 26 May 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services over the 6 months to 26 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK

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 26 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
England -155 79 £500 - 56
UK excluding London -100 50 £475 +15.15% 40
Work from Home -54 29 £481 -3.75% 30
London -108 28 £500 -4.76% 21
North of England -64 17 £475 +26.67% 16
Midlands -58 14 £418 +7.05% 7
West Midlands -60 10 £444 +13.78% 4
Yorkshire -49 9 £400 +6.67% 3
South East -61 9 £500 +2.56% 12
North West -34 8 £513 +60.16% 12
East of England -31 6 £211 -51.88% 2
East Midlands -26 4 £386 - 3
South West -34 3 £550 -15.38% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 4 (4.71%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) Apache
2 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.18%) OpenEdge
2 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.53%) Dynamics GP
1 3 (3.53%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (3.53%) SystmOne
2 2 (2.35%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.35%) Front Arena
2 2 (2.35%) Global One
2 2 (2.35%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.18%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 37 (43.53%) Power Platform
2 28 (32.94%) Azure
3 8 (9.41%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (8.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (8.24%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (8.24%) Power Automate
4 7 (8.24%) PowerApps
5 6 (7.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (4.71%) AWS
7 4 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.71%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (3.53%) Azure Functions
8 3 (3.53%) dbt
8 3 (3.53%) GitHub
8 3 (3.53%) SaaS
8 3 (3.53%) Serverless
8 3 (3.53%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.35%) Google Ads
9 2 (2.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) DHCP
1 1 (1.18%) DNS
1 1 (1.18%) Firewall
1 1 (1.18%) VPN
1 1 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (61.18%) SQL Server
2 44 (51.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 32 (37.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 29 (34.12%) Power BI
5 28 (32.94%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (12.94%) Tableau
7 7 (8.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (5.88%) Data Lake
9 4 (4.71%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (4.71%) DTS
9 4 (4.71%) Oracle Database
9 4 (4.71%) QlikView
10 3 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (3.53%) Metadata
10 3 (3.53%) OLAP
10 3 (3.53%) Semantic Layer
11 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (2.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (11.76%) Git
2 5 (5.88%) Visual Studio
3 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (3.53%) Flyway
4 3 (3.53%) GitLab
4 3 (3.53%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.53%) JIRA
5 2 (2.35%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.35%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.18%) Claude Code
General
1 30 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 24 (28.24%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (23.53%) Finance
4 9 (10.59%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.41%) Banking
6 7 (8.24%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.71%) Legal
8 3 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.53%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.53%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.53%) Social Housing
9 2 (2.35%) Back Office
9 2 (2.35%) Electronics
9 2 (2.35%) Front Office
10 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.18%) Law
10 1 (1.18%) Local Government
10 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (22.35%) DBA
1 19 (22.35%) Developer
2 16 (18.82%) SQL DBA
3 12 (14.12%) Data Engineer
4 7 (8.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 7 (8.24%) Consultant
4 7 (8.24%) Senior
4 7 (8.24%) SQL Server DBA
5 6 (7.06%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (7.06%) SQL Developer
6 5 (5.88%) Architect
7 4 (4.71%) Administrator
7 4 (4.71%) Applications Support
7 4 (4.71%) Business Developer
7 4 (4.71%) Data Architect
7 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (3.53%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 3 (3.53%) Database Developer
8 3 (3.53%) Report Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.59%) .NET
2 7 (8.24%) XML
3 5 (5.88%) JSON
4 4 (4.71%) Middleware
4 4 (4.71%) YAML
5 3 (3.53%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.35%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.35%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.35%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.35%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (2.35%) FIXML
6 2 (2.35%) Playwright
6 2 (2.35%) pytest
6 2 (2.35%) REST
7 1 (1.18%) CSS
7 1 (1.18%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.18%) HTML
7 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
7 1 (1.18%) PySpark
7 1 (1.18%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.41%) NHS
2 7 (8.24%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (7.06%) Replication
3 6 (7.06%) Wiki
4 5 (5.88%) Clustering
5 3 (3.53%) BYOD
5 3 (3.53%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.53%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.35%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.35%) Derivative
6 2 (2.35%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.35%) Eurex
6 2 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.35%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.35%) Robotics
6 2 (2.35%) Swaptions
7 1 (1.18%) Life Science
7 1 (1.18%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.18%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.88%) Linux
1 5 (5.88%) Windows
2 3 (3.53%) Unix
3 2 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.18%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (48.24%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (35.29%) ETL
3 25 (29.41%) Migration
4 21 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (23.53%) Agile
6 19 (22.35%) Data Modelling
7 18 (21.18%) Analytics
8 14 (16.47%) Data Engineering
8 14 (16.47%) Decision-Making
9 13 (15.29%) Performance Tuning
10 12 (14.12%) Data Governance
10 12 (14.12%) Data Migration
10 12 (14.12%) Dimensional Modelling
11 11 (12.94%) ERP
11 11 (12.94%) High Availability
12 10 (11.76%) CI/CD
12 10 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
12 10 (11.76%) ITIL
12 10 (11.76%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 67 (78.82%) SQL
2 28 (32.94%) T-SQL
3 14 (16.47%) C#
4 10 (11.76%) Python
5 9 (10.59%) PowerShell
6 8 (9.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (8.24%) PL/SQL
8 5 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.88%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.71%) Bicep
10 3 (3.53%) X++
11 2 (2.35%) Perl
12 1 (1.18%) C
12 1 (1.18%) R
12 1 (1.18%) VB
12 1 (1.18%) VB.NET
12 1 (1.18%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (12.94%) Degree
2 10 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.71%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.18%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.18%) OCP
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.18%) PMP
6 1 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.12%) Data Quality
2 9 (10.59%) QA
3 3 (3.53%) SLA
4 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.18%) GDPR
4 1 (1.18%) GRC
4 1 (1.18%) NIST
4 1 (1.18%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.35%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (2.35%) Firmware
2 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.18%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.18%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (3.53%) Foglight
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (2.35%) Control-M
2 2 (2.35%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (51.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.06%) Databricks
2 6 (7.06%) Oracle
3 5 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.53%) BMC
4 3 (3.53%) Civica
4 3 (3.53%) Remedy
4 3 (3.53%) SAP
5 2 (2.35%) EMC
5 2 (2.35%) Epicor
5 2 (2.35%) Murex
5 2 (2.35%) SYSPRO
6 1 (1.18%) Informatica
6 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.18%) Sybase
6 1 (1.18%) UiPath
6 1 (1.18%) Wonderware
6 1 (1.18%) Yardi
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