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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
23 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 426 384
Rank change year-on-year -124 -42 -20
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 87 111 204
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.37% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.12% 2.00% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 79 155
10th Percentile £283 £307 £363
25th Percentile £401 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -12.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £579 £553 £638
90th Percentile £650 £608 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% -12.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile - £25.53 £26.80
25th Percentile £26.50 £26.32 £37.63
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.07 £43.22
Median % change year-on-year +23.84% -32.73% +51.10%
75th Percentile £47.50 - £46.18
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £25.00 £43.22
% change year-on-year +44.00% -42.15% +58.88%

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 7,749 5,554 7,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.26% 18.53% 17.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,155 3,775 5,373
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £760 £779
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 98 155
10th Percentile £14.85 £19.49 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.88 £20.77
Median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -12.50% -29.76%
75th Percentile £63.81 £65.63 £53.94
90th Percentile £77.00 £79.09 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £31.85 £33.00
% change year-on-year +17.76% -3.50% -40.00%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -150 80 £500 +4.71% 35
UK excluding London -92 46 £475 +18.75% 31
London -109 34 £500 -1.72% 9
Work from Home -49 32 £525 +5.00% 15
North of England -63 18 £475 +18.75% 6
South East -56 11 £500 +11.11% 10
North West -37 9 £494 +9.72% 5
Yorkshire -45 9 £400 +6.67% 1
Midlands -54 7 £495 +26.92% 8
East of England -23 6 £211 -47.37% 4
West Midlands -62 4 £603 +54.49% 4
East Midlands -15 3 £386 - 4
South West -35 3 £550 +37.50% 2
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 3 (3.45%) Confluence
1 3 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.30%) Apache
2 2 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.15%) IIS
3 1 (1.15%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Elite 3E
2 3 (3.45%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (3.45%) SystmOne
3 2 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.30%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (2.30%) Front Arena
3 2 (2.30%) Global One
3 2 (2.30%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.15%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 34 (39.08%) Power Platform
2 30 (34.48%) Azure
3 8 (9.20%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (9.20%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (5.75%) AWS
6 4 (4.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.60%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (4.60%) dbt
6 4 (4.60%) Power Automate
6 4 (4.60%) PowerApps
6 4 (4.60%) Serverless
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Functions
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.45%) SaaS
7 3 (3.45%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.30%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) DHCP
1 1 (1.15%) DMZ
1 1 (1.15%) DNS
1 1 (1.15%) Firewall
1 1 (1.15%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.15%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (1.15%) SAN
1 1 (1.15%) VPN
1 1 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (63.22%) SQL Server
2 47 (54.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 32 (36.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 29 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (31.03%) Power BI
6 10 (11.49%) Tableau
7 8 (9.20%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (5.75%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (5.75%) Data Lake
8 5 (5.75%) QlikView
8 5 (5.75%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (4.60%) DTS
10 3 (3.45%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (3.45%) Metadata
10 3 (3.45%) OLAP
10 3 (3.45%) Oracle Database
11 2 (2.30%) Data Mart
11 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (10.34%) Git
2 6 (6.90%) Visual Studio
3 5 (5.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (3.45%) Flyway
4 3 (3.45%) GitLab
4 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.30%) JIRA
5 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.15%) Claude Code
General
1 31 (35.63%) Social Skills
2 28 (32.18%) Finance
3 19 (21.84%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.34%) Banking
5 7 (8.05%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.90%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.60%) Legal
8 3 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.45%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.45%) Social Housing
9 2 (2.30%) Back Office
9 2 (2.30%) Electronics
9 2 (2.30%) Front Office
10 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.15%) Law
10 1 (1.15%) Local Government
10 1 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (24.14%) Developer
2 19 (21.84%) DBA
3 14 (16.09%) SQL DBA
4 13 (14.94%) Data Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) SQL Developer
6 6 (6.90%) Administrator
6 6 (6.90%) Consultant
6 6 (6.90%) Senior
6 6 (6.90%) SQL Server DBA
7 5 (5.75%) Architect
7 5 (5.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 5 (5.75%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Applications Support
8 4 (4.60%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) SQL BI Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Analyst
9 3 (3.45%) Data Warehouse Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Database Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Report Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.79%) XML
2 11 (12.64%) .NET
3 7 (8.05%) Web Services
4 6 (6.90%) REST
5 5 (5.75%) JSON
5 5 (5.75%) SOAP
5 5 (5.75%) XSLT
6 4 (4.60%) Middleware
6 4 (4.60%) YAML
7 3 (3.45%) AWS CDK
8 2 (2.30%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (2.30%) FIXML
9 1 (1.15%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.15%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.15%) CSS
9 1 (1.15%) EDI
9 1 (1.15%) HTML
9 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
9 1 (1.15%) WCF
9 1 (1.15%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.20%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (8.05%) Clustering
3 6 (6.90%) NHS
3 6 (6.90%) Replication
3 6 (6.90%) Wiki
4 3 (3.45%) BYOD
4 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.30%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.30%) Derivative
5 2 (2.30%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.30%) Eurex
5 2 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.30%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.30%) Robotics
5 2 (2.30%) Swaptions
6 1 (1.15%) Life Science
6 1 (1.15%) PKI
6 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.15%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.90%) Windows
2 5 (5.75%) Linux
3 4 (4.60%) Unix
4 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (43.68%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (34.48%) ETL
3 25 (28.74%) Migration
4 20 (22.99%) Analytics
5 19 (21.84%) Data Modelling
6 18 (20.69%) Agile
6 18 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (16.09%) Data Engineering
8 13 (14.94%) Data Migration
8 13 (14.94%) Dimensional Modelling
9 12 (13.79%) CI/CD
9 12 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (12.64%) Data Governance
10 11 (12.64%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (12.64%) Decision-Making
11 10 (11.49%) ITIL
11 10 (11.49%) Kanban
11 10 (11.49%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (10.34%) ERP
12 9 (10.34%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 73 (83.91%) SQL
2 40 (45.98%) T-SQL
3 12 (13.79%) PowerShell
4 11 (12.64%) Python
5 10 (11.49%) C#
5 10 (11.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (9.20%) PL/SQL
7 6 (6.90%) VB.NET
8 5 (5.75%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.75%) XPath
9 4 (4.60%) Bicep
9 4 (4.60%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.45%) X++
11 2 (2.30%) Perl
12 1 (1.15%) C
12 1 (1.15%) R
12 1 (1.15%) VB
12 1 (1.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (12.64%) Degree
2 7 (8.05%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.15%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.15%) OCP
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.94%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.49%) QA
3 3 (3.45%) GDPR
3 3 (3.45%) SLA
4 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.30%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.15%) NIST
5 1 (1.15%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.30%) Docker
1 2 (2.30%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (2.30%) Firmware
2 1 (1.15%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (3.45%) Foglight
2 2 (2.30%) Control-M
2 2 (2.30%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (2.30%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.15%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (55.17%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.05%) Databricks
3 5 (5.75%) Intapp
3 5 (5.75%) Oracle
3 5 (5.75%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.45%) BMC
4 3 (3.45%) Civica
4 3 (3.45%) Remedy
4 3 (3.45%) SAP
5 2 (2.30%) EMC
5 2 (2.30%) Murex
5 2 (2.30%) SYSPRO
6 1 (1.15%) Epicor
6 1 (1.15%) Informatica
6 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.15%) Sybase
6 1 (1.15%) Wonderware
6 1 (1.15%) Yardi
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