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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 427 397
Rank change year-on-year -130 -30 -27
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 95 112 202
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.35% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.20% 1.92% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 81 150
10th Percentile £283 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £578 £575 £634
90th Percentile £650 £673 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% -12.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 8
10th Percentile - £25.53 £18.79
25th Percentile £26.50 £26.32 £28.44
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.07 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.84% -27.78% +40.73%
75th Percentile £47.50 - £46.18
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £25.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +44.00% -37.89% +47.98%

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 7,946 5,822 7,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.26% 18.29% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,243 3,941 5,416
10th Percentile £350 £356 £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 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 103 153
10th Percentile £15.57 £19.82 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £25.38 £20.49
Median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.67% -34.78%
75th Percentile £63.88 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £76.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +18.52% +5.47% -45.45%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -125 88 £500 +2.30% 44
UK excluding London -95 50 £500 +25.00% 38
London -115 38 £500 -4.08% 10
Work from Home -61 33 £525 +5.00% 29
North of England -55 20 £475 +11.76% 12
North West -36 11 £506 +12.50% 6
South East -61 11 £500 +11.11% 6
Yorkshire -40 9 £400 +6.67% 6
Midlands -59 8 £580 +46.84% 10
East of England -23 7 £211 -47.37% 5
West Midlands -64 5 £600 +51.90% 6
East Midlands -13 3 £386 - 4
South West -34 3 £550 +57.14% 3
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 7 (7.37%) Confluence
2 4 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.11%) Apache
3 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.05%) IIS
4 1 (1.05%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 6 (6.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Elite 3E
2 3 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.16%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (3.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (3.16%) SystmOne
3 2 (2.11%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (2.11%) Front Arena
3 2 (2.11%) Global One
3 2 (2.11%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.05%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 36 (37.89%) Power Platform
2 32 (33.68%) Azure
3 10 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (9.47%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (7.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (7.37%) Snowflake
6 6 (6.32%) AWS
7 5 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.26%) Serverless
8 4 (4.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (4.21%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.21%) dbt
8 4 (4.21%) Power Automate
8 4 (4.21%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.16%) Azure Functions
9 3 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (3.16%) SaaS
10 2 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) Firewall
2 1 (1.05%) DHCP
2 1 (1.05%) DMZ
2 1 (1.05%) DNS
2 1 (1.05%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.05%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.05%) SAN
2 1 (1.05%) VPN
2 1 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (62.11%) SQL Server
2 53 (55.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 37 (38.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 35 (36.84%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (30.53%) Power BI
6 10 (10.53%) Tableau
7 9 (9.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (9.47%) Data Lake
8 5 (5.26%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (5.26%) QlikView
8 5 (5.26%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (4.21%) DTS
9 4 (4.21%) Metadata
10 3 (3.16%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (3.16%) OLAP
10 3 (3.16%) Oracle Database
10 3 (3.16%) Power Query
11 2 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (10.53%) Git
2 7 (7.37%) JIRA
2 7 (7.37%) Visual Studio
3 5 (5.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (3.16%) Flyway
4 3 (3.16%) GitLab
4 3 (3.16%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.11%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.05%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.05%) MLflow
General
1 38 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 35 (36.84%) Finance
3 21 (22.11%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (15.79%) Banking
5 10 (10.53%) Manufacturing
6 7 (7.37%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.21%) Legal
7 4 (4.21%) Retail
8 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.16%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.16%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.16%) Social Housing
9 2 (2.11%) Back Office
9 2 (2.11%) Electronics
9 2 (2.11%) Front Office
10 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Local Government
10 1 (1.05%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (23.16%) Developer
2 19 (20.00%) DBA
3 14 (14.74%) Data Engineer
3 14 (14.74%) SQL DBA
4 10 (10.53%) SQL Developer
5 7 (7.37%) Analyst
5 7 (7.37%) Senior
6 6 (6.32%) Administrator
6 6 (6.32%) Architect
6 6 (6.32%) Consultant
6 6 (6.32%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) SQL Server DBA
7 5 (5.26%) Applications Support
7 5 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 5 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.21%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.21%) Data Warehouse Analyst
8 4 (4.21%) Database Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.63%) .NET
1 12 (12.63%) XML
2 8 (8.42%) Web Services
3 6 (6.32%) REST
4 5 (5.26%) JSON
4 5 (5.26%) SOAP
4 5 (5.26%) XSLT
5 4 (4.21%) Middleware
5 4 (4.21%) YAML
6 3 (3.16%) AWS CDK
7 2 (2.11%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.11%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (2.11%) FIXML
7 2 (2.11%) PySpark
8 1 (1.05%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.05%) CSS
8 1 (1.05%) EDI
8 1 (1.05%) HTML
8 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
8 1 (1.05%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.42%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (7.37%) Clustering
3 6 (6.32%) NHS
3 6 (6.32%) Replication
3 6 (6.32%) Wiki
4 3 (3.16%) BYOD
4 3 (3.16%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.11%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.11%) Derivative
5 2 (2.11%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.11%) Eurex
5 2 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.11%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.11%) Robotics
5 2 (2.11%) Swaptions
6 1 (1.05%) Life Science
6 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.05%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.37%) Windows
2 5 (5.26%) Linux
3 4 (4.21%) Unix
4 3 (3.16%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (47.37%) Business Intelligence
2 37 (38.95%) ETL
3 28 (29.47%) Migration
4 25 (26.32%) Analytics
4 25 (26.32%) Data Modelling
5 23 (24.21%) Agile
6 21 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (18.95%) CI/CD
8 16 (16.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (15.79%) Data Engineering
10 14 (14.74%) Data Migration
11 13 (13.68%) Dimensional Modelling
12 12 (12.63%) Data Governance
12 12 (12.63%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (12.63%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (11.58%) Decision-Making
14 10 (10.53%) High Availability
14 10 (10.53%) ITIL
14 10 (10.53%) Kanban
15 9 (9.47%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 81 (85.26%) SQL
2 41 (43.16%) T-SQL
3 13 (13.68%) PowerShell
4 12 (12.63%) Python
5 11 (11.58%) C#
5 11 (11.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (8.42%) PL/SQL
7 6 (6.32%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.32%) VB.NET
8 5 (5.26%) Bicep
8 5 (5.26%) XPath
9 4 (4.21%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.16%) X++
11 2 (2.11%) Perl
12 1 (1.05%) C
12 1 (1.05%) R
12 1 (1.05%) VB
12 1 (1.05%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (12.63%) Degree
2 7 (7.37%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.21%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.16%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.16%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.05%) OCP
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.84%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.53%) QA
3 3 (3.16%) GDPR
3 3 (3.16%) SLA
4 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.11%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.05%) NIST
5 1 (1.05%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.11%) Docker
1 2 (2.11%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (2.11%) Firmware
2 1 (1.05%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (3.16%) Foglight
1 3 (3.16%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (2.11%) Control-M
2 2 (2.11%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.05%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.05%) SCCM
3 1 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 51 (53.68%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.63%) Databricks
3 6 (6.32%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.26%) Intapp
4 5 (5.26%) Oracle
5 3 (3.16%) BMC
5 3 (3.16%) Civica
5 3 (3.16%) Remedy
5 3 (3.16%) SAP
6 2 (2.11%) EMC
6 2 (2.11%) Murex
6 2 (2.11%) SYSPRO
7 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.05%) Epicor
7 1 (1.05%) Informatica
7 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.05%) Sybase
7 1 (1.05%) Wonderware
7 1 (1.05%) Yardi