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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 399 414
Rank change year-on-year -73 +15 -63
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 98 162 221
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.44% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.57% 2.52% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 109 169
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £404 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £588 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - £17.19 £27.60
25th Percentile - £19.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate - £22.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.18% +28.57%
75th Percentile - £27.07 £46.18
90th Percentile - £31.08 £46.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £20.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - -55.56% +28.57%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 6,252 6,441 7,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.08% 17.64% 16.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,236 4,300 5,423
10th Percentile £331 £341 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £534
Median % change year-on-year -5.57% -0.84% -2.91%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 88 153
10th Percentile £20.73 £17.85 £17.25
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.81 £23.24
Median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.90% -33.59% -4.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £54.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.60 £66.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.75 £30.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.17% -35.04% +5.38%

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 5 November 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 13 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 5 November 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 -65 91 £450 -14.29% 184
London -1 59 £463 -15.91% 73
Work from Home -25 30 £456 -15.90% 105
UK excluding London -83 30 £400 -11.11% 150
North of England -51 11 £475 -4.43% 34
North West -30 8 £450 +20.00% 25
West Midlands -37 7 £400 -28.76% 12
Midlands -46 7 £400 -11.11% 16
South West +7 4 £388 -32.61% 8
South East -15 3 £550 +10.00% 70
East of England -19 3 £400 +184.65% 8
Yorkshire -34 3 £500 -11.82% 9
Scotland - 2 £429 - 5

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 2 (2.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.02%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (1.02%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (5.10%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (4.08%) Advent Geneva
4 3 (3.06%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (3.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (2.04%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (1.02%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 51 (52.04%) Power Platform
2 36 (36.73%) Azure
3 22 (22.45%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (12.24%) SaaS
5 10 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (4.08%) Azure Functions
7 4 (4.08%) PaaS
7 4 (4.08%) Serverless
8 3 (3.06%) AWS
8 3 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (3.06%) IaaS
9 2 (2.04%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.04%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (1.02%) Blackbaud
10 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.02%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) HTTP
1 1 (1.02%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.02%) LAN
1 1 (1.02%) SAN
1 1 (1.02%) Skype
1 1 (1.02%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.02%) VPN
1 1 (1.02%) VXLAN
1 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 50 (51.02%) Power BI
3 34 (34.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 16 (16.33%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (12.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 7 (7.14%) Power Query
6 7 (7.14%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (4.08%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.08%) DB2
8 4 (4.08%) MySQL
8 4 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (3.06%) Oracle Database
10 2 (2.04%) OLAP
10 2 (2.04%) OLAP Cube
10 2 (2.04%) PowerPivot
10 2 (2.04%) Star Schema
10 2 (2.04%) Tableau
11 1 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (1.02%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.04%) Git
2 2 (2.04%) JIRA
2 2 (2.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 40 (40.82%) Finance
2 30 (30.61%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.22%) Banking
5 9 (9.18%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (7.14%) General Ledger
7 6 (6.12%) Manufacturing
8 5 (5.10%) Public Sector
9 4 (4.08%) Financial Institution
9 4 (4.08%) Investment Banking
9 4 (4.08%) Local Government
9 4 (4.08%) Retail
10 3 (3.06%) Marketing
11 2 (2.04%) Automotive
11 2 (2.04%) Law
11 2 (2.04%) Legal
12 1 (1.02%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (39.80%) Developer
2 11 (11.22%) Consultant
2 11 (11.22%) Data Engineer
3 8 (8.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 8 (8.16%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 8 (8.16%) Power BI Developer
4 7 (7.14%) Analyst
4 7 (7.14%) Architect
4 7 (7.14%) SQL Developer
5 5 (5.10%) Applications Developer
5 5 (5.10%) Automation Developer
5 5 (5.10%) Data Analyst
5 5 (5.10%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 5 (5.10%) Report Developer
5 5 (5.10%) Senior
6 4 (4.08%) Data Migration Engineer
6 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Consultant
6 4 (4.08%) Migration Engineer
6 4 (4.08%) Report Analyst
6 4 (4.08%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.39%) .NET
2 4 (4.08%) ASP.NET
2 4 (4.08%) Middleware
2 4 (4.08%) XML
3 3 (3.06%) .NET Framework
3 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (3.06%) REST
3 3 (3.06%) WCF
3 3 (3.06%) Web Services
4 2 (2.04%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (2.04%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 2 (2.04%) CSS
4 2 (2.04%) Entity Framework
4 2 (2.04%) HTML
4 2 (2.04%) HTML5
4 2 (2.04%) SOAP
4 2 (2.04%) Software Packaging
4 2 (2.04%) WPF
4 2 (2.04%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.12%) Credit Risk
1 6 (6.12%) Virtual Team
2 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.06%) Replication
3 2 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.04%) Market Risk
3 2 (2.04%) NHS
4 1 (1.02%) BYOD
4 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.02%) FMCG
4 1 (1.02%) IoT
4 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.02%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.02%) SCADA
4 1 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.18%) Windows
2 4 (4.08%) Linux
3 1 (1.02%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (28.57%) Migration
3 21 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (19.39%) Data Migration
4 19 (19.39%) DevOps
5 17 (17.35%) ETL
6 14 (14.29%) Visualisation
7 13 (13.27%) Data Analysis
8 10 (10.20%) Data Integration
8 10 (10.20%) Performance Optimisation
8 10 (10.20%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (9.18%) Agile
9 9 (9.18%) Analytics
9 9 (9.18%) Asset Management
9 9 (9.18%) Data Management
9 9 (9.18%) Integration Patterns
10 8 (8.16%) ERP
11 7 (7.14%) CRM
11 7 (7.14%) Data Governance
11 7 (7.14%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 72 (73.47%) SQL
2 17 (17.35%) C#
3 12 (12.24%) T-SQL
4 9 (9.18%) X++
5 8 (8.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.08%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.06%) Python
8 3 (3.06%) VBA
9 2 (2.04%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.04%) VBScript
10 1 (1.02%) Korn
10 1 (1.02%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (12.24%) Degree
2 11 (11.22%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.02%) MCSA
5 1 (1.02%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.12%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.08%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.08%) SLA
3 3 (3.06%) GAAP
3 3 (3.06%) GDPR
4 2 (2.04%) QA
5 1 (1.02%) IFRS
5 1 (1.02%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.08%) SCCM
2 2 (2.04%) Control-M
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.02%) SCOM
3 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (31.63%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.24%) Oracle
3 4 (4.08%) Advent
3 4 (4.08%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.06%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.06%) SAP
4 3 (3.06%) UiPath
5 2 (2.04%) Databricks
5 2 (2.04%) IBM
5 2 (2.04%) Informatica
6 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.02%) Palantir
6 1 (1.02%) Veeam
6 1 (1.02%) VMware