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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 486 387 400
Rank change year-on-year -99 +13 -59
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 96 159 212
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.45% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.52% 2.47% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 107 162
10th Percentile £366 £344 £363
25th Percentile £404 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +1.20% +3.75%
75th Percentile £534 £588 £638
90th Percentile £711 £680 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £20.74 £30.95
25th Percentile - £21.86 £38.38
Median hourly rate - £23.66 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year - -48.00% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £27.07 £46.51
90th Percentile - £31.08 £47.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £22.48 £45.50
% change year-on-year - -50.59% +30.00%

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 6,318 6,430 7,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.41% 18.01% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,344 4,251 5,359
10th Percentile £326 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -1.50% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 86 144
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.25 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.10 £21.57
Median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +37.90% -31.69% -7.64%
75th Percentile £67.13 £55.25 £64.65
90th Percentile £83.95 £65.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.36 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +79.49% -40.45% +2.99%

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 10 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 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 10 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 -95 88 £450 -14.29% 52
London -18 51 £475 -13.64% 17
UK excluding London -80 37 £415 -7.89% 50
Work from Home -26 31 £450 -17.05% 26
North of England -43 16 £433 -22.97% 9
North West -12 13 £415 +10.53% 8
West Midlands -43 9 £403 -28.67% 2
Midlands -55 9 £403 -20.42% 7
Scotland +7 3 £550 - 2
East of England -15 3 £400 +145.70% 3
South West -21 3 £344 -31.25% 4
South East -25 3 £550 +22.22% 20
Yorkshire -46 3 £500 -11.82% 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 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.04%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (1.04%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Advent Geneva
2 4 (4.17%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (52.08%) Power Platform
2 32 (33.33%) Azure
3 17 (17.71%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.42%) SaaS
5 6 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (5.21%) PowerApps
7 4 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (4.17%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.13%) AWS
8 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.08%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.08%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.08%) Serverless
9 2 (2.08%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.04%) Blackbaud
10 1 (1.04%) GCP
10 1 (1.04%) PaaS
10 1 (1.04%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) HTTP
1 1 (1.04%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.04%) LAN
1 1 (1.04%) SAN
1 1 (1.04%) Skype
1 1 (1.04%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.04%) VPN
1 1 (1.04%) VXLAN
1 1 (1.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (61.46%) SQL Server
2 49 (51.04%) Power BI
3 32 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 21 (21.88%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (13.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 11 (11.46%) Relational Database
7 9 (9.38%) DB2
7 9 (9.38%) MySQL
8 7 (7.29%) Power Query
9 5 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (4.17%) Data Lake
11 3 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (2.08%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (2.08%) Metadata
12 2 (2.08%) OLAP
12 2 (2.08%) OLAP Cube
12 2 (2.08%) Oracle Database
12 2 (2.08%) PowerPivot
12 2 (2.08%) Star Schema
12 2 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.08%) Git
General
1 41 (42.71%) Finance
2 26 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.38%) Manufacturing
5 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.29%) Banking
6 7 (7.29%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.21%) Retail
8 4 (4.17%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.17%) General Ledger
8 4 (4.17%) Investment Banking
8 4 (4.17%) Local Government
9 2 (2.08%) Law
9 2 (2.08%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (42.71%) Developer
2 12 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 10 (10.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 10 (10.42%) Consultant
4 8 (8.33%) Architect
4 8 (8.33%) Senior
5 6 (6.25%) Analyst
5 6 (6.25%) Power BI Developer
6 5 (5.21%) Data Migration Engineer
6 5 (5.21%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 5 (5.21%) Migration Engineer
6 5 (5.21%) Report Developer
6 5 (5.21%) SQL Developer
7 4 (4.17%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.17%) Data Architect
8 3 (3.13%) Business Developer
8 3 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Consultant
8 3 (3.13%) DBA
8 3 (3.13%) Senior Consultant
8 3 (3.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.83%) .NET
2 5 (5.21%) REST
3 4 (4.17%) ASP.NET
4 3 (3.13%) .NET Framework
4 3 (3.13%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.13%) SOAP
4 3 (3.13%) WCF
4 3 (3.13%) Web Services
5 2 (2.08%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (2.08%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 2 (2.08%) CSS
5 2 (2.08%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.08%) HTML
5 2 (2.08%) HTML5
5 2 (2.08%) WPF
5 2 (2.08%) XML
6 1 (1.04%) ADO
6 1 (1.04%) EDI
6 1 (1.04%) JSON
6 1 (1.04%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.29%) Virtual Team
2 6 (6.25%) Credit Risk
3 5 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.13%) NHS
5 2 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.08%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.04%) FMCG
6 1 (1.04%) IoT
6 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.04%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.04%) SCADA
6 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.21%) Windows
2 3 (3.13%) Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (51.04%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (31.25%) Migration
3 25 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (22.92%) Data Migration
5 19 (19.79%) ETL
6 14 (14.58%) DevOps
6 14 (14.58%) Performance Optimisation
6 14 (14.58%) Visualisation
7 13 (13.54%) Data Integration
8 12 (12.50%) Data Governance
9 11 (11.46%) Data Analysis
9 11 (11.46%) Data Modelling
10 10 (10.42%) ERP
10 10 (10.42%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (9.38%) Analytics
11 9 (9.38%) Asset Management
11 9 (9.38%) Decision-Making
11 9 (9.38%) Integration Patterns
11 9 (9.38%) Mentoring
12 8 (8.33%) Fund Accounting
Programming Languages
1 66 (68.75%) SQL
2 14 (14.58%) C#
3 11 (11.46%) T-SQL
4 9 (9.38%) X++
5 8 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.13%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.13%) Python
7 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.08%) VBA
8 1 (1.04%) Perl
8 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.42%) Degree
3 7 (7.29%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 6 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (1.04%) QA
3 1 (1.04%) SLA
3 1 (1.04%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.04%) SCCM
2 1 (1.04%) SCOM
2 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.38%) Advent
3 6 (6.25%) Oracle
4 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.08%) SAP
6 1 (1.04%) Databricks
6 1 (1.04%) Epicor
6 1 (1.04%) Informatica
6 1 (1.04%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.04%) Palantir
6 1 (1.04%) UiPath
6 1 (1.04%) Veeam
6 1 (1.04%) VMware