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

 6 months to
2 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 543 408 387
Rank change year-on-year -135 -21 -29
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 92 118 193
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.41% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.25% 2.15% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 86 151
10th Percentile £279 £316 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £539 £573 £638
90th Percentile £610 £661 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% -10.53%
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 7,350 5,479 7,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.07% 18.93% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,915 3,752 5,235
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.50%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £756 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 101 150
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.59 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.82 £23.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.36% -17.23% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.62 £56.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.50 £72.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.84% -9.60% -40.26%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -151 85 £475 -4.28% 45
UK excluding London -77 53 £475 +18.75% 34
Work from Home -44 34 £481 -3.75% 22
London -114 31 £500 -3.38% 16
North of England -67 19 £475 +26.67% 9
Midlands -53 14 £418 +7.05% 8
North West -37 10 £500 +34.23% 7
South East -57 10 £500 +2.56% 11
West Midlands -59 10 £444 +13.78% 5
Yorkshire -54 9 £400 +6.67% 2
East of England - 6 £211 - 2
East Midlands -25 4 £386 - 3
South West -31 3 £550 -8.33% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 (4.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.17%) Apache
2 2 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.26%) Dynamics GP
1 3 (3.26%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (3.26%) SystmOne
2 2 (2.17%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (2.17%) Elite 3E
2 2 (2.17%) Front Arena
2 2 (2.17%) Global One
2 2 (2.17%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.09%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 39 (42.39%) Power Platform
2 30 (32.61%) Azure
3 8 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (7.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (7.61%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (7.61%) Power Automate
4 7 (7.61%) PowerApps
5 6 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (5.43%) AWS
6 5 (5.43%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (4.35%) dbt
7 4 (4.35%) Serverless
8 3 (3.26%) Azure Functions
8 3 (3.26%) GitHub
8 3 (3.26%) SaaS
8 3 (3.26%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.17%) IaaS
9 2 (2.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) DHCP
1 1 (1.09%) DNS
1 1 (1.09%) Firewall
1 1 (1.09%) VPN
1 1 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (61.96%) SQL Server
2 48 (52.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 35 (38.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 32 (34.78%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (33.70%) Power BI
6 12 (13.04%) Tableau
7 9 (9.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (5.43%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (5.43%) Data Lake
9 4 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (4.35%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (4.35%) DTS
9 4 (4.35%) QlikView
10 3 (3.26%) Metadata
10 3 (3.26%) OLAP
10 3 (3.26%) Oracle Database
10 3 (3.26%) Semantic Layer
11 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (10.87%) Git
2 5 (5.43%) Visual Studio
3 4 (4.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (3.26%) Flyway
4 3 (3.26%) GitLab
4 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.26%) JIRA
5 2 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.09%) Claude Code
General
1 33 (35.87%) Social Skills
2 25 (27.17%) Finance
3 24 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.78%) Banking
5 8 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.61%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.35%) Legal
8 3 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.26%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.26%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.26%) Social Housing
9 2 (2.17%) Back Office
9 2 (2.17%) Electronics
9 2 (2.17%) Front Office
9 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.09%) Law
10 1 (1.09%) Local Government
10 1 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (23.91%) Developer
2 21 (22.83%) DBA
3 17 (18.48%) SQL DBA
4 14 (15.22%) Data Engineer
5 9 (9.78%) SQL Server DBA
6 7 (7.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 7 (7.61%) Consultant
6 7 (7.61%) Senior
6 7 (7.61%) SQL Developer
7 6 (6.52%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Administrator
8 5 (5.43%) Architect
9 4 (4.35%) Applications Support
9 4 (4.35%) Business Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Business Intelligence Lead
10 3 (3.26%) Lead
10 3 (3.26%) Report Specialist
10 3 (3.26%) SQL BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.96%) .NET
2 9 (9.78%) XML
3 5 (5.43%) JSON
4 4 (4.35%) Middleware
4 4 (4.35%) REST
4 4 (4.35%) YAML
5 3 (3.26%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.17%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.17%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.17%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.17%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (2.17%) FIXML
6 2 (2.17%) Playwright
6 2 (2.17%) pytest
6 2 (2.17%) SOAP
6 2 (2.17%) Web Services
6 2 (2.17%) XSLT
7 1 (1.09%) CSS
7 1 (1.09%) EDI
7 1 (1.09%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.70%) NHS
2 7 (7.61%) Clustering
2 7 (7.61%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.52%) Replication
3 6 (6.52%) Wiki
4 3 (3.26%) BYOD
4 3 (3.26%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.17%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.17%) Derivative
5 2 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.17%) Eurex
5 2 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.17%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.17%) Robotics
5 2 (2.17%) Swaptions
6 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.09%) Life Science
6 1 (1.09%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.43%) Linux
1 5 (5.43%) Windows
2 4 (4.35%) Unix
3 2 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.09%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (46.74%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (34.78%) ETL
3 28 (30.43%) Migration
4 22 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (22.83%) Agile
6 20 (21.74%) Data Modelling
7 19 (20.65%) Analytics
8 15 (16.30%) Data Engineering
8 15 (16.30%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (15.22%) CI/CD
9 14 (15.22%) Data Governance
9 14 (15.22%) Data Migration
9 14 (15.22%) Decision-Making
10 13 (14.13%) Dimensional Modelling
11 12 (13.04%) High Availability
12 11 (11.96%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (11.96%) DevOps
12 11 (11.96%) ERP
12 11 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (10.87%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 74 (80.43%) SQL
2 35 (38.04%) T-SQL
3 14 (15.22%) C#
4 12 (13.04%) Python
5 11 (11.96%) PowerShell
6 8 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (8.70%) PL/SQL
7 5 (5.43%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.43%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.35%) Bicep
9 3 (3.26%) VB.NET
9 3 (3.26%) X++
10 2 (2.17%) Perl
10 2 (2.17%) XPath
11 1 (1.09%) C
11 1 (1.09%) R
11 1 (1.09%) VB
11 1 (1.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (11.96%) Degree
2 9 (9.78%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.26%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.09%) OCP
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.09%) PMP
6 1 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.13%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.78%) QA
3 3 (3.26%) GDPR
3 3 (3.26%) SLA
4 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.09%) GRC
4 1 (1.09%) NIST
4 1 (1.09%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.09%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.17%) Docker
1 2 (2.17%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (2.17%) Firmware
2 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.09%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (3.26%) Foglight
2 2 (2.17%) Control-M
2 2 (2.17%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (2.17%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (51.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.52%) Databricks
3 5 (5.43%) Oracle
3 5 (5.43%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.26%) BMC
4 3 (3.26%) Civica
4 3 (3.26%) Remedy
4 3 (3.26%) SAP
5 2 (2.17%) EMC
5 2 (2.17%) Epicor
5 2 (2.17%) Intapp
5 2 (2.17%) Murex
5 2 (2.17%) SYSPRO
6 1 (1.09%) Informatica
6 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.09%) Sybase
6 1 (1.09%) UiPath
6 1 (1.09%) Wonderware
6 1 (1.09%) Yardi
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