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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 391 406
Rank change year-on-year -75 +15 -69
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 104 160 228
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.44% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.64% 2.49% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 108 173
10th Percentile £378 £356 £352
25th Percentile £404 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £531 £586 £638
90th Percentile £691 £688 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -7.78% -5.26% +2.70%
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 6,338 6,436 7,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.85% 17.57% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,328 4,284 5,482
10th Percentile £332 £340 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £527 £534
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -1.27% -3.00%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 88 154
10th Percentile £20.80 £17.50 £17.38
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £23.62
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.00 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -35.95% +4.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.50 £68.31
90th Percentile £82.90 £64.81 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.10 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +78.55% -40.45% +13.38%

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 15 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 15 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 -84 96 £450 -14.29% 99
London -7 61 £456 -17.05% 41
Work from Home -12 34 £456 -15.90% 68
UK excluding London -77 34 £415 -7.78% 64
North of England -40 17 £450 -19.86% 21
North West -14 14 £415 +10.67% 18
South West -4 4 £388 -22.50% 6
West Midlands -50 4 £500 -10.95% 13
Midlands -58 4 £500 +11.11% 18
Scotland -1 3 £550 - 4
South East -10 3 £550 +10.00% 9
East of England -24 3 £400 +184.65% 4
Yorkshire -37 3 £500 -11.82% 3

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 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (0.96%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (8.65%) Advent Geneva
2 8 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (4.81%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.96%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 54 (51.92%) Power Platform
2 38 (36.54%) Azure
3 24 (23.08%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (10.58%) SaaS
5 10 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (4.81%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.85%) Azure Functions
8 4 (3.85%) Serverless
9 3 (2.88%) AWS
9 3 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.92%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.92%) PaaS
10 2 (1.92%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.92%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.96%) Blackbaud
11 1 (0.96%) IaaS
11 1 (0.96%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) HTTP
1 1 (0.96%) Kerberos
1 1 (0.96%) LAN
1 1 (0.96%) SAN
1 1 (0.96%) Skype
1 1 (0.96%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.96%) VPN
1 1 (0.96%) VXLAN
1 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (60.58%) SQL Server
2 53 (50.96%) Power BI
3 36 (34.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 17 (16.35%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (11.54%) Relational Database
5 12 (11.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (8.65%) DB2
6 9 (8.65%) MySQL
7 7 (6.73%) Power Query
8 6 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (4.81%) Data Lake
10 4 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.88%) Oracle Database
12 2 (1.92%) Metadata
12 2 (1.92%) OLAP
12 2 (1.92%) OLAP Cube
12 2 (1.92%) PowerPivot
12 2 (1.92%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.92%) Tableau
13 1 (0.96%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 5 (4.81%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.92%) Git
2 2 (1.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.96%) JIRA
General
1 44 (42.31%) Finance
2 31 (29.81%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (10.58%) Banking
6 7 (6.73%) Manufacturing
7 6 (5.77%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.81%) General Ledger
8 5 (4.81%) Retail
9 4 (3.85%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.85%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.85%) Local Government
10 3 (2.88%) Marketing
11 2 (1.92%) Law
11 2 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 48 (46.15%) Developer
2 12 (11.54%) Consultant
2 12 (11.54%) Data Engineer
3 9 (8.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 8 (7.69%) Architect
4 8 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 8 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
5 7 (6.73%) SQL Developer
6 6 (5.77%) Analyst
6 6 (5.77%) Automation Developer
6 6 (5.77%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 6 (5.77%) Senior
7 5 (4.81%) Applications Developer
7 5 (4.81%) Data Migration Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) Migration Engineer
7 5 (4.81%) Report Developer
8 4 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.85%) Data Analyst
8 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Consultant
8 4 (3.85%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.04%) .NET
2 4 (3.85%) ASP.NET
2 4 (3.85%) REST
3 3 (2.88%) .NET Framework
3 3 (2.88%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.88%) SOAP
3 3 (2.88%) WCF
3 3 (2.88%) Web Services
3 3 (2.88%) XML
4 2 (1.92%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (1.92%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 2 (1.92%) CSS
4 2 (1.92%) Entity Framework
4 2 (1.92%) HTML
4 2 (1.92%) HTML5
4 2 (1.92%) Middleware
4 2 (1.92%) WPF
5 1 (0.96%) CSS3
5 1 (0.96%) JSON
5 1 (0.96%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.69%) Virtual Team
2 6 (5.77%) Credit Risk
3 4 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.92%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.92%) NHS
6 1 (0.96%) BYOD
6 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.96%) FMCG
6 1 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.96%) IoT
6 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.96%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.96%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.96%) Replication
6 1 (0.96%) SCADA
6 1 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.77%) Windows
2 3 (2.88%) Linux
3 1 (0.96%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (30.77%) Migration
3 23 (22.12%) Data Migration
3 23 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (18.27%) DevOps
5 18 (17.31%) ETL
6 15 (14.42%) Data Analysis
7 14 (13.46%) Performance Optimisation
7 14 (13.46%) Visualisation
8 12 (11.54%) Data Integration
9 10 (9.62%) Analytics
9 10 (9.62%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (8.65%) Asset Management
10 9 (8.65%) Data Governance
10 9 (8.65%) Data Management
10 9 (8.65%) ERP
10 9 (8.65%) Integration Patterns
11 8 (7.69%) CRM
11 8 (7.69%) Data Modelling
11 8 (7.69%) Fund Accounting
Programming Languages
1 76 (73.08%) SQL
2 18 (17.31%) C#
3 12 (11.54%) T-SQL
4 9 (8.65%) X++
5 8 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.88%) Python
7 3 (2.88%) VBA
8 2 (1.92%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.92%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.96%) Korn
9 1 (0.96%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (10.58%) Degree
1 11 (10.58%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.73%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.96%) MCSA
4 1 (0.96%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.77%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.85%) GDPR
4 1 (0.96%) GAAP
4 1 (0.96%) QA
4 1 (0.96%) SLA
4 1 (0.96%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.96%) Control-M
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.96%) SCCM
1 1 (0.96%) SCOM
1 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (35.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.58%) Oracle
3 9 (8.65%) Advent
4 4 (3.85%) UiPath
5 3 (2.88%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.88%) SAP
5 3 (2.88%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.92%) Databricks
6 2 (1.92%) Informatica
7 1 (0.96%) IBM
7 1 (0.96%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.96%) Palantir
7 1 (0.96%) Veeam
7 1 (0.96%) VMware