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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
21 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 386 379
Rank change year-on-year -129 -7 -39
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 104 134 211
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.46% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.49% 2.42% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 103 172
10th Percentile £381 £325 £375
25th Percentile £406 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £638
90th Percentile £582 £698 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £420 £425
% change year-on-year +13.10% -1.18% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile - £23.49 -
25th Percentile £26.50 £25.00 £37.63
Median hourly rate £36.00 £26.32 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +36.78% -43.01% +31.94%
75th Percentile £47.50 £29.07 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £23.74 £46.18
% change year-on-year +51.64% -48.59% +53.29%

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 6,993 5,539 7,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.95% 18.88% 16.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,813 3,821 5,141
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -3.06% +0.51% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 100 173
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.72 £14.36
25th Percentile £28.86 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £51.00 £31.64 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +61.19% -21.39% -26.82%
75th Percentile £74.84 £64.56 £58.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -14.29% -30.07%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 21 March 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 -137 97 £463 -7.50% 63
UK excluding London -80 51 £475 +13.10% 60
London -84 46 £480 -9.48% 15
Work from Home -33 38 £463 -7.50% 19
North of England -61 19 £450 +23.12% 17
Midlands -58 14 £444 +24.65% 14
North West -26 12 £450 +33.14% 9
West Midlands -56 12 £444 +22.41% 9
South East -50 9 £500 +19.05% 15
Yorkshire -50 7 £475 +26.67% 7
East of England -18 4 £211 -51.88% 6
South West -35 3 £563 +12.50% 7
Scotland +9 2 £550 - 1
East Midlands -35 2 - - 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 4 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.96%) OpenEdge
2 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.96%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (7.69%) Advent Geneva
2 5 (4.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.88%) SystmOne
4 2 (1.92%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (1.92%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.96%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.96%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.96%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.96%) Global One
Cloud Services
1 48 (46.15%) Power Platform
2 38 (36.54%) Azure
3 16 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (9.62%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (8.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (6.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (4.81%) Power Automate
7 5 (4.81%) PowerApps
7 5 (4.81%) SaaS
8 4 (3.85%) AWS
9 3 (2.88%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.88%) Serverless
9 3 (2.88%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.92%) dbt
10 2 (1.92%) GitHub
10 2 (1.92%) Google Ads
10 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) VPN
2 1 (0.96%) DHCP
2 1 (0.96%) DNS
2 1 (0.96%) Firewall
2 1 (0.96%) HTTP
2 1 (0.96%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.96%) LAN
2 1 (0.96%) SAN
2 1 (0.96%) Skype
2 1 (0.96%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.96%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.96%) WAN
2 1 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 43 (41.35%) Power BI
2 43 (41.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 29 (27.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 25 (24.04%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (9.62%) Azure SQL Database
5 10 (9.62%) Relational Database
6 8 (7.69%) DB2
6 8 (7.69%) MySQL
7 7 (6.73%) Data Lake
8 6 (5.77%) Tableau
9 4 (3.85%) Metadata
9 4 (3.85%) Oracle Database
10 3 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.88%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (2.88%) DTS
10 3 (2.88%) QlikView
11 2 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.96%) GIS
12 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (10.58%) Git
2 6 (5.77%) Visual Studio
3 5 (4.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (2.88%) Flyway
4 3 (2.88%) GitLab
4 3 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.88%) JIRA
5 2 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (33.65%) Social Skills
2 31 (29.81%) Finance
3 23 (22.12%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 10 (9.62%) Manufacturing
6 9 (8.65%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (6.73%) Banking
8 4 (3.85%) General Ledger
8 4 (3.85%) Legal
8 4 (3.85%) Retail
9 2 (1.92%) Electronics
9 2 (1.92%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.96%) Back Office
10 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.96%) Front Office
10 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.96%) Local Government
10 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (34.62%) Developer
2 17 (16.35%) Data Engineer
3 12 (11.54%) Consultant
3 12 (11.54%) DBA
3 12 (11.54%) SQL DBA
4 11 (10.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 11 (10.58%) Senior
5 8 (7.69%) Architect
6 6 (5.77%) Data Architect
7 5 (4.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 5 (4.81%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (3.85%) Business Consultant
8 4 (3.85%) Business Developer
8 4 (3.85%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Engineer
8 4 (3.85%) Oracle DBA
8 4 (3.85%) Power BI Developer
8 4 (3.85%) SQL Developer
8 4 (3.85%) SQL Server DBA
9 3 (2.88%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.35%) .NET
2 6 (5.77%) XML
3 5 (4.81%) JSON
3 5 (4.81%) REST
4 4 (3.85%) YAML
5 3 (2.88%) .NET Framework
5 3 (2.88%) ASP.NET
5 3 (2.88%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.88%) SOAP
6 2 (1.92%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.92%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.92%) CSS
6 2 (1.92%) EDI
6 2 (1.92%) HTML
6 2 (1.92%) HTML5
6 2 (1.92%) Playwright
6 2 (1.92%) pytest
7 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.96%) PySpark
7 1 (0.96%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.77%) Virtual Team
2 6 (5.77%) Wiki
3 5 (4.81%) NHS
4 4 (3.85%) Replication
5 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.92%) Clustering
6 2 (1.92%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.92%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.92%) SCADA
7 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.96%) Derivative
7 1 (0.96%) Eurex
7 1 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.96%) Swaptions
7 1 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.77%) Windows
2 5 (4.81%) Linux
3 2 (1.92%) Unix
3 2 (1.92%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (52.88%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (28.85%) ETL
2 30 (28.85%) Migration
3 25 (24.04%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (20.19%) Data Migration
5 19 (18.27%) Agile
6 16 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 16 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
7 15 (14.42%) ERP
8 14 (13.46%) Analytics
8 14 (13.46%) CI/CD
8 14 (13.46%) Data Governance
8 14 (13.46%) Decision-Making
8 14 (13.46%) DevOps
8 14 (13.46%) Performance Tuning
9 13 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
10 12 (11.54%) Integration Patterns
11 11 (10.58%) Data Engineering
12 10 (9.62%) Data Integration
12 10 (9.62%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 72 (69.23%) SQL
2 19 (18.27%) T-SQL
3 13 (12.50%) C#
4 8 (7.69%) Python
5 7 (6.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (6.73%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.77%) PL/SQL
6 6 (5.77%) X++
7 4 (3.85%) Bicep
7 4 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.88%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.92%) Perl
9 2 (1.92%) VBA
10 1 (0.96%) C
10 1 (0.96%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (14.42%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.77%) Degree
2 6 (5.77%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.96%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.96%) OCP
6 1 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 8 (7.69%) QA
2 6 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.81%) GDPR
4 1 (0.96%) GRC
4 1 (0.96%) NIST
4 1 (0.96%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.92%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (1.92%) Firmware
1 2 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.96%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (2.88%) Foglight
1 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.92%) SCCM
3 1 (0.96%) Control-M
3 1 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.96%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.96%) SCOM
3 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (49.04%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.69%) Advent
2 8 (7.69%) Oracle
3 4 (3.85%) Databricks
4 3 (2.88%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.92%) Civica
5 2 (1.92%) EMC
5 2 (1.92%) Epicor
5 2 (1.92%) Informatica
5 2 (1.92%) UiPath
6 1 (0.96%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.96%) Murex
6 1 (0.96%) Palantir
6 1 (0.96%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.96%) Veeam
6 1 (0.96%) VMware
6 1 (0.96%) Wonderware
6 1 (0.96%) Yardi
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