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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 462 406
Rank change year-on-year -114 -56 -18
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 98 83 153
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.25% 0.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.20% 1.39% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 59 111
10th Percentile £340 £290 £338
25th Percentile £403 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £572 £644
90th Percentile £650 £755 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £400 £413
% change year-on-year +21.88% -3.03% -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £29.70 £27.15 £17.19
25th Percentile £34.50 £28.38 £19.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £22.42
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% +29.66% -25.27%
75th Percentile £47.50 - £27.07
90th Percentile - - £31.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 - £20.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

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 8,177 5,951 7,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.27% 18.10% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,463 4,003 4,956
10th Percentile £358 £341 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £601 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 93 100
10th Percentile £15.90 £21.02 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.11 £27.11 £19.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -37.34%
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £78.74 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.85 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.11% +6.15% -39.74%

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 18 August 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 18 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK

SQL Server Reporting Services
Top 15 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 18 August 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 -118 92 £500 +12.04% 85
London -68 48 £513 -2.38% 36
UK excluding London -87 45 £488 +21.88% 56
Work from Home -52 28 £500 - 35
North of England -61 22 £473 -0.53% 14
North West -38 13 £475 - 11
Yorkshire - 9 £400 - 2
South East -73 8 £500 -1.23% 15
East of England -20 6 £576 +44.00% 10
Midlands -57 6 £468 +16.88% 12
East Midlands -16 3 £410 - 7
West Midlands -53 3 £600 +50.00% 5
Scotland -12 1 £488 +20.74% 2
South West -43 1 £550 +57.14% 5
Northern Ireland - 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 17 (17.35%) Confluence
2 8 (8.16%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.04%) Apache
3 2 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.02%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (13.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (5.10%) Elite 3E
3 4 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (3.06%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (2.04%) Front Arena
5 2 (2.04%) Global One
5 2 (2.04%) NetSuite
6 1 (1.02%) Alphatax
6 1 (1.02%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 40 (40.82%) Power Platform
2 34 (34.69%) Azure
3 8 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (8.16%) Dynamics 365
3 8 (8.16%) Snowflake
4 6 (6.12%) AWS
4 6 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.10%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (5.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (4.08%) dbt
6 4 (4.08%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.06%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.06%) Azure Storage
7 3 (3.06%) GitHub
7 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (3.06%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.06%) SaaS
7 3 (3.06%) Serverless
8 2 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) DMZ
1 1 (1.02%) Firewall
1 1 (1.02%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (1.02%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (60.20%) SQL Server
2 52 (53.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 37 (37.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 35 (35.71%) Power BI
5 30 (30.61%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (8.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (8.16%) Data Lake
6 8 (8.16%) Tableau
7 7 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (5.10%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (4.08%) DTS
9 4 (4.08%) Metadata
9 4 (4.08%) Power Query
9 4 (4.08%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (3.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (3.06%) OLAP
10 3 (3.06%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (3.06%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 15 (15.31%) JIRA
2 8 (8.16%) Git
3 6 (6.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (6.12%) Visual Studio
4 3 (3.06%) Flyway
4 3 (3.06%) GitLab
4 3 (3.06%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.02%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.02%) MLflow
5 1 (1.02%) Toad
5 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (36.73%) Finance
2 34 (34.69%) Social Skills
3 18 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (15.31%) Banking
5 10 (10.20%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.12%) Retail
7 5 (5.10%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.08%) Legal
8 4 (4.08%) Local Government
8 4 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.08%) Social Housing
9 3 (3.06%) Front Office
9 3 (3.06%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.04%) Back Office
10 2 (2.04%) Electronics
10 2 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.02%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (22.45%) DBA
2 20 (20.41%) Developer
3 17 (17.35%) SQL DBA
4 10 (10.20%) Administrator
5 9 (9.18%) Analyst
5 9 (9.18%) Architect
6 7 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 7 (7.14%) Data Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) SQL Developer
6 7 (7.14%) SQL Server DBA
7 6 (6.12%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.12%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
7 6 (6.12%) Consultant
7 6 (6.12%) Data Business Analyst
7 6 (6.12%) Data Warehouse Analyst
7 6 (6.12%) Data Warehouse Business Analyst
7 6 (6.12%) Lead
8 5 (5.10%) Applications Support
8 5 (5.10%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.31%) .NET
2 9 (9.18%) Web Services
3 8 (8.16%) XML
4 6 (6.12%) REST
4 6 (6.12%) SOAP
5 5 (5.10%) Middleware
5 5 (5.10%) XSLT
6 3 (3.06%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.06%) ASP.NET
6 3 (3.06%) AWS CDK
7 2 (2.04%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (2.04%) CSS
7 2 (2.04%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (2.04%) FIXML
7 2 (2.04%) HTML
7 2 (2.04%) JSON
7 2 (2.04%) PySpark
7 2 (2.04%) WCF
8 1 (1.02%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (1.02%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.31%) Clustering
2 10 (10.20%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.08%) NHS
5 3 (3.06%) BYOD
5 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.06%) Replication
6 2 (2.04%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.04%) Derivative
6 2 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.04%) Eurex
6 2 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.04%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.04%) Robotics
6 2 (2.04%) Swaptions
7 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.02%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.33%) Windows
2 4 (4.08%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.06%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (2.04%) Linux
4 2 (2.04%) Unix
5 1 (1.02%) VMS
5 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (44.90%) Business Intelligence
2 37 (37.76%) Migration
3 30 (30.61%) ETL
4 27 (27.55%) Analytics
5 26 (26.53%) Data Modelling
6 20 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (18.37%) Agile
7 18 (18.37%) CI/CD
8 16 (16.33%) High Availability
8 16 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (13.27%) Data Migration
9 13 (13.27%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (13.27%) Requirements Gathering
10 12 (12.24%) Data Governance
10 12 (12.24%) DevOps
10 12 (12.24%) Incident Management
11 11 (11.22%) Change Management
12 10 (10.20%) Database Migration
12 10 (10.20%) Performance Tuning
13 9 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 85 (86.73%) SQL
2 29 (29.59%) T-SQL
3 18 (18.37%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.20%) C#
4 10 (10.20%) Python
5 8 (8.16%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (6.12%) VB.NET
8 5 (5.10%) PL/SQL
8 5 (5.10%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.10%) XPath
9 3 (3.06%) X++
10 2 (2.04%) Perl
10 2 (2.04%) VBA
11 1 (1.02%) Bicep
11 1 (1.02%) Korn
11 1 (1.02%) R
11 1 (1.02%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.24%) Degree
4 4 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.02%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.02%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.22%) QA
3 3 (3.06%) GDPR
4 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.04%) SLA
4 2 (2.04%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (11.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.04%) Docker
3 2 (2.04%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (2.04%) Firmware
4 1 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (10.20%) Microsoft Clustering
2 6 (6.12%) SCOM
3 3 (3.06%) Foglight
3 3 (3.06%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (2.04%) Control-M
4 2 (2.04%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (41.84%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.31%) Databricks
3 13 (13.27%) BMC
3 13 (13.27%) Remedy
4 11 (11.22%) VMware
5 6 (6.12%) Commvault
5 6 (6.12%) ServiceNow
6 5 (5.10%) Intapp
7 4 (4.08%) Civica
8 3 (3.06%) SAP
9 2 (2.04%) EMC
9 2 (2.04%) Informatica
9 2 (2.04%) Murex
9 2 (2.04%) Oracle
9 2 (2.04%) SYSPRO
10 1 (1.02%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.02%) Sybase
10 1 (1.02%) Yardi
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