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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 471 393
Rank change year-on-year -112 -78 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 95 86 170
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.26% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.16% 1.47% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 61 112
10th Percentile £317 £291 £351
25th Percentile £406 £394 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £443 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.99% -19.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £584 £556 £606
90th Percentile £672 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £488
% change year-on-year +18.75% -17.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £17.19
25th Percentile £26.50 - £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £29.07 £22.42
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +29.66% -25.27%
75th Percentile £27.50 - £27.07
90th Percentile - - £31.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 - £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 8,222 5,867 6,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 18.08% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,490 3,918 4,724
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -1.75%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £650
90th Percentile £701 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £482
% change year-on-year - -1.45% -3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 92 86
10th Percentile £16.49 £22.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £30.55 £20.88
Median hourly rate £39.84 £40.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% +14.99% -36.36%
75th Percentile £60.38 £65.00 £61.19
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £36.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -44.95%

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 September 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
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 15 September 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 -117 88 £500 +15.61% 111
London -82 51 £513 +7.89% 59
UK excluding London -103 38 £475 +18.75% 63
Work from Home -59 30 £513 +12.02% 36
North of England -55 19 £470 +12.85% 14
North West -35 13 £475 +14.05% 8
East of England -25 7 £576 +44.00% 8
Yorkshire -27 6 £358 - 5
South East -66 5 £450 -11.11% 18
Midlands -51 4 £468 +16.88% 12
East Midlands -9 3 £410 - 6
Scotland -18 1 £488 +20.74% 8
South West -52 1 £550 +49.15% 4
West Midlands -60 1 £600 +50.00% 6
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 14 (14.74%) Confluence
2 9 (9.47%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.11%) Apache
3 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.05%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (8.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (13.68%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (6.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (5.26%) Elite 3E
4 2 (2.11%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (2.11%) Front Arena
4 2 (2.11%) Global One
4 2 (2.11%) NetSuite
4 2 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (1.05%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (1.05%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 42 (44.21%) Power Platform
2 38 (40.00%) Azure
3 11 (11.58%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (9.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (8.42%) Snowflake
6 7 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (7.37%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (6.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (6.32%) PowerApps
8 4 (4.21%) Azure Storage
8 4 (4.21%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.16%) AWS
9 3 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.16%) GitHub
9 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (3.16%) SaaS
9 3 (3.16%) Serverless
10 2 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.11%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) DMZ
1 1 (1.05%) Firewall
1 1 (1.05%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.05%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (1.05%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (61.05%) SQL Server
2 45 (47.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 34 (35.79%) Power BI
4 32 (33.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 29 (30.53%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (8.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (7.37%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (7.37%) Data Lake
7 7 (7.37%) Tableau
8 5 (5.26%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (4.21%) Power Query
9 4 (4.21%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (3.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (3.16%) OLAP
10 3 (3.16%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (3.16%) QlikView
11 2 (2.11%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (2.11%) SAP BW
11 2 (2.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (15.79%) JIRA
2 6 (6.32%) Git
2 6 (6.32%) Visual Studio
3 5 (5.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.05%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.05%) MLflow
5 1 (1.05%) Toad
5 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (38.95%) Finance
2 32 (33.68%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.74%) Banking
5 8 (8.42%) Manufacturing
5 8 (8.42%) Retail
6 5 (5.26%) Local Government
6 5 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.16%) Front Office
8 3 (3.16%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.11%) Back Office
9 2 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.11%) Social Housing
10 1 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Law
10 1 (1.05%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (23.16%) Developer
2 19 (20.00%) DBA
3 14 (14.74%) SQL DBA
4 10 (10.53%) Administrator
4 10 (10.53%) Analyst
5 9 (9.47%) Architect
6 8 (8.42%) Consultant
7 7 (7.37%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 7 (7.37%) Lead
7 7 (7.37%) SQL Developer
7 7 (7.37%) SQL Server DBA
8 6 (6.32%) Business Analyst
8 6 (6.32%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
8 6 (6.32%) Data Business Analyst
8 6 (6.32%) Data Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Data Warehouse Analyst
8 6 (6.32%) Data Warehouse Business Analyst
9 5 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 5 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.21%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.95%) .NET
2 11 (11.58%) XML
3 10 (10.53%) Web Services
4 7 (7.37%) .NET Framework
4 7 (7.37%) REST
4 7 (7.37%) SOAP
5 5 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (5.26%) CSS
5 5 (5.26%) HTML
5 5 (5.26%) JSON
5 5 (5.26%) Middleware
5 5 (5.26%) WCF
5 5 (5.26%) XSLT
6 4 (4.21%) ASP.NET
7 3 (3.16%) EDI
7 3 (3.16%) Entity Framework
7 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
8 2 (2.11%) .NET Core
8 2 (2.11%) PySpark
8 2 (2.11%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.79%) Clustering
2 10 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.21%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.21%) NHS
4 3 (3.16%) BYOD
4 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.16%) Replication
5 2 (2.11%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.11%) Derivative
5 2 (2.11%) Eurex
5 2 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.11%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.11%) Robotics
5 2 (2.11%) Swaptions
5 2 (2.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.84%) Windows
2 4 (4.21%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (2.11%) Linux
4 2 (2.11%) Unix
5 1 (1.05%) VMS
5 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (44.21%) Business Intelligence
2 35 (36.84%) Migration
3 26 (27.37%) ETL
4 25 (26.32%) Analytics
5 23 (24.21%) Data Modelling
5 23 (24.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (18.95%) CI/CD
8 16 (16.84%) Agile
9 13 (13.68%) Data Migration
9 13 (13.68%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (13.68%) High Availability
10 12 (12.63%) DevOps
10 12 (12.63%) Incident Management
11 11 (11.58%) Change Management
11 11 (11.58%) CRM
11 11 (11.58%) Requirements Gathering
12 10 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
13 9 (9.47%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 83 (87.37%) SQL
2 28 (29.47%) T-SQL
3 18 (18.95%) PowerShell
4 14 (14.74%) C#
5 12 (12.63%) JavaScript
6 11 (11.58%) Python
7 7 (7.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (5.26%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.26%) VB.NET
8 5 (5.26%) XPath
9 4 (4.21%) PL/SQL
9 4 (4.21%) X++
10 2 (2.11%) Perl
11 1 (1.05%) Bicep
11 1 (1.05%) Korn
11 1 (1.05%) R
11 1 (1.05%) VB
11 1 (1.05%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.74%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.58%) Degree
4 4 (4.21%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.16%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.05%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (22.11%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.58%) QA
3 3 (3.16%) GDPR
4 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.11%) SLA
4 2 (2.11%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (11.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.11%) Docker
4 1 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (10.53%) Microsoft Clustering
2 6 (6.32%) SCOM
3 3 (3.16%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (2.11%) Control-M
4 2 (2.11%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 45 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.68%) BMC
2 13 (13.68%) Databricks
2 13 (13.68%) Remedy
3 11 (11.58%) VMware
4 6 (6.32%) Commvault
5 5 (5.26%) Intapp
5 5 (5.26%) SAP
6 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.11%) Civica
7 2 (2.11%) Informatica
7 2 (2.11%) Murex
7 2 (2.11%) Oracle
7 2 (2.11%) SYSPRO
8 1 (1.05%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.05%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.05%) Sybase
8 1 (1.05%) Yardi