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

 6 months to
5 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 538 407 397
Rank change year-on-year -131 -10 -45
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 88 120 196
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.41% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.21% 2.16% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 86 153
10th Percentile £282 £323 £375
25th Percentile £400 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £531 £592 £638
90th Percentile £586 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £463 £425
% change year-on-year +1.35% +8.82% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile - £23.74 -
25th Percentile £26.50 £25.33 £37.63
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.70 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +29.99% -40.03% +69.78%
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% +76.09%

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 7,269 5,556 7,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.29% 18.97% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,928 3,836 5,196
10th Percentile £350 £357 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £771
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 103 143
10th Percentile £16.73 £19.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £27.88 £23.88 £20.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.39% -17.98% -31.73%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.31 £58.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.72 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +62.40% -25.00% -27.27%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -147 83 £475 -5.00% 69
UK excluding London -81 52 £469 +1.35% 55
Work from Home -46 31 £463 -7.50% 38
London -94 31 £500 -4.76% 18
North of England -44 23 £463 +23.33% 21
North West -27 14 £475 +48.44% 16
Midlands -63 14 £418 +1.83% 9
West Midlands -52 11 £425 +6.25% 5
Yorkshire -40 9 £400 +6.67% 4
South East -59 7 £500 +11.11% 14
East of England -41 4 £211 -51.88% 8
East Midlands -32 3 £410 -2.38% 4
South West -46 3 £550 +10.00% 4
Scotland -11 1 £550 +10.00%

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 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (1.14%) OpenEdge
2 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Advent Geneva
2 4 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (3.41%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (3.41%) SystmOne
4 2 (2.27%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (2.27%) Front Arena
4 2 (2.27%) Global One
4 2 (2.27%) NetSuite
5 1 (1.14%) Alphatax
5 1 (1.14%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 34 (38.64%) Power Platform
2 23 (26.14%) Azure
3 8 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (7.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 7 (7.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (7.95%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (5.68%) Power Automate
6 4 (4.55%) AWS
6 4 (4.55%) PowerApps
6 4 (4.55%) SaaS
7 3 (3.41%) GitHub
7 3 (3.41%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.27%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.27%) dbt
8 2 (2.27%) Google Ads
8 2 (2.27%) IaaS
8 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.27%) PaaS
8 2 (2.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) DHCP
1 1 (1.14%) DNS
1 1 (1.14%) Firewall
1 1 (1.14%) VPN
1 1 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (67.05%) SQL Server
2 44 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 31 (35.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 30 (34.09%) Power BI
5 28 (31.82%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (10.23%) Tableau
7 8 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (7.95%) Relational Database
9 6 (6.82%) Data Lake
9 6 (6.82%) MySQL
10 5 (5.68%) DB2
11 4 (4.55%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (4.55%) Crystal Reports
11 4 (4.55%) DTS
11 4 (4.55%) Metadata
11 4 (4.55%) Oracle Database
12 3 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (3.41%) OLAP
12 3 (3.41%) QlikView
13 2 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (11.36%) Git
2 4 (4.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (3.41%) Flyway
3 3 (3.41%) GitLab
3 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.41%) JIRA
4 2 (2.27%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.14%) Claude Code
General
1 33 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 26 (29.55%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (25.00%) Finance
4 11 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.23%) Banking
5 9 (10.23%) Manufacturing
6 6 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.55%) Legal
8 3 (3.41%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.41%) Social Housing
9 2 (2.27%) Back Office
9 2 (2.27%) Electronics
9 2 (2.27%) Front Office
9 2 (2.27%) Retail
10 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.14%) Local Government
10 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (30.68%) Developer
2 17 (19.32%) DBA
3 16 (18.18%) SQL DBA
4 12 (13.64%) Data Engineer
5 9 (10.23%) Consultant
6 8 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 8 (9.09%) Senior
7 7 (7.95%) SQL Server DBA
8 5 (5.68%) Architect
8 5 (5.68%) Data Architect
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) SQL Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Applications Support
9 4 (4.55%) Business Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Oracle DBA
10 3 (3.41%) Business Consultant
10 3 (3.41%) Data Warehouse Developer
10 3 (3.41%) Database Developer
10 3 (3.41%) Report Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.50%) .NET
2 5 (5.68%) XML
3 4 (4.55%) JSON
3 4 (4.55%) Middleware
3 4 (4.55%) YAML
4 3 (3.41%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.41%) REST
5 2 (2.27%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.27%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (2.27%) FIXML
5 2 (2.27%) Playwright
5 2 (2.27%) pytest
6 1 (1.14%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.14%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.14%) EDI
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (1.14%) PySpark
6 1 (1.14%) React
6 1 (1.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.09%) NHS
2 7 (7.95%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.82%) Replication
3 6 (6.82%) Wiki
4 5 (5.68%) Clustering
5 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.41%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.27%) Derivative
6 2 (2.27%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.27%) Eurex
6 2 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.27%) Robotics
6 2 (2.27%) Swaptions
7 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.14%) Life Science
7 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.68%) Windows
2 4 (4.55%) Linux
3 2 (2.27%) Unix
3 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.14%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (47.73%) Business Intelligence
2 31 (35.23%) ETL
3 24 (27.27%) Migration
4 21 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (20.45%) Agile
5 18 (20.45%) Data Modelling
6 17 (19.32%) Analytics
7 14 (15.91%) Data Migration
7 14 (15.91%) Decision-Making
8 13 (14.77%) Data Governance
8 13 (14.77%) Dimensional Modelling
8 13 (14.77%) Performance Tuning
9 12 (13.64%) Data Engineering
10 11 (12.50%) ERP
10 11 (12.50%) High Availability
11 10 (11.36%) Kanban
12 9 (10.23%) AI
12 9 (10.23%) CI/CD
12 9 (10.23%) Data Pipeline
13 8 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 69 (78.41%) SQL
2 26 (29.55%) T-SQL
3 10 (11.36%) C#
4 9 (10.23%) PowerShell
5 8 (9.09%) Python
6 7 (7.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (6.82%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.55%) Bicep
8 4 (4.55%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.27%) Perl
10 1 (1.14%) C
10 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.14%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (10.23%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.09%) Degree
3 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.14%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.14%) OCP
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.09%) QA
3 3 (3.41%) GDPR
4 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.14%) GRC
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (2.27%) Firmware
2 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.14%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (3.41%) Foglight
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (2.27%) Control-M
2 2 (2.27%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.82%) Databricks
2 6 (6.82%) Oracle
3 5 (5.68%) Advent
4 3 (3.41%) BMC
4 3 (3.41%) Civica
4 3 (3.41%) Remedy
4 3 (3.41%) SAP
4 3 (3.41%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.27%) EMC
5 2 (2.27%) Epicor
5 2 (2.27%) Informatica
5 2 (2.27%) Murex
5 2 (2.27%) SYSPRO
5 2 (2.27%) UiPath
6 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.14%) Sybase
6 1 (1.14%) Wonderware
6 1 (1.14%) Yardi
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