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

 6 months to
4 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 450 418
Rank change year-on-year -115 -32 -39
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 105 101 154
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.30% 1.69% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 76 113
10th Percentile £348 £356 £338
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £638
90th Percentile £650 £711 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £400 £410
% change year-on-year +20.31% -2.44% -18.00%
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% -30.80%
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 8,101 5,991 7,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.33% 18.21% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,383 4,054 5,008
10th Percentile £356 £343 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% -3.10% -2.95%
75th Percentile £600 £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 256 89 101
10th Percentile £16.35 £19.15 £15.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -1.41% -35.45%
75th Percentile £60.75 £63.75 £59.95
90th Percentile £76.25 £78.96 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £31.64 £30.00
% change year-on-year +20.89% +5.47% -41.46%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -104 99 £500 +4.17% 64
London -69 52 £500 -4.76% 24
UK excluding London -82 48 £481 +20.31% 48
Work from Home -50 36 £525 +5.00% 27
North of England -41 22 £473 +5.00% 12
North West -43 13 £475 +5.56% 8
South East -62 11 £500 +11.11% 14
Yorkshire - 9 £400 - 4
Midlands -56 6 £410 +2.50% 10
East of England -16 4 £510 +27.50% 8
East Midlands -6 3 £386 - 7
South West -43 3 £550 +57.14% 5
West Midlands -63 3 £600 +50.00% 3
Scotland -13 1 £488 -2.50% 2
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 16 (15.24%) Confluence
2 6 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.90%) Apache
3 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.95%) IIS
4 1 (0.95%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (10.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (4.76%) Elite 3E
3 3 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.86%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (1.90%) Front Arena
4 2 (1.90%) Global One
4 2 (1.90%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.95%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.95%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 44 (41.90%) Power Platform
2 36 (34.29%) Azure
3 12 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (8.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 9 (8.57%) Snowflake
5 7 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (5.71%) AWS
6 6 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.76%) Serverless
8 4 (3.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (3.81%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.81%) dbt
8 4 (3.81%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.86%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (2.86%) GitHub
9 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.86%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.86%) SaaS
10 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) DMZ
1 1 (0.95%) Firewall
1 1 (0.95%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (0.95%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (62.86%) SQL Server
2 61 (58.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 44 (41.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 38 (36.19%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (35.24%) Power BI
6 12 (11.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 12 (11.43%) Data Lake
7 8 (7.62%) Tableau
8 7 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (4.76%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (3.81%) DTS
10 4 (3.81%) Metadata
10 4 (3.81%) Power Query
11 3 (2.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.86%) OLAP
11 3 (2.86%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (2.86%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 14 (13.33%) JIRA
2 11 (10.48%) Git
3 6 (5.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (5.71%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.86%) Flyway
4 3 (2.86%) GitLab
4 3 (2.86%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.95%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.95%) MLflow
5 1 (0.95%) Toad
5 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 40 (38.10%) Finance
2 39 (37.14%) Social Skills
3 23 (21.90%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (15.24%) Banking
5 11 (10.48%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.71%) Retail
7 4 (3.81%) Legal
7 4 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.81%) Social Housing
8 3 (2.86%) Front Office
8 3 (2.86%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.90%) Back Office
9 2 (1.90%) Electronics
9 2 (1.90%) Local Government
10 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 24 (22.86%) DBA
2 20 (19.05%) Developer
3 19 (18.10%) SQL DBA
4 14 (13.33%) Data Engineer
5 10 (9.52%) Administrator
6 9 (8.57%) Analyst
7 8 (7.62%) Architect
7 8 (7.62%) SQL Developer
7 8 (7.62%) SQL Server DBA
8 7 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (5.71%) Business Analyst
9 6 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
9 6 (5.71%) Data Business Analyst
9 6 (5.71%) Data Warehouse Analyst
9 6 (5.71%) Data Warehouse Business Analyst
9 6 (5.71%) Senior
10 5 (4.76%) Applications Support
10 5 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (4.76%) Consultant
10 5 (4.76%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.38%) .NET
2 11 (10.48%) XML
3 8 (7.62%) Web Services
4 6 (5.71%) REST
5 5 (4.76%) JSON
5 5 (4.76%) Middleware
5 5 (4.76%) SOAP
5 5 (4.76%) XSLT
6 4 (3.81%) YAML
7 3 (2.86%) AWS CDK
8 2 (1.90%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (1.90%) FIXML
8 2 (1.90%) PySpark
9 1 (0.95%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.95%) CSS
9 1 (0.95%) HTML
9 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
9 1 (0.95%) WCF
9 1 (0.95%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.29%) Clustering
2 8 (7.62%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.62%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.71%) Replication
3 6 (5.71%) Wiki
4 4 (3.81%) NHS
5 3 (2.86%) BYOD
5 3 (2.86%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.90%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.90%) Derivative
6 2 (1.90%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.90%) Eurex
6 2 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.90%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.90%) Robotics
6 2 (1.90%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.29%) Windows
2 4 (3.81%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.86%) Linux
3 3 (2.86%) Unix
3 3 (2.86%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (48.57%) Business Intelligence
2 39 (37.14%) ETL
3 37 (35.24%) Migration
4 29 (27.62%) Analytics
4 29 (27.62%) Data Modelling
5 26 (24.76%) Agile
6 21 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (18.10%) CI/CD
9 15 (14.29%) Data Engineering
9 15 (14.29%) Data Governance
9 15 (14.29%) High Availability
10 14 (13.33%) Data Migration
10 14 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (12.38%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (12.38%) Requirements Gathering
12 12 (11.43%) DevOps
12 12 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (10.48%) Dimensional Modelling
14 10 (9.52%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 91 (86.67%) SQL
2 39 (37.14%) T-SQL
3 21 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 13 (12.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (12.38%) Python
5 12 (11.43%) C#
6 6 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.71%) PL/SQL
6 6 (5.71%) VB.NET
7 5 (4.76%) Bicep
7 5 (4.76%) XPath
8 4 (3.81%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.86%) X++
10 2 (1.90%) Perl
10 2 (1.90%) VBA
11 1 (0.95%) Korn
11 1 (0.95%) R
11 1 (0.95%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.43%) Degree
2 12 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.90%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.95%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.95%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.95%) OCP
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 15 (14.29%) QA
3 4 (3.81%) GDPR
4 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.90%) SLA
4 2 (1.90%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.95%) NIST
5 1 (0.95%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.90%) Docker
3 2 (1.90%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (1.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (4.76%) SCOM
3 3 (2.86%) Foglight
3 3 (2.86%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (1.90%) Control-M
4 2 (1.90%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (1.90%) Terraform
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 49 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.29%) Databricks
3 11 (10.48%) BMC
3 11 (10.48%) Remedy
4 9 (8.57%) VMware
5 6 (5.71%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.76%) Commvault
6 5 (4.76%) Intapp
7 4 (3.81%) Civica
8 3 (2.86%) Oracle
8 3 (2.86%) SAP
9 2 (1.90%) EMC
9 2 (1.90%) Informatica
9 2 (1.90%) Murex
9 2 (1.90%) SYSPRO
10 1 (0.95%) Epicor
10 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.95%) Sybase
10 1 (0.95%) Wonderware
10 1 (0.95%) Yardi
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