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

 6 months to
8 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 467 405
Rank change year-on-year -108 -62 -10
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 97 85 156
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.26% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.18% 1.46% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 61 101
10th Percentile £319 £291 £335
25th Percentile £403 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £535
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.21% +7.00%
75th Percentile £581 £563 £620
90th Percentile £671 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £444
% change year-on-year +18.75% -9.86% -11.25%
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 8,233 5,833 6,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.23% 17.97% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,500 3,894 4,772
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -2.30%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £651
90th Percentile £700 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £480
% change year-on-year - -1.04% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 94 86
10th Percentile £15.95 £22.86 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.11 £30.24 £20.19
Median hourly rate £39.50 £39.48 £33.22
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +18.86% -37.92%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £59.34
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.00 £35.49 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.89% +18.30% -42.86%

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 8 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 8 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 -113 89 £500 +12.04% 67
London -68 51 £513 +7.89% 31
UK excluding London -95 39 £475 +18.75% 47
Work from Home -61 30 £513 +2.50% 19
North of England -57 20 £438 -2.78% 13
North West -44 13 £475 +5.56% 8
East of England -19 7 £576 +44.00% 4
Yorkshire -34 7 £400 - 4
South East -74 5 £450 -11.11% 16
Midlands -63 4 £468 +16.88% 4
East Midlands -11 3 £410 - 3
Scotland -27 1 £488 +20.74% 8
South West -48 1 £550 +49.15% 3
West Midlands -55 1 £600 +50.00% 1
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 15 (15.46%) Confluence
2 9 (9.28%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.06%) Apache
3 2 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.03%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (8.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (13.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (6.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (5.15%) Elite 3E
4 2 (2.06%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (2.06%) Front Arena
4 2 (2.06%) Global One
4 2 (2.06%) NetSuite
4 2 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (1.03%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (1.03%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 43 (44.33%) Power Platform
2 38 (39.18%) Azure
3 11 (11.34%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (9.28%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (8.25%) Snowflake
6 7 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (7.22%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (6.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (6.19%) PowerApps
8 4 (4.12%) AWS
8 4 (4.12%) Azure Storage
8 4 (4.12%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.09%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.09%) GitHub
9 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (3.09%) SaaS
9 3 (3.09%) Serverless
10 2 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.06%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) DMZ
1 1 (1.03%) Firewall
1 1 (1.03%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.03%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (1.03%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (60.82%) SQL Server
2 46 (47.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 35 (36.08%) Power BI
4 32 (32.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 29 (29.90%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (8.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (8.25%) Tableau
7 7 (7.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (7.22%) Data Lake
8 5 (5.15%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (4.12%) Power Query
9 4 (4.12%) Semantic Layer
10 3 (3.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (3.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (3.09%) OLAP
10 3 (3.09%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (3.09%) QlikView
11 2 (2.06%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (2.06%) DTS
11 2 (2.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (15.46%) JIRA
2 7 (7.22%) Git
3 6 (6.19%) Visual Studio
4 5 (5.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.03%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.03%) Flyway
6 1 (1.03%) GitLab
6 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.03%) MLflow
6 1 (1.03%) Toad
6 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (38.14%) Finance
2 33 (34.02%) Social Skills
3 16 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.43%) Banking
5 8 (8.25%) Manufacturing
5 8 (8.25%) Retail
6 5 (5.15%) Local Government
6 5 (5.15%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.09%) Front Office
8 3 (3.09%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.06%) Back Office
9 2 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.06%) Social Housing
10 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Law
10 1 (1.03%) Legal
10 1 (1.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (22.68%) Developer
2 20 (20.62%) DBA
3 15 (15.46%) SQL DBA
4 11 (11.34%) Analyst
5 10 (10.31%) Administrator
6 9 (9.28%) Architect
7 8 (8.25%) Consultant
8 7 (7.22%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 7 (7.22%) Lead
8 7 (7.22%) SQL Developer
8 7 (7.22%) SQL Server DBA
9 6 (6.19%) Business Analyst
9 6 (6.19%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
9 6 (6.19%) Data Business Analyst
9 6 (6.19%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Data Warehouse Analyst
9 6 (6.19%) Data Warehouse Business Analyst
10 5 (5.15%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 5 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (4.12%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.56%) .NET
2 11 (11.34%) XML
3 10 (10.31%) Web Services
4 7 (7.22%) .NET Framework
4 7 (7.22%) REST
4 7 (7.22%) SOAP
5 5 (5.15%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (5.15%) CSS
5 5 (5.15%) HTML
5 5 (5.15%) JSON
5 5 (5.15%) Middleware
5 5 (5.15%) WCF
5 5 (5.15%) XSLT
6 4 (4.12%) ASP.NET
7 3 (3.09%) EDI
7 3 (3.09%) Entity Framework
7 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
8 2 (2.06%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.06%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (2.06%) JAX-RS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.46%) Clustering
2 10 (10.31%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.12%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.12%) NHS
4 3 (3.09%) BYOD
4 3 (3.09%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.09%) Replication
5 2 (2.06%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.06%) Derivative
5 2 (2.06%) Eurex
5 2 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.06%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.06%) Robotics
5 2 (2.06%) Swaptions
5 2 (2.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.49%) Windows
2 4 (4.12%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.09%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (2.06%) Linux
4 2 (2.06%) Unix
5 1 (1.03%) VMS
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (44.33%) Business Intelligence
2 36 (37.11%) Migration
3 27 (27.84%) ETL
4 26 (26.80%) Analytics
5 23 (23.71%) Data Modelling
5 23 (23.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (18.56%) CI/CD
8 17 (17.53%) Agile
9 14 (14.43%) High Availability
10 13 (13.40%) Data Migration
10 13 (13.40%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (12.37%) DevOps
11 12 (12.37%) Incident Management
12 11 (11.34%) Change Management
12 11 (11.34%) CRM
12 11 (11.34%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (11.34%) Requirements Gathering
13 10 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (10.31%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 85 (87.63%) SQL
2 28 (28.87%) T-SQL
3 18 (18.56%) PowerShell
4 14 (14.43%) C#
5 12 (12.37%) JavaScript
6 11 (11.34%) Python
7 7 (7.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (6.19%) TypeScript
9 5 (5.15%) VB.NET
9 5 (5.15%) XPath
10 4 (4.12%) PL/SQL
10 4 (4.12%) X++
11 2 (2.06%) Perl
12 1 (1.03%) Bicep
12 1 (1.03%) Korn
12 1 (1.03%) R
12 1 (1.03%) VB
12 1 (1.03%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (19.59%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.43%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.37%) Degree
4 4 (4.12%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.09%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.03%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.65%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.34%) QA
3 3 (3.09%) GDPR
4 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.06%) SLA
4 2 (2.06%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (11.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.06%) Docker
4 1 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (10.31%) Microsoft Clustering
2 6 (6.19%) SCOM
3 3 (3.09%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (2.06%) Control-M
4 2 (2.06%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.03%) Foglight
Vendors
1 45 (46.39%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.43%) Databricks
3 13 (13.40%) BMC
3 13 (13.40%) Remedy
4 11 (11.34%) VMware
5 6 (6.19%) Commvault
6 5 (5.15%) Intapp
6 5 (5.15%) SAP
7 4 (4.12%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.06%) Civica
8 2 (2.06%) Informatica
8 2 (2.06%) Murex
8 2 (2.06%) Oracle
8 2 (2.06%) SYSPRO
9 1 (1.03%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 1 (1.03%) Sybase
9 1 (1.03%) Yardi
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