SQL Server Reporting Services Contracts

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring SQL Server Reporting Services skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server Reporting Services over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 388 364
Rank change year-on-year -48 -24 +17
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 112 202 357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.47% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.92% 2.66% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 150 279
10th Percentile £350 £363 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £634 £575
90th Percentile £673 £700 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £425 £486
% change year-on-year -5.88% -12.60% +13.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 8
10th Percentile £25.53 £18.79 £24.44
25th Percentile £26.32 £28.44 £25.66
Median hourly rate £29.07 £40.25 £28.60
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +40.73% -18.29%
75th Percentile - £46.18 £39.77
90th Percentile - - £49.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.25 £27.20
% change year-on-year -37.89% +47.98% -22.29%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,821 7,599 9,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.28% 17.55% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,940 5,418 6,874
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 153 175
10th Percentile £19.82 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.38 £20.49 £33.70
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -34.78% +52.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £76.50 £72.50 £81.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £30.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.47% -45.45% +57.14%

SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SQL Server Reporting Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK

SQL Server Reporting Services
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK

SQL Server Reporting Services
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK

SQL Server Reporting Services
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK

SQL Server Reporting Services
Top 15 Contract 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 6 July 2025. 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 -21 108 £489 -6.90% 142
London -3 73 £521 -13.13% 59
Work from Home -8 39 £500 -7.83% 65
UK excluding London +2 31 £400 -5.88% 103
Midlands +12 10 £395 -1.25% 23
West Midlands +5 9 £395 -1.25% 14
South East +29 7 £450 -7.69% 29
North of England -20 6 £425 +3.03% 26
North West -10 5 £450 +9.09% 9
South West +39 4 £350 -12.50% 13
East of England +21 2 £400 +145.70% 1
Scotland +5 1 £500 +21.95% 4
Wales +4 1 - - 7
Yorkshire +2 1 £375 - 16
East Midlands - 1 - - 9

SQL Server Reporting Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.89%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.89%) Confluence
3 1 (0.89%) Drupal
3 1 (0.89%) SAS
3 1 (0.89%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 20 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.89%) FileZilla
Business Applications
1 30 (26.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.68%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (2.68%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.89%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.89%) FastStats
4 1 (0.89%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.89%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.89%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.89%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.89%) Summit
4 1 (0.89%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 57 (50.89%) Power Platform
2 33 (29.46%) Azure
3 29 (25.89%) Dynamics 365
4 17 (15.18%) PowerApps
5 15 (13.39%) Power Automate
6 11 (9.82%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (8.93%) SaaS
8 8 (7.14%) Azure Functions
8 8 (7.14%) Serverless
9 5 (4.46%) AWS
10 4 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.68%) IaaS
11 3 (2.68%) PaaS
12 2 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.79%) Boomi
12 2 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (0.89%) Blackbaud
13 1 (0.89%) Datadog
13 1 (0.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.89%) DNS
1 1 (0.89%) FTP
1 1 (0.89%) HTTP
1 1 (0.89%) Intranet
1 1 (0.89%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (64.29%) SQL Server
2 47 (41.96%) Power BI
3 40 (35.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 16 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (8.04%) Power Query
6 6 (5.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (4.46%) MS Access
8 4 (3.57%) GIS
8 4 (3.57%) Tableau
9 3 (2.68%) Metadata
9 3 (2.68%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.79%) Big Data
10 2 (1.79%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.79%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.79%) OLAP
10 2 (1.79%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 10 (8.93%) JIRA
2 3 (2.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (2.68%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.79%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.79%) Git
4 1 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.89%) Crucible
4 1 (0.89%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.89%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.89%) Maven
4 1 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 36 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 29 (25.89%) Finance
3 15 (13.39%) Banking
4 11 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.04%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.57%) Marketing
6 4 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.68%) General Ledger
7 3 (2.68%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.68%) Retail
8 2 (1.79%) Automotive
8 2 (1.79%) Front Office
8 2 (1.79%) Legal
8 2 (1.79%) Local Government
9 1 (0.89%) Back Office
9 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.89%) Law
9 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (37.50%) Developer
2 26 (23.21%) Analyst
3 10 (8.93%) Architect
3 10 (8.93%) Automation Developer
3 10 (8.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 10 (8.93%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 9 (8.04%) Data Analyst
5 8 (7.14%) Applications Support
6 7 (6.25%) Applications Developer
6 7 (6.25%) Consultant
6 7 (6.25%) CRM Architect
6 7 (6.25%) Lead
6 7 (6.25%) Power BI Developer
7 6 (5.36%) Information Analyst
7 6 (5.36%) Support Analyst
8 5 (4.46%) Applications Support Analyst
8 5 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.57%) Report Analyst
9 4 (3.57%) Support Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (30.36%) .NET
2 16 (14.29%) XML
3 13 (11.61%) .NET Framework
3 13 (11.61%) ASP.NET Web API
3 13 (11.61%) JSON
4 12 (10.71%) CSS
4 12 (10.71%) HTML
4 12 (10.71%) WCF
5 9 (8.04%) HTML5 Canvas
6 8 (7.14%) SOAP
7 6 (5.36%) REST
7 6 (5.36%) Web Services
8 4 (3.57%) ASP.NET
8 4 (3.57%) Middleware
9 3 (2.68%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (1.79%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (1.79%) Entity Framework
10 2 (1.79%) MDX
10 2 (1.79%) Software Packaging
10 2 (1.79%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.36%) Data Centre
1 6 (5.36%) Onboarding
1 6 (5.36%) Replication
2 5 (4.46%) SCADA
3 4 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.57%) Operational Technology
3 4 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.79%) Equities
5 2 (1.79%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.79%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.89%) BYOD
6 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.89%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (17.86%) Windows
2 10 (8.93%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 31 (27.68%) CRM
3 24 (21.43%) Data Analysis
4 18 (16.07%) Migration
5 15 (13.39%) ETL
6 14 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 13 (11.61%) Agile
7 13 (11.61%) Data Migration
7 13 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (10.71%) DevOps
8 12 (10.71%) Visualisation
8 12 (10.71%) Web Development
9 10 (8.93%) Robotic Process Automation
9 10 (8.93%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (8.04%) Analytics
10 9 (8.04%) Data Integration
10 9 (8.04%) Data Reconciliation
10 9 (8.04%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (7.14%) Computer Science
11 8 (7.14%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 94 (83.93%) SQL
2 37 (33.04%) C#
3 17 (15.18%) JavaScript
4 16 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 11 (9.82%) TypeScript
6 10 (8.93%) T-SQL
7 9 (8.04%) PL/SQL
8 6 (5.36%) Python
8 6 (5.36%) VBA
9 5 (4.46%) Perl
10 3 (2.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (2.68%) R
11 2 (1.79%) VBScript
11 2 (1.79%) X++
12 1 (0.89%) Groovy
12 1 (0.89%) Java
12 1 (0.89%) Korn
12 1 (0.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (9.82%) Degree
2 5 (4.46%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.46%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.68%) HNC
3 3 (2.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.89%) MCSA
5 1 (0.89%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.36%) QA
2 4 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.57%) GDPR
2 4 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.68%) GAAP
3 3 (2.68%) SLA
4 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.89%) EMIR
4 1 (0.89%) IFRS
4 1 (0.89%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 3 (2.68%) Control-M
1 3 (2.68%) SCCM
2 1 (0.89%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 42 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.29%) Oracle
3 11 (9.82%) ServiceNow
4 7 (6.25%) UiPath
5 3 (2.68%) IBM
5 3 (2.68%) SAP
6 2 (1.79%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.79%) Databricks
6 2 (1.79%) Informatica
7 1 (0.89%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.89%) Citrix
7 1 (0.89%) CQG
7 1 (0.89%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.89%) Intapp
7 1 (0.89%) LexisNexis
7 1 (0.89%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (0.89%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.89%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.89%) NEC
7 1 (0.89%) Rockwell