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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 477 403 398
Rank change year-on-year -74 -5 -44
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 91 159 239
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.42% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.50% 2.38% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 104 186
10th Percentile £361 £352 £354
25th Percentile £404 £434 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £539 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% +7.75% -
75th Percentile £553 £585 £623
90th Percentile £710 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - £17.19 £26.55
25th Percentile - £19.00 £27.83
Median hourly rate - £22.42 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - -40.21% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £27.07 £46.14
90th Percentile - £31.08 £46.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £20.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year - -46.67% +7.14%

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 6,055 6,668 7,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.18% 17.79% 16.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,072 4,487 5,593
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% -1.86% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £788 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 90 157
10th Percentile £20.67 £17.50 £19.40
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £26.25
Median hourly rate £39.48 £33.22 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year +18.86% -34.94% +2.11%
75th Percentile £64.69 £61.19 £72.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £78.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.49 £30.00 £50.53
% change year-on-year +18.30% -40.63% +24.05%

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 17 October 2025.

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 13 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 17 October 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 -59 85 £450 -16.47% 131
London -19 51 £450 -18.18% 27
UK excluding London -50 33 £400 -11.11% 124
Work from Home -12 28 £456 -14.72% 95
North of England -36 8 £475 -15.41% 29
West Midlands -39 8 £400 -28.76% 12
Midlands -41 8 £400 -20.91% 21
South East +5 7 £550 +10.00% 41
North West -23 5 £417 +7.48% 18
South West +18 4 £388 -40.38% 12
East of England -10 3 £400 +184.65% 11
Yorkshire -32 3 £500 -11.82% 8
Scotland - 3 £500 - 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 2 (2.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.10%) SAS
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 12 (13.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (8.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (5.49%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (3.30%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (3.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (2.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (1.10%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (1.10%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 49 (53.85%) Power Platform
2 34 (37.36%) Azure
3 20 (21.98%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (10.99%) SaaS
5 8 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (6.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (4.40%) Azure Functions
7 4 (4.40%) PaaS
7 4 (4.40%) Serverless
8 3 (3.30%) AWS
8 3 (3.30%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (3.30%) IaaS
9 2 (2.20%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.20%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.10%) Boomi
10 1 (1.10%) Datadog
10 1 (1.10%) GCP
10 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.10%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) DNS
1 1 (1.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 48 (52.75%) Power BI
3 31 (34.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 18 (19.78%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 8 (8.79%) Power Query
7 5 (5.49%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (4.40%) GIS
8 4 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (4.40%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database
9 3 (3.30%) Tableau
10 2 (2.20%) OLAP
10 2 (2.20%) OLAP Cube
10 2 (2.20%) PowerPivot
10 2 (2.20%) Star Schema
11 1 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (1.10%) DB2
11 1 (1.10%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.30%) JIRA
3 2 (2.20%) Git
3 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 35 (38.46%) Finance
2 28 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.09%) Banking
5 7 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.59%) General Ledger
6 6 (6.59%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.49%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.40%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.40%) Investment Banking
8 4 (4.40%) Retail
9 3 (3.30%) Local Government
9 3 (3.30%) Marketing
10 2 (2.20%) Automotive
10 2 (2.20%) Law
10 2 (2.20%) Legal
11 1 (1.10%) French Language
11 1 (1.10%) International Banking
11 1 (1.10%) Italian Language
11 1 (1.10%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 34 (37.36%) Developer
2 13 (14.29%) Consultant
3 8 (8.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 8 (8.79%) Data Engineer
3 8 (8.79%) Power BI Developer
4 7 (7.69%) Analyst
4 7 (7.69%) Architect
4 7 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 7 (7.69%) SQL Developer
5 6 (6.59%) Data Analyst
6 5 (5.49%) Applications Developer
6 5 (5.49%) Automation Developer
6 5 (5.49%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 5 (5.49%) Report Developer
7 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Consultant
7 4 (4.40%) Report Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) Senior
7 4 (4.40%) Support Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Technical Consultant
8 3 (3.30%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.58%) .NET
2 5 (5.49%) SOAP
3 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET
3 4 (4.40%) Middleware
3 4 (4.40%) XML
4 3 (3.30%) .NET Framework
4 3 (3.30%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (3.30%) WCF
5 2 (2.20%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.20%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (2.20%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 2 (2.20%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.20%) REST
5 2 (2.20%) Software Packaging
5 2 (2.20%) Web Services
5 2 (2.20%) WPF
5 2 (2.20%) XML Messaging
6 1 (1.10%) PySpark
6 1 (1.10%) React
6 1 (1.10%) Universal Windows Platform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) Replication
2 4 (4.40%) Credit Risk
2 4 (4.40%) Operational Technology
2 4 (4.40%) SCADA
3 3 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.30%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.20%) Market Risk
4 2 (2.20%) NHS
5 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.10%) BYOD
5 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.10%) FMCG
5 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.09%) Windows
2 7 (7.69%) Linux
3 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (50.55%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (25.27%) Migration
3 19 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (19.78%) ETL
5 16 (17.58%) DevOps
6 15 (16.48%) Data Migration
7 14 (15.38%) Data Analysis
8 13 (14.29%) Visualisation
9 10 (10.99%) Data Integration
10 9 (9.89%) Agile
10 9 (9.89%) Analytics
10 9 (9.89%) Data Management
10 9 (9.89%) Data Modelling
10 9 (9.89%) Performance Tuning
11 8 (8.79%) CRM
11 8 (8.79%) Integration Patterns
11 8 (8.79%) Mentoring
12 7 (7.69%) Data Governance
12 7 (7.69%) Performance Optimisation
13 6 (6.59%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 68 (74.73%) SQL
2 16 (17.58%) C#
3 12 (13.19%) T-SQL
4 8 (8.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (8.79%) X++
5 7 (7.69%) PL/SQL
6 6 (6.59%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.40%) Perl
8 3 (3.30%) Python
9 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.20%) VBA
9 2 (2.20%) VBScript
10 1 (1.10%) Korn
Qualifications
1 14 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.29%) Degree
3 10 (10.99%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.10%) MCSA
6 1 (1.10%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.49%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.40%) SLA
4 3 (3.30%) GAAP
4 3 (3.30%) GDPR
5 2 (2.20%) QA
6 1 (1.10%) IFRS
6 1 (1.10%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.30%) SCCM
2 2 (2.20%) Control-M
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 27 (29.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.19%) Oracle
3 4 (4.40%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.30%) Databricks
4 3 (3.30%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.30%) SAP
4 3 (3.30%) UiPath
5 2 (2.20%) IBM
5 2 (2.20%) Informatica
6 1 (1.10%) Advent
6 1 (1.10%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.10%) Palantir
148 SQL Server Reporting Services jobs Nationwide