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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 415 414
Rank change year-on-year -68 -1 -75
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 98 149 200
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.43% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.55% 2.39% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 102 160
10th Percentile £367 £332 £363
25th Percentile £406 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £528 £587 £638
90th Percentile £708 £688 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £20.74 £43.20
25th Percentile - £21.86 £44.25
Median hourly rate - £23.66 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year - -48.57% +31.43%
75th Percentile - £27.07 £46.84
90th Percentile - £31.08 £47.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £22.48 £46.00
% change year-on-year - -51.13% +31.43%

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 6,332 6,233 7,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.38% 18.02% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,369 4,126 5,243
10th Percentile £329 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £709 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 84 139
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.15 £16.51
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.46 £21.64
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.40 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +43.09% -34.17% -7.73%
75th Percentile £68.19 £60.15 £64.77
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.89 £77.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.24 £46.18
% change year-on-year +83.57% -41.02% +1.49%

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 14 December 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 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 14 December 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 -85 90 £450 -12.20% 87
London -10 53 £475 -13.64% 19
UK excluding London -79 37 £425 -5.56% 81
Work from Home +2 33 £450 -13.67% 29
North of England -38 16 £433 -22.97% 18
North West -16 13 £415 +16.43% 11
Midlands -58 11 £414 -8.06% 12
West Midlands -51 10 £414 -26.31% 5
Scotland +5 3 £550 - 3
South East -5 3 £550 +34.15% 26
Yorkshire -49 3 £500 -11.82% 6
South West -18 2 £388 -22.50% 10
East of England -24 2 - - 9
East Midlands -24 1 - - 7

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 1 (1.02%) Confluence
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.02%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (1.02%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (9.18%) Advent Geneva
2 4 (4.08%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (52.04%) Power Platform
2 35 (35.71%) Azure
3 17 (17.35%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.20%) SaaS
5 6 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (5.10%) PowerApps
7 4 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (4.08%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.06%) AWS
8 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.04%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.04%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.04%) PaaS
9 2 (2.04%) Serverless
9 2 (2.04%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.02%) GitHub
10 1 (1.02%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) HTTP
1 1 (1.02%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.02%) LAN
1 1 (1.02%) SAN
1 1 (1.02%) Skype
1 1 (1.02%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.02%) VPN
1 1 (1.02%) VXLAN
1 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (61.22%) SQL Server
2 49 (50.00%) Power BI
3 32 (32.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 20 (20.41%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (13.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 11 (11.22%) Relational Database
7 9 (9.18%) DB2
7 9 (9.18%) MySQL
8 7 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (6.12%) Power Query
10 4 (4.08%) Data Lake
10 4 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (3.06%) Tableau
12 2 (2.04%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (2.04%) Metadata
12 2 (2.04%) OLAP
12 2 (2.04%) OLAP Cube
12 2 (2.04%) Oracle Database
12 2 (2.04%) PowerPivot
12 2 (2.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.06%) Git
2 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.02%) JIRA
3 1 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 40 (40.82%) Finance
2 28 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.16%) Manufacturing
6 7 (7.14%) Banking
6 7 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.10%) Retail
8 4 (4.08%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.08%) General Ledger
8 4 (4.08%) Investment Banking
8 4 (4.08%) Local Government
9 2 (2.04%) Law
9 2 (2.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (41.84%) Developer
2 12 (12.24%) Data Engineer
3 11 (11.22%) Consultant
4 9 (9.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 8 (8.16%) Architect
5 8 (8.16%) Senior
6 6 (6.12%) Analyst
7 5 (5.10%) Data Migration Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) DBA
7 5 (5.10%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 5 (5.10%) Migration Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Power BI Developer
7 5 (5.10%) SQL DBA
7 5 (5.10%) SQL Developer
8 4 (4.08%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.08%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.08%) Report Developer
9 3 (3.06%) Business Developer
9 3 (3.06%) Business Intelligence Consultant
9 3 (3.06%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.45%) .NET
2 5 (5.10%) ASP.NET
2 5 (5.10%) REST
3 4 (4.08%) .NET Framework
4 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.06%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (3.06%) SOAP
4 3 (3.06%) WCF
4 3 (3.06%) Web Services
5 2 (2.04%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 2 (2.04%) CSS
5 2 (2.04%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.04%) HTML
5 2 (2.04%) HTML5
5 2 (2.04%) React
5 2 (2.04%) WPF
5 2 (2.04%) XML
6 1 (1.02%) ADO
6 1 (1.02%) JSON
6 1 (1.02%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.14%) Virtual Team
2 6 (6.12%) Credit Risk
3 5 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.06%) NHS
5 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.04%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.02%) FMCG
6 1 (1.02%) IoT
6 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.02%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.02%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.10%) Windows
2 3 (3.06%) Linux
3 1 (1.02%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 31 (31.63%) Migration
3 26 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (22.45%) Data Migration
5 18 (18.37%) ETL
6 16 (16.33%) DevOps
7 14 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
8 13 (13.27%) Data Integration
8 13 (13.27%) Performance Tuning
8 13 (13.27%) Visualisation
9 12 (12.24%) Data Governance
10 11 (11.22%) ERP
11 10 (10.20%) Data Analysis
11 10 (10.20%) Data Modelling
11 10 (10.20%) Mentoring
12 9 (9.18%) Asset Management
12 9 (9.18%) Integration Patterns
13 8 (8.16%) Analytics
13 8 (8.16%) Decision-Making
13 8 (8.16%) Fund Accounting
Programming Languages
1 70 (71.43%) SQL
2 16 (16.33%) C#
3 11 (11.22%) T-SQL
4 9 (9.18%) X++
5 7 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.06%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.06%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.06%) Python
7 2 (2.04%) VBA
8 1 (1.02%) Perl
8 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.22%) Degree
3 7 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.02%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.12%) Accessibility
1 6 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.08%) GDPR
3 1 (1.02%) GRC
3 1 (1.02%) QA
3 1 (1.02%) SLA
3 1 (1.02%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.02%) SCCM
2 1 (1.02%) SCOM
2 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (40.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.18%) Advent
3 6 (6.12%) Oracle
4 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.02%) Databricks
5 1 (1.02%) Epicor
5 1 (1.02%) Informatica
5 1 (1.02%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.02%) Palantir
5 1 (1.02%) SAP
5 1 (1.02%) UiPath
5 1 (1.02%) Veeam
5 1 (1.02%) VMware