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

 6 months to
3 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 393 399
Rank change year-on-year -95 +6 -60
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 91 157 214
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.44% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.44% 2.44% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 106 159
10th Percentile £371 £343 £363
25th Percentile £405 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £638
90th Percentile £715 £681 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £415 £450 £488
% change year-on-year -7.89% -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £20.74 £30.95
25th Percentile - £21.86 £38.38
Median hourly rate - £23.66 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year - -48.00% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £27.07 £46.51
90th Percentile - £31.08 £47.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £22.48 £45.50
% change year-on-year - -50.59% +30.00%

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 6,329 6,429 7,598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.47% 17.95% 16.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,347 4,243 5,320
10th Percentile £329 £345 £350
25th Percentile £409 £425 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £535
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.84% -2.82%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 87 144
10th Percentile £23.17 £18.30 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.41 £23.37 £21.57
Median hourly rate £47.61 £32.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +46.49% -29.62% -7.64%
75th Percentile £68.19 £54.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.13 £65.40 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.85 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +99.45% -40.45% +7.48%

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 3 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 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 3 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 -88 83 £450 -14.29% 63
London -24 50 £475 -13.64% 22
UK excluding London -81 33 £415 -7.89% 57
Work from Home -15 29 £450 -17.05% 35
North of England -49 16 £433 -22.97% 9
North West -22 13 £415 +10.53% 8
South West -5 4 £388 -22.50% 6
West Midlands -48 4 £500 -11.39% 9
Midlands -53 4 £500 -1.14% 15
Scotland +5 3 £550 - 1
South East -12 3 £550 +22.22% 19
East of England -19 3 £400 +145.70% 2
Yorkshire -37 3 £500 -11.82% 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 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.10%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (1.10%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (9.89%) Advent Geneva
2 4 (4.40%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (4.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (50.55%) Power Platform
2 32 (35.16%) Azure
3 17 (18.68%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.99%) SaaS
5 6 (6.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.30%) AWS
7 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.20%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.20%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.20%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.20%) Serverless
8 2 (2.20%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.10%) GCP
9 1 (1.10%) PaaS
9 1 (1.10%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.10%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) HTTP
1 1 (1.10%) Kerberos
1 1 (1.10%) LAN
1 1 (1.10%) SAN
1 1 (1.10%) Skype
1 1 (1.10%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.10%) VPN
1 1 (1.10%) VXLAN
1 1 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 45 (49.45%) Power BI
3 31 (34.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 17 (18.68%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (13.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 11 (12.09%) Relational Database
7 9 (9.89%) DB2
7 9 (9.89%) MySQL
8 7 (7.69%) Power Query
9 5 (5.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (4.40%) Data Lake
10 4 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (2.20%) Metadata
11 2 (2.20%) OLAP
11 2 (2.20%) OLAP Cube
11 2 (2.20%) Oracle Database
11 2 (2.20%) PowerPivot
11 2 (2.20%) Star Schema
11 2 (2.20%) Tableau
12 1 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.20%) Git
General
1 40 (43.96%) Finance
2 25 (27.47%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.79%) Manufacturing
4 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.69%) Banking
5 7 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.49%) Retail
7 4 (4.40%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.40%) General Ledger
7 4 (4.40%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.40%) Local Government
8 2 (2.20%) Law
8 2 (2.20%) Legal
Job Titles
1 39 (42.86%) Developer
2 11 (12.09%) Data Engineer
3 9 (9.89%) Consultant
4 8 (8.79%) Architect
5 7 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 7 (7.69%) Senior
6 6 (6.59%) Analyst
6 6 (6.59%) Power BI Developer
6 6 (6.59%) SQL Developer
7 5 (5.49%) Data Migration Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 5 (5.49%) Migration Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Report Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.40%) Data Architect
9 3 (3.30%) Business Intelligence Consultant
9 3 (3.30%) DBA
9 3 (3.30%) Report Analyst
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Consultant
9 3 (3.30%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.98%) .NET
2 4 (4.40%) ASP.NET
2 4 (4.40%) REST
3 3 (3.30%) .NET Framework
3 3 (3.30%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.30%) SOAP
3 3 (3.30%) WCF
3 3 (3.30%) Web Services
4 2 (2.20%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (2.20%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 2 (2.20%) CSS
4 2 (2.20%) Entity Framework
4 2 (2.20%) HTML
4 2 (2.20%) HTML5
4 2 (2.20%) WPF
4 2 (2.20%) XML
5 1 (1.10%) Blazor
5 1 (1.10%) PySpark
5 1 (1.10%) React
5 1 (1.10%) Universal Windows Platform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Virtual Team
2 6 (6.59%) Credit Risk
3 5 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.20%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.20%) NHS
6 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.10%) FMCG
6 1 (1.10%) IoT
6 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.10%) Replication
6 1 (1.10%) SCADA
6 1 (1.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Windows
2 3 (3.30%) Linux
3 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (48.35%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (32.97%) Migration
3 22 (24.18%) Data Migration
4 21 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (17.58%) ETL
6 14 (15.38%) DevOps
6 14 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
7 13 (14.29%) Visualisation
8 10 (10.99%) Data Analysis
8 10 (10.99%) Data Integration
9 9 (9.89%) Analytics
9 9 (9.89%) Asset Management
9 9 (9.89%) ERP
9 9 (9.89%) Integration Patterns
9 9 (9.89%) Mentoring
9 9 (9.89%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (8.79%) Data Governance
10 8 (8.79%) Data Modelling
10 8 (8.79%) Fund Accounting
11 7 (7.69%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (71.43%) SQL
2 13 (14.29%) C#
3 11 (12.09%) T-SQL
4 9 (9.89%) X++
5 8 (8.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (3.30%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.20%) Python
7 2 (2.20%) VBA
8 1 (1.10%) Perl
8 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.99%) Degree
3 7 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.49%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.40%) GDPR
4 1 (1.10%) QA
4 1 (1.10%) SLA
4 1 (1.10%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.10%) SCCM
2 1 (1.10%) SCOM
2 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (40.66%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.89%) Advent
3 6 (6.59%) Oracle
4 3 (3.30%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.20%) SAP
6 1 (1.10%) Databricks
6 1 (1.10%) Informatica
6 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.10%) Palantir
6 1 (1.10%) UiPath
6 1 (1.10%) Veeam
6 1 (1.10%) VMware
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