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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 374 347
Rank change year-on-year -24 -27 +9
Contract jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 123 211 418
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.48% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.22% 2.88% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 164 332
10th Percentile £325 £375 £313
25th Percentile £401 £413 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +10.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £661
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +2.94% -10.53% +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 7
10th Percentile £23.74 - £19.27
25th Percentile £25.33 £37.63 £21.81
Median hourly rate £27.70 £46.18 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.03% +82.89% -35.53%
75th Percentile £29.07 - £36.10
90th Percentile - - £43.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.74 £46.18 £24.63
% change year-on-year -48.59% +87.53% -29.64%

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 5,552 7,317 10,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.80% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,834 5,210 7,665
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 143 183
10th Percentile £19.97 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.06 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.15 £58.62 £70.88
90th Percentile £75.13 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

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 1 May 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 16 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 1 May 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 -13 118 £509 -7.50% 310
London -12 72 £525 -13.93% 84
UK excluding London +30 40 £438 +2.94% 268
Work from Home -3 39 £500 -7.83% 80
South West +53 11 £500 +25.00% 40
South East +38 9 £410 -3.53% 69
North of England +2 8 £375 -11.76% 49
Midlands +12 7 £410 -8.89% 52
North West +3 6 £320 -24.71% 25
West Midlands +3 5 £400 -5.88% 35
Scotland +12 2 £500 +6.95% 17
East Midlands +11 2 £420 -11.58% 14
Yorkshire +7 2 £375 -6.25% 19
East of England +28 1 £438 -8.85% 33
Wales -5 1 - - 8
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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 10 (8.13%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.44%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.81%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) Drupal
3 1 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 15 (12.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.81%) FileZilla
3 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (19.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.63%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.63%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.81%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.81%) FastStats
3 1 (0.81%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.81%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.81%) Summit
3 1 (0.81%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 55 (44.72%) Power Platform
2 50 (40.65%) Azure
3 22 (17.89%) Dynamics 365
4 18 (14.63%) PowerApps
5 16 (13.01%) Power Automate
6 9 (7.32%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (5.69%) AWS
7 7 (5.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (4.88%) Azure Functions
8 6 (4.88%) Entra ID
8 6 (4.88%) Google Workspace
8 6 (4.88%) SaaS
8 6 (4.88%) Serverless
9 5 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.44%) GitHub
11 2 (1.63%) Azure API Management
11 2 (1.63%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.63%) Network Security
2 1 (0.81%) FTP
2 1 (0.81%) Intranet
2 1 (0.81%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (69.92%) SQL Server
2 56 (45.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 45 (36.59%) Power BI
4 24 (19.51%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (8.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 8 (6.50%) Tableau
7 7 (5.69%) Power Query
8 6 (4.88%) GIS
8 6 (4.88%) MS Access
8 6 (4.88%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.07%) Metadata
10 4 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (3.25%) MariaDB
10 4 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.44%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (2.44%) OLAP
12 2 (1.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.63%) Big Data
12 2 (1.63%) MySQL
12 2 (1.63%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (6.50%) JIRA
2 5 (4.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (2.44%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.63%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.63%) Git
4 2 (1.63%) NUnit
5 1 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.81%) Crucible
5 1 (0.81%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.81%) Maven
5 1 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (30.08%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.07%) Finance
3 10 (8.13%) Banking
3 10 (8.13%) Legal
4 8 (6.50%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.69%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.63%) Back Office
7 2 (1.63%) Front Office
7 2 (1.63%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.63%) Local Government
7 2 (1.63%) Marketing
7 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.63%) Retail
8 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.81%) Publishing
8 1 (0.81%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 42 (34.15%) Developer
2 24 (19.51%) Analyst
3 11 (8.94%) DBA
4 10 (8.13%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 10 (8.13%) SQL DBA
5 9 (7.32%) Architect
6 8 (6.50%) Applications Support
6 8 (6.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 8 (6.50%) SQL Developer
7 7 (5.69%) CRM Architect
8 6 (4.88%) Administrator
8 6 (4.88%) Data Analyst
8 6 (4.88%) Information Analyst
8 6 (4.88%) Lead
8 6 (4.88%) Power BI Developer
9 5 (4.07%) Applications Support Analyst
9 5 (4.07%) Automation Developer
9 5 (4.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (4.07%) SQL Server DBA
9 5 (4.07%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (29.27%) .NET
2 15 (12.20%) ASP.NET Web API
2 15 (12.20%) JSON
3 14 (11.38%) .NET Framework
3 14 (11.38%) XML
4 13 (10.57%) SOAP
5 12 (9.76%) CSS
5 12 (9.76%) HTML
5 12 (9.76%) WCF
6 10 (8.13%) REST
7 9 (7.32%) HTML5 Canvas
8 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (4.07%) ASP.NET
9 5 (4.07%) Entity Framework
9 5 (4.07%) Web Services
10 4 (3.25%) AngularJS
11 3 (2.44%) jQuery
12 2 (1.63%) ASP.NET MVC
12 2 (1.63%) WPF
12 2 (1.63%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.13%) Replication
2 7 (5.69%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.07%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.07%) SCADA
5 4 (3.25%) Clustering
5 4 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.25%) Operational Technology
5 4 (3.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (2.44%) NHS
7 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.63%) Equities
7 2 (1.63%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.63%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.81%) BYOD
8 1 (0.81%) Derivative
8 1 (0.81%) FMCG
8 1 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.81%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.26%) Windows
2 13 (10.57%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.25%) Linux
4 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (38.21%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (22.76%) CRM
3 26 (21.14%) Migration
4 22 (17.89%) Data Analysis
5 19 (15.45%) Agile
6 18 (14.63%) Data Modelling
7 16 (13.01%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (12.20%) ETL
9 14 (11.38%) Visualisation
10 12 (9.76%) Data Integration
10 12 (9.76%) Web Development
11 11 (8.94%) Decision-Making
12 10 (8.13%) DevOps
12 10 (8.13%) Performance Tuning
13 9 (7.32%) User Acceptance Testing
14 8 (6.50%) Analytics
14 8 (6.50%) Data Migration
14 8 (6.50%) Data Visualisation
14 8 (6.50%) ITIL
14 8 (6.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 105 (85.37%) SQL
2 34 (27.64%) C#
3 23 (18.70%) PowerShell
4 21 (17.07%) T-SQL
5 19 (15.45%) JavaScript
6 11 (8.94%) TypeScript
7 9 (7.32%) PL/SQL
8 5 (4.07%) Perl
8 5 (4.07%) Python
8 5 (4.07%) VBA
9 3 (2.44%) R
10 2 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.63%) X++
11 1 (0.81%) Bicep
11 1 (0.81%) Groovy
11 1 (0.81%) Java
11 1 (0.81%) Ruby
11 1 (0.81%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.81%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (12.20%) Degree
2 12 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.94%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.44%) HNC
5 2 (1.63%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.81%) MCDBA
6 1 (0.81%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.32%) GDPR
2 8 (6.50%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.07%) QA
4 4 (3.25%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.81%) EMIR
5 1 (0.81%) MiFID
5 1 (0.81%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (5.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (4.07%) Terraform
2 1 (0.81%) Control-M
2 1 (0.81%) Perfmon
2 1 (0.81%) SCOM
2 1 (0.81%) VxRail
2 1 (0.81%) Wonderware InTouch
Vendors
1 57 (46.34%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.32%) Oracle
3 7 (5.69%) Google
3 7 (5.69%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.25%) UiPath
5 3 (2.44%) SAP
6 2 (1.63%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.63%) Liquidlogic
6 2 (1.63%) Remedy
7 1 (0.81%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.81%) Citrix
7 1 (0.81%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.81%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.81%) IBM
7 1 (0.81%) Intapp
7 1 (0.81%) LexisNexis
7 1 (0.81%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.81%) Rockwell
7 1 (0.81%) Sage
7 1 (0.81%) Salesforce