SQL Server Analysis Services Job Trends

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SQL Server Analysis Services skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 595 637 478
Rank change year-on-year +42 -159 +59
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 68 117 239
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.17% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.99% 1.10% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 55 75 201
10th Percentile £42,000 £43,797 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,375 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +3.90%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

SQL Server Analysis Services falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,886 10,657 11,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.00% 15.68% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,514 6,055 8,954
10th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,787
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,250 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% -

SQL Server Analysis Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server Analysis Services relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SQL Server Analysis Services job vacancy trend in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SQL Server Analysis Services.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SQL Server Analysis Services

SQL Server Analysis Services
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server Analysis Services in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services within the UK over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +61 65 £70,000 +16.67% 25
UK excluding London +72 37 £52,500 +5.00% 16
London +28 28 £85,000 +13.33% 11
Work from Home +73 27 £53,250 -29.00% 15
North of England +48 20 £50,000 -8.75% 5
Yorkshire +18 12 £44,000 -
North West +47 8 £57,500 +4.94% 5
South West +34 7 £70,000 - 1
Midlands +45 5 £57,500 +15.00% 4
West Midlands +30 5 £57,500 +15.00% 1
South East +27 2 £51,500 - 2
East of England +23 1 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Wales +5 1 £37,500 -12.28%
Northern Ireland - 1 £50,000 - 1

SQL Server Analysis 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 3 (4.41%) Confluence
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.94%) HCL Notes
2 2 (2.94%) IIS
2 2 (2.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (16.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Dynamics AX
1 2 (2.94%) Markit EDM
1 2 (2.94%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.47%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (73.53%) Power Platform
2 44 (64.71%) Azure
3 22 (32.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (22.06%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (16.18%) Snowflake
7 9 (13.24%) dbt
8 8 (11.76%) Collibra
8 8 (11.76%) Fivetran
9 7 (10.29%) AWS
10 5 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (7.35%) SaaS
11 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
11 2 (2.94%) Matillion
11 2 (2.94%) PowerApps
12 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (1.47%) Google Analytics
12 1 (1.47%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (77.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 50 (73.53%) Power BI
3 48 (70.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 37 (54.41%) SQL Server
5 36 (52.94%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (16.18%) OLAP
7 7 (10.29%) Data Lake
8 6 (8.82%) Relational Database
8 6 (8.82%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (7.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (7.35%) Data Mining
10 4 (5.88%) Metadata
10 4 (5.88%) RDBMS
11 3 (4.41%) Data Hub
11 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 3 (4.41%) SQL CLR
11 3 (4.41%) Tableau
12 2 (2.94%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (2.94%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (16.18%) JIRA
2 4 (5.88%) Git
3 3 (4.41%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.94%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.47%) Postman
5 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 24 (35.29%) Finance
2 19 (27.94%) Social Skills
3 13 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.71%) Law
5 7 (10.29%) Legal
5 7 (10.29%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.41%) Back Office
7 2 (2.94%) Automotive
7 2 (2.94%) Retail
8 1 (1.47%) Banking
8 1 (1.47%) Billing
8 1 (1.47%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (42.65%) Developer
2 22 (32.35%) Data Engineer
3 19 (27.94%) Senior
4 12 (17.65%) SQL Developer
5 11 (16.18%) Senior Data Engineer
6 9 (13.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 9 (13.24%) Lead
7 6 (8.82%) Analyst
8 5 (7.35%) DBA
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Developer
8 5 (7.35%) SQL DBA
9 4 (5.88%) Analyst Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Lead
9 4 (5.88%) Report Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Snowflake Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) SQL Analyst
10 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Developer
10 3 (4.41%) SaaS Developer
10 3 (4.41%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.82%) .NET
2 3 (4.41%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (2.94%) PySpark
3 2 (2.94%) REST
3 2 (2.94%) WCF
4 1 (1.47%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.47%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (1.47%) CSS
4 1 (1.47%) Flask
4 1 (1.47%) HTML
4 1 (1.47%) HTML5
4 1 (1.47%) jQuery
4 1 (1.47%) Kafka
4 1 (1.47%) MDX
4 1 (1.47%) React
4 1 (1.47%) Swagger
4 1 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.35%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.88%) Clustering
2 4 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.41%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.41%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.47%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.47%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.47%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.47%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.35%) Windows
2 2 (2.94%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (76.47%) Business Intelligence
2 40 (58.82%) ETL
3 30 (44.12%) DevOps
4 22 (32.35%) Analytics
4 22 (32.35%) Data Modelling
5 19 (27.94%) Data Engineering
6 17 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (20.59%) Migration
7 14 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (17.65%) Agile
9 11 (16.18%) CI/CD
9 11 (16.18%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (14.71%) Data Governance
10 10 (14.71%) Decision-Making
10 10 (14.71%) High Availability
11 9 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (13.24%) Dimensional Modelling
12 8 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
13 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 6 (8.82%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 60 (88.24%) SQL
2 30 (44.12%) T-SQL
3 16 (23.53%) Python
4 14 (20.59%) C#
5 9 (13.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.94%) C++
6 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.94%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.47%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.47%) PHP
7 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.35%) Degree
2 2 (2.94%) MCSE
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.82%) GDPR
3 2 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 41 (60.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.76%) Databricks
2 8 (11.76%) Dataiku
3 5 (7.35%) Oracle
4 4 (5.88%) RedGate
5 3 (4.41%) Aderant
5 3 (4.41%) VMware
6 2 (2.94%) IFS
6 2 (2.94%) iManage
6 2 (2.94%) Intapp
6 2 (2.94%) Lotus
7 1 (1.47%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.47%) Cognos
7 1 (1.47%) Google
7 1 (1.47%) IBM