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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 598 585
Rank change year-on-year -31 -13 -43
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 45 73 238
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.064% 0.16% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.66% 0.86% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 39 49 198
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,350
25th Percentile £46,875 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £90,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.91% -10.43% +15.00%

All Database & 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 6,850 8,448 15,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.70% 18.53% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,162 4,993 11,747
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,963 £47,500 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -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 3 March 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server Analysis Services in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top 12 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 3 March 2026. 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 -21 43 £65,000 +8.33% 14
London +13 22 £90,000 +33.33% 4
UK excluding London -20 22 £50,000 -2.91% 14
Work from Home +17 14 £50,000 -27.27% 4
North of England -24 12 £52,500 -12.50% 2
North West +11 6 £57,500 +35.29% 2
Yorkshire -35 6 £47,000 -21.67%
West Midlands +14 5 £52,500 +5.00%
Midlands -22 5 £52,500 +7.69%
East of England +7 3 £40,000 -11.11% 3
Wales -7 1 £37,500 - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £50,000 -

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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Markit EDM
2 1 (2.22%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 36 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 33 (73.33%) Azure
3 21 (46.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 15 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (20.00%) dbt
6 9 (20.00%) Snowflake
7 8 (17.78%) Collibra
7 8 (17.78%) Fivetran
8 5 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (4.44%) PowerApps
10 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.22%) Google Analytics
10 1 (2.22%) Power Automate
10 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (80.00%) Power BI
2 35 (77.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 27 (60.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 26 (57.78%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (46.67%) SQL Server
6 13 (28.89%) Data Lake
7 6 (13.33%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (8.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (8.89%) OLAP
9 3 (6.67%) Power Query
10 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 1 (2.22%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (2.22%) Big Data
11 1 (2.22%) Cognos Connection
11 1 (2.22%) Cognos Event Studio
11 1 (2.22%) Cognos Framework Manager
11 1 (2.22%) Metadata
11 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
11 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) JIRA
2 4 (8.89%) Git
General
1 12 (26.67%) Finance
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Law
4 2 (4.44%) Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.22%) Automotive
5 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) International Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 15 (33.33%) Developer
3 11 (24.44%) Senior
4 10 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 5 (11.11%) SQL Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Analyst
7 4 (8.89%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (8.89%) Lead
7 4 (8.89%) Report Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Snowflake Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Lead
8 3 (6.67%) Head of Delivery
8 3 (6.67%) Lead Developer
8 3 (6.67%) SQL Analyst
9 2 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Specialist
9 2 (4.44%) ETL Developer
9 2 (4.44%) SQL DBA
9 2 (4.44%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) MDX
2 1 (2.22%) .NET
2 1 (2.22%) EDI
2 1 (2.22%) PySpark
2 1 (2.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.44%) Clustering
3 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.22%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.22%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (86.67%) Business Intelligence
2 29 (64.44%) ETL
3 20 (44.44%) Data Modelling
3 20 (44.44%) DevOps
4 18 (40.00%) Analytics
5 17 (37.78%) Data Engineering
6 14 (31.11%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (28.89%) Migration
8 12 (26.67%) CI/CD
9 11 (24.44%) Decision-Making
10 10 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (20.00%) Data Governance
11 9 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
12 8 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (15.56%) Agile
13 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (15.56%) Roadmaps
14 6 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
14 6 (13.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 6 (13.33%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 39 (86.67%) SQL
2 16 (35.56%) Python
2 16 (35.56%) T-SQL
3 11 (24.44%) C#
4 9 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.22%) PHP
6 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.22%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (4.44%) Degree
2 1 (2.22%) MCSE
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 5 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.78%) Dataiku
3 4 (8.89%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) Cognos
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) IBM
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) RedGate