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

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 601 625 502
Rank change year-on-year +24 -123 +8
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 54 94 206
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.092% 0.17% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.80% 0.93% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 47 59 175
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,625 £47,500 £49,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

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 6,718 10,089 10,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.39% 17.87% 21.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,280 5,789 8,188
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,741
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 20 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server Analysis Services in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top 13 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 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +52 52 £60,000 - 12
UK excluding London +46 31 £50,000 - 10
Work from Home +53 22 £50,000 -20.00% 10
London +38 22 £85,000 +23.64% 7
North of England +40 20 £52,000 +4.00% 2
Yorkshire +14 13 £44,000 - 1
North West +40 7 £57,500 +15.00% 1
West Midlands +26 5 £52,500 +13.51%
Midlands +14 5 £52,500 +7.69%
East of England +25 3 £40,000 -11.11% 2
South West +1 1 £72,500 -
Wales -4 1 £37,500 -12.28% 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 (5.56%) Confluence
2 2 (3.70%) HCL Notes
2 2 (3.70%) IIS
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (20.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Markit EDM
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.85%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 42 (77.78%) Power Platform
2 33 (61.11%) Azure
3 22 (40.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (31.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (16.67%) dbt
6 9 (16.67%) Snowflake
7 8 (14.81%) Collibra
7 8 (14.81%) Fivetran
8 5 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.70%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.85%) AWS
10 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.85%) GCP
10 1 (1.85%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.85%) OCI
10 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (77.78%) Power BI
2 41 (75.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 32 (59.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 28 (51.85%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (46.30%) SQL Server
6 9 (16.67%) Data Lake
7 8 (14.81%) OLAP
8 6 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (5.56%) RDBMS
10 3 (5.56%) Relational Database
11 2 (3.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 2 (3.70%) Power Query
12 1 (1.85%) Big Data
12 1 (1.85%) Cognos Connection
12 1 (1.85%) Cognos Framework Manager
12 1 (1.85%) Metadata
12 1 (1.85%) Oracle Database
12 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (18.52%) JIRA
2 4 (7.41%) Git
3 2 (3.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.93%) Finance
3 8 (14.81%) Law
4 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (11.11%) Legal
6 4 (7.41%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.85%) Automotive
7 1 (1.85%) Banking
7 1 (1.85%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (42.59%) Developer
2 20 (37.04%) Data Engineer
3 14 (25.93%) Senior
4 10 (18.52%) Senior Data Engineer
5 9 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 8 (14.81%) SQL Developer
7 7 (12.96%) Analyst
8 6 (11.11%) SQL Analyst
9 5 (9.26%) Lead
10 4 (7.41%) Analyst Developer
10 4 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 4 (7.41%) Report Developer
10 4 (7.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (7.41%) Snowflake Engineer
11 3 (5.56%) Administrator
11 3 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Lead
11 3 (5.56%) DBA
11 3 (5.56%) Lead Developer
11 3 (5.56%) Power BI Developer
11 3 (5.56%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) .NET
2 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET
2 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (3.70%) MDX
2 2 (3.70%) PySpark
2 2 (3.70%) WCF
3 1 (1.85%) EDI
3 1 (1.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.70%) Clustering
3 2 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.85%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.85%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.85%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (81.48%) Business Intelligence
2 35 (64.81%) ETL
3 26 (48.15%) DevOps
4 21 (38.89%) Data Modelling
5 19 (35.19%) Data Pipeline
6 18 (33.33%) Analytics
7 17 (31.48%) Data Engineering
8 12 (22.22%) Decision-Making
8 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (20.37%) CI/CD
10 9 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
10 9 (16.67%) Data Governance
10 9 (16.67%) Migration
11 8 (14.81%) Agile
11 8 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (12.96%) Data Analysis
12 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 6 (11.11%) Dimensional Modelling
13 6 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
14 5 (9.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 48 (88.89%) SQL
2 22 (40.74%) T-SQL
3 16 (29.63%) Python
4 11 (20.37%) C#
4 11 (20.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.70%) C++
6 1 (1.85%) PHP
6 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (1.85%) MCSE
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.26%) GDPR
3 2 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (48.15%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.67%) Databricks
3 8 (14.81%) Dataiku
4 4 (7.41%) Oracle
4 4 (7.41%) RedGate
5 2 (3.70%) Aderant
5 2 (3.70%) iManage
5 2 (3.70%) Intapp
5 2 (3.70%) Lotus
6 1 (1.85%) Cognos
6 1 (1.85%) Google
6 1 (1.85%) IBM