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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 725 608 646
Rank change year-on-year -117 +38 -79
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 37 67 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.038% 0.14% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.44% 0.89% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 33 47 192
10th Percentile £46,388 £44,150 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £101,000 £93,778 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +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 8,439 7,548 17,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.73% 15.85% 16.28%
Number of salaries quoted 5,590 4,887 12,141
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +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 4 July 2026.

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 4 July 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 -75 34 £61,250 -12.50% 10
UK excluding London -86 23 £55,000 -8.33% 12
London -37 13 £95,000 +31.03% 3
Work from Home -20 11 £60,000 -14.29% 6
South East -26 6 £64,500 +25.24% 4
Midlands -34 6 £57,500 +9.52%
Scotland +16 3 £45,000 - 2
North West -15 3 £55,000 -21.43% 2
East Midlands -17 3 £60,000 +26.32%
West Midlands -35 3 £55,000 -4.35%
North of England -42 3 £55,000 -21.43% 4
South West -73 3 £48,875 -30.18% 1
East of England - 2 £57,500 - 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.70%) Infor M3
2 1 (2.70%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 26 (70.27%) Azure
2 24 (64.86%) Power Platform
3 8 (21.62%) AWS
4 6 (16.22%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Copilot
4 6 (16.22%) PowerApps
5 5 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (13.51%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (13.51%) Power Automate
6 4 (10.81%) Snowflake
7 3 (8.11%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.70%) Boomi
9 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.70%) GitHub
9 1 (2.70%) IaaS
9 1 (2.70%) PaaS
9 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (72.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 23 (62.16%) Power BI
2 23 (62.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 17 (45.95%) SQL Server
4 12 (32.43%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (18.92%) Relational Database
6 5 (13.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (13.51%) OLAP
6 5 (13.51%) Tableau
7 4 (10.81%) Data Lake
7 4 (10.81%) Power Query
8 3 (8.11%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (8.11%) MySQL
8 3 (8.11%) PowerPivot
9 2 (5.41%) Star Schema
10 1 (2.70%) Big Data
10 1 (2.70%) Metadata
10 1 (2.70%) MS Access
10 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
General
1 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
3 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.92%) Legal
4 6 (16.22%) Law
5 5 (13.51%) Social Housing
6 2 (5.41%) Military
7 1 (2.70%) Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.70%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Developer
1 12 (32.43%) Senior
2 6 (16.22%) Administrator
2 6 (16.22%) DBA
3 5 (13.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Data Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Database Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Senior Database Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Lead
5 3 (8.11%) Pensions Administrator
5 3 (8.11%) Power BI Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Power Platform Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior DBA
5 3 (8.11%) SQL DBA
5 3 (8.11%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (5.41%) Database Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Head of Delivery
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) HTML
1 5 (13.51%) React
1 5 (13.51%) Web Services
2 4 (10.81%) Kafka
3 3 (8.11%) .NET
3 3 (8.11%) PySpark
4 1 (2.70%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.70%) RESTful
4 1 (2.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Replication
2 5 (13.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.41%) Clustering
3 2 (5.41%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.70%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.70%) Blog
4 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (62.16%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (37.84%) Analytics
4 13 (35.14%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (27.03%) Data Modelling
6 9 (24.32%) Database Security
6 9 (24.32%) ETL
7 8 (21.62%) AI
7 8 (21.62%) High Availability
8 7 (18.92%) Agile
8 7 (18.92%) Unit Testing
9 6 (16.22%) Computer Science
9 6 (16.22%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (16.22%) Scrum
10 5 (13.51%) Facilities Management
10 5 (13.51%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (13.51%) User Stories
11 4 (10.81%) Data Transformation
11 4 (10.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 4 (10.81%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 26 (70.27%) SQL
2 11 (29.73%) T-SQL
3 10 (27.03%) Python
4 9 (24.32%) C#
5 5 (13.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
5 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
6 3 (8.11%) R
7 2 (5.41%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (2.70%) Java
8 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Degree
1 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (16.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.62%) GDPR
2 6 (16.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
Vendors
1 19 (51.35%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) SAP
3 3 (8.11%) iManage
3 3 (8.11%) Intapp
4 1 (2.70%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) Infor
4 1 (2.70%) JD Edwards
4 1 (2.70%) Litera
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) RedGate