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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 593 621 499
Rank change year-on-year +28 -122 +40
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 73 121 245
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.18% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.06% 1.14% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 59 79 206
10th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,750 £50,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% +0.83% +3.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,250 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.40% -6.36% -

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 6,882 10,645 11,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.57% 15.64% 21.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,464 6,050 9,071
10th Percentile £32,750 £37,500 £37,199
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%

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 7 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 7 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 +63 70 £70,000 +13.82% 52
UK excluding London +45 38 £53,250 +3.40% 45
London +15 32 £85,000 +13.33% 17
Work from Home +61 28 £53,250 -29.00% 34
North of England +28 20 £50,000 -8.75% 16
Yorkshire +28 12 £44,000 - 1
South West +40 8 £70,000 -
North West +24 8 £57,500 +4.94% 15
Midlands +36 5 £57,500 +15.00% 5
West Midlands +34 5 £57,500 +15.00% 2
South East +26 2 £51,500 - 19
East of England +33 1 £60,000 +9.09% 1
Wales +7 1 £37,500 -12.28% 3
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 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.11%) Confluence
3 2 (2.74%) HCL Notes
3 2 (2.74%) IIS
3 2 (2.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (15.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (2.74%) Markit EDM
2 2 (2.74%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.37%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (75.34%) Power Platform
2 48 (65.75%) Azure
3 22 (30.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (23.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (20.55%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (16.44%) Snowflake
7 9 (12.33%) dbt
8 8 (10.96%) AWS
8 8 (10.96%) Collibra
8 8 (10.96%) Fivetran
9 6 (8.22%) SaaS
10 5 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (4.11%) Matillion
12 2 (2.74%) Entra ID
12 2 (2.74%) PowerApps
13 1 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (1.37%) GCP
13 1 (1.37%) GitHub
13 1 (1.37%) IaaS
13 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (75.34%) Power BI
1 55 (75.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 50 (68.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 40 (54.79%) SQL Server
4 39 (53.42%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (15.07%) OLAP
6 7 (9.59%) Data Lake
7 6 (8.22%) Data Mining
7 6 (8.22%) Relational Database
7 6 (8.22%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (6.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (6.85%) Metadata
9 4 (5.48%) Data Hub
9 4 (5.48%) RDBMS
9 4 (5.48%) SQL CLR
10 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 3 (4.11%) Tableau
11 2 (2.74%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (2.74%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (15.07%) JIRA
2 4 (5.48%) Git
3 3 (4.11%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.74%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.37%) Postman
5 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 27 (36.99%) Finance
2 19 (26.03%) Social Skills
3 13 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (16.44%) Law
5 8 (10.96%) Manufacturing
6 7 (9.59%) Legal
7 4 (5.48%) Back Office
8 3 (4.11%) Retail
9 2 (2.74%) Automotive
10 1 (1.37%) Banking
10 1 (1.37%) Billing
10 1 (1.37%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (45.21%) Developer
2 22 (30.14%) Data Engineer
3 20 (27.40%) Senior
4 13 (17.81%) SQL Developer
5 11 (15.07%) Lead
5 11 (15.07%) Senior Data Engineer
6 9 (12.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (8.22%) Analyst
7 6 (8.22%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.85%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 5 (6.85%) DBA
8 5 (6.85%) SQL DBA
9 4 (5.48%) Analyst Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Report Developer
9 4 (5.48%) SaaS Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Senior Microsoft Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.22%) .NET
2 3 (4.11%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.74%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (2.74%) PySpark
3 2 (2.74%) REST
3 2 (2.74%) WCF
4 1 (1.37%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (1.37%) CSS
4 1 (1.37%) Flask
4 1 (1.37%) HTML
4 1 (1.37%) HTML5
4 1 (1.37%) jQuery
4 1 (1.37%) Kafka
4 1 (1.37%) React
4 1 (1.37%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.37%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.37%) Swagger
4 1 (1.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.22%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.48%) Clustering
2 4 (5.48%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (5.48%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.11%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.74%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.37%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.37%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.37%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.37%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.85%) Windows
2 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (76.71%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (60.27%) ETL
3 30 (41.10%) DevOps
4 23 (31.51%) Analytics
4 23 (31.51%) Data Modelling
5 20 (27.40%) Data Engineering
6 17 (23.29%) Data Pipeline
7 16 (21.92%) Migration
8 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (16.44%) Agile
9 12 (16.44%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (15.07%) CI/CD
10 11 (15.07%) High Availability
11 10 (13.70%) Data Governance
11 10 (13.70%) Decision-Making
12 9 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (12.33%) Dimensional Modelling
13 8 (10.96%) Actionable Insight
14 7 (9.59%) Data Integration
14 7 (9.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 64 (87.67%) SQL
2 31 (42.47%) T-SQL
3 16 (21.92%) Python
4 14 (19.18%) C#
5 9 (12.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.74%) C++
6 2 (2.74%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.74%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.37%) Java
7 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.37%) PHP
7 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (6.85%) Degree
2 2 (2.74%) MCSE
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.96%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.22%) GDPR
3 2 (2.74%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (5.48%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 45 (61.64%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.96%) Databricks
2 8 (10.96%) Dataiku
3 5 (6.85%) Oracle
4 4 (5.48%) RedGate
4 4 (5.48%) VMware
5 3 (4.11%) Aderant
5 3 (4.11%) IFS
6 2 (2.74%) iManage
6 2 (2.74%) Intapp
6 2 (2.74%) Lotus
7 1 (1.37%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.37%) Cognos
7 1 (1.37%) Google
7 1 (1.37%) IBM
7 1 (1.37%) Informatica