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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 733 618 655
Rank change year-on-year -115 +37 -133
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 58 68 155
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.053% 0.14% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.66% 0.92% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 51 47 105
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,281
25th Percentile £47,844 £52,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,625 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,267 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.32% +12.73% +4.76%

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 8,824 7,355 12,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.02% 14.78% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,987 4,708 7,891
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,325 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.26% -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 September 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 3 September 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 -118 42 £62,500 -10.71% 27
UK excluding London -102 37 £52,500 -15.32% 18
Work from Home -40 20 £60,000 -14.29% 10
London -69 13 £90,000 +22.45% 16
Scotland - 11 £45,000 - 3
Midlands -45 8 £57,500 +35.29% 3
South East -30 7 £62,500 +21.36% 7
South West -78 6 £51,375 -26.61% 1
East Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 2
North West -19 3 £55,000 -21.43% 1
West Midlands -38 3 £55,000 +29.41% 1
North of England -56 3 £55,000 -21.43% 1
East of England - 2 £57,500 - 2

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 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.45%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (1.72%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 34 (58.62%) Power Platform
2 32 (55.17%) Azure
3 11 (18.97%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (17.24%) AWS
5 8 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (12.07%) PowerApps
7 6 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (8.62%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (8.62%) Power Automate
9 4 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (6.90%) Snowflake
10 3 (5.17%) Amazon MSK
10 3 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (3.45%) Azure Stack
12 1 (1.72%) Boomi
12 1 (1.72%) GitHub
12 1 (1.72%) IaaS
12 1 (1.72%) PaaS
12 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (63.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 33 (56.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 32 (55.17%) Power BI
4 24 (41.38%) SQL Server
5 18 (31.03%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (15.52%) Relational Database
7 8 (13.79%) Tableau
8 7 (12.07%) OLAP
9 6 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (5.17%) Data Lake
10 3 (5.17%) MySQL
10 3 (5.17%) Power Query
10 3 (5.17%) PowerPivot
11 2 (3.45%) Big Data
11 2 (3.45%) Db2
11 2 (3.45%) MS Access
11 2 (3.45%) RDBMS
11 2 (3.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Git
General
1 18 (31.03%) Finance
2 14 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (17.24%) Legal
5 9 (15.52%) Law
6 6 (10.34%) Military
7 5 (8.62%) Social Housing
8 2 (3.45%) Billing
8 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.45%) Marketing
8 2 (3.45%) Public Speaking
9 1 (1.72%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.72%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 21 (36.21%) Senior
2 16 (27.59%) Developer
3 14 (24.14%) Administrator
4 12 (20.69%) Lead
5 11 (18.97%) Pensions Administrator
6 9 (15.52%) Data Engineer
7 7 (12.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (10.34%) Consultant
8 6 (10.34%) Senior Consultant
9 5 (8.62%) Database Engineer
9 5 (8.62%) DBA
9 5 (8.62%) Senior Database Engineer
10 4 (6.90%) Data Consultant
10 4 (6.90%) IT Consultant
10 4 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (6.90%) Senior IT Consultant
10 4 (6.90%) Systems Engineer
11 3 (5.17%) Analyst
11 3 (5.17%) Architect
11 3 (5.17%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.97%) PySpark
2 5 (8.62%) HTML
2 5 (8.62%) React
2 5 (8.62%) Web Services
3 4 (6.90%) .NET
3 4 (6.90%) Kafka
3 4 (6.90%) MDX
4 2 (3.45%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (3.45%) EDI
4 2 (3.45%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (3.45%) XML
5 1 (1.72%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.72%) RESTful
5 1 (1.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Replication
2 5 (8.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (6.90%) Driving Licence
3 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.17%) AI Agents
4 3 (5.17%) Blog
5 2 (3.45%) AS400
5 2 (3.45%) Autonomous Agent
5 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.45%) iSeries
5 2 (3.45%) IVR
6 1 (1.72%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.72%) NHS
6 1 (1.72%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Windows
2 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (53.45%) Business Intelligence
2 24 (41.38%) Analytics
3 20 (34.48%) AI
3 20 (34.48%) ETL
4 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (29.31%) Data Modelling
6 15 (25.86%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (18.97%) Mentoring
8 10 (17.24%) DevOps
9 9 (15.52%) Data Transformation
10 8 (13.79%) Computer Science
10 8 (13.79%) High Availability
10 8 (13.79%) Translating Business Requirements
11 7 (12.07%) Agile
11 7 (12.07%) Database Security
11 7 (12.07%) Dimensional Modelling
11 7 (12.07%) Machine Learning
11 7 (12.07%) Roadmaps
11 7 (12.07%) Scrum
12 6 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (55.17%) SQL
2 12 (20.69%) Python
3 11 (18.97%) C#
3 11 (18.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 11 (18.97%) T-SQL
4 5 (8.62%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.90%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.17%) R
7 2 (3.45%) RPG
7 2 (3.45%) RPG IV
8 1 (1.72%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Degree
1 9 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (12.07%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) GDPR
2 3 (5.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Docker
Vendors
1 28 (48.28%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.79%) Databricks
3 6 (10.34%) Intapp
4 5 (8.62%) iManage
5 4 (6.90%) SAP
6 3 (5.17%) Infor
7 2 (3.45%) Aderant
7 2 (3.45%) Avaya
7 2 (3.45%) Cisco
7 2 (3.45%) Concur
7 2 (3.45%) Genesys
7 2 (3.45%) IBM
7 2 (3.45%) JD Edwards
7 2 (3.45%) Oracle
7 2 (3.45%) RedGate
8 1 (1.72%) Litera