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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 749 599 653
Rank change year-on-year -150 +54 -155
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 58 70 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.051% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.66% 0.98% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 51 49 90
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £47,250
25th Percentile £46,594 £52,000 £50,750
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 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £53,147
% change year-on-year -2.78% +1.61% +1.23%

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 8,816 7,151 11,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.74% 14.55% 15.35%
Number of salaries quoted 5,974 4,471 7,165
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,759
Median % change year-on-year - -4.40% +0.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% +1.90% -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 15 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 15 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 -145 41 £62,500 -10.71% 39
UK excluding London -104 38 £52,500 -2.78% 18
Work from Home -53 20 £60,000 -14.29% 11
London -63 13 £90,000 +22.45% 29
Scotland - 12 £45,000 - 2
Midlands -53 8 £57,500 +15.00% 3
South East -36 7 £62,500 +21.36% 10
South West -83 6 £51,375 -26.61%
East Midlands - 5 £60,000 - 2
North West -24 3 £55,000 -21.43% 1
West Midlands -48 3 £55,000 +10.00% 1
North of England -69 3 £55,000 +1.85% 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 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.45%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (1.72%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 33 (56.90%) Power Platform
2 31 (53.45%) Azure
3 10 (17.24%) AWS
3 10 (17.24%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (12.07%) PowerApps
6 6 (10.34%) Azure Logic Apps
6 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (8.62%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (8.62%) Power Automate
8 4 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (6.90%) Snowflake
9 3 (5.17%) Amazon MSK
9 3 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (3.45%) Azure Stack
11 1 (1.72%) Boomi
11 1 (1.72%) GitHub
11 1 (1.72%) IaaS
11 1 (1.72%) PaaS
11 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (62.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 32 (55.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 31 (53.45%) Power BI
4 23 (39.66%) SQL Server
5 18 (31.03%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (15.52%) Relational Database
7 7 (12.07%) OLAP
7 7 (12.07%) Tableau
8 6 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (5.17%) Data Lake
9 3 (5.17%) MySQL
9 3 (5.17%) Power Query
9 3 (5.17%) PowerPivot
10 2 (3.45%) Db2
10 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
10 2 (3.45%) MS Access
10 2 (3.45%) RDBMS
10 2 (3.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Git
General
1 19 (32.76%) Finance
2 13 (22.41%) 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 20 (34.48%) Senior
2 16 (27.59%) Developer
3 15 (25.86%) Administrator
4 13 (22.41%) Lead
5 12 (20.69%) Pensions Administrator
6 9 (15.52%) Data Engineer
7 7 (12.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Consultant
8 5 (8.62%) Database Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) DBA
8 5 (8.62%) Senior Consultant
8 5 (8.62%) Senior Database Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Data Consultant
9 4 (6.90%) IT Consultant
9 4 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) Senior IT Consultant
9 4 (6.90%) Systems Engineer
10 3 (5.17%) Finance Systems Analyst
10 3 (5.17%) Power BI Developer
10 3 (5.17%) Power Platform 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 30 (51.72%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (39.66%) Analytics
3 19 (32.76%) AI
3 19 (32.76%) ETL
4 18 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (27.59%) Data Modelling
6 15 (25.86%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (18.97%) Mentoring
8 10 (17.24%) DevOps
9 8 (13.79%) Computer Science
9 8 (13.79%) Data Transformation
9 8 (13.79%) High Availability
10 7 (12.07%) Agile
10 7 (12.07%) Database Security
10 7 (12.07%) Dimensional Modelling
10 7 (12.07%) Roadmaps
10 7 (12.07%) Scrum
10 7 (12.07%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (10.34%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 32 (55.17%) SQL
2 11 (18.97%) C#
2 11 (18.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 11 (18.97%) Python
2 11 (18.97%) T-SQL
3 5 (8.62%) JavaScript
4 4 (6.90%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.17%) R
6 2 (3.45%) RPG
6 2 (3.45%) RPG IV
7 1 (1.72%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (15.52%) Degree
2 8 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (13.79%) Security Cleared
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 27 (46.55%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.07%) 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