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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 603 662 506
Rank change year-on-year +59 -156 +98
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 73 134 281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.17% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.01% 1.11% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 52 90 228
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £50,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,750 £53,147 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.90% +1.23% -4.55%

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 7,208 12,022 12,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.57% 15.39% 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,535 7,174 10,178
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,306 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% +2.80%

SQL Server Analysis Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SQL Server Analysis Services as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Analysis Services 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server Analysis Services in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top 11 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 18 September 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 +56 72 £70,000 +12.00% 38
UK excluding London +93 40 £55,750 +4.90% 31
Work from Home +79 33 £70,000 +14.29% 17
London +24 30 £80,000 +6.67% 11
North of England +28 16 £54,000 -1.45% 9
Midlands +35 13 £57,500 - 5
West Midlands +32 13 £57,500 - 4
South West +80 9 £70,000 +16.67% 5
Yorkshire +32 9 £40,000 - 2
North West +10 7 £70,000 +27.75% 7
South East +45 2 £51,500 - 10

SQL Server Analysis Services
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (17.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.74%) Apache
2 2 (2.74%) HCL Notes
2 2 (2.74%) IIS
2 2 (2.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (2.74%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (69.86%) Power Platform
2 49 (67.12%) Azure
3 17 (23.29%) AWS
4 14 (19.18%) SaaS
5 9 (12.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (9.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (8.22%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.11%) Fivetran
8 3 (4.11%) Matillion
9 2 (2.74%) Collibra
9 2 (2.74%) dbt
9 2 (2.74%) GCP
9 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.37%) GitHub
10 1 (1.37%) IaaS
10 1 (1.37%) OCI
10 1 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.11%) DHCP
1 3 (4.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (72.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 51 (69.86%) Power BI
3 48 (65.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 46 (63.01%) SQL Server
5 31 (42.47%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (17.81%) Data Hub
6 13 (17.81%) Metadata
6 13 (17.81%) SQL CLR
7 9 (12.33%) OLAP
8 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 6 (8.22%) Data Mining
10 5 (6.85%) Relational Database
10 5 (6.85%) Tableau
11 4 (5.48%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (4.11%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (4.11%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (4.11%) RDBMS
13 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
14 1 (1.37%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) JIRA
1 9 (12.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (4.11%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.74%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.37%) Git
4 1 (1.37%) Postman
General
1 33 (45.21%) Finance
2 14 (19.18%) Social Skills
3 13 (17.81%) Back Office
4 12 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (12.33%) Law
6 6 (8.22%) Legal
6 6 (8.22%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.11%) Retail
8 1 (1.37%) Automotive
8 1 (1.37%) Billing
8 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (42.47%) Developer
2 26 (35.62%) Senior
3 19 (26.03%) SQL Developer
4 15 (20.55%) Senior Developer
5 13 (17.81%) Data Engineer
5 13 (17.81%) Microsoft Developer
5 13 (17.81%) SaaS Developer
5 13 (17.81%) Senior Microsoft Developer
5 13 (17.81%) Senior SQL Developer
6 12 (16.44%) Analyst
7 11 (15.07%) Lead
7 11 (15.07%) SQL Analyst
8 5 (6.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 5 (6.85%) DBA
8 5 (6.85%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) SQL DBA
9 3 (4.11%) Analyst Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Data Architect
9 3 (4.11%) Data Warehouse Developer
9 3 (4.11%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.33%) Web Services
2 6 (8.22%) .NET
3 3 (4.11%) ASP.NET
3 3 (4.11%) Spring
3 3 (4.11%) Spring Batch
3 3 (4.11%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.74%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (2.74%) PySpark
4 2 (2.74%) WCF
5 1 (1.37%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (1.37%) CSS
5 1 (1.37%) Flask
5 1 (1.37%) HTML
5 1 (1.37%) HTML5
5 1 (1.37%) jQuery
5 1 (1.37%) Kafka
5 1 (1.37%) REST
5 1 (1.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.81%) Private Cloud
2 4 (5.48%) Clustering
2 4 (5.48%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.11%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.11%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.37%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.85%) Windows
2 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (75.34%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (38.36%) ETL
3 22 (30.14%) Analytics
4 20 (27.40%) High Availability
4 20 (27.40%) Migration
5 19 (26.03%) DevOps
6 18 (24.66%) Data Pipeline
7 15 (20.55%) Data Modelling
7 15 (20.55%) Performance Tuning
8 14 (19.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (17.81%) Data Engineering
9 13 (17.81%) Data Privacy
9 13 (17.81%) Fintech
9 13 (17.81%) Refactoring
9 13 (17.81%) Statistics
9 13 (17.81%) Wealth Management
9 13 (17.81%) Workflow
10 12 (16.44%) Agile
11 11 (15.07%) Data Analytics
11 11 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 67 (91.78%) SQL
2 35 (47.95%) T-SQL
3 11 (15.07%) Python
4 8 (10.96%) C#
5 7 (9.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (4.11%) Java
7 2 (2.74%) C++
7 2 (2.74%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (10.96%) Degree
2 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.37%) MCSE
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.11%) GDPR
2 2 (2.74%) QA
System Software
1 13 (17.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (17.81%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 51 (69.86%) Microsoft
2 13 (17.81%) VMware
3 10 (13.70%) Databricks
4 4 (5.48%) Oracle
5 3 (4.11%) Aderant
5 3 (4.11%) IFS
5 3 (4.11%) Informatica
5 3 (4.11%) RedGate
5 3 (4.11%) SAP
6 2 (2.74%) Dataiku
6 2 (2.74%) iManage
6 2 (2.74%) Intapp
6 2 (2.74%) Lotus
7 1 (1.37%) BiZZdesign