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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 597 627 499
Rank change year-on-year +30 -128 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 54 97 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.092% 0.17% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.80% 0.95% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 46 62 174
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,258 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,563 £48,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £81,250 £73,438 £74,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

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 6,720 10,184 10,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.48% 17.76% 21.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,302 5,868 8,230
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,698
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,521
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 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 +55 52 £62,500 +4.17% 17
UK excluding London +38 30 £50,000 - 15
London +23 23 £85,000 +25.93% 8
Work from Home +68 22 £50,000 -20.00% 13
North of England +35 20 £52,000 +4.00% 3
Yorkshire +3 13 £44,000 - 2
North West +24 7 £57,500 +15.00% 1
Midlands +18 4 £57,500 +17.95% 1
West Midlands +18 4 £57,500 +24.32%
East of England +22 3 £40,000 -11.11% 3
South West +15 1 £72,500 -
Wales -2 1 £37,500 -12.28% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £50,000 -

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 3 (5.56%) Confluence
2 2 (3.70%) HCL Notes
2 2 (3.70%) IIS
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (20.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Markit EDM
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.85%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 41 (75.93%) Power Platform
2 33 (61.11%) Azure
3 22 (40.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (31.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (16.67%) dbt
6 9 (16.67%) Snowflake
7 8 (14.81%) Collibra
7 8 (14.81%) Fivetran
8 5 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.70%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.85%) AWS
10 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.85%) GCP
10 1 (1.85%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.85%) OCI
10 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (75.93%) Power BI
1 41 (75.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 32 (59.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 29 (53.70%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (46.30%) SQL Server
5 9 (16.67%) Data Lake
6 8 (14.81%) OLAP
7 6 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (5.56%) RDBMS
9 3 (5.56%) Relational Database
10 2 (3.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 1 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.85%) Cognos Connection
11 1 (1.85%) Cognos Event Studio
11 1 (1.85%) Cognos Framework Manager
11 1 (1.85%) MySQL
11 1 (1.85%) Oracle OLAP
11 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (18.52%) JIRA
2 4 (7.41%) Git
3 2 (3.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.93%) Finance
3 8 (14.81%) Law
4 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (11.11%) Legal
6 4 (7.41%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.85%) Automotive
7 1 (1.85%) Banking
7 1 (1.85%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (40.74%) Developer
2 21 (38.89%) Data Engineer
3 14 (25.93%) Senior
4 10 (18.52%) Senior Data Engineer
5 8 (14.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 8 (14.81%) SQL Developer
6 7 (12.96%) Analyst
7 6 (11.11%) SQL Analyst
8 5 (9.26%) Lead
9 4 (7.41%) Analyst Developer
9 4 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 4 (7.41%) Report Developer
9 4 (7.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 4 (7.41%) Snowflake Engineer
10 3 (5.56%) Administrator
10 3 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Lead
10 3 (5.56%) DBA
10 3 (5.56%) Lead Developer
10 3 (5.56%) SQL DBA
11 2 (3.70%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) .NET
2 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET
2 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (3.70%) MDX
2 2 (3.70%) PySpark
2 2 (3.70%) WCF
3 1 (1.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.70%) Clustering
3 2 (3.70%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.85%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.85%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.85%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (79.63%) Business Intelligence
2 35 (64.81%) ETL
3 26 (48.15%) DevOps
4 21 (38.89%) Data Modelling
5 19 (35.19%) Data Pipeline
6 18 (33.33%) Analytics
6 18 (33.33%) Data Engineering
7 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (20.37%) CI/CD
8 11 (20.37%) Decision-Making
9 10 (18.52%) Data Governance
9 10 (18.52%) Migration
10 9 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
11 8 (14.81%) Agile
11 8 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (12.96%) Data Analysis
12 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 6 (11.11%) Dimensional Modelling
13 6 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
14 5 (9.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 48 (88.89%) SQL
2 22 (40.74%) T-SQL
3 16 (29.63%) Python
4 11 (20.37%) C#
5 10 (18.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.70%) C++
7 1 (1.85%) PHP
7 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (1.85%) MCSE
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.26%) GDPR
3 2 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (46.30%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.67%) Databricks
3 8 (14.81%) Dataiku
4 4 (7.41%) Oracle
4 4 (7.41%) RedGate
5 2 (3.70%) Aderant
5 2 (3.70%) iManage
5 2 (3.70%) Intapp
5 2 (3.70%) Lotus
6 1 (1.85%) Cognos
6 1 (1.85%) Google
6 1 (1.85%) IBM