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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 600 634 489
Rank change year-on-year +34 -145 +80
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 71 123 254
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.18% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.03% 1.13% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 56 81 214
10th Percentile £42,000 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,750 £50,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £51,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.85% -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 6,914 10,884 11,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.99% 15.79% 21.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4,314 6,192 9,440
10th Percentile £32,825 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,780 £47,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,438 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 24 October 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 24 October 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 +59 69 £70,000 +14.29% 44
UK excluding London +40 36 £54,000 +4.85% 41
London +35 32 £85,000 +13.33% 12
Work from Home +73 30 £53,250 -14.80% 33
North of England +19 20 £50,000 -8.75% 8
Yorkshire +26 12 £44,000 - 3
South West +58 8 £70,000 - 1
North West +14 8 £57,500 +4.94% 5
West Midlands +29 4 £57,500 +6.98% 6
Midlands +25 4 £57,500 +6.98% 11
South East +25 2 £51,500 - 15
East of England +18 1 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Wales +11 1 £37,500 -12.28% 3

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 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.82%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) HCL Notes
2 2 (2.82%) IIS
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (14.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (2.82%) Markit EDM
2 2 (2.82%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.41%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (74.65%) Power Platform
2 46 (64.79%) Azure
3 20 (28.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 16 (22.54%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (14.08%) Snowflake
7 8 (11.27%) AWS
8 7 (9.86%) dbt
8 7 (9.86%) SaaS
9 6 (8.45%) Collibra
9 6 (8.45%) Fivetran
10 5 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (4.23%) Matillion
12 2 (2.82%) Entra ID
12 2 (2.82%) PowerApps
13 1 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (1.41%) GitHub
13 1 (1.41%) IaaS
13 1 (1.41%) OCI
13 1 (1.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (74.65%) Power BI
2 51 (71.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 48 (67.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 39 (54.93%) SQL Server
5 36 (50.70%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (15.49%) OLAP
7 7 (9.86%) Data Lake
7 7 (9.86%) Metadata
8 6 (8.45%) Data Hub
8 6 (8.45%) Data Mining
8 6 (8.45%) Relational Database
8 6 (8.45%) SQL CLR
9 4 (5.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (5.63%) RDBMS
9 4 (5.63%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 3 (4.23%) Tableau
11 2 (2.82%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (2.82%) Power Query
12 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (14.08%) JIRA
2 3 (4.23%) Git
2 3 (4.23%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.82%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.41%) Postman
4 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 28 (39.44%) Finance
2 19 (26.76%) Social Skills
3 13 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (16.90%) Law
5 8 (11.27%) Manufacturing
6 7 (9.86%) Legal
7 6 (8.45%) Back Office
8 3 (4.23%) Retail
9 2 (2.82%) Automotive
10 1 (1.41%) Banking
10 1 (1.41%) Billing
10 1 (1.41%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (46.48%) Developer
2 20 (28.17%) Data Engineer
2 20 (28.17%) Senior
3 14 (19.72%) SQL Developer
4 11 (15.49%) Lead
5 9 (12.68%) Senior Data Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 8 (11.27%) Senior Developer
7 6 (8.45%) Microsoft Developer
7 6 (8.45%) SaaS Developer
7 6 (8.45%) Senior Microsoft Developer
7 6 (8.45%) Senior SQL Developer
8 5 (7.04%) Analyst
8 5 (7.04%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 5 (7.04%) DBA
8 5 (7.04%) SQL DBA
9 4 (5.63%) Business Intelligence Lead
9 4 (5.63%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Report Developer
10 3 (4.23%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) .NET
2 3 (4.23%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.82%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (2.82%) PySpark
3 2 (2.82%) REST
3 2 (2.82%) WCF
4 1 (1.41%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.41%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.41%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (1.41%) CSS
4 1 (1.41%) Flask
4 1 (1.41%) HTML5
4 1 (1.41%) jQuery
4 1 (1.41%) Kafka
4 1 (1.41%) React
4 1 (1.41%) Spring
4 1 (1.41%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.41%) Swagger
4 1 (1.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Management Information System
1 6 (8.45%) Private Cloud
2 4 (5.63%) Clustering
2 4 (5.63%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.23%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.41%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.41%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.41%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.41%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.04%) Windows
2 2 (2.82%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (76.06%) Business Intelligence
2 40 (56.34%) ETL
3 27 (38.03%) DevOps
4 21 (29.58%) Analytics
4 21 (29.58%) Data Modelling
5 20 (28.17%) Data Engineering
6 17 (23.94%) Data Pipeline
6 17 (23.94%) Migration
7 13 (18.31%) High Availability
7 13 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (16.90%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (15.49%) Agile
10 9 (12.68%) CI/CD
10 9 (12.68%) Dimensional Modelling
11 8 (11.27%) Actionable Insight
11 8 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (11.27%) Data Governance
11 8 (11.27%) Decision-Making
12 7 (9.86%) Data Integration
12 7 (9.86%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 62 (87.32%) SQL
2 32 (45.07%) T-SQL
3 14 (19.72%) Python
4 11 (15.49%) C#
5 9 (12.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.82%) C++
6 2 (2.82%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.41%) Java
7 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (5.63%) Degree
2 2 (2.82%) MCSE
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) Data Quality
1 6 (8.45%) GDPR
2 2 (2.82%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (7.04%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (8.45%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 45 (63.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.86%) Databricks
3 6 (8.45%) Dataiku
3 6 (8.45%) VMware
4 5 (7.04%) Oracle
5 3 (4.23%) Aderant
5 3 (4.23%) IFS
5 3 (4.23%) RedGate
6 2 (2.82%) iManage
6 2 (2.82%) Intapp
6 2 (2.82%) Lotus
7 1 (1.41%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.41%) Cognos
7 1 (1.41%) Google
7 1 (1.41%) IBM
7 1 (1.41%) Informatica