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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 597 636 492
Rank change year-on-year +39 -144 +28
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Analysis Services 57 106 224
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.17% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.85% 1.00% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 48 68 189
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £44,950
25th Percentile £46,125 £50,563 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £83,125 £82,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

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 6,702 10,650 10,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.88% 17.14% 21.51%
Number of salaries quoted 4,305 6,180 8,556
10th Percentile £34,750 £37,500 £36,875
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% +5.42% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £113,979 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 8 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server Analysis Services in the UK

SQL Server Analysis Services
Top 14 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 8 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 +65 55 £59,000 -1.67% 23
UK excluding London +77 31 £50,000 - 20
London +36 24 £85,000 +13.33% 11
Work from Home +75 23 £50,000 -20.00% 19
North of England +44 19 £50,000 - 3
Yorkshire +6 12 £44,000 - 1
North West +45 7 £57,500 +15.00% 2
Midlands +27 4 £57,500 +24.32% 3
West Midlands +27 4 £57,500 +35.29% 1
East of England +26 3 £40,000 -20.00% 3
South West +22 2 £59,500 -
South East +42 1 £51,500 - 6
Wales +2 1 £37,500 -12.28% 5
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 (5.26%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) HCL Notes
2 2 (3.51%) IIS
2 2 (3.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (19.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Markit EDM
1 2 (3.51%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.75%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 42 (73.68%) Power Platform
2 35 (61.40%) Azure
3 22 (38.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (29.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 13 (22.81%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (15.79%) dbt
6 9 (15.79%) Snowflake
7 8 (14.04%) Collibra
7 8 (14.04%) Fivetran
8 5 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (3.51%) PowerApps
9 2 (3.51%) SaaS
10 1 (1.75%) AWS
10 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.75%) GCP
10 1 (1.75%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.75%) OCI
10 1 (1.75%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (75.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 42 (73.68%) Power BI
3 36 (63.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 30 (52.63%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (50.88%) SQL Server
6 9 (15.79%) Data Lake
6 9 (15.79%) OLAP
7 6 (10.53%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (7.02%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 3 (5.26%) RDBMS
9 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
10 2 (3.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (3.51%) Metadata
11 1 (1.75%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.75%) Cognos Connection
11 1 (1.75%) Cognos Event Studio
11 1 (1.75%) Cognos Framework Manager
11 1 (1.75%) Data Hub
11 1 (1.75%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (17.54%) JIRA
2 4 (7.02%) Git
3 2 (3.51%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 17 (29.82%) Finance
2 16 (28.07%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Law
4 6 (10.53%) Legal
5 4 (7.02%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.75%) Automotive
6 1 (1.75%) Back Office
6 1 (1.75%) Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Billing
6 1 (1.75%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (40.35%) Developer
2 22 (38.60%) Data Engineer
3 15 (26.32%) Senior
4 10 (17.54%) Senior Data Engineer
5 9 (15.79%) SQL Developer
6 8 (14.04%) Analyst
6 8 (14.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 6 (10.53%) SQL Analyst
8 5 (8.77%) Lead
9 4 (7.02%) Analyst Developer
9 4 (7.02%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 4 (7.02%) DBA
9 4 (7.02%) Report Developer
9 4 (7.02%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) Snowflake Engineer
9 4 (7.02%) SQL DBA
10 3 (5.26%) Administrator
10 3 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Lead
10 3 (5.26%) Lead Developer
10 3 (5.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) .NET
2 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET
2 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (3.51%) MDX
2 2 (3.51%) PySpark
2 2 (3.51%) WCF
3 1 (1.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (5.26%) Clustering
2 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.51%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.75%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.75%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (77.19%) Business Intelligence
2 35 (61.40%) ETL
3 27 (47.37%) DevOps
4 20 (35.09%) Data Modelling
5 19 (33.33%) Analytics
6 18 (31.58%) Data Engineering
6 18 (31.58%) Data Pipeline
7 12 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (19.30%) CI/CD
8 11 (19.30%) Decision-Making
8 11 (19.30%) Migration
9 10 (17.54%) Data Governance
10 8 (14.04%) Actionable Insight
10 8 (14.04%) Agile
10 8 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (12.28%) Data Analysis
11 7 (12.28%) Dimensional Modelling
11 7 (12.28%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (12.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 5 (8.77%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 51 (89.47%) SQL
2 24 (42.11%) T-SQL
3 15 (26.32%) Python
4 12 (21.05%) C#
5 10 (17.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.51%) C++
7 1 (1.75%) PHP
7 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (3.51%) Degree
2 1 (1.75%) MCSE
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.77%) GDPR
3 2 (3.51%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.02%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.75%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (49.12%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.79%) Databricks
3 8 (14.04%) Dataiku
4 4 (7.02%) Oracle
4 4 (7.02%) RedGate
5 3 (5.26%) Aderant
6 2 (3.51%) iManage
6 2 (3.51%) Intapp
6 2 (3.51%) Lotus
7 1 (1.75%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.75%) Cognos
7 1 (1.75%) Google
7 1 (1.75%) IBM
7 1 (1.75%) VMware