SQL Server Reporting Services Job Trends

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SQL Server Reporting Services skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 433 282
Rank change year-on-year -25 -151 +84
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 220 393 713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.51% 1.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.08% 3.30% 5.45%
Number of salaries quoted 178 247 613
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £35,733
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,188 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £83,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% +5.26%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

SQL Server Reporting 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 7,151 11,908 13,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.56% 15.35% 21.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,471 7,165 10,436
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,759 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +0.41% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% +4.21%

SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK

SQL Server Reporting Services
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SQL Server Reporting Services.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SQL Server Reporting Services

SQL Server Reporting Services
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK

SQL Server Reporting Services
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 -14 195 £60,000 - 85
UK excluding London +16 145 £48,000 +1.05% 86
Work from Home +65 101 £65,000 +15.56% 53
London -6 58 £79,000 +12.86% 16
Midlands +58 48 £48,500 -3.00% 15
West Midlands +54 34 £55,000 -8.33% 8
South East +26 34 £45,000 -11.33% 16
North of England -13 27 £42,000 -6.67% 23
South West +68 17 £50,000 -16.67% 12
East Midlands +34 14 £48,500 -3.00% 7
North West -22 12 £56,250 +25.00% 16
Yorkshire +13 10 £44,250 -22.03% 7
Scotland +31 8 £49,250 +16.57% 5
East of England -12 6 £60,000 +18.23% 9
North East +15 5 £35,000 -
Channel Islands +4 2 £87,500 +29.63%
Northern Ireland - 2 £80,000 -
Wales +14 1 £55,000 +28.65% 6

SQL Server Reporting 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 24 (10.91%) SharePoint
2 13 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.18%) IIS
4 5 (2.27%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.36%) Apache
6 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.91%) IBM Notes
6 2 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (8.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 24 (10.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (4.09%) Infor CloudSuite
2 9 (4.09%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 7 (3.18%) Elite 3E
4 5 (2.27%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (2.27%) Exchequer
5 4 (1.82%) Sage 1000
5 4 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (1.36%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (1.36%) Visualfiles
7 2 (0.91%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 150 (68.18%) Power Platform
2 106 (48.18%) Azure
3 33 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 30 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
4 30 (13.64%) PowerApps
5 28 (12.73%) Power Automate
6 18 (8.18%) SaaS
7 16 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (6.36%) AWS
9 11 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (4.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (4.09%) IaaS
11 9 (4.09%) PaaS
12 6 (2.73%) Azure Functions
12 6 (2.73%) Serverless
13 4 (1.82%) Boomi
13 4 (1.82%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 4 (1.82%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 4 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.27%) Internet
1 5 (2.27%) LAN
1 5 (2.27%) SAN
1 5 (2.27%) SSL
1 5 (2.27%) TCP/IP
1 5 (2.27%) VoIP
1 5 (2.27%) WAN
2 3 (1.36%) DHCP
2 3 (1.36%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (63.64%) Power BI
2 134 (60.91%) SQL Server
2 134 (60.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 52 (23.64%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (23.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 19 (8.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 17 (7.73%) Data Lake
7 15 (6.82%) Crystal Reports
8 14 (6.36%) Metadata
9 13 (5.91%) Data Hub
9 13 (5.91%) Relational Database
9 13 (5.91%) SQL CLR
10 10 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (4.09%) Star Schema
12 8 (3.64%) BusinessObjects
12 8 (3.64%) Tableau
13 7 (3.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 5 (2.27%) EDRMS
14 5 (2.27%) Geospatial Data
14 5 (2.27%) GIS
Development Applications
1 19 (8.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 9 (4.09%) Git
2 9 (4.09%) JIRA
3 8 (3.64%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.91%) GitLab
5 2 (0.91%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.45%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.45%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.45%) Postman
6 1 (0.45%) Selenium
6 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 89 (40.45%) Finance
2 81 (36.82%) Social Skills
3 47 (21.36%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.45%) Law
5 16 (7.27%) Legal
6 13 (5.91%) Back Office
6 13 (5.91%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 10 (4.55%) Retail
8 8 (3.64%) Marketing
8 8 (3.64%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.82%) Social Housing
9 4 (1.82%) Swedish Language
10 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.91%) Advertising
11 2 (0.91%) Military
11 2 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.45%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 95 (43.18%) Developer
2 49 (22.27%) Analyst
2 49 (22.27%) Senior
3 32 (14.55%) Senior Developer
4 30 (13.64%) SQL Developer
5 26 (11.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 20 (9.09%) Support Analyst
7 18 (8.18%) Applications Support
8 17 (7.73%) Data Engineer
9 16 (7.27%) DBA
9 16 (7.27%) Microsoft Developer
9 16 (7.27%) SQL DBA
10 15 (6.82%) Senior SQL Developer
11 14 (6.36%) Lead
12 13 (5.91%) Power BI Developer
12 13 (5.91%) SaaS Developer
12 13 (5.91%) Senior Microsoft Developer
13 12 (5.45%) Applications Support Analyst
13 12 (5.45%) Software Developer
14 9 (4.09%) Business Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (25.00%) .NET
2 32 (14.55%) Web Services
3 18 (8.18%) CSS
3 18 (8.18%) HTML
4 17 (7.73%) .NET Framework
5 15 (6.82%) ASP.NET
6 13 (5.91%) REST
7 12 (5.45%) XML
8 10 (4.55%) Entity Framework
8 10 (4.55%) SOAP
9 8 (3.64%) ASP.NET Web API
9 8 (3.64%) JSON
10 7 (3.18%) .NET Core
10 7 (3.18%) React
10 7 (3.18%) WCF
11 6 (2.73%) AngularJS
11 6 (2.73%) jQuery
12 4 (1.82%) EDI
13 3 (1.36%) Pandas
13 3 (1.36%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.82%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.91%) Private Cloud
3 12 (5.45%) Data Structures
4 11 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (3.64%) Clustering
7 5 (2.27%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.82%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.91%) Data Fabric
9 2 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.91%) NHS
9 2 (0.91%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.91%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.45%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.45%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.73%) Windows
2 11 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (67.73%) Business Intelligence
2 87 (39.55%) Problem-Solving
3 75 (34.09%) ETL
4 54 (24.55%) Analytics
5 51 (23.18%) CRM
6 34 (15.45%) Decision-Making
7 33 (15.00%) Visualisation
8 30 (13.64%) ERP
9 29 (13.18%) Agile
9 29 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (13.18%) Performance Tuning
10 27 (12.27%) Migration
11 26 (11.82%) Data Pipeline
11 26 (11.82%) Data Visualisation
12 25 (11.36%) Data Analysis
13 24 (10.91%) Data Modelling
14 22 (10.00%) Data Integration
14 22 (10.00%) Workflow
15 21 (9.55%) Mentoring
16 19 (8.64%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 186 (84.55%) SQL
2 71 (32.27%) T-SQL
3 50 (22.73%) C#
4 40 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 25 (11.36%) Python
6 19 (8.64%) PowerShell
7 15 (6.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (5.45%) VB.NET
9 6 (2.73%) Bash
10 4 (1.82%) Java
10 4 (1.82%) VBA
11 2 (0.91%) C++
11 2 (0.91%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (12.27%) Degree
2 15 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.64%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (0.91%) MCSE
6 2 (0.91%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.45%) HNC
7 1 (0.45%) HND
7 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.45%) MCSA
7 1 (0.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.91%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.36%) GDPR
3 7 (3.18%) QA
4 5 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (5.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.91%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (5.91%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.36%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 128 (58.18%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.91%) VMware
3 10 (4.55%) Databricks
4 9 (4.09%) Infor
4 9 (4.09%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.64%) Intapp
6 7 (3.18%) Sage
6 7 (3.18%) SAP
7 6 (2.73%) Oracle
7 6 (2.73%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.27%) Capita
8 5 (2.27%) Civica
8 5 (2.27%) eFront
8 5 (2.27%) NEC
9 4 (1.82%) Aderant
9 4 (1.82%) Dell
10 3 (1.36%) Informatica
11 2 (0.91%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.91%) Lotus
11 2 (0.91%) RedGate