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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 395 351
Rank change year-on-year -90 -44 -54
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 183 335 586
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.66% 0.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.73% 3.66% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 128 188 513
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,640
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,438 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,730 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -6.56% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £43,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.65% -14.00% +5.26%

All Database & 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 6,710 9,151 14,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.27% 18.05% 19.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4,112 5,106 11,573
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,780 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,705 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server Reporting Services relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SQL Server Reporting Services job vacancy trend 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 8 February 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK

SQL Server Reporting Services
Top 17 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 8 February 2026. 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 -40 161 £52,500 -5.90% 60
UK excluding London -41 127 £45,000 +4.65% 56
Work from Home +17 84 £50,000 -20.00% 29
Midlands +32 46 £48,500 +2.11% 17
London -15 42 £80,000 +23.08% 11
West Midlands +36 37 £47,500 -13.64% 14
South East -17 32 £42,500 +13.33% 13
North of England +1 30 £47,085 +9.50% 15
North West +23 16 £52,500 +22.09% 8
Yorkshire -28 10 £45,542 +1.21% 6
East Midlands -15 9 £48,500 +2.11% 3
South West -16 6 £44,477 -15.28% 2
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 - 1
East of England +2 4 £52,500 +31.25% 7
Wales +2 4 £33,750 -10.00% 1
North East - 4 - - 1
Scotland -59 2 - - 1

SQL Server Reporting 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 14 (7.65%) IIS
2 11 (6.01%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (3.83%) Confluence
4 7 (3.83%) SAS
5 3 (1.64%) Apache
5 3 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 40 (21.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.19%) Dynamics GP
2 4 (2.19%) Elite 3E
2 4 (2.19%) Markit EDM
3 3 (1.64%) Visualfiles
4 2 (1.09%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.55%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 133 (72.68%) Power Platform
2 110 (60.11%) Azure
3 45 (24.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 40 (21.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 28 (15.30%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (10.93%) Snowflake
7 16 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (7.10%) PowerApps
9 11 (6.01%) dbt
9 11 (6.01%) SaaS
10 8 (4.37%) Collibra
10 8 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (4.37%) Entra ID
10 8 (4.37%) Fivetran
11 7 (3.83%) GCP
11 7 (3.83%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.19%) AWS
12 4 (2.19%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.19%) GitHub
13 3 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.55%) DHCP
1 1 (0.55%) DNS
1 1 (0.55%) Firewall
1 1 (0.55%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (69.95%) Power BI
2 107 (58.47%) SQL Server
3 72 (39.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 40 (21.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 36 (19.67%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (14.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 18 (9.84%) Data Lake
8 13 (7.10%) MySQL
9 11 (6.01%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (6.01%) Relational Database
10 10 (5.46%) Tableau
11 5 (2.73%) SAS EBI
11 5 (2.73%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (2.19%) Power Query
13 3 (1.64%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.64%) DB2
13 3 (1.64%) MongoDB
14 2 (1.09%) Data Mining
14 2 (1.09%) OLAP
14 2 (1.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (4.92%) JIRA
2 6 (3.28%) Git
3 4 (2.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (2.19%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.55%) GitLab
4 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 80 (43.72%) Social Skills
2 75 (40.98%) Finance
3 60 (32.79%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.56%) Billing
4 12 (6.56%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (5.46%) Law
6 7 (3.83%) Legal
7 5 (2.73%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.19%) Banking
8 4 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.64%) Back Office
9 3 (1.64%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.09%) Advertising
10 2 (1.09%) Military
10 2 (1.09%) Retail
10 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.55%) Automotive
11 1 (0.55%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 46 (25.14%) Developer
2 37 (20.22%) Analyst
3 33 (18.03%) Data Engineer
4 29 (15.85%) Senior
5 14 (7.65%) Business Developer
5 14 (7.65%) Insight Manager
5 14 (7.65%) Senior Data Engineer
6 13 (7.10%) DBA
6 13 (7.10%) IT Support
6 13 (7.10%) Support Engineer
7 12 (6.56%) Business Manager
7 12 (6.56%) Commercial Analyst
7 12 (6.56%) Data Analyst
7 12 (6.56%) Insight Analyst
7 12 (6.56%) IT Engineer
7 12 (6.56%) IT Support Engineer
7 12 (6.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 12 (6.56%) Snowflake Engineer
7 12 (6.56%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.56%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (22.95%) .NET
2 16 (8.74%) .NET Framework
3 14 (7.65%) Entity Framework
4 12 (6.56%) ASP.NET
4 12 (6.56%) WinForms
5 9 (4.92%) JSON
6 7 (3.83%) REST
6 7 (3.83%) XML
7 4 (2.19%) Web Services
8 3 (1.64%) CSS
8 3 (1.64%) HTML
8 3 (1.64%) Middleware
8 3 (1.64%) React
8 3 (1.64%) Vue
9 2 (1.09%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.09%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.09%) jQuery
10 1 (0.55%) HTML5
10 1 (0.55%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.55%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.66%) Analytical Mindset
2 21 (11.48%) Data Structures
3 14 (7.65%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (7.65%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.73%) Low-Code
5 5 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.19%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.64%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.09%) Clustering
9 1 (0.55%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.55%) NHS
9 1 (0.55%) Replication
9 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.93%) Windows
2 2 (1.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.55%) Linux
3 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (75.41%) Business Intelligence
2 82 (44.81%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (36.61%) Analytics
4 60 (32.79%) ETL
5 51 (27.87%) Decision-Making
6 47 (25.68%) Data Modelling
7 39 (21.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (20.77%) Data Analysis
9 37 (20.22%) Visualisation
10 33 (18.03%) Actionable Insight
11 32 (17.49%) DevOps
12 29 (15.85%) Data Engineering
13 27 (14.75%) Process Improvement
14 25 (13.66%) Visual Analytics
15 24 (13.11%) WFM
16 23 (12.57%) Data Pipeline
17 22 (12.02%) Mentoring
18 21 (11.48%) AI
18 21 (11.48%) Data Management
19 20 (10.93%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 151 (82.51%) SQL
2 52 (28.42%) T-SQL
3 40 (21.86%) Python
4 37 (20.22%) C#
5 33 (18.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (6.56%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.83%) VB.NET
8 6 (3.28%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.64%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.64%) VBA
10 1 (0.55%) C
10 1 (0.55%) PHP
10 1 (0.55%) R
10 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (16.94%) Degree
2 14 (7.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.56%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 3 (1.64%) MCSE
4 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.09%) HNC
5 2 (1.09%) HND
5 2 (1.09%) MCSA
5 2 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (1.09%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.55%) PMP
6 1 (0.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (25.14%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.56%) Actionable Recommendations
3 8 (4.37%) GDPR
4 7 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.64%) QA
6 1 (0.55%) PMO
6 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (4.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.09%) Control-M
3 1 (0.55%) CASB
3 1 (0.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.55%) MOM
3 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 67 (36.61%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.29%) Sage
3 12 (6.56%) Xamarin
4 10 (5.46%) Databricks
4 10 (5.46%) Dataiku
5 8 (4.37%) Google
6 5 (2.73%) Zoho
7 4 (2.19%) Informatica
7 4 (2.19%) Intapp
7 4 (2.19%) Oracle
8 3 (1.64%) Epicor
9 2 (1.09%) Infor
10 1 (0.55%) Advent
10 1 (0.55%) Civica
10 1 (0.55%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.55%) Northgate
10 1 (0.55%) Orchard
10 1 (0.55%) RedGate
10 1 (0.55%) VMware
10 1 (0.55%) Yardi