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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 374 351
Rank change year-on-year -111 -23 -42
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 190 336 579
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.68% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.77% 3.73% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 133 189 508
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,790 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% -2.97% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £90,375
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 6,868 9,010 14,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.12% 18.32% 19.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,181 5,078 11,458
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,500 £48,703 £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 £87,348 £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 18 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 18 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 -54 168 £50,000 -13.04% 63
UK excluding London -62 130 £45,000 +4.65% 63
Work from Home +13 90 £50,000 -20.00% 23
London -39 46 £77,500 +19.23% 10
Midlands +30 44 £48,500 -3.00% 17
West Midlands +34 35 £47,085 -14.39% 10
North of England -2 34 £47,085 +7.01% 16
South East -13 32 £42,500 +13.33% 16
North West +20 20 £47,500 +14.46% 12
Yorkshire -27 10 £45,542 +1.21% 4
East Midlands -15 9 £48,500 +2.11% 7
South West -19 7 £45,000 -14.29% 4
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 - 1
East of England -3 4 £52,500 +31.25% 8
Wales -3 4 £33,750 -10.00% 2
North East - 4 - -
Scotland -54 2 - -

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 (7.37%) IIS
2 11 (5.79%) SharePoint
3 10 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (3.68%) Confluence
4 7 (3.68%) SAS
5 4 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.58%) Apache
Applications
1 42 (22.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (4.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.63%) Markit EDM
3 4 (2.11%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (1.58%) Elite 3E
4 3 (1.58%) Visualfiles
5 2 (1.05%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
6 1 (0.53%) Advent Geneva
6 1 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.53%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 137 (72.11%) Power Platform
2 116 (61.05%) Azure
3 43 (22.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 40 (21.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 28 (14.74%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (11.05%) Snowflake
7 18 (9.47%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (7.89%) PowerApps
9 13 (6.84%) SaaS
10 12 (6.32%) dbt
11 10 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (5.26%) Entra ID
12 9 (4.74%) Power Automate
13 8 (4.21%) Collibra
13 8 (4.21%) Fivetran
14 7 (3.68%) GCP
15 6 (3.16%) AWS
16 5 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
16 5 (2.63%) GitHub
17 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) DHCP
1 1 (0.53%) DNS
1 1 (0.53%) Firewall
1 1 (0.53%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (68.42%) Power BI
2 111 (58.42%) SQL Server
3 74 (38.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 38 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 35 (18.42%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (14.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 19 (10.00%) Data Lake
8 14 (7.37%) MySQL
9 12 (6.32%) Tableau
10 11 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (4.21%) Relational Database
12 6 (3.16%) DB2
13 5 (2.63%) SAS EBI
13 5 (2.63%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (2.11%) Power Query
15 3 (1.58%) Crystal Reports
15 3 (1.58%) MongoDB
16 2 (1.05%) BigQuery
16 2 (1.05%) Data Mining
16 2 (1.05%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 9 (4.74%) JIRA
2 4 (2.11%) Git
2 4 (2.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (2.11%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.53%) GitLab
3 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 83 (43.68%) Social Skills
2 77 (40.53%) Finance
3 63 (33.16%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.32%) Billing
4 12 (6.32%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (5.79%) Law
6 8 (4.21%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.68%) Legal
8 6 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.63%) Banking
10 4 (2.11%) Retail
11 3 (1.58%) Back Office
11 3 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.58%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.05%) Advertising
12 2 (1.05%) Marketing
12 2 (1.05%) Military
12 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.53%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.53%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 45 (23.68%) Analyst
2 44 (23.16%) Developer
3 31 (16.32%) Data Engineer
4 28 (14.74%) Senior
5 14 (7.37%) Business Developer
5 14 (7.37%) Data Analyst
5 14 (7.37%) Insight Manager
6 13 (6.84%) Applications Support
6 13 (6.84%) IT Support
6 13 (6.84%) Support Engineer
7 12 (6.32%) Commercial Analyst
7 12 (6.32%) DBA
7 12 (6.32%) Insight Analyst
7 12 (6.32%) IT Engineer
7 12 (6.32%) IT Support Engineer
7 12 (6.32%) Senior Data Engineer
7 12 (6.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 12 (6.32%) Snowflake Engineer
7 12 (6.32%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.32%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (24.21%) .NET
2 16 (8.42%) .NET Framework
3 14 (7.37%) Entity Framework
4 13 (6.84%) ASP.NET
5 12 (6.32%) WinForms
6 11 (5.79%) JSON
7 9 (4.74%) XML
8 7 (3.68%) REST
9 6 (3.16%) Web Services
10 4 (2.11%) Middleware
11 3 (1.58%) CSS
11 3 (1.58%) HTML
11 3 (1.58%) React
11 3 (1.58%) Vue
12 2 (1.05%) .NET Core
12 2 (1.05%) AngularJS
12 2 (1.05%) EDI
12 2 (1.05%) jQuery
13 1 (0.53%) HTML5
13 1 (0.53%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.16%) Analytical Mindset
2 23 (12.11%) Data Structures
3 14 (7.37%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (6.32%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.21%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (4.21%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.16%) Low-Code
6 6 (3.16%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.58%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.05%) Clustering
9 2 (1.05%) Replication
10 1 (0.53%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.53%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.53%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.53%) NHS
10 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.63%) Windows
2 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.53%) Linux
3 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (73.16%) Business Intelligence
2 84 (44.21%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (36.32%) Analytics
4 58 (30.53%) ETL
5 51 (26.84%) Decision-Making
6 49 (25.79%) Data Modelling
7 41 (21.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (20.00%) Data Analysis
8 38 (20.00%) Visualisation
9 33 (17.37%) Actionable Insight
9 33 (17.37%) DevOps
10 30 (15.79%) Data Engineering
11 29 (15.26%) Process Improvement
12 25 (13.16%) Visual Analytics
13 24 (12.63%) Data Pipeline
13 24 (12.63%) WFM
14 22 (11.58%) Mentoring
15 21 (11.05%) Agile
15 21 (11.05%) Data Governance
15 21 (11.05%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 156 (82.11%) SQL
2 51 (26.84%) T-SQL
3 42 (22.11%) C#
3 42 (22.11%) Python
4 34 (17.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (6.84%) PowerShell
6 10 (5.26%) VB.NET
7 8 (4.21%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.16%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.58%) VBA
10 2 (1.05%) R
11 1 (0.53%) C
11 1 (0.53%) PHP
11 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (16.84%) Degree
2 14 (7.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.32%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.58%) MCSE
6 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.05%) HNC
6 2 (1.05%) HND
6 2 (1.05%) MCSA
6 2 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (1.05%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.53%) PMP
7 1 (0.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.32%) Actionable Recommendations
3 9 (4.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (4.21%) GDPR
5 4 (2.11%) SLA
6 3 (1.58%) QA
7 1 (0.53%) PMO
7 1 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (5.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (1.58%) Control-M
3 1 (0.53%) CASB
3 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.53%) MOM
3 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 72 (37.89%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.95%) Sage
3 12 (6.32%) Xamarin
4 11 (5.79%) Databricks
5 10 (5.26%) Dataiku
6 8 (4.21%) Google
7 5 (2.63%) Epicor
7 5 (2.63%) Informatica
7 5 (2.63%) Zoho
8 4 (2.11%) Oracle
9 3 (1.58%) Intapp
10 2 (1.05%) Cognos
10 2 (1.05%) Infor
10 2 (1.05%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (1.05%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.53%) Advent
11 1 (0.53%) Northgate
11 1 (0.53%) RedGate
11 1 (0.53%) VMware
11 1 (0.53%) Yardi