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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 381 353
Rank change year-on-year -97 -28 -49
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 186 335 578
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.68% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.74% 3.70% 3.94%
Number of salaries quoted 130 188 507
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £90,500
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 6,786 9,058 14,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.09% 18.26% 19.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,160 5,090 11,535
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,773 £48,359 £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 £86,250 £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 15 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 15 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 -28 164 £50,000 -11.73% 58
UK excluding London -65 128 £45,000 +4.65% 60
Work from Home +7 88 £50,000 -20.00% 23
Midlands +27 45 £48,500 -3.00% 17
London -47 44 £80,000 +23.08% 10
West Midlands +38 36 £47,292 -14.01% 11
South East -16 32 £42,500 +13.33% 14
North of England +11 31 £47,085 +7.01% 15
North West +20 17 £47,500 +14.46% 11
Yorkshire -25 10 £45,542 +1.21% 4
East Midlands -10 9 £48,500 +2.11% 6
South West -25 7 £45,000 -14.29% 3
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 - 1
East of England 0 4 £52,500 +31.25% 8
Wales -1 4 £33,750 -10.00% 2
North East - 4 - -
Scotland -60 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 (7.53%) IIS
2 11 (5.91%) SharePoint
3 10 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (3.76%) Confluence
4 7 (3.76%) SAS
5 3 (1.61%) Apache
5 3 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 41 (22.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (4.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.15%) Dynamics GP
2 4 (2.15%) Markit EDM
3 3 (1.61%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.61%) Visualfiles
4 2 (1.08%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
5 1 (0.54%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 134 (72.04%) Power Platform
2 113 (60.75%) Azure
3 43 (23.12%) Azure Data Factory
4 40 (21.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 28 (15.05%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (10.75%) Snowflake
7 18 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (7.53%) PowerApps
9 13 (6.99%) SaaS
10 11 (5.91%) dbt
11 10 (5.38%) Entra ID
12 9 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (4.30%) Collibra
13 8 (4.30%) Fivetran
13 8 (4.30%) Power Automate
14 7 (3.76%) GCP
15 5 (2.69%) AWS
16 4 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
16 4 (2.15%) GitHub
17 3 (1.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.54%) DHCP
1 1 (0.54%) DNS
1 1 (0.54%) Firewall
1 1 (0.54%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (68.82%) Power BI
2 109 (58.60%) SQL Server
3 73 (39.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 38 (20.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 34 (18.28%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (14.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 19 (10.22%) Data Lake
8 13 (6.99%) MySQL
9 11 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (5.91%) Tableau
10 8 (4.30%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.69%) DB2
11 5 (2.69%) SAS EBI
11 5 (2.69%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (2.15%) Power Query
13 3 (1.61%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.61%) MongoDB
14 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
14 2 (1.08%) Data Mart
14 2 (1.08%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 9 (4.84%) JIRA
2 4 (2.15%) Git
2 4 (2.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (2.15%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.54%) GitLab
3 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 83 (44.62%) Social Skills
2 75 (40.32%) Finance
3 63 (33.87%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.45%) Billing
4 12 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (5.38%) Law
6 7 (3.76%) Legal
7 6 (3.23%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.15%) Banking
10 3 (1.61%) Back Office
10 3 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.61%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.08%) Advertising
11 2 (1.08%) Marketing
11 2 (1.08%) Military
11 2 (1.08%) Retail
11 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.54%) Automotive
12 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 44 (23.66%) Developer
2 42 (22.58%) Analyst
3 32 (17.20%) Data Engineer
4 29 (15.59%) Senior
5 14 (7.53%) Business Developer
5 14 (7.53%) Data Analyst
5 14 (7.53%) Insight Manager
6 13 (6.99%) IT Support
6 13 (6.99%) Senior Data Engineer
6 13 (6.99%) Support Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) Applications Support
7 12 (6.45%) Commercial Analyst
7 12 (6.45%) DBA
7 12 (6.45%) Insight Analyst
7 12 (6.45%) IT Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) IT Support Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) Snowflake Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (24.19%) .NET
2 16 (8.60%) .NET Framework
3 14 (7.53%) Entity Framework
4 13 (6.99%) ASP.NET
5 12 (6.45%) WinForms
6 11 (5.91%) JSON
7 9 (4.84%) XML
8 7 (3.76%) REST
9 5 (2.69%) Web Services
10 3 (1.61%) CSS
10 3 (1.61%) HTML
10 3 (1.61%) Middleware
10 3 (1.61%) React
10 3 (1.61%) Vue
11 2 (1.08%) .NET Core
11 2 (1.08%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.08%) jQuery
12 1 (0.54%) ASP.NET Web API
12 1 (0.54%) HTML5 Canvas
12 1 (0.54%) Kendo UI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.44%) Analytical Mindset
2 23 (12.37%) Data Structures
3 14 (7.53%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (6.99%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.30%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.69%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.61%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.08%) Clustering
11 1 (0.54%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.54%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.54%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.54%) NHS
11 1 (0.54%) Replication
11 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.83%) Windows
2 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.54%) Linux
3 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (73.66%) Business Intelligence
2 82 (44.09%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (36.56%) Analytics
4 57 (30.65%) ETL
5 51 (27.42%) Decision-Making
6 49 (26.34%) Data Modelling
7 39 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (20.43%) Data Analysis
8 38 (20.43%) Visualisation
9 33 (17.74%) Actionable Insight
9 33 (17.74%) DevOps
10 29 (15.59%) Data Engineering
11 28 (15.05%) Process Improvement
12 25 (13.44%) Visual Analytics
13 24 (12.90%) WFM
14 23 (12.37%) Data Pipeline
15 22 (11.83%) Mentoring
16 21 (11.29%) Agile
16 21 (11.29%) Data Management
17 20 (10.75%) AI
Programming Languages
1 154 (82.80%) SQL
2 51 (27.42%) T-SQL
3 41 (22.04%) Python
4 40 (21.51%) C#
5 34 (18.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (6.45%) PowerShell
7 9 (4.84%) VB.NET
8 7 (3.76%) JavaScript
9 5 (2.69%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.61%) VBA
11 2 (1.08%) R
12 1 (0.54%) C
12 1 (0.54%) PHP
12 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (17.20%) Degree
2 14 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 4 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.61%) MCSE
6 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.08%) HNC
6 2 (1.08%) HND
6 2 (1.08%) MCSA
6 2 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (1.08%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.54%) PMP
7 1 (0.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (26.34%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 9 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (4.30%) GDPR
5 3 (1.61%) QA
6 2 (1.08%) SLA
7 1 (0.54%) PMO
7 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (5.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.08%) Control-M
3 1 (0.54%) CASB
3 1 (0.54%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.54%) MOM
3 1 (0.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 70 (37.63%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.14%) Sage
3 12 (6.45%) Xamarin
4 10 (5.38%) Databricks
4 10 (5.38%) Dataiku
5 8 (4.30%) Google
6 5 (2.69%) Zoho
7 4 (2.15%) Epicor
7 4 (2.15%) Informatica
7 4 (2.15%) Oracle
8 3 (1.61%) Intapp
9 2 (1.08%) Cognos
9 2 (1.08%) Infor
9 2 (1.08%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.54%) Advent
10 1 (0.54%) Civica
10 1 (0.54%) Northgate
10 1 (0.54%) RedGate
10 1 (0.54%) VMware
10 1 (0.54%) Yardi