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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 411 283
Rank change year-on-year -54 -128 +65
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 192 386 634
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.54% 1.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.76% 3.45% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 155 212 549
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,733
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,700 £83,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -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 6,964 11,185 12,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.16% 15.76% 21.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,332 6,384 9,556
10th Percentile £33,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £95,063
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%

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 October 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 October 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 -28 167 £60,000 - 124
UK excluding London -22 118 £47,500 - 115
Work from Home +31 86 £57,500 +5.50% 81
London -3 59 £80,000 +10.34% 25
South East +10 36 £42,500 +6.25% 37
Midlands +29 30 £52,500 -4.55% 25
North of England -11 22 £44,000 -7.37% 28
West Midlands +32 21 £66,250 +10.42% 15
South West +31 12 £72,500 +20.83% 9
East Midlands +20 9 £35,500 -29.00% 10
North West -22 9 £57,500 +24.32% 17
Yorkshire +13 8 £46,500 -22.50% 8
Scotland -48 8 £49,250 +10.67% 1
North East +15 5 £35,000 - 3
East of England -9 4 £60,000 +18.23% 9
Wales +16 2 £42,500 -0.59% 7
Channel Islands +10 2 £87,500 +29.63%
Northern Ireland - 2 £80,000 -

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 16 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 15 (7.81%) IIS
3 14 (7.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.08%) SAS
5 2 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.04%) Confluence
5 2 (1.04%) HCL Notes
5 2 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.52%) Apache
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 18 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (7.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (4.69%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 7 (3.65%) Elite 3E
3 7 (3.65%) Infor CloudSuite
4 5 (2.60%) Exchequer
5 4 (2.08%) Sage 1000
6 3 (1.56%) Dynamics GP
6 3 (1.56%) Markit EDM
6 3 (1.56%) Visualfiles
7 2 (1.04%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 130 (67.71%) Power Platform
2 91 (47.40%) Azure
3 30 (15.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 22 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (9.90%) SaaS
6 17 (8.85%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (8.33%) PowerApps
8 14 (7.29%) Power Automate
9 13 (6.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (4.69%) Snowflake
11 8 (4.17%) AWS
12 6 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (3.13%) dbt
13 5 (2.60%) GCP
14 4 (2.08%) Azure Functions
14 4 (2.08%) Collibra
14 4 (2.08%) Fivetran
14 4 (2.08%) Serverless
15 3 (1.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.60%) Internet
1 5 (2.60%) LAN
1 5 (2.60%) SAN
1 5 (2.60%) SSL
1 5 (2.60%) TCP/IP
1 5 (2.60%) VoIP
1 5 (2.60%) WAN
2 1 (0.52%) DHCP
2 1 (0.52%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (65.10%) Power BI
2 109 (56.77%) SQL Server
3 106 (55.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 50 (26.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 41 (21.35%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (8.33%) Crystal Reports
7 14 (7.29%) Metadata
8 13 (6.77%) Data Hub
8 13 (6.77%) Data Lake
8 13 (6.77%) SQL CLR
9 11 (5.73%) Relational Database
10 10 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (3.65%) Tableau
12 5 (2.60%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (2.60%) EDRMS
12 5 (2.60%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (2.60%) GIS
13 4 (2.08%) MySQL
13 4 (2.08%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 10 (5.21%) JIRA
2 6 (3.13%) Git
3 5 (2.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (2.08%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.52%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.52%) GitLab
7 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.52%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.52%) Postman
7 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 79 (41.15%) Finance
2 76 (39.58%) Social Skills
3 35 (18.23%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.90%) Law
5 16 (8.33%) Legal
6 15 (7.81%) Back Office
7 10 (5.21%) Manufacturing
8 8 (4.17%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.13%) Retail
10 5 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (2.08%) Social Housing
11 4 (2.08%) Swedish Language
12 3 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.56%) Marketing
13 2 (1.04%) Banking
13 2 (1.04%) Military
13 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.52%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 78 (40.63%) Developer
2 43 (22.40%) Senior
3 33 (17.19%) Analyst
4 28 (14.58%) Senior Developer
5 24 (12.50%) SQL Developer
6 20 (10.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 20 (10.42%) Data Engineer
7 16 (8.33%) Applications Support
8 15 (7.81%) Senior SQL Developer
8 15 (7.81%) Support Engineer
9 14 (7.29%) Microsoft Developer
9 14 (7.29%) Support Analyst
10 13 (6.77%) IT Support
10 13 (6.77%) Lead
10 13 (6.77%) SaaS Developer
10 13 (6.77%) Senior Microsoft Developer
11 10 (5.21%) Software Developer
12 9 (4.69%) Applications Support Analyst
12 9 (4.69%) Data Manager
12 9 (4.69%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (29.17%) .NET
2 19 (9.90%) Web Services
3 18 (9.38%) ASP.NET
4 16 (8.33%) .NET Framework
5 14 (7.29%) Entity Framework
6 13 (6.77%) CSS
6 13 (6.77%) HTML
7 9 (4.69%) REST
8 8 (4.17%) WinForms
9 7 (3.65%) React
10 6 (3.13%) .NET Core
10 6 (3.13%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.13%) jQuery
11 5 (2.60%) WCF
12 4 (2.08%) XML
13 3 (1.56%) HTML5
13 3 (1.56%) Node.js
13 3 (1.56%) SOAP
13 3 (1.56%) Spring
13 3 (1.56%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.77%) Private Cloud
2 12 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.21%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (4.17%) Clustering
5 8 (4.17%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.08%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.56%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.04%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.52%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.52%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.52%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.52%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.52%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.52%) NHS
9 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (13.54%) Windows
2 12 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 74 (38.54%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (35.42%) ETL
4 35 (18.23%) CRM
5 34 (17.71%) Analytics
6 31 (16.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (14.58%) Agile
8 26 (13.54%) Decision-Making
8 26 (13.54%) Performance Tuning
9 25 (13.02%) Data Modelling
9 25 (13.02%) DevOps
9 25 (13.02%) Mentoring
10 24 (12.50%) ERP
11 23 (11.98%) Migration
11 23 (11.98%) Visualisation
12 22 (11.46%) Data Analysis
13 21 (10.94%) Data Management
14 20 (10.42%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (10.42%) Workflow
15 19 (9.90%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 166 (86.46%) SQL
2 69 (35.94%) T-SQL
3 49 (25.52%) C#
4 32 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 27 (14.06%) Python
6 14 (7.29%) VB.NET
7 13 (6.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (6.77%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.60%) VBA
9 4 (2.08%) Bash
10 3 (1.56%) Java
11 2 (1.04%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (14.06%) Degree
2 16 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (6.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.56%) MCSE
6 2 (1.04%) HNC
6 2 (1.04%) HND
6 2 (1.04%) MCSA
6 2 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.52%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.52%) PMP
7 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.85%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.81%) GDPR
3 4 (2.08%) QA
4 3 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.52%) PMO
5 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (6.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (5.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.04%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.77%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (1.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.52%) Control-M
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 107 (55.73%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.81%) Sage
3 13 (6.77%) VMware
4 12 (6.25%) Databricks
5 9 (4.69%) Infor
5 9 (4.69%) Salesforce
6 8 (4.17%) Intapp
6 8 (4.17%) Xamarin
7 7 (3.65%) Oracle
8 6 (3.13%) Dataiku
9 5 (2.60%) Capita
9 5 (2.60%) Civica
9 5 (2.60%) eFront
9 5 (2.60%) NEC
10 4 (2.08%) Aderant
10 4 (2.08%) Google
10 4 (2.08%) Informatica
10 4 (2.08%) Zoho
11 3 (1.56%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.04%) RedGate