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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 479 419
Rank change year-on-year -123 -60 -145
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 209 194 386
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.40% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.40% 2.80% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 175 157 212
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,875 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £71,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,250 £87,700 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,356 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +8.12% - -5.00%

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 8,697 6,928 11,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.35% 14.12% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,909 4,312 6,359
10th Percentile £36,750 £33,025 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +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 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server Reporting Services in the UK

SQL Server Reporting Services
Top 16 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 13 October 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 -117 189 £55,000 -8.33% 91
UK excluding London -139 129 £51,356 +8.12% 52
Work from Home -66 70 £52,500 -8.70% 37
London -43 69 £73,750 -7.81% 44
Midlands -39 45 £51,356 +1.70% 10
North of England -43 42 £45,000 +2.27% 21
West Midlands -33 30 £55,000 -15.38% 4
North West -14 28 £55,000 -4.35% 8
South East -62 17 £48,000 +12.94% 7
East Midlands -26 15 £43,750 +23.24% 6
Yorkshire -30 11 £42,500 -8.60% 12
South West -76 11 £49,438 -20.90% 1
Scotland +5 9 £62,500 +26.90% 7
East of England -36 4 £57,500 -4.17% 6
North East -71 3 - - 2
Wales -73 1 £33,789 -20.50%

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 18 (8.61%) SharePoint
2 13 (6.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.83%) IIS
4 5 (2.39%) MS Project Server
5 4 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.48%) Apache
6 1 (0.48%) SAS
6 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (10.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.70%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (3.35%) Elite 3E
2 6 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.91%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (1.44%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.48%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 145 (69.38%) Power Platform
2 101 (48.33%) Azure
3 25 (11.96%) AWS
4 24 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (11.48%) Power Automate
5 20 (9.57%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (8.61%) PowerApps
7 15 (7.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (7.18%) Azure Logic Apps
8 13 (6.22%) Snowflake
9 10 (4.78%) GitHub
9 10 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (3.35%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (2.87%) Azure Stack
12 5 (2.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (2.39%) Boomi
12 5 (2.39%) SaaS
12 5 (2.39%) Serverless
13 4 (1.91%) Azure Functions
14 3 (1.44%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.96%) Firewall
2 1 (0.48%) DHCP
2 1 (0.48%) DNS
2 1 (0.48%) HTTP
2 1 (0.48%) SAN
2 1 (0.48%) VLAN
2 1 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (66.51%) Power BI
2 77 (36.84%) SQL Server
3 57 (27.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 55 (26.32%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (14.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 22 (10.53%) Relational Database
7 17 (8.13%) Power Query
8 15 (7.18%) Tableau
9 13 (6.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (4.31%) QlikView
11 7 (3.35%) Crystal Reports
11 7 (3.35%) Data Lake
11 7 (3.35%) OLAP
12 6 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (1.91%) GIS
13 4 (1.91%) Oracle Reports
14 3 (1.44%) Data Vault
14 3 (1.44%) MySQL
14 3 (1.44%) OLTP
14 3 (1.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (7.18%) Git
2 12 (5.74%) Visual Studio
3 9 (4.31%) JIRA
4 3 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.96%) Postman
6 1 (0.48%) GitLab
6 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.48%) JetBrains Rider
6 1 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
1 66 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 55 (26.32%) Finance
3 39 (18.66%) Law
4 36 (17.22%) Legal
5 20 (9.57%) Public Sector
6 17 (8.13%) Retail
7 13 (6.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.78%) Fire and Rescue
8 10 (4.78%) Social Housing
9 9 (4.31%) Manufacturing
10 8 (3.83%) Marketing
11 6 (2.87%) Front Office
12 5 (2.39%) Military
13 4 (1.91%) Billing
14 3 (1.44%) Back Office
14 3 (1.44%) Games
14 3 (1.44%) Publishing
15 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
15 2 (0.96%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 72 (34.45%) Developer
2 59 (28.23%) Analyst
3 41 (19.62%) Senior
4 19 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 19 (9.09%) SQL Developer
5 18 (8.61%) Consultant
6 16 (7.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 15 (7.18%) Senior Developer
8 14 (6.70%) Data Analyst
8 14 (6.70%) Finance Systems Analyst
8 14 (6.70%) Financial Analyst
8 14 (6.70%) Systems Analyst
9 11 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 11 (5.26%) Report Analyst
10 10 (4.78%) Business Intelligence Lead
10 10 (4.78%) Lead
10 10 (4.78%) Team Leader
11 9 (4.31%) .NET Developer
11 9 (4.31%) Applications Developer
11 9 (4.31%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.88%) .NET
2 26 (12.44%) HTML
3 19 (9.09%) CSS
4 18 (8.61%) REST
5 17 (8.13%) XML
6 14 (6.70%) ASP.NET
7 13 (6.22%) .NET Framework
8 12 (5.74%) EDI
9 11 (5.26%) PySpark
10 10 (4.78%) .NET Core
10 10 (4.78%) Web Services
11 9 (4.31%) JSON
11 9 (4.31%) React
12 8 (3.83%) Middleware
12 8 (3.83%) SOAP
12 8 (3.83%) XSLT
13 6 (2.87%) ASP.NET Core
13 6 (2.87%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (2.87%) Bootstrap
13 6 (2.87%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.53%) Management Information System
2 10 (4.78%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (4.31%) Replication
4 8 (3.83%) Driving Licence
5 7 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.91%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.44%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.44%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.96%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.96%) NHS
10 1 (0.48%) AS400
10 1 (0.48%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.48%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.48%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.48%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.48%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.70%) Windows
2 9 (4.31%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (68.42%) Business Intelligence
2 78 (37.32%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (27.75%) Analytics
4 38 (18.18%) ETL
5 37 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (15.31%) Decision-Making
6 32 (15.31%) DevOps
7 31 (14.83%) Data Modelling
8 30 (14.35%) Performance Tuning
9 28 (13.40%) AI
10 27 (12.92%) Agile
10 27 (12.92%) ERP
11 26 (12.44%) Visualisation
12 25 (11.96%) Dashboard Development
13 23 (11.00%) Data Architecture
14 22 (10.53%) Data Integration
14 22 (10.53%) Roadmaps
15 21 (10.05%) Collaborative Working
16 20 (9.57%) Data Analytics
16 20 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 163 (77.99%) SQL
2 47 (22.49%) Python
3 38 (18.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 34 (16.27%) T-SQL
5 31 (14.83%) JavaScript
6 30 (14.35%) C#
7 13 (6.22%) VBA
8 11 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.87%) R
9 6 (2.87%) VB.NET
9 6 (2.87%) VBScript
9 6 (2.87%) XPath
10 4 (1.91%) Java
10 4 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.48%) Bicep
11 1 (0.48%) C++
11 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 41 (19.62%) Degree
2 9 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (4.31%) DBS Check
2 9 (4.31%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.83%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.87%) CFA
5 4 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.75%) Data Quality
2 27 (12.92%) GDPR
3 8 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.87%) QA
5 5 (2.39%) PMO
5 5 (2.39%) TickIT
6 3 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.44%) SLA
7 2 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 7 (3.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.96%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.48%) Docker
3 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.44%) SQL Sentry
2 1 (0.48%) Grafana
Vendors
1 97 (46.41%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.18%) Aderant
2 15 (7.18%) Intapp
3 12 (5.74%) Concur
4 11 (5.26%) Databricks
5 9 (4.31%) iManage
6 7 (3.35%) Oracle
7 5 (2.39%) Nintex
8 4 (1.91%) SAP
9 3 (1.44%) Cognos
9 3 (1.44%) Facebook
9 3 (1.44%) Informatica
9 3 (1.44%) Instagram
9 3 (1.44%) MicroStrategy
9 3 (1.44%) RedGate
10 1 (0.48%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.48%) Foundry
10 1 (0.48%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.48%) SYSPRO
10 1 (0.48%) Veracode