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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 377 367
Rank change year-on-year -138 -10 -48
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 186 282 626
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.66% 0.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.64% 3.55% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 133 209 535
10th Percentile £36,850 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £71,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,085 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.79% -15.00% +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 7,051 7,939 16,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.42% 18.56% 19.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,217 5,135 12,218
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £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 March 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 March 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 -91 168 £50,000 -13.04% 58
UK excluding London -71 134 £47,085 +10.79% 56
Work from Home -9 90 £50,000 -23.08% 17
Midlands -8 44 £48,500 +7.78% 15
London -59 42 £70,000 +7.69% 15
North of England -34 38 £52,500 +16.67% 15
West Midlands +17 36 £47,500 -13.64% 9
South East -27 31 £42,500 +13.33% 15
North West -7 20 £52,500 +31.25% 9
Yorkshire -47 14 £54,792 -0.38% 5
East Midlands -42 8 £48,500 +12.79% 6
South West -36 7 £45,000 - 5
East of England -24 5 £52,500 +31.25% 5
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
Wales -17 4 £33,750 -10.00% 3
North East - 4 - - 1
Scotland -37 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 12 (6.45%) SharePoint
3 10 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (3.76%) Confluence
5 5 (2.69%) SAS
6 4 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (1.61%) Apache
8 1 (0.54%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 42 (22.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.23%) Markit EDM
2 5 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.08%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (1.08%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (0.54%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.54%) Magento
4 1 (0.54%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 129 (69.35%) Power Platform
2 118 (63.44%) Azure
3 40 (21.51%) Azure Data Factory
4 37 (19.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 24 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (12.90%) Snowflake
6 16 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (6.99%) PowerApps
7 13 (6.99%) SaaS
8 11 (5.91%) dbt
9 9 (4.84%) AWS
9 9 (4.84%) Entra ID
9 9 (4.84%) Power Automate
10 8 (4.30%) GCP
11 7 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (3.23%) Collibra
12 6 (3.23%) Fivetran
12 6 (3.23%) GitHub
13 3 (1.61%) IaaS
13 3 (1.61%) PaaS
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
1 124 (66.67%) Power BI
2 112 (60.22%) SQL Server
3 71 (38.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 38 (20.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 32 (17.20%) Data Warehouse
6 24 (12.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 18 (9.68%) Data Lake
8 13 (6.99%) MySQL
8 13 (6.99%) Tableau
9 11 (5.91%) DB2
10 10 (5.38%) Relational Database
11 9 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (2.69%) Power Query
12 5 (2.69%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.61%) Crystal Reports
13 3 (1.61%) Data Vault
13 3 (1.61%) SAS EBI
14 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
14 2 (1.08%) OLAP
14 2 (1.08%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 8 (4.30%) 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%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 76 (40.86%) Social Skills
2 72 (38.71%) Finance
3 60 (32.26%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.45%) Billing
4 12 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (4.30%) Law
5 8 (4.30%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.23%) Banking
7 5 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.69%) Retail
8 4 (2.15%) Back Office
8 4 (2.15%) Legal
9 2 (1.08%) Advertising
9 2 (1.08%) Marketing
9 2 (1.08%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.54%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.54%) International Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.54%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 42 (22.58%) Analyst
1 42 (22.58%) Developer
2 32 (17.20%) Data Engineer
3 29 (15.59%) Senior
4 18 (9.68%) Applications Support
5 17 (9.14%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 17 (9.14%) Snowflake Engineer
6 14 (7.53%) Business Developer
6 14 (7.53%) Insight Manager
7 13 (6.99%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 13 (6.99%) Data Analyst
7 13 (6.99%) IT Support
7 13 (6.99%) Support Analyst
7 13 (6.99%) Support Engineer
8 12 (6.45%) Business Manager
8 12 (6.45%) Commercial Analyst
8 12 (6.45%) Insight Analyst
8 12 (6.45%) IT Support Engineer
8 12 (6.45%) Software Engineer
8 12 (6.45%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (26.34%) .NET
2 13 (6.99%) .NET Framework
2 13 (6.99%) ASP.NET
3 12 (6.45%) Entity Framework
3 12 (6.45%) WinForms
4 11 (5.91%) JSON
5 10 (5.38%) XML
6 5 (2.69%) Middleware
6 5 (2.69%) REST
6 5 (2.69%) Web Services
7 4 (2.15%) Classic ASP
8 2 (1.08%) EDI
9 1 (0.54%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (0.54%) CSS
9 1 (0.54%) CSS3
9 1 (0.54%) HTML5 Canvas
9 1 (0.54%) Pandas
9 1 (0.54%) pytest
9 1 (0.54%) React
9 1 (0.54%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.44%) Analytical Mindset
2 22 (11.83%) Data Structures
3 14 (7.53%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (6.99%) Legacy Applications
5 10 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (4.30%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.76%) Low-Code
8 6 (3.23%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.15%) Legacy Code
10 3 (1.61%) Reinsurance
11 2 (1.08%) Clustering
11 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.08%) Replication
12 1 (0.54%) Credit Risk
12 1 (0.54%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.54%) Market Risk
12 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (14.52%) Windows
2 2 (1.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.54%) Linux
3 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (69.35%) Business Intelligence
2 82 (44.09%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (35.48%) Analytics
4 54 (29.03%) ETL
5 49 (26.34%) Data Modelling
6 48 (25.81%) Decision-Making
7 38 (20.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (19.35%) Data Analysis
8 36 (19.35%) Visualisation
9 31 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
10 29 (15.59%) DevOps
10 29 (15.59%) Process Improvement
11 26 (13.98%) Data Engineering
12 25 (13.44%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (13.44%) Visual Analytics
13 24 (12.90%) WFM
14 20 (10.75%) Mentoring
15 19 (10.22%) AI
15 19 (10.22%) Data Management
16 17 (9.14%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 158 (84.95%) SQL
2 47 (25.27%) T-SQL
3 46 (24.73%) C#
3 46 (24.73%) Python
4 34 (18.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (8.06%) VB.NET
6 14 (7.53%) PowerShell
7 11 (5.91%) PL/SQL
8 9 (4.84%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.15%) Java
9 4 (2.15%) VBA
10 3 (1.61%) R
11 1 (0.54%) C
11 1 (0.54%) PHP
11 1 (0.54%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (16.67%) Degree
2 13 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.61%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.08%) MCSE
5 2 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.54%) HNC
6 1 (0.54%) HND
6 1 (0.54%) MCSA
6 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.54%) PMP
6 1 (0.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (25.81%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 9 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.23%) GDPR
5 4 (2.15%) SLA
6 2 (1.08%) QA
7 1 (0.54%) PMO
7 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (5.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.15%) Control-M
1 4 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.54%) CASB
2 1 (0.54%) MOM
2 1 (0.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 70 (37.63%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.06%) Sage
3 12 (6.45%) Xamarin
4 10 (5.38%) Databricks
5 8 (4.30%) Google
6 7 (3.76%) Dataiku
7 6 (3.23%) Informatica
8 5 (2.69%) Epicor
8 5 (2.69%) Zoho
9 4 (2.15%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.61%) Cognos
10 3 (1.61%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (1.61%) Oracle
11 2 (1.08%) Infor
12 1 (0.54%) Advent
12 1 (0.54%) Civica
12 1 (0.54%) Northgate
12 1 (0.54%) RedGate
12 1 (0.54%) VMware
12 1 (0.54%) Yardi