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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 399 347
Rank change year-on-year -65 -52 -46
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server Reporting Services 180 331 463
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.62% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.79% 3.48% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 126 178 408
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,516
25th Percentile £40,500 £37,490 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £51,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -10.43% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,688 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £82,500 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -7.61% -3.16%

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 6,449 9,520 11,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.88% 17.80% 20.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,106 5,323 8,972
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £45,303
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -19 156 £54,000 +2.86% 41
UK excluding London -41 124 £47,500 +11.76% 39
Work from Home +33 79 £55,000 -8.33% 20
London -5 40 £80,000 +23.08% 9
Midlands +34 39 £48,500 +2.11% 16
North of England +15 32 £44,000 +2.33% 6
West Midlands +34 30 £44,250 +4.12% 11
South East -1 28 £42,500 +13.33% 7
North West +30 14 £57,500 +33.72% 3
Yorkshire -10 11 £44,000 -2.22% 2
East Midlands -4 9 £48,500 -3.00% 5
South West -7 8 £47,500 -24.00% 3
North East - 7 £35,000 - 1
East of England +4 5 £53,750 +26.47% 5
Northern Ireland - 5 £50,000 -
Wales -1 4 £33,750 -10.00% 1
Scotland -44 3 £55,000 +23.60% 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 18 (10.00%) IIS
2 10 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.89%) SAS
4 6 (3.33%) Confluence
5 4 (2.22%) Apache
6 3 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.11%) HCL Notes
7 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.56%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 38 (21.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (3.33%) Elite 3E
2 4 (2.22%) Dynamics GP
2 4 (2.22%) Markit EDM
3 3 (1.67%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 3 (1.67%) Visualfiles
4 2 (1.11%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.56%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.56%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 129 (71.67%) Power Platform
2 99 (55.00%) Azure
3 47 (26.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 43 (23.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 27 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (10.00%) Snowflake
7 11 (6.11%) dbt
7 11 (6.11%) PowerApps
8 10 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (4.44%) Collibra
9 8 (4.44%) Fivetran
9 8 (4.44%) GCP
10 7 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.78%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.78%) SaaS
12 4 (2.22%) AWS
12 4 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.22%) GitHub
13 3 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
14 2 (1.11%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.67%) Internet
1 3 (1.67%) LAN
1 3 (1.67%) SAN
1 3 (1.67%) SSL
1 3 (1.67%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.67%) VoIP
1 3 (1.67%) WAN
2 1 (0.56%) DHCP
2 1 (0.56%) DNS
2 1 (0.56%) Firewall
2 1 (0.56%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (69.44%) Power BI
2 105 (58.33%) SQL Server
3 81 (45.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 40 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 35 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (17.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 19 (10.56%) Data Lake
8 12 (6.67%) Relational Database
9 9 (5.00%) Tableau
10 6 (3.33%) MySQL
10 6 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (2.78%) SAS EBI
11 5 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (2.22%) Crystal Reports
12 4 (2.22%) Power Query
13 3 (1.67%) MongoDB
14 2 (1.11%) BigQuery
14 2 (1.11%) Data Mart
14 2 (1.11%) Data Mining
14 2 (1.11%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 8 (4.44%) JIRA
2 7 (3.89%) Git
3 5 (2.78%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.56%) GitLab
5 1 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.56%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 79 (43.89%) Social Skills
2 76 (42.22%) Finance
3 57 (31.67%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.78%) Law
5 13 (7.22%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (6.67%) Billing
7 10 (5.56%) Legal
8 5 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.67%) Back Office
10 3 (1.67%) Banking
10 3 (1.67%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.11%) Advertising
11 2 (1.11%) Military
11 2 (1.11%) Retail
11 2 (1.11%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.56%) Automotive
12 1 (0.56%) International Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 51 (28.33%) Developer
2 31 (17.22%) Analyst
2 31 (17.22%) Data Engineer
3 27 (15.00%) Senior
4 16 (8.89%) Support Engineer
5 14 (7.78%) Insight Manager
5 14 (7.78%) Senior Data Engineer
6 13 (7.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 12 (6.67%) Business Developer
7 12 (6.67%) Business Manager
7 12 (6.67%) Commercial Analyst
7 12 (6.67%) DBA
7 12 (6.67%) Insight Analyst
7 12 (6.67%) IT Engineer
7 12 (6.67%) IT Support
7 12 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
7 12 (6.67%) Software Engineer
7 12 (6.67%) Software Support Engineer
8 11 (6.11%) SQL DBA
8 11 (6.11%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (26.11%) .NET
2 17 (9.44%) .NET Framework
3 15 (8.33%) ASP.NET
3 15 (8.33%) Entity Framework
4 12 (6.67%) WinForms
5 7 (3.89%) REST
6 5 (2.78%) Web Services
7 4 (2.22%) CSS
7 4 (2.22%) HTML
7 4 (2.22%) React
8 3 (1.67%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.67%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.67%) jQuery
8 3 (1.67%) JSON
8 3 (1.67%) Middleware
8 3 (1.67%) PySpark
8 3 (1.67%) Vue
8 3 (1.67%) WCF
9 2 (1.11%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (1.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 14 (7.78%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (7.22%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.22%) Clustering
5 4 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.22%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.22%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.11%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.56%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.56%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.56%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.56%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.22%) Windows
2 5 (2.78%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.56%) Linux
3 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (73.33%) Business Intelligence
2 82 (45.56%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (37.22%) Analytics
4 57 (31.67%) ETL
5 49 (27.22%) Decision-Making
6 41 (22.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (22.78%) Data Modelling
7 39 (21.67%) Visualisation
8 38 (21.11%) Data Analysis
9 35 (19.44%) Actionable Insight
10 30 (16.67%) DevOps
11 27 (15.00%) Data Engineering
12 26 (14.44%) Process Improvement
13 25 (13.89%) Visual Analytics
14 24 (13.33%) WFM
15 23 (12.78%) Data Management
15 23 (12.78%) Data Pipeline
16 22 (12.22%) AI
17 21 (11.67%) Agile
18 18 (10.00%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 146 (81.11%) SQL
2 48 (26.67%) T-SQL
3 37 (20.56%) C#
4 34 (18.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 30 (16.67%) Python
6 7 (3.89%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.78%) VB.NET
8 4 (2.22%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.67%) VBA
10 2 (1.11%) C++
11 1 (0.56%) C
11 1 (0.56%) PHP
11 1 (0.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (17.22%) Degree
2 14 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.67%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 3 (1.67%) MCSE
4 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.67%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.11%) HNC
5 2 (1.11%) HND
5 2 (1.11%) MCSA
5 2 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (1.11%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (20.56%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
3 8 (4.44%) GDPR
4 5 (2.78%) QA
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (3.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.56%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.11%) Control-M
2 2 (1.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.56%) CASB
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (0.56%) MOM
3 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 69 (38.33%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.44%) Sage
3 13 (7.22%) Databricks
4 12 (6.67%) Xamarin
5 10 (5.56%) Dataiku
6 8 (4.44%) Google
7 7 (3.89%) Intapp
7 7 (3.89%) Oracle
8 5 (2.78%) Zoho
9 4 (2.22%) Informatica
10 3 (1.67%) Infor
10 3 (1.67%) RedGate
11 2 (1.11%) Epicor
11 2 (1.11%) Lotus
12 1 (0.56%) Advent
12 1 (0.56%) Civica
12 1 (0.56%) Northgate
12 1 (0.56%) Orchard
12 1 (0.56%) VMware
12 1 (0.56%) Yardi