The first table below looks at the demand for SAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAS over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Guildford region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAS System
Rank 30 - 19
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SAS 2 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 0.917% - 1.504%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.448% - 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £250 - £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
+0.06% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £55.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
-65.45% +74.60%
All Application Platforms
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
58 23 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 26.61% 19.01% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 8 6
Average daily rate £300 £375 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £104 £206
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £425 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
Average hourly rate £43.50 £17.50 £13.11
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+148.57% +33.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £17.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £60.00 £27.30 £14.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
SAS
Surrey

SAS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SAS across the Guildford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Guildford SAS Jobs Demand Trend

SAS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SAS across the Guildford region.

Guildford SAS Daily Rate Trend

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SAS across the Guildford region.

Guildford SAS Hourly Rate Trend

SAS
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing SAS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SAS.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
1 6 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 6 (100.00%) JBoss
1 6 (100.00%) Apache
1 6 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 6 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 6 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 6 (100.00%) Perforce
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Mercurial
1 6 (100.00%) R
1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Operations Research
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Twitter

SAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing SAS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 6 (100.00%) Apache
1 6 (100.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 6 (100.00%) Mercurial
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Mathematics
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Operations Research
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
1 6 (100.00%) JBoss
1 6 (100.00%) Perforce
2 2 (33.33%) Twitter