The first table below looks at the demand for SAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 86 87 71
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -16
Contract jobs citing SAS 17 7 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 1.114% 0.440% 1.839%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.502% 2.414% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 11
Average daily rate £388 £488 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.51% +21.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £371 £358 £343
10% offered a daily rate of more than £528 £600 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
+0.06% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £29.50 - £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £55.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
-65.45% +74.60%
All Application Platforms
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
309 290 340
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 20.25% 18.23% 18.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 141 138
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £226 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £500 £474
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 39
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +60.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.58 £16.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.74 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
SAS
South East

SAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire SAS Daily Rate Trend

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAS across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hampshire SAS Daily Rate Histogram

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire SAS Hourly Rate Trend

SAS
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAS across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hampshire SAS Hourly Rate Histogram

SAS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Basingstoke - 6 £388 -
Southampton - 2 £563 -
Fareham - 1 - -
SAS
South East

SAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 8 (33.33%) SQL
1 8 (33.33%) Oracle
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (25.00%) ETL
3 6 (25.00%) Base SAS
3 6 (25.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 5 (20.83%) Finance
4 5 (20.83%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
4 5 (20.83%) OLAP
5 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 4 (16.67%) SAP
5 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (16.67%) SAP BW
5 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing
5 4 (16.67%) CDISC
6 3 (12.50%) Business Analysis
6 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 3 (12.50%) Linux
6 3 (12.50%) UNIX
6 3 (12.50%) Windows
6 3 (12.50%) Software Architecture
7 2 (8.333%) SaaS
7 2 (8.333%) LTE
7 2 (8.333%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (8.333%) Solaris
7 2 (8.333%) Oracle 9i
7 2 (8.333%) Python

SAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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.

Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.333%) LTE
1 2 (8.333%) 3G
1 2 (8.333%) CDMA
1 2 (8.333%) GPRS
1 2 (8.333%) GSM
1 2 (8.333%) UMTS
1 2 (8.333%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Base SAS
1 6 (25.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) OLAP
3 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (16.67%) SAP BW
4 2 (8.333%) Oracle 9i
4 2 (8.333%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (8.333%) Visual Studio
1 2 (8.333%) ProC
2 1 (4.167%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
1 5 (20.83%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.333%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.167%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) SAS Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Programmer
3 4 (16.67%) SAS Programmer
4 3 (12.50%) Environment Manager
4 3 (12.50%) SAS Consultant
4 3 (12.50%) Consultant
5 2 (8.333%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.333%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (8.333%) Data Manager
5 2 (8.333%) Analyst
5 2 (8.333%) Wireless Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) SAS Data Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) SAS Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) SAS BI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) SaaS
2 1 (4.167%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (4.167%) Informatics
2 1 (4.167%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
1 3 (12.50%) UNIX
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (8.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (25.00%) ETL
3 3 (12.50%) Business Analysis
3 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (12.50%) Software Architecture
4 2 (8.333%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (8.333%) ERP
4 2 (8.333%) Data Management
4 2 (8.333%) Software Engineering
5 1 (4.167%) Data Migration
5 1 (4.167%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (4.167%) Data Analysis
5 1 (4.167%) Migration
5 1 (4.167%) Data Analytics
5 1 (4.167%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 2 (8.333%) Python
3 2 (8.333%) Perl
3 2 (8.333%) C
3 2 (8.333%) C++
3 2 (8.333%) Embedded C
3 2 (8.333%) Tcl
3 2 (8.333%) SAS Macro
4 1 (4.167%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) CDISC
2 1 (4.167%) QA
2 1 (4.167%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) SAP
3 2 (8.333%) Perforce
3 2 (8.333%) Agilent
4 1 (4.167%) Netezza
4 1 (4.167%) IBM
4 1 (4.167%) Talend