The first table below looks at the demand for SAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAS over the 3 months to 21 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 Lancashire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAS System
Rank 28 42 28
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -14
Contract jobs citing SAS 4 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 1.980% 0.234% 0.862%
As % of the Application Platforms category 14.81% 1.282% 3.636%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £228 £388 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-41.29% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £381 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
+1.73% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.63 £55.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
-58.86% +74.60%
All Application Platforms
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
27 78 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 13.37% 18.27% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 39 25
Average daily rate £275 £300 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -8.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £155 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £475 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 9
Average hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £20.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £78.94 £30.00 £64.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
SAS
North West

SAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire SAS Daily Rate Trend

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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Lytham St Annes +5 2 - -
SAS
North West

SAS
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 (75.00%) SQL
1 6 (75.00%) IIS
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) MS Exchange
1 6 (75.00%) NFS
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (75.00%) Citrix
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
1 6 (75.00%) Backup Exec
1 6 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 6 (75.00%) SCOM
1 6 (75.00%) iSCSI
1 6 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (75.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (75.00%) XenDesktop
1 6 (75.00%) vSphere
1 6 (75.00%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (37.50%) XenApp
3 2 (25.00%) C

SAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 Platforms
1 6 (75.00%) IIS
1 6 (75.00%) MS Exchange
1 6 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) iSCSI
1 6 (75.00%) Fibre Channel
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Service Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Technical Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Technical Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Technical Services Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Build Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) NFS
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (75.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (75.00%) XenDesktop
1 6 (75.00%) vSphere
2 3 (37.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Backup Exec
1 6 (75.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
1 6 (75.00%) Citrix
1 6 (75.00%) VMware