The first table below looks at the demand for SAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAS over the 3 months to 17 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 Leeds 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAS System
Rank 73 28 20
Rank change year-on-year
-45 -8
Contract jobs citing SAS 3 43 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.403% 4.831% 6.230%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.429% 25.60% 25.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 31 12
Average daily rate £400 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £373 £350
% change year-on-year
+4.02% +6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £11.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.63 £55.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
-58.86% +74.60%
All Application Platforms
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
210 168 155
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 28.19% 18.88% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 109 67
Average daily rate £275 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £275 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £331 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 9
Average hourly rate £33.00 £11.40 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+189.47% -45.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
SAS
West Yorkshire

SAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds SAS Hourly Rate Trend

SAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 9 (60.00%) Data Management
2 7 (46.67%) MS Excel
3 6 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (40.00%) Retail
4 5 (33.33%) Banking
4 5 (33.33%) NHS
4 5 (33.33%) SQL
4 5 (33.33%) Retail Banking
5 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
5 4 (26.67%) Finance
5 4 (26.67%) SPSS
6 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (20.00%) Migration
6 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (20.00%) Teradata
6 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (20.00%) Tivoli
6 3 (20.00%) Project Management
6 3 (20.00%) Oracle
6 3 (20.00%) Reference Data
6 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
6 3 (20.00%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
7 2 (13.33%) hybris
7 2 (13.33%) UNIX
7 2 (13.33%) UML
7 2 (13.33%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (13.33%) .NET
7 2 (13.33%) C#

SAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 2 (13.33%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (13.33%) WebLogic
3 1 (6.667%) MS Exchange
3 1 (6.667%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 7 (46.67%) MS Excel
2 4 (26.67%) SPSS
3 3 (20.00%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (13.33%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
4 2 (13.33%) MS Project
4 2 (13.33%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) SAN
1 1 (6.667%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.667%) Base SAS
2 1 (6.667%) OLAP
General
1 6 (40.00%) Retail
2 5 (33.33%) Retail Banking
2 5 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Analyst
2 6 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
3 5 (33.33%) Data Analyst
4 4 (26.67%) Senior Data Analyst
5 3 (20.00%) Information Analyst
6 2 (13.33%) Consultant
6 2 (13.33%) Data Manager
6 2 (13.33%) SAS Analyst
6 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
6 2 (13.33%) SAS Consultant
6 2 (13.33%) Data Consultant
6 2 (13.33%) Senior Information Analyst
7 1 (6.667%) Credit Risk Analyst
7 1 (6.667%) SAS Data Analyst
7 1 (6.667%) Business Data Analyst
7 1 (6.667%) NHS Information Analyst
7 1 (6.667%) Senior SAS Analyst
7 1 (6.667%) Developer
7 1 (6.667%) Risk Analyst
7 1 (6.667%) Applications Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) NHS
2 3 (20.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (6.667%) Client/Server
3 1 (6.667%) Statistics
3 1 (6.667%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) UNIX
2 1 (6.667%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (6.667%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Data Management
2 6 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (20.00%) Project Management
3 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (20.00%) Migration
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) UML
4 2 (13.33%) Supplier Management
4 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
5 1 (6.667%) Analytics
5 1 (6.667%) Data Analysis
5 1 (6.667%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (6.667%) CRM
5 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) C#
2 2 (13.33%) C++
2 2 (13.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) BC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (6.667%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
1 3 (20.00%) Teradata
2 2 (13.33%) hybris
2 2 (13.33%) TIBCO
3 1 (6.667%) Symantec
3 1 (6.667%) Websense
3 1 (6.667%) Cisco
3 1 (6.667%) HP
3 1 (6.667%) NetApp
3 1 (6.667%) CheckPoint
3 1 (6.667%) Blue Coat
3 1 (6.667%) Barracuda Networks
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