Leicestershire SAS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for SAS System skills within the Leicestershire region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SAS over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SAS System
Location Alderley Edge Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Kent Leeds Leicestershire London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South Wales South West Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	35
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	2.326 %	3.030 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£300	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£373	£384
% change on same period last year	-3.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.00	£41.99
% change on same period last year	-4.73 %
Application Platforms Leicestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	43	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.057 %	0.033 %
Daily rates quoted	14	4
Average minimum daily rate	£241	£410
Average daily rate	£254	£411
% change on same period last year	-38.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£267	£413
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.60	£15.58
Average hourly rate	£20.80	£16.83
% change on same period last year	+23.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.00	£18.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.10	£24.95
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
SAS East Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SAS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SAS across the Leicestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

SAS
Daily Rate Trend

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

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SAS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Loughborough	-	1	£300	-

SAS East Midlands

SAS
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 2 (66.67 %) Pharmaceutical 1 2 (66.67 %) Degree 2 1 (33.33 %) Life Science 2 1 (33.33 %) GCP 2 1 (33.33 %) Health 2 1 (33.33 %) Data Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Statistical Analysis 2 1 (33.33 %) Statistics

SAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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.

General 1 2 (66.67 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (33.33 %) Health	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Programmer 2 1 (33.33 %) SAS Data Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Data Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) SAS Programmer 2 1 (33.33 %) SAS Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Life Science 1 1 (33.33 %) Statistics	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Data Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Statistical Analysis
Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) GCP