The first table below looks at the demand for SAS Certification in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAS Certification 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 Qualifications for the London 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 Certification
Rank 372 393 440
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +47
Contract jobs citing SAS Certification 5 22 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.023% 0.082% 0.006%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.158% 0.576% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 1
Average daily rate £475 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.76% -10.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
3169 3819 4114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 14.63% 14.18% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1876 2288 2374
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 119 141
Average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £20.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -3.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 £12.30 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £79.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
SAS Certification
England

SAS Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London SAS Certification Jobs Demand Trend

SAS Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

London SAS Certification Daily Rate Trend

SAS Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS Certification within the London 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
City of London +8 1 £500 +17.64%
SAS Certification
England

SAS Certification
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SAS Certification 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 Certification.

1 9 (100.00%) SAS
2 6 (66.67%) Base SAS
2 6 (66.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 4 (44.44%) Data Mining
3 4 (44.44%) SQL
4 3 (33.33%) Oracle
4 3 (33.33%) OLAP
4 3 (33.33%) ETL
4 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Credit Risk
4 3 (33.33%) SAS Macro
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
5 2 (22.22%) UNIX
5 2 (22.22%) Windows
5 2 (22.22%) Linux
5 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
6 1 (11.11%) VB
6 1 (11.11%) VBA
6 1 (11.11%) JBoss
6 1 (11.11%) Validation
6 1 (11.11%) Marketing
6 1 (11.11%) Banking
6 1 (11.11%) SAS Enterprise Miner
6 1 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (11.11%) Predictive Modelling

SAS Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing SAS Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Base SAS
1 6 (66.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 4 (44.44%) Data Mining
3 3 (33.33%) OLAP
4 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (11.11%) SAS Enterprise Miner
General
1 1 (11.11%) Marketing
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
1 5 (55.56%) SAS Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Consultant
2 3 (33.33%) SAS Consultant
3 2 (22.22%) SAS Programmer
3 2 (22.22%) Programmer
4 1 (11.11%) Business Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (11.11%) SAS BI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Credit Risk
2 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) UNIX
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) ETL
1 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
3 1 (11.11%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) SAS Macro
3 1 (11.11%) VB
3 1 (11.11%) VBA
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) JBoss