London SAS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for SAS System skills within the London region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SAS over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SAS System
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crawley Crewe Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Kent Knutsford Leeds Leicestershire London Loughborough Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	216	223
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	212	330
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.279 %	0.345 %
As % of the category below	4.404 %	5.795 %
Daily rates quoted	82	74
Average minimum daily rate	£433	£360
Average daily rate	£460	£389
% change on same period last year	+18.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£487	£418
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£397
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£32.00
Average hourly rate	£45.00	£33.42
% change on same period last year	+34.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.00	£34.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£45.71	£39.49
% change on same period last year	+15.76 %
Application Platforms London
Matching contract IT job ads	4814	5695
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	6.347 %	5.955 %
Daily rates quoted	1867	1807
Average minimum daily rate	£366	£378
Average daily rate	£391	£400
% change on same period last year	-2.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£416	£422
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£348
% change on same period last year	+3.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	383	470
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.22	£23.49
Average hourly rate	£24.58	£24.87
% change on same period last year	-1.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.94	£26.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.67	£24.13
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
SAS England

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 London 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 London region.

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAS across the London region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SAS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAS across the London region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

SAS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing SAS within the London region over the 3 months to 8 July 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
City of London	-29	32	£482	+41.11 %
Docklands, London	-	7	£400	-
Canary Wharf	+8	6	£425	-10.52 %
Ealing	+4	2	£385	-
Uxbridge	-	1	£450	-

SAS England

SAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 107 (28.08 %) SQL 2 90 (23.62 %) Finance 3 87 (22.83 %) Base SAS 4 76 (19.95 %) Marketing 5 68 (17.85 %) Banking 6 61 (16.01 %) Oracle 7 59 (15.49 %) Business Intelligence 8 56 (14.70 %) Datawarehouse 9 51 (13.39 %) Retail 10 49 (12.86 %) ETL 11 45 (11.81 %) Unix 12 44 (11.55 %) Credit Risk 13 34 (8.924 %) SAS Enterprise Guide 14 32 (8.399 %) BusinessObjects 14 32 (8.399 %) Business Objects

15 30 (7.874 %) SAS Macro 16 29 (7.612 %) OLAP 16 29 (7.612 %) Data Analysis 16 29 (7.612 %) Investment Banking 17 27 (7.087 %) SQL Server 17 27 (7.087 %) Pharmaceutical 18 25 (6.562 %) Data Modelling 19 24 (6.299 %) Project Management 19 24 (6.299 %) Security Cleared 20 23 (6.037 %) Data Mining 21 22 (5.774 %) MS Office 21 22 (5.774 %) SPSS 22 21 (5.512 %) Government 22 21 (5.512 %) Basel II 23 20 (5.249 %) CHAID

SAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 9 (2.362 %) HTML 1 9 (2.362 %) ODBC 2 6 (1.575 %) Middleware 3 5 (1.312 %) .NET 4 2 (0.525 %) WMI 4 2 (0.525 %) XML 4 2 (0.525 %) J2EE 5 1 (0.262 %) Adobe Flex 5 1 (0.262 %) Struts 5 1 (0.262 %) WebServices 5 1 (0.262 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 2 (0.525 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 2 (0.525 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 1 (0.262 %) WebLogic 2 1 (0.262 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 22 (5.774 %) MS Office 1 22 (5.774 %) SPSS 2 17 (4.462 %) MS Excel 3 14 (3.675 %) MS Visio 4 7 (1.837 %) Stata 5 5 (1.312 %) MS Project 6 2 (0.525 %) MATLAB 7 1 (0.262 %) CA Clarity 7 1 (0.262 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 2 (0.525 %) Oracle Clinical 2 1 (0.262 %) FRONT ARENA
Communications & Networking 1 5 (1.312 %) Internet 2 2 (0.525 %) DNS 2 2 (0.525 %) DHCP 2 2 (0.525 %) WINS 2 2 (0.525 %) iSCSI 3 1 (0.262 %) GPRS 3 1 (0.262 %) GSM 3 1 (0.262 %) UMTS 3 1 (0.262 %) WAN 3 1 (0.262 %) 3G 3 1 (0.262 %) SAN 3 1 (0.262 %) 2G 3 1 (0.262 %) Firewall 3 1 (0.262 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 87 (22.83 %) Base SAS 2 56 (14.70 %) Datawarehouse 3 49 (12.86 %) ETL 4 34 (8.924 %) SAS Enterprise Guide 5 32 (8.399 %) BusinessObjects 6 29 (7.612 %) OLAP 7 27 (7.087 %) SQL Server 8 23 (6.037 %) Data Mining 9 10 (2.625 %) MS Access 10 9 (2.362 %) Database Marketing 10 9 (2.362 %) SAS Enterprise Miner 10 9 (2.362 %) DB2 11 8 (2.100 %) Oracle OLAP 12 7 (1.837 %) Data Mart 13 6 (1.575 %) RDBMS 14 5 (1.312 %) Text Mining 14 5 (1.312 %) SQL Server 2005 14 5 (1.312 %) SQL Server Integration Services 15 4 (1.050 %) Oracle 10g 15 4 (1.050 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 12 (3.150 %) ProC 2 9 (2.362 %) TestDirector 3 4 (1.050 %) ERwin 4 1 (0.262 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 90 (23.62 %) Finance 2 76 (19.95 %) Marketing 3 68 (17.85 %) Banking 4 51 (13.39 %) Retail 5 29 (7.612 %) Investment Banking 6 27 (7.087 %) Pharmaceutical 7 21 (5.512 %) Government 8 12 (3.150 %) Financial Institution 8 12 (3.150 %) Retail Banking 9 9 (2.362 %) Auditing 10 8 (2.100 %) Insurance 11 5 (1.312 %) Telecoms 12 4 (1.050 %) Health 12 4 (1.050 %) Electric 13 3 (0.787 %) FMCG 13 3 (0.787 %) Pensions 14 2 (0.525 %) Police 14 2 (0.525 %) Front Office 14 2 (0.525 %) Corporate Banking 15 1 (0.262 %) Online Games
Job Titles 1 144 (37.80 %) Analyst 2 84 (22.05 %) SAS Analyst 3 67 (17.59 %) Developer 4 51 (13.39 %) Programmer 5 49 (12.86 %) SAS Programmer 6 48 (12.60 %) SAS Developer 7 35 (9.186 %) Consultant 8 31 (8.136 %) Architect 9 29 (7.612 %) SAS Consultant 10 22 (5.774 %) Data Analyst 11 15 (3.937 %) Marketing Analyst 11 15 (3.937 %) Business Analyst 12 14 (3.675 %) Credit Risk Analyst 13 13 (3.412 %) Solutions Architect 14 12 (3.150 %) Project Manager 15 10 (2.625 %) Senior Analyst 16 9 (2.362 %) Campaign Analyst 16 9 (2.362 %) Statistician 16 9 (2.362 %) Risk Analyst 17 8 (2.100 %) SAS Data Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 44 (11.55 %) Credit Risk 2 19 (4.987 %) Mathematics 3 18 (4.724 %) Statistics 4 16 (4.199 %) Data Integration 5 10 (2.625 %) Mainframe 6 5 (1.312 %) Computer Science 6 5 (1.312 %) NHS 7 4 (1.050 %) Data Protection Act 7 4 (1.050 %) Biostatistics 8 3 (0.787 %) Market Risk 8 3 (0.787 %) Data Extraction 9 2 (0.525 %) Clustering 9 2 (0.525 %) Fixed Income 9 2 (0.525 %) Economics 9 2 (0.525 %) Derivative 9 2 (0.525 %) Asset Management 9 2 (0.525 %) Client/Server 9 2 (0.525 %) Informatics 10 1 (0.262 %) French Language 10 1 (0.262 %) Physics
Operating Systems 1 45 (11.81 %) Unix 2 12 (3.150 %) Linux 3 6 (1.575 %) Solaris 4 4 (1.050 %) Windows 4 4 (1.050 %) AIX 5 3 (0.787 %) MVS 6 2 (0.525 %) Windows NT 7 1 (0.262 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (0.262 %) Windows XP 7 1 (0.262 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 59 (15.49 %) Business Intelligence 2 29 (7.612 %) Data Analysis 3 25 (6.562 %) Data Modelling 4 24 (6.299 %) Project Management 4 24 (6.299 %) Security Cleared 5 20 (5.249 %) CHAID 5 20 (5.249 %) Statistical Analysis 6 15 (3.937 %) Data Management 7 13 (3.412 %) Business Analysis 7 13 (3.412 %) Validation 8 12 (3.150 %) CRM 8 12 (3.150 %) Direct Marketing 9 11 (2.887 %) SC Cleared 10 10 (2.625 %) Cluster Analysis 11 8 (2.100 %) TOGAF 12 7 (1.837 %) Risk Management 13 6 (1.575 %) Migration 13 6 (1.575 %) Econometrics 13 6 (1.575 %) Logistics 13 6 (1.575 %) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages 1 107 (28.08 %) SQL 2 30 (7.874 %) SAS Macro 3 15 (3.937 %) VBA 3 15 (3.937 %) PL/SQL 3 15 (3.937 %) Shell Script 4 9 (2.362 %) VB 5 8 (2.100 %) C 6 5 (1.312 %) Java 6 5 (1.312 %) C++ 6 5 (1.312 %) JCL 7 3 (0.787 %) VB.NET 7 3 (0.787 %) Transact-SQL 7 3 (0.787 %) Perl 7 3 (0.787 %) C# 8 2 (0.525 %) SQR 8 2 (0.525 %) PowerShell 9 1 (0.262 %) REXX 9 1 (0.262 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 20 (5.249 %) Degree 2 4 (1.050 %) PhD 3 1 (0.262 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (0.262 %) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 21 (5.512 %) Basel II 2 8 (2.100 %) QA 3 6 (1.575 %) GCP 4 1 (0.262 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (0.525 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 12 (3.150 %) AutoSys 2 2 (0.525 %) AllFusion Endevor 3 1 (0.262 %) OpenView 3 1 (0.262 %) MOM 3 1 (0.262 %) Unicenter 3 1 (0.262 %) EMC TimeFinder	Vendors 1 61 (16.01 %) Oracle 2 32 (8.399 %) Business Objects 3 17 (4.462 %) Microsoft 4 11 (2.887 %) Cognos 5 8 (2.100 %) Sun 6 5 (1.312 %) Mapinfo 7 4 (1.050 %) Teradata 7 4 (1.050 %) Mantas 7 4 (1.050 %) HP 7 4 (1.050 %) Hyperion 7 4 (1.050 %) Sybase 8 3 (0.787 %) SAP 8 3 (0.787 %) Informatica 8 3 (0.787 %) IBM 8 3 (0.787 %) Norkom 9 2 (0.525 %) Ab Initio 9 2 (0.525 %) Alterian 9 2 (0.525 %) CA 9 2 (0.525 %) Citrix 9 2 (0.525 %) EMC