The first table below looks at the demand for SAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAS 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 of the Application Platforms category for the Manchester 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 System
Rank 70 68 58
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -10
Contract jobs citing SAS 5 15 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.536% 1.161% 1.344%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.618% 5.952% 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 2
Average daily rate £450 £415 £371
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.43% +11.78%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
+0.06% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £55.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
-65.45% +74.60%
All Application Platforms
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
191 252 182
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 20.47% 19.50% 17.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 136 92
Average daily rate £300 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £162 £184 £174
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £443 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 18
Average hourly rate £21.00 £17.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% +40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.60 £12.00 £9.98
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.30 £25.00 £18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
SAS
North West

SAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester SAS Hourly Rate Trend

SAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 12 (52.17%) Finance
2 9 (39.13%) Banking
3 8 (34.78%) Base SAS
3 8 (34.78%) Data Integration
4 7 (30.43%) SQL
5 6 (26.09%) OLAP
5 6 (26.09%) UNIX
5 6 (26.09%) AIX
6 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
6 5 (21.74%) MS Office
6 5 (21.74%) Project Planning
6 5 (21.74%) Grid Computing
7 4 (17.39%) Retail
7 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
8 3 (13.04%) Unica
8 3 (13.04%) Unica Affinium
8 3 (13.04%) Direct Marketing
8 3 (13.04%) Customer Insight
8 3 (13.04%) Marketing
9 2 (8.696%) Analytics
9 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (8.696%) vSphere
9 2 (8.696%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (8.696%) SCOM
9 2 (8.696%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 2 (8.696%) iSCSI
9 2 (8.696%) Hyper-V
9 2 (8.696%) XenDesktop
9 2 (8.696%) Customer Engagement

SAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (4.348%) COM
1 1 (4.348%) XBRL
1 1 (4.348%) ISPF
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (8.696%) MS Exchange
1 2 (8.696%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) MS Office
2 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Unica Affinium
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.696%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (8.696%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) Base SAS
2 6 (26.09%) OLAP
3 2 (8.696%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
General
1 12 (52.17%) Finance
2 9 (39.13%) Banking
3 4 (17.39%) Retail
4 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
4 3 (13.04%) Marketing
5 1 (4.348%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.348%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.348%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Developer
2 9 (39.13%) SAS Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Consultant
4 3 (13.04%) Project Manager
4 3 (13.04%) SAS Consultant
4 3 (13.04%) Campaign Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (8.696%) Service Manager
5 2 (8.696%) SAS Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) Technical Services Manager
5 2 (8.696%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (8.696%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.348%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.348%) Programmer
6 1 (4.348%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (4.348%) SQL Developer
6 1 (4.348%) SAS Programmer
6 1 (4.348%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Data Integration
2 5 (21.74%) Grid Computing
3 1 (4.348%) NHS
3 1 (4.348%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) UNIX
1 6 (26.09%) AIX
2 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (8.696%) Windows
3 1 (4.348%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) Project Planning
2 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (13.04%) Direct Marketing
3 3 (13.04%) Customer Insight
4 2 (8.696%) Analytics
4 2 (8.696%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (8.696%) Migration
5 1 (4.348%) ETL
5 1 (4.348%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.348%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 1 (4.348%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) Basel II
System Software
1 2 (8.696%) vSphere
1 2 (8.696%) Hyper-V
1 2 (8.696%) XenDesktop
1 2 (8.696%) NFS
1 2 (8.696%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.348%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (8.696%) SCOM
1 2 (8.696%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Unica
3 2 (8.696%) VMware
3 2 (8.696%) Citrix
3 2 (8.696%) Cisco
3 2 (8.696%) Business Objects