The first table below looks at the demand for SAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAS over the 3 months to 23 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 Merseyside 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAS System
Rank - - 22
Contract jobs citing SAS 0 0 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - - 3.543%
As % of the Application Platforms category - - 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 8
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
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
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
28 68 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 13.59% 25.76% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 31 26
Average daily rate £425 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £183 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £355 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 4
Average hourly rate £11.50 £16.82 £21.47
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.62% -21.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -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 Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside SAS Daily Rate Trend

SAS
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
1 2 (100.00%) Unica
1 2 (100.00%) Unica Affinium
1 2 (100.00%) Direct Marketing

SAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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.

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Unica Affinium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) SAS Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Direct Marketing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 2 (100.00%) Unica