North East SAS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for SAS System skills within the North East 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SAS System
Location Alderley Edge Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Derbyshire Devon East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Exeter Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Knutsford Leeds London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	52
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	2	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	2.128 %	7.843 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£330
Average daily rate	£350	£330
% change on same period last year	+6.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£386
% change on same period last year	-1.14 %
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	£33.75	£42.51
% change on same period last year	-20.60 %
Application Platforms North East
Matching contract IT job ads	94	102
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.132 %	0.103 %
Daily rates quoted	15	24
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£356
Average daily rate	£327	£370
% change on same period last year	-11.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£338
% change on same period last year	+3.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.60	£30.57
Average hourly rate	£24.90	£31.39
% change on same period last year	-20.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.19	£32.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.69	£24.06
% change on same period last year	+2.63 %
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 North East 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 North East 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 North East region.

SAS
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 5 (45.45 %) Telecoms 2 3 (27.27 %) Six Sigma 3 2 (18.18 %) Marketing 3 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 3 2 (18.18 %) SQL 3 2 (18.18 %) VB 3 2 (18.18 %) MS Excel 3 2 (18.18 %) MS Access 3 2 (18.18 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (9.091 %) Risk Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Finance 4 1 (9.091 %) Advertising 4 1 (9.091 %) CRM 4 1 (9.091 %) SAS Certification 4 1 (9.091 %) SAS Macro

4 1 (9.091 %) MS PowerPoint

SAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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.

Applications 1 2 (18.18 %) MS Excel 2 1 (9.091 %) MS PowerPoint	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (18.18 %) MS Access
General 1 5 (45.45 %) Telecoms 2 2 (18.18 %) Marketing 3 1 (9.091 %) Finance 3 1 (9.091 %) Advertising	Job Titles 1 6 (54.55 %) Analyst 2 3 (27.27 %) MI Analyst 3 2 (18.18 %) Developer 3 2 (18.18 %) SAS Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) Management Information Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Programmer 4 1 (9.091 %) Senior Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Data Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Information Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) SAS Programmer
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) Six Sigma 2 2 (18.18 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (9.091 %) CRM 3 1 (9.091 %) Risk Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (18.18 %) SQL 1 2 (18.18 %) VB 2 1 (9.091 %) SAS Macro
Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) SAS Certification	Vendors 1 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft