The first table below looks at the demand for SAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAS over the 3 months to 18 June 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 South East 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAS System
Rank 175 167 190
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +23
Contract jobs citing SAS 50 76 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.619% 0.757% 0.607%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.579% 5.043% 3.670%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 40 20
Average daily rate £375 £375 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £246 £288 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £477 £401
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.33% +19.04%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £24.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
-22.44% -22.22%
All Application Platforms
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
1397 1507 1744
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 17.29% 15.00% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 739 740 777
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 89 149
Average hourly rate £18.50 £21.50 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.95% +16.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.40 £39.25 £42.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +2.56%
SAS
England

SAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East SAS Daily Rate Trend

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAS across the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South East SAS Daily Rate Histogram

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East SAS Hourly Rate Trend

SAS
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAS across the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South East SAS Hourly Rate Histogram

SAS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Surrey +24 19 £375 - 1
Hampshire -2 13 £388 +10.71% 2
Kent +2 4 £303 -19.33% 2
Berkshire -2 4 £475 +52.00% 4
M4 Corridor - 3 - -
East Sussex -7 1 £425 -10.47%
Home Counties - - - -
Buckinghamshire - - - - 4
Sussex - - - -
West Sussex - - - - 2
Middlesex - - - -
Oxfordshire - - - -
SAS
England

SAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 51 (55.43%) SQL
2 31 (33.70%) Oracle
3 28 (30.43%) Finance
4 25 (27.17%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (21.74%) Base SAS
6 17 (18.48%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (18.48%) SQL Server
6 17 (18.48%) Business Objects
7 15 (16.30%) ETL
8 14 (15.22%) Security Cleared
8 14 (15.22%) Analytics
9 12 (13.04%) SC Cleared
9 12 (13.04%) CDISC
9 12 (13.04%) DB2
10 11 (11.96%) Java
10 11 (11.96%) Perforce
10 11 (11.96%) Data Management
11 10 (10.87%) UNIX
12 9 (9.783%) JBoss
12 9 (9.783%) Apache
12 9 (9.783%) WebLogic
12 9 (9.783%) MS Excel
12 9 (9.783%) ClearCase
12 9 (9.783%) SAS Macro
12 9 (9.783%) WebSphere
12 9 (9.783%) Mercurial
13 8 (8.696%) R
13 8 (8.696%) Degree
13 8 (8.696%) Mathematics
13 8 (8.696%) SAS Enterprise Guide

SAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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.

Application Development
1 9 (9.783%) WebSphere
2 3 (3.261%) ISPF
3 1 (1.087%) XML
3 1 (1.087%) XSLT
3 1 (1.087%) ODBC
Application Platforms
1 9 (9.783%) WebLogic
1 9 (9.783%) Apache
2 8 (8.696%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (9.783%) MS Excel
2 5 (5.435%) MS Office
3 3 (3.261%) MS Project
4 1 (1.087%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.087%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (1.087%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (4.348%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.174%) CDMA
1 2 (2.174%) GPRS
1 2 (2.174%) GSM
1 2 (2.174%) UMTS
1 2 (2.174%) 3G
1 2 (2.174%) Wireless
1 2 (2.174%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (27.17%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (21.74%) Base SAS
3 17 (18.48%) SQL Server
4 12 (13.04%) DB2
5 8 (8.696%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 6 (6.522%) OLAP
6 6 (6.522%) Data Mining
7 4 (4.348%) MS Access
7 4 (4.348%) SAP BW
8 3 (3.261%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.174%) QlikView
9 2 (2.174%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (2.174%) Oracle 9i
9 2 (2.174%) Oracle 10g
9 2 (2.174%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (1.087%) Oracle 8/8i
10 1 (1.087%) DataStage
10 1 (1.087%) SAP BI
10 1 (1.087%) Data Mart
10 1 (1.087%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.783%) ClearCase
1 9 (9.783%) Mercurial
2 3 (3.261%) ChangeMan
3 2 (2.174%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.174%) ProC
General
1 28 (30.43%) Finance
2 8 (8.696%) Banking
2 8 (8.696%) Retail
3 5 (5.435%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (4.348%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.348%) Marketing
5 3 (3.261%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.174%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.174%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.087%) Advertising
7 1 (1.087%) Billing
7 1 (1.087%) Back Office
7 1 (1.087%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 25 (27.17%) Developer
1 25 (27.17%) Analyst
2 22 (23.91%) SAS Developer
3 18 (19.57%) SAS Programmer
3 18 (19.57%) Programmer
4 10 (10.87%) Consultant
5 9 (9.783%) Data Analyst
6 7 (7.609%) SAS Analyst
7 6 (6.522%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.435%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 5 (5.435%) Technical Consultant
9 4 (4.348%) DBA
9 4 (4.348%) Senior Data Warehouse Developer
9 4 (4.348%) Senior SAS Developer
10 3 (3.261%) Environment Manager
10 3 (3.261%) SAS Consultant
10 3 (3.261%) Teradata DBA
10 3 (3.261%) Statistical Programmer
10 3 (3.261%) Support Analyst
10 3 (3.261%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.696%) Mathematics
2 6 (6.522%) Computer Science
3 3 (3.261%) Mainframe
3 3 (3.261%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.261%) Data Extraction
4 2 (2.174%) SaaS
4 2 (2.174%) CMDB
4 2 (2.174%) Wiki
5 1 (1.087%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.087%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.087%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.087%) Informatics
5 1 (1.087%) Data Integration
5 1 (1.087%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.87%) UNIX
2 6 (6.522%) Linux
3 4 (4.348%) Windows
4 2 (2.174%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (18.48%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (16.30%) ETL
3 14 (15.22%) Analytics
4 11 (11.96%) Data Management
5 8 (8.696%) Migration
5 8 (8.696%) Configuration Management
5 8 (8.696%) Data Modelling
6 6 (6.522%) Data Analysis
6 6 (6.522%) Business Analysis
6 6 (6.522%) Operations Research
7 5 (5.435%) Validation
8 4 (4.348%) Change Management
9 3 (3.261%) Project Management
9 3 (3.261%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (3.261%) CRM
10 2 (2.174%) ERP
10 2 (2.174%) ITIL
10 2 (2.174%) Asset Management
10 2 (2.174%) Data Cleansing
10 2 (2.174%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 51 (55.43%) SQL
2 11 (11.96%) Java
3 9 (9.783%) SAS Macro
4 8 (8.696%) R
5 6 (6.522%) JCL
5 6 (6.522%) VBA
6 3 (3.261%) REXX
6 3 (3.261%) COBOL
6 3 (3.261%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.174%) Perl
7 2 (2.174%) C
7 2 (2.174%) C++
7 2 (2.174%) Tcl
7 2 (2.174%) Python
7 2 (2.174%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.087%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.696%) Degree
4 5 (5.435%) SAS Certification
5 1 (1.087%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.04%) CDISC
2 3 (3.261%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.261%) GCP
2 3 (3.261%) QA
3 2 (2.174%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (4.348%) NetBackup
2 3 (3.261%) CA Endevor
2 3 (3.261%) Ganglia
3 1 (1.087%) SCOM
Vendors
1 31 (33.70%) Oracle
2 17 (18.48%) Business Objects
3 11 (11.96%) Perforce
4 9 (9.783%) JBoss
5 8 (8.696%) Teradata
6 6 (6.522%) SAP
7 4 (4.348%) Cognos
7 4 (4.348%) Microsoft
7 4 (4.348%) Informatica
7 4 (4.348%) Netezza
8 3 (3.261%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (3.261%) CA
8 3 (3.261%) IBM
9 2 (2.174%) BT
9 2 (2.174%) Agilent
9 2 (2.174%) Twitter
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