The first table below looks at the demand for SAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAS over the 3 months to 20 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 Swindon 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAS System
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SAS 5 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 1.792% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.87% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £450 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £381 £374 £350
% change year-on-year
+2.07% +6.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.63 £55.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
-58.86% +74.60%
All Application Platforms
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
46 38 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 16.49% 10.53% 9.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 27 17
Average daily rate £425 £414 £337
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.71% +22.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £228 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £466 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £13.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
SAS
Wiltshire

SAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon SAS Hourly Rate Trend

SAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 (80.00%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Credit Risk
3 4 (26.67%) Basel II
3 4 (26.67%) Business Objects
3 4 (26.67%) SPSS
4 3 (20.00%) MATLAB
4 3 (20.00%) C++
4 3 (20.00%) Cognos
4 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) BusinessObjects XI
4 3 (20.00%) Information Management
4 3 (20.00%) Retail
4 3 (20.00%) Data Management
4 3 (20.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) R
4 3 (20.00%) Big Data
4 3 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Analytics
4 3 (20.00%) Mathematics
5 2 (13.33%) Marketing
5 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) ETL
5 2 (13.33%) SQL
6 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
6 1 (6.667%) Retail Banking
6 1 (6.667%) Base SAS
6 1 (6.667%) Banking

SAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 4 (26.67%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) BusinessObjects XI
1 3 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) Base SAS
General
1 12 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Retail
3 2 (13.33%) Marketing
4 1 (6.667%) Retail Banking
4 1 (6.667%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Data Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Data Modeller
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) SAS Developer
4 1 (6.667%) MI Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Credit Risk Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Customer Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Insight Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Customer Insight Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Programmer
4 1 (6.667%) SAS Programmer
4 1 (6.667%) Credit Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Business Objects Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Credit Risk
2 3 (20.00%) Mathematics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (20.00%) Data Management
1 3 (20.00%) Information Management
1 3 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
1 3 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 3 (20.00%) Data Analytics
1 3 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (13.33%) ETL
3 1 (6.667%) Customer Insight
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) C++
1 3 (20.00%) MATLAB
1 3 (20.00%) R
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Basel II
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Business Objects
2 3 (20.00%) Cognos