SAS Contracts in the UK excluding London

SAS System
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SAS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SAS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 324 344
Rank change year-on-year +31 +20 -49
Contract jobs citing SAS 92 133 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.57% 0.53%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.27% 5.10% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 91 114
10th Percentile £320 £400 £405
25th Percentile £361 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +5.26% +6.74%
75th Percentile £572 £544 £540
90th Percentile £600 £650 £588
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.53% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £77.13 -
25th Percentile £22.61 £77.69 £25.50
Median hourly rate £23.82 £79.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.13% +206.73% -
75th Percentile £37.70 £81.19 £26.50
90th Percentile £61.58 £81.38 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £54.25
% change year-on-year - +19.82% +101.22%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

SAS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,747 2,606 3,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.51% 11.09% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,176 1,876 2,658
10th Percentile £208 £203 £185
25th Percentile £320 £350 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £545
90th Percentile £650 £675 £631
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 99 139
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.08 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.61 £15.02
Median hourly rate £24.09 £27.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +48.65% -2.63%
75th Percentile £50.47 £65.88 £36.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.24 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £27.51 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -38.87% +100.00% +5.14%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SAS in the UK excluding London

SAS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SAS in the UK excluding London

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAS in the UK excluding London

SAS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SAS in the UK excluding London

SAS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SAS in the UK excluding London

SAS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +16 37 £355 -29.10% 13
North of England +44 30 £473 +8.00% 25
Yorkshire +41 20 £430 -9.47% 11
Midlands +13 13 £370 -13.55% 16
West Midlands +20 11 £358 -29.80% 13
North West +25 10 £475 +13.43% 14
Scotland +14 8 £693 +26.00% 1
East of England +6 3 £450 -5.26% 4
Wales - 3 £412 - 3
East Midlands +7 2 £475 +18.75% 3
South West 0 1 £615 +17.14% 4
SAS
UK

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (11.96%) CICS
2 5 (5.43%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (10.87%) SPSS
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Adobe Campaign
1 4 (4.35%) FastStats
1 4 (4.35%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.04%) Power Platform
2 10 (10.87%) Snowflake
3 9 (9.78%) AWS
4 8 (8.70%) Azure
5 7 (7.61%) Collibra
5 7 (7.61%) Power Automate
6 4 (4.35%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.17%) GCP
8 1 (1.09%) Bloomreach
8 1 (1.09%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.52%) Fibre Channel
1 6 (6.52%) iSCSI
2 4 (4.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.30%) DB2
2 14 (15.22%) Qlik Sense
3 12 (13.04%) Power BI
4 11 (11.96%) IDMS
5 10 (10.87%) Crystal Reports
6 8 (8.70%) Data Mining
7 7 (7.61%) Ataccama
7 7 (7.61%) SQL Server
7 7 (7.61%) Tableau
8 6 (6.52%) Data Lake
9 5 (5.43%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 2 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.17%) Hadoop
11 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (1.09%) Apache Hive
11 1 (1.09%) Big Data
11 1 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (1.09%) MySQL
11 1 (1.09%) Pentaho
11 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (11.96%) Git
2 7 (7.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.17%) JIRA
4 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.09%) GitLab
4 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
General
1 45 (48.91%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.48%) Finance
3 11 (11.96%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.87%) Telecoms
5 7 (7.61%) Banking
5 7 (7.61%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.43%) Marketing
8 4 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.35%) Retail
9 3 (3.26%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.26%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.17%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (26.09%) Developer
2 22 (23.91%) Analyst
3 19 (20.65%) Programmer
4 18 (19.57%) Data Analyst
5 17 (18.48%) Systems Programmer
5 17 (18.48%) z/OS Systems Programmer
6 11 (11.96%) IBM Mainframe Developer
6 11 (11.96%) Mainframe Developer
7 9 (9.78%) Senior
7 9 (9.78%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (7.61%) Data Quality Analyst
8 7 (7.61%) IFS Developer
8 7 (7.61%) QA Analyst
8 7 (7.61%) Quality Analyst
9 6 (6.52%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
9 6 (6.52%) Senior QA Analyst
9 6 (6.52%) Senior Quality Analyst
10 5 (5.43%) Product Manager
10 5 (5.43%) SQL Analyst
10 5 (5.43%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.91%) ISPF
2 7 (7.61%) D3.js
3 6 (6.52%) Flash
3 6 (6.52%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 33 (35.87%) Mainframe
2 13 (14.13%) IBM Mainframe
3 10 (10.87%) Credit Risk
4 5 (5.43%) NVMe
5 4 (4.35%) Client/Server
5 4 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (35.87%) zOS
2 6 (6.52%) Linux
2 6 (6.52%) Unix
3 5 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.43%) Windows
3 5 (5.43%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.35%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (28.26%) Analytics
2 20 (21.74%) Performance Monitoring
2 20 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (20.65%) Risk Management
4 18 (19.57%) Data Modelling
5 17 (18.48%) Agile
5 17 (18.48%) Data Analysis
6 15 (16.30%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (16.30%) Data Analytics
7 12 (13.04%) Data Cleansing
7 12 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
8 11 (11.96%) Data Governance
8 11 (11.96%) Scrum
8 11 (11.96%) User Experience
9 10 (10.87%) Computer Science
9 10 (10.87%) Data Security
9 10 (10.87%) Matrix Organization
9 10 (10.87%) Visualisation
10 9 (9.78%) Data Management
11 8 (8.70%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (52.17%) SQL
2 33 (35.87%) REXX
3 31 (33.70%) Python
4 22 (23.91%) JCL
5 18 (19.57%) Assembly Language
6 12 (13.04%) CLIST
7 11 (11.96%) COBOL
7 11 (11.96%) R
8 10 (10.87%) SELCOPY
9 7 (7.61%) Java
10 5 (5.43%) Perl
11 1 (1.09%) HiveQL
11 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (10.87%) Degree
1 10 (10.87%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.87%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.61%) IFRS
2 7 (7.61%) IFRS 9
2 7 (7.61%) QA
3 4 (4.35%) GDPR
4 1 (1.09%) CDISC
System Software
1 22 (23.91%) Time Sharing Option
2 17 (18.48%) ACF2
2 17 (18.48%) RACF
3 6 (6.52%) NFS
4 4 (4.35%) Docker
4 4 (4.35%) GPFS
5 1 (1.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (20.65%) OMEGAMON
2 4 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.35%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (1.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 37 (40.22%) IBM
2 21 (22.83%) Broadcom
3 18 (19.57%) Splunk
4 11 (11.96%) Syncsort
5 10 (10.87%) IFS
6 9 (9.78%) Google
7 7 (7.61%) Alteryx
7 7 (7.61%) Dataiku
7 7 (7.61%) SAP
7 7 (7.61%) Trillium
8 4 (4.35%) Adobe
8 4 (4.35%) Brocade
8 4 (4.35%) EMC
8 4 (4.35%) Facebook
8 4 (4.35%) Microsoft
8 4 (4.35%) NetApp
8 4 (4.35%) Salesforce
8 4 (4.35%) Snapchat
8 4 (4.35%) Sybase
8 4 (4.35%) Veritas