SAS System
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 434 479 473
Rank change year-on-year +45 -6 -75
Contract jobs citing SAS 164 248 435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.41% 0.49%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.96% 3.77% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 161 257
10th Percentile £325 £400 £356
25th Percentile £361 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -2.44% +6.77%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £641 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -14.00% +5.26% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 14
10th Percentile £22.61 £46.70 £27.60
25th Percentile £23.52 - £36.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year - +19.82% +100.93%
75th Percentile £71.25 £80.88 £66.31
90th Percentile £78.00 £94.90 £69.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.82 £79.75 £26.00
% change year-on-year -70.13% +206.73% +1.96%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,145 6,581 11,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.57% 11.00% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,849 4,620 7,600
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 150 212
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.52 £42.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.26% +93.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £79.19 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.75 £26.24 £18.75
% change year-on-year -9.49% +39.95% -6.25%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SAS in the UK

SAS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAS.

Daily rate trend for SAS in the UK

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAS in the UK

SAS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAS.

Hourly rate trend for SAS in the UK

SAS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SAS in the UK

SAS
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +59 127 £450 -10.00% 105
UK excluding London +20 96 £430 -14.00% 55
Work from Home +101 69 £460 -8.10% 39
South East +32 37 £355 -29.10% 14
London +59 35 £550 +2.33% 49
North of England +48 30 £473 +8.00% 21
Yorkshire +34 20 £430 -9.47% 7
Midlands -4 13 £370 -24.10% 11
West Midlands +15 11 £358 -31.81% 8
Scotland +8 11 £655 +29.75% 1
North West +17 10 £475 +13.43% 14
East of England +19 4 £438 -7.89% 4
Wales - 3 £412 - 3
East Midlands +6 2 £475 +18.75% 3
South West +3 1 £615 +17.14% 3

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (8.54%) CICS
2 8 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (8.54%) SPSS
2 5 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.44%) Adobe Campaign
1 4 (2.44%) FastStats
1 4 (2.44%) Unica
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.61%) PeopleSoft CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (13.41%) Power Platform
2 16 (9.76%) AWS
2 16 (9.76%) Azure
3 10 (6.10%) Snowflake
4 7 (4.27%) Collibra
4 7 (4.27%) Power Automate
4 7 (4.27%) Veeva
5 4 (2.44%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.83%) Serverless
7 2 (1.22%) GCP
7 2 (1.22%) SaaS
7 2 (1.22%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.61%) Bloomreach
8 1 (0.61%) OCI
8 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.27%) Fibre Channel
1 7 (4.27%) iSCSI
2 4 (2.44%) SAN
3 1 (0.61%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.41%) Power BI
2 21 (12.80%) DB2
3 15 (9.15%) Qlik Sense
4 14 (8.54%) IDMS
5 12 (7.32%) Data Lake
6 11 (6.71%) Tableau
7 10 (6.10%) Crystal Reports
7 10 (6.10%) SQL Server
8 9 (5.49%) Data Mining
8 9 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (5.49%) Relational Database
9 7 (4.27%) Ataccama
9 7 (4.27%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 5 (3.05%) KDB
10 5 (3.05%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 3 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.83%) IBM InfoSphere
11 3 (1.83%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.83%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.83%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 15 (9.15%) Git
2 8 (4.88%) JIRA
3 7 (4.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.22%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.61%) GitLab
5 1 (0.61%) Gradle
5 1 (0.61%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 61 (37.20%) Social Skills
2 37 (22.56%) Finance
3 19 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.98%) Banking
5 14 (8.54%) Telecoms
6 11 (6.71%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (4.88%) Marketing
8 7 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.27%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.66%) Front Office
10 4 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.44%) Retail
11 3 (1.83%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.22%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.22%) Electronics
12 2 (1.22%) Law
12 2 (1.22%) Legal
12 2 (1.22%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (21.95%) Developer
2 28 (17.07%) Analyst
2 28 (17.07%) Programmer
3 23 (14.02%) Data Analyst
4 18 (10.98%) Systems Programmer
4 18 (10.98%) z/OS Systems Programmer
5 17 (10.37%) Senior
6 13 (7.93%) IBM Mainframe Developer
6 13 (7.93%) Mainframe Developer
7 9 (5.49%) Administrator
7 9 (5.49%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (4.27%) Architect
8 7 (4.27%) Data Quality Analyst
8 7 (4.27%) IFS Developer
8 7 (4.27%) QA Analyst
8 7 (4.27%) Quality Analyst
8 7 (4.27%) SAS Administrator
8 7 (4.27%) SAS Developer
9 6 (3.66%) Data Scientist
9 6 (3.66%) Senior Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.85%) ISPF
2 7 (4.27%) D3.js
2 7 (4.27%) Flash
2 7 (4.27%) POSIX
3 5 (3.05%) Spring
4 2 (1.22%) MDX
5 1 (0.61%) JSON
5 1 (0.61%) Kafka
5 1 (0.61%) LDAP
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.61%) REST
5 1 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (24.39%) Mainframe
2 16 (9.76%) IBM Mainframe
3 11 (6.71%) Credit Risk
4 7 (4.27%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.66%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.05%) Derivative
6 5 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.05%) Fixed Income
6 5 (3.05%) NVMe
7 4 (2.44%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.22%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.61%) Biopharmaceutical
9 1 (0.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 40 (24.39%) zOS
2 18 (10.98%) Linux
3 7 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.27%) Unix
4 6 (3.66%) Windows
4 6 (3.66%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.44%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (20.12%) Analytics
2 31 (18.90%) Agile
3 29 (17.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (17.07%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (17.07%) Data Modelling
5 25 (15.24%) Data Analysis
6 24 (14.63%) Performance Monitoring
6 24 (14.63%) Risk Management
7 21 (12.80%) Data Management
8 19 (11.59%) Data Cleansing
9 18 (10.98%) Validation
10 17 (10.37%) Scrum
11 16 (9.76%) Computer Science
11 16 (9.76%) Data Analytics
12 14 (8.54%) Data Governance
12 14 (8.54%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (8.54%) Requirements Gathering
12 14 (8.54%) User Experience
13 13 (7.93%) Data Architecture
13 13 (7.93%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 67 (40.85%) SQL
2 48 (29.27%) Python
3 40 (24.39%) REXX
4 29 (17.68%) R
5 26 (15.85%) JCL
6 22 (13.41%) Assembly Language
7 19 (11.59%) CLIST
8 14 (8.54%) COBOL
9 13 (7.93%) Java
9 13 (7.93%) SELCOPY
10 7 (4.27%) C#
10 7 (4.27%) VB
11 5 (3.05%) Perl
12 4 (2.44%) JavaScript
12 4 (2.44%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (1.22%) Scala
14 1 (0.61%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 16 (9.76%) Degree
2 15 (9.15%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.54%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.71%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.49%) CDISC
3 8 (4.88%) IFRS
3 8 (4.88%) IFRS 9
3 8 (4.88%) QA
4 4 (2.44%) GDPR
4 4 (2.44%) GxP
5 3 (1.83%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.61%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.61%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (15.85%) Time Sharing Option
2 17 (10.37%) ACF2
2 17 (10.37%) RACF
3 7 (4.27%) NFS
4 4 (2.44%) Docker
4 4 (2.44%) GPFS
5 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.61%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (14.02%) OMEGAMON
2 5 (3.05%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.44%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (0.61%) Ansible
4 1 (0.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (26.83%) IBM
2 21 (12.80%) Broadcom
3 18 (10.98%) Splunk
4 14 (8.54%) Syncsort
5 12 (7.32%) Oracle
6 10 (6.10%) IFS
7 9 (5.49%) Google
7 9 (5.49%) SAP
8 7 (4.27%) Alteryx
8 7 (4.27%) Dataiku
8 7 (4.27%) Trillium
9 6 (3.66%) Microsoft
10 5 (3.05%) CA
10 5 (3.05%) ION Trading
11 4 (2.44%) Adobe
11 4 (2.44%) Brocade
11 4 (2.44%) EMC
11 4 (2.44%) NetApp
11 4 (2.44%) Salesforce
11 4 (2.44%) Veritas