Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SAS skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SAS over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category.

LinkSAS System
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank147179183
Rank change year-on-year
Up+32Up+4
Matching contract IT job ads554311701
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK1.147 %0.788 %0.853 %
As % of the Application Platforms category8.145 %5.510 %6.373 %
Daily rates quoted26093187
Average daily rate£400£360£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11 %-10.00 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£260£206£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£475£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£400£350£400
% change year-on-year
+14.28 %-12.50 %
Hourly rates quoted131623
Average hourly rate£50.00£45.00£42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11 %+5.880 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£45.50£45.00£45.00
% change year-on-year
+1.110 %-
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
6802564411000
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK14.08 %14.31 %13.38 %
Daily rates quoted293317883170
Average daily rate£357£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.920 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£215£210£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£525£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£340£375
% change year-on-year
-4.410 %-9.330 %
Hourly rates quoted465449989
Average hourly rate£19.00£22.50£20.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.55 %+10.29 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£12.00£12.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£37.50£40.50£38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£22.50£20.00
% change year-on-year
-22.22 %+12.50 %

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.

SAS
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SAS within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

SAS Demand Trend

SAS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SAS within the UK.

SAS Daily Rate Trend

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAS within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

SAS Daily Rate Histogram

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SAS within the UK.

SAS Hourly Rate Trend

SAS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAS within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

SAS Hourly Rate Histogram

SAS
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+39512£400+11.11 %
LondonUp+5232£380-5.00 %
South EastUp+55145£400+15.10 %
South WestUp+3758£400+18.51 %
City of LondonDown-3549£400-
BristolUp+1434£415+22.96 %
HampshireUp+223£400+15.10 %
ScotlandDown-722£425+112.50 %
YorkshireUp+1421£425+21.42 %
West YorkshireUp+616£425-
North WestDown-315£375+48.51 %
East of EnglandUp+1214£430+1.77 %
BuckinghamshireUp+514£440-
SurreyDown-714£425+41.66 %
South WalesUp+613£170-51.42 %
WalesUp+513£170-51.42 %
EdinburghDown-1812£400+100.00 %
East MidlandsDown-1810£148-65.29 %
Milton KeynesNew entry-10£440-
CambridgeshireUp+98£430-
NewportUp+18£200-
LeedsUp+127£425-
BerkshireUp+77£260-27.77 %
KentUp+46--
BromleyUp+16£325-9.28 %
ManchesterDown-56£244+18.90 %
NorthamptonshireDown-75£145-65.26 %
HertfordshireUp+154£325-25.71 %
West MidlandsUp+144£325-
NorthamptonDown-64£145-63.75 %

SAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1283 (29.45 %)SQL
2211 (21.96 %)Marketing
3208 (21.64 %)Finance
4151 (15.71 %)Datawarehouse
4151 (15.71 %)Base SAS
5114 (11.86 %)Banking
6108 (11.24 %)SPSS
7107 (11.13 %)Degree
8104 (10.82 %)Business Intelligence
9101 (10.51 %)Data Analysis
10100 (10.41 %)Oracle
1189 (9.261 %)VBA
1288 (9.157 %)SAS Enterprise Guide
1288 (9.157 %)Credit Risk
1387 (9.053 %)Mathematics
1387 (9.053 %)ETL
1483 (8.637 %)Data Mining
1581 (8.429 %)Retail
1677 (8.012 %)SAS Macro
1776 (7.908 %)UNIX
1865 (6.764 %)Economics
1963 (6.556 %)Logistic Regression
2061 (6.348 %)Telecoms
2158 (6.035 %)Statistics
2158 (6.035 %)Market Research
2257 (5.931 %)Physics
2257 (5.931 %)Migration
2355 (5.723 %)Insurance
2454 (5.619 %)MS Excel
2547 (4.891 %)VB

SAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
114 (1.457 %)XML
212 (1.249 %)HTML
212 (1.249 %)J2EE
212 (1.249 %)MDX
39 (0.937 %)XHTML
48 (0.832 %)JDBC
48 (0.832 %)JSP
48 (0.832 %)Servlets
48 (0.832 %)Struts
48 (0.832 %)Spring
57 (0.728 %)AJAX
57 (0.728 %)JSTL
57 (0.728 %)OC4J
57 (0.728 %).NET
57 (0.728 %)JAAS
64 (0.416 %)CSS
73 (0.312 %)ASP.NET
82 (0.208 %)Flash
82 (0.208 %)XML Schema
91 (0.104 %)ASP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
18 (0.832 %)Oracle Application Server
25 (0.520 %)SharePoint Portal Server
25 (0.520 %)BizTalk Server
34 (0.416 %)Progress Apama
43 (0.312 %)SharePoint
51 (0.104 %)TeamSite
51 (0.104 %)Lotus Notes
51 (0.104 %)Tomcat
51 (0.104 %)WebLogic
51 (0.104 %)IIS
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1108 (11.24 %)SPSS
254 (5.619 %)MS Excel
345 (4.683 %)MS Office
433 (3.434 %)MS Project
529 (3.018 %)MS Visio
611 (1.145 %)MS PowerPoint
710 (1.041 %)Spreadsheet
89 (0.937 %)MATLAB
91 (0.104 %)FastStats
91 (0.104 %)Stata
91 (0.104 %)S-PLUS
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
17 (0.728 %)WebTrends
23 (0.312 %)Oracle Clinical
32 (0.208 %)Google Analytics
41 (0.104 %)Pivotal CRM
41 (0.104 %)Unica Affinium
41 (0.104 %)SAP CRM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
112 (1.249 %)SAN
24 (0.416 %)Firewall
24 (0.416 %)TCP/IP
24 (0.416 %)LDAP
33 (0.312 %)Internet
42 (0.208 %)Intranet
51 (0.104 %)NAS
51 (0.104 %)SMTP
51 (0.104 %)Broadband
51 (0.104 %)3G
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1151 (15.71 %)Datawarehouse
1151 (15.71 %)Base SAS
288 (9.157 %)SAS Enterprise Guide
387 (9.053 %)ETL
483 (8.637 %)Data Mining
540 (4.162 %)BusinessObjects
635 (3.642 %)SQL Server
727 (2.810 %)OLAP
812 (1.249 %)Oracle OLAP
911 (1.145 %)SAS Enterprise Miner
1010 (1.041 %)Ingres
119 (0.937 %)Database Marketing
119 (0.937 %)Oracle Reports
127 (0.728 %)SQL Server 2000
136 (0.624 %)TOAD
136 (0.624 %)MS Access
136 (0.624 %)Star Schema
145 (0.520 %)BusinessObjects XI
145 (0.520 %)RDBMS
145 (0.520 %)PowerCenter
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
18 (0.832 %)PVCS
18 (0.832 %)MyEclipse
18 (0.832 %)Subversion
25 (0.520 %)TestDirector
25 (0.520 %)ProC
33 (0.312 %)ClearCase
33 (0.312 %)Dreamweaver
33 (0.312 %)Oracle Forms
42 (0.208 %)LoadRunner
51 (0.104 %)Eclipse
51 (0.104 %)Visual Studio
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1211 (21.96 %)Marketing
2208 (21.64 %)Finance
3114 (11.86 %)Banking
481 (8.429 %)Retail
561 (6.348 %)Telecoms
655 (5.723 %)Insurance
742 (4.370 %)Government
839 (4.058 %)Investment Banking
929 (3.018 %)Pensions
1014 (1.457 %)Retail Banking
1112 (1.249 %)Health
1210 (1.041 %)Pharmaceutical
1210 (1.041 %)Auditing
138 (0.832 %)Financial Institution
147 (0.728 %)Education
155 (0.520 %)Corporate Banking
164 (0.416 %)Publishing
173 (0.312 %)Construction
173 (0.312 %)Advertising
182 (0.208 %)Home Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1517 (53.80 %)Analyst
2293 (30.49 %)SAS Analyst
3123 (12.80 %)Consultant
4119 (12.38 %)Developer
5112 (11.65 %)Data Analyst
6108 (11.24 %)Programmer
7101 (10.51 %)SAS Programmer
894 (9.781 %)SAS Consultant
988 (9.157 %)SAS Developer
1068 (7.076 %)Data Manager
1153 (5.515 %)SAS Data Analyst
1248 (4.995 %)Analyst Programmer
1248 (4.995 %)Business Analyst
1345 (4.683 %)Insight Analyst
1345 (4.683 %)SAS Analyst Programmer
1441 (4.266 %)Architect
1537 (3.850 %)Credit Risk Analyst
1537 (3.850 %)Risk Analyst
1632 (3.330 %)Senior Analyst
1730 (3.122 %)SAS Architect
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
188 (9.157 %)Credit Risk
287 (9.053 %)Mathematics
365 (6.764 %)Economics
458 (6.035 %)Statistics
557 (5.931 %)Physics
639 (4.058 %)Data Integration
736 (3.746 %)Mainframe
826 (2.706 %)Visualisation
919 (1.977 %)Data Extraction
1016 (1.665 %)FMCG
1111 (1.145 %)Fixed Income
129 (0.937 %)VAX
129 (0.937 %)Management Information System
138 (0.832 %)Computer Science
146 (0.624 %)Market Risk
154 (0.416 %)Thin Client
154 (0.416 %)Fat Client
154 (0.416 %)Derivative
163 (0.312 %)Life Science
172 (0.208 %)Replication
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
176 (7.908 %)UNIX
222 (2.289 %)Windows
312 (1.249 %)Linux
410 (1.041 %)Windows Server 2003
410 (1.041 %)Solaris
55 (0.520 %)Windows 2000
55 (0.520 %)AIX
64 (0.416 %)MVS
64 (0.416 %)Windows NT
72 (0.208 %)SUSE
72 (0.208 %)HPUX
72 (0.208 %)VMS
72 (0.208 %)Red Hat Linux
81 (0.104 %)Windows Server 2008
81 (0.104 %)Windows XP
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1104 (10.82 %)Business Intelligence
2101 (10.51 %)Data Analysis
363 (6.556 %)Logistic Regression
458 (6.035 %)Market Research
557 (5.931 %)Migration
645 (4.683 %)Statistical Analysis
739 (4.058 %)Direct Marketing
835 (3.642 %)Data Migration
928 (2.914 %)Data Modelling
928 (2.914 %)Risk Management
1027 (2.810 %)Business Analysis
1027 (2.810 %)CRM
1126 (2.706 %)Project Management
1221 (2.185 %)User Acceptance Testing
1320 (2.081 %)Data Management
1320 (2.081 %)CHAID
1320 (2.081 %)Validation
1419 (1.977 %)Information Management
1517 (1.769 %)B2C
1614 (1.457 %)Operations Research
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1283 (29.45 %)SQL
289 (9.261 %)VBA
377 (8.012 %)SAS Macro
447 (4.891 %)VB
537 (3.850 %)C
619 (1.977 %)Java
714 (1.457 %)PL/SQL
811 (1.145 %)JavaScript
99 (0.937 %)Korn
108 (0.832 %)FoxPro (VFP)
108 (0.832 %)C++
116 (0.624 %)Shell Script
116 (0.624 %)JCL
125 (0.520 %)T-SQL
125 (0.520 %)C#
133 (0.312 %)COBOL
141 (0.104 %)Python
141 (0.104 %)VC++
141 (0.104 %)Perl
141 (0.104 %)PHP
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1107 (11.13 %)Degree
234 (3.538 %)Security Cleared
314 (1.457 %)SC Cleared
49 (0.937 %)PhD
54 (0.416 %)Postgraduate
54 (0.416 %)ISEB
54 (0.416 %)CTC Cleared
63 (0.312 %)BC Cleared
71 (0.104 %)CFA
71 (0.104 %)Microsoft Certification
71 (0.104 %)MCSE
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
142 (4.370 %)Basel II
223 (2.393 %)QA
37 (0.728 %)WCAG
46 (0.624 %)SLA
52 (0.208 %)MiFID
61 (0.104 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (0.416 %)Oracle RAC
22 (0.208 %)Active Directory
31 (0.104 %)XenApp
31 (0.104 %)Veritas Volume Manager
31 (0.104 %)NFS
31 (0.104 %)Samba
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (0.312 %)Dollar Universe
22 (0.208 %)Tivoli
22 (0.208 %)HP Quality Center
31 (0.104 %)WSUS
31 (0.104 %)SCOM
31 (0.104 %)MOM
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1100 (10.41 %)Oracle
240 (4.162 %)Business Objects
331 (3.226 %)Microsoft
428 (2.914 %)Cognos
526 (2.706 %)Teradata
618 (1.873 %)IBM
713 (1.353 %)Sun
812 (1.249 %)SAP
911 (1.145 %)Netezza
911 (1.145 %)Informatica
911 (1.145 %)Chordiant
1010 (1.041 %)Ab Initio
1010 (1.041 %)DataFlux
119 (0.937 %)Omniture
128 (0.832 %)Trillium
137 (0.728 %)Salesforce.com
146 (0.624 %)PeopleSoft
146 (0.624 %)Siebel
146 (0.624 %)HP
146 (0.624 %)Unica