The first 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 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.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SAS System
Rank 196 181 161
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -20
Contract jobs citing SAS 490 575 720
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 1.018% 0.991% 1.157%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.790% 6.078% 7.204%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 378 402
Average daily rate £400 £400 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.12% +3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £288 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £518 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £380 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 7
Average hourly rate £20.75 £20.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.75% -42.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.40 £16.60 £27.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £59.30 £33.00 £86.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £24.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
-22.44% -22.22%
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8463 9460 9995
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 17.59% 16.30% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4776 5322 5437
Average daily rate £358 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £508 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 441 559
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £37.50 £42.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%

SAS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

SAS Daily Rate Trend

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAS within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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 within the UK.

SAS Hourly Rate Trend

SAS
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SAS within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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 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
England -13 455 £400 -0.74% 237
London +37 311 £400 -5.88% 127
City of London -21 73 £414 -2.64% 35
South East -2 49 £375 - 18
South West +10 41 £375 -1.31% 10
Bristol +13 20 £350 -12.50% 4
Surrey +32 19 £375 - 2
North West +15 16 £380 -5.00% 33
Scotland -39 16 £338 -7.53% 20
Edinburgh -16 15 £375 - 19
Bromley +6 13 £325 -
Hampshire +1 12 £388 +10.71% 4
Yorkshire -34 12 £313 -17.76% 26
West Midlands +14 11 £350 - 4
West Yorkshire -28 10 £307 -19.34% 18
East Midlands -6 9 £425 +41.66% 10
Canary Wharf - 8 £500 -
Wiltshire +10 7 £450 +8.43% 1
Gloucestershire +4 7 £343 -9.86% 5
Manchester -1 7 £450 +8.43% 13
Birmingham +11 6 £340 -9.33% 3
Swindon 0 6 £450 +8.43%
Leeds -22 6 £307 -5.69% 11
East of England +14 4 £615 +53.75% 5
Wales +4 4 £500 +253.98% 1
Gloucester +3 4 £343 -10.57% 3
Kent +2 4 £303 -19.33% 3
South Wales +1 4 £500 +253.98%
Basingstoke -3 4 £388 - 2
Slough -10 4 £475 +52.61% 1

SAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

1 355 (37.25%) SQL
2 329 (34.52%) Finance
3 187 (19.62%) Marketing
4 160 (16.79%) Analytics
5 157 (16.47%) Oracle
6 156 (16.37%) Base SAS
7 142 (14.90%) Banking
8 135 (14.17%) Business Intelligence
9 126 (13.22%) Retail
10 124 (13.01%) Data Warehouse
11 100 (10.49%) VBA
12 91 (9.549%) ETL
13 85 (8.919%) Data Analysis
14 84 (8.814%) Credit Risk
15 82 (8.604%) SQL Server
16 75 (7.870%) SAS Macro
16 75 (7.870%) Degree
17 73 (7.660%) Customer Insight
18 70 (7.345%) UNIX
19 69 (7.240%) Business Objects
20 68 (7.135%) SAS Enterprise Guide
21 67 (7.030%) Data Modelling
21 67 (7.030%) Data Mining
22 63 (6.611%) SPSS
23 59 (6.191%) MS Excel
24 55 (5.771%) Microsoft
24 55 (5.771%) Teradata
25 54 (5.666%) Mathematics
26 53 (5.561%) Java
27 52 (5.456%) Statistical Modelling

SAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 11 (1.154%) WebSphere
1 11 (1.154%) ISPF
1 11 (1.154%) .NET
2 10 (1.049%) Middleware
2 10 (1.049%) XML
3 9 (0.944%) MapReduce
3 9 (0.944%) Web Services
4 8 (0.839%) MDX
5 4 (0.420%) J2EE
6 3 (0.315%) HTML
7 2 (0.210%) ODBC
7 2 (0.210%) ASP
7 2 (0.210%) JMS
7 2 (0.210%) Spring
7 2 (0.210%) Mason
7 2 (0.210%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.105%) REST
8 1 (0.105%) CSS
8 1 (0.105%) XSLT
8 1 (0.105%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 32 (3.358%) SharePoint
2 28 (2.938%) WebLogic
3 20 (2.099%) Apache
4 12 (1.259%) Tomcat
5 11 (1.154%) MS Exchange
6 9 (0.944%) Apache Pig
6 9 (0.944%) Exchange Server 2007
7 8 (0.839%) IIS
8 5 (0.525%) Liferay
8 5 (0.525%) Adobe CQ
9 4 (0.420%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.315%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.315%) CICS
11 2 (0.210%) CMS
11 2 (0.210%) IBM Notes
11 2 (0.210%) Exchange Server 2010
11 2 (0.210%) SharePoint 2010
12 1 (0.105%) WorkSite
12 1 (0.105%) Exchange Server 2003
12 1 (0.105%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 63 (6.611%) SPSS
2 59 (6.191%) MS Excel
3 22 (2.308%) MS Office
4 19 (1.994%) MS Visio
5 12 (1.259%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (1.049%) MS PowerPoint
7 9 (0.944%) MS Project
8 2 (0.210%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 12 (1.259%) SAP BPC
2 8 (0.839%) Taleo
3 7 (0.735%) Oracle Retail
3 7 (0.735%) Google Analytics
4 6 (0.630%) Oracle EBS R12
5 5 (0.525%) Unica Affinium
5 5 (0.525%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.420%) Oracle 11i
6 4 (0.420%) SAP FI-BL
7 3 (0.315%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.315%) Cognos Business Intelligence
7 3 (0.315%) WebTrends
7 3 (0.315%) Oracle Payroll
8 2 (0.210%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.210%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.105%) PeopleSoft Financials
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.364%) HTTP
2 8 (0.839%) Fibre Channel
2 8 (0.839%) iSCSI
3 4 (0.420%) SAN
4 3 (0.315%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.210%) Wireless
5 2 (0.210%) 3G
5 2 (0.210%) LDAP
5 2 (0.210%) Broadband
5 2 (0.210%) CDMA
5 2 (0.210%) GPRS
5 2 (0.210%) GSM
5 2 (0.210%) UMTS
5 2 (0.210%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.210%) LTE
6 1 (0.105%) PABX
6 1 (0.105%) NFC
6 1 (0.105%) DMS-100
6 1 (0.105%) WAN
6 1 (0.105%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (16.37%) Base SAS
2 124 (13.01%) Data Warehouse
3 82 (8.604%) SQL Server
4 68 (7.135%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 67 (7.030%) Data Mining
6 33 (3.463%) OLAP
7 31 (3.253%) QlikView
8 26 (2.728%) DB2
8 26 (2.728%) Big Data
9 23 (2.413%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 23 (2.413%) MS Access
10 21 (2.204%) SAP BI
11 20 (2.099%) SAP BW
12 19 (1.994%) BusinessObjects
13 18 (1.889%) Hadoop
14 16 (1.679%) DataStage
15 15 (1.574%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (1.469%) SAS Enterprise Miner
17 12 (1.259%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 12 (1.259%) Xcelsius
Development Applications
1 15 (1.574%) ClearCase
2 12 (1.259%) ProC
3 10 (1.049%) Mercurial
4 9 (0.944%) ChangeMan
5 8 (0.839%) JIRA
6 6 (0.630%) Maven
7 5 (0.525%) Ant
7 5 (0.525%) ClearQuest
8 4 (0.420%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.420%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.210%) Subversion
9 2 (0.210%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.105%) TortoiseSVN
10 1 (0.105%) PROIV
10 1 (0.105%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.105%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.105%) Eclipse
General
1 329 (34.52%) Finance
2 187 (19.62%) Marketing
3 142 (14.90%) Banking
4 126 (13.22%) Retail
5 41 (4.302%) Retail Banking
6 32 (3.358%) Telecoms
7 16 (1.679%) Advertising
8 11 (1.154%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.154%) Legal
9 10 (1.049%) Manufacturing
10 9 (0.944%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (0.525%) Private Banking
11 5 (0.525%) Publishing
12 3 (0.315%) French Language
12 3 (0.315%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.210%) Games
13 2 (0.210%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.210%) Dutch Language
14 1 (0.105%) German Language
14 1 (0.105%) Billing
Job Titles
1 415 (43.55%) Analyst
2 187 (19.62%) SAS Analyst
3 178 (18.68%) Developer
4 135 (14.17%) SAS Developer
5 89 (9.339%) Data Analyst
6 81 (8.499%) Insight Analyst
7 64 (6.716%) Business Analyst
8 60 (6.296%) Consultant
9 55 (5.771%) Programmer
10 54 (5.666%) SAS Insight Analyst
11 52 (5.456%) SAS Programmer
12 34 (3.568%) Senior Analyst
13 32 (3.358%) Project Manager
14 30 (3.148%) SAS Consultant
15 25 (2.623%) Credit Risk Analyst
16 23 (2.413%) Risk Analyst
17 20 (2.099%) Architect
17 20 (2.099%) Customer Analyst
17 20 (2.099%) Customer Insight Analyst
18 19 (1.994%) Marketing Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 84 (8.814%) Credit Risk
2 54 (5.666%) Mathematics
3 47 (4.932%) Statistics
4 39 (4.092%) Data Integration
5 32 (3.358%) Mainframe
6 25 (2.623%) Computer Science
7 22 (2.308%) Management Information System
8 16 (1.679%) Economics
9 15 (1.574%) Visualisation
10 13 (1.364%) Physics
11 12 (1.259%) Data Extraction
12 10 (1.049%) Grid Computing
13 9 (0.944%) Reference Data
14 8 (0.839%) E-Learning
14 8 (0.839%) NHS
15 7 (0.735%) Neural Network
16 6 (0.630%) Social Network
16 6 (0.630%) Machine Learning
16 6 (0.630%) iPad
17 4 (0.420%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 70 (7.345%) UNIX
2 27 (2.833%) Windows
3 18 (1.889%) Linux
4 15 (1.574%) AIX
5 11 (1.154%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.630%) Solaris
7 5 (0.525%) zOS
8 4 (0.420%) Windows XP
9 2 (0.210%) SUSE
9 2 (0.210%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.210%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (16.79%) Analytics
2 135 (14.17%) Business Intelligence
3 91 (9.549%) ETL
4 85 (8.919%) Data Analysis
5 73 (7.660%) Customer Insight
6 67 (7.030%) Data Modelling
7 52 (5.456%) Statistical Modelling
8 51 (5.352%) Migration
8 51 (5.352%) Stakeholder Management
9 48 (5.037%) CHAID
10 45 (4.722%) CRM
11 42 (4.407%) Project Management
12 41 (4.302%) Business Analysis
13 38 (3.987%) Data Management
14 35 (3.673%) User Acceptance Testing
15 32 (3.358%) Risk Management
15 32 (3.358%) Predictive Modelling
16 23 (2.413%) Asset Management
16 23 (2.413%) Configuration Management
17 22 (2.308%) Logistic Regression
Programming Languages
1 355 (37.25%) SQL
2 100 (10.49%) VBA
3 75 (7.870%) SAS Macro
4 53 (5.561%) Java
5 31 (3.253%) R
6 21 (2.204%) C++
7 20 (2.099%) T-SQL
8 17 (1.784%) PL/SQL
9 15 (1.574%) Shell Script
10 13 (1.364%) Python
10 13 (1.364%) JCL
11 12 (1.259%) REXX
12 10 (1.049%) VB
13 9 (0.944%) Scala
13 9 (0.944%) C#
14 6 (0.630%) MATLAB
14 6 (0.630%) C
14 6 (0.630%) COBOL
15 5 (0.525%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
15 5 (0.525%) Perl
Qualifications
1 75 (7.870%) Degree
2 37 (3.882%) Security Cleared
3 25 (2.623%) SC Cleared
4 14 (1.469%) PhD
5 13 (1.364%) SAS Certification
6 9 (0.944%) ISEB
7 6 (0.630%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 5 (0.525%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.315%) BC Cleared
9 3 (0.315%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.210%) MBA
10 2 (0.210%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.210%) MOS
11 1 (0.105%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.105%) OCP
11 1 (0.105%) PMP
11 1 (0.105%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.105%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (1.889%) CDISC
2 15 (1.574%) Data Quality
3 12 (1.259%) QA
4 7 (0.735%) Basel II
5 5 (0.525%) SLA
6 3 (0.315%) GCP
7 2 (0.210%) COBIT
7 2 (0.210%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.105%) GAMP
8 1 (0.105%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (1.049%) vSphere
2 8 (0.839%) Active Directory
2 8 (0.839%) NFS
2 8 (0.839%) Hyper-V
2 8 (0.839%) XenDesktop
3 4 (0.420%) RACF
4 3 (0.315%) XenApp
5 2 (0.210%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.105%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (0.105%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.105%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.105%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.105%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 9 (0.944%) SCOM
2 8 (0.839%) Backup Exec
3 7 (0.735%) CA Endevor
4 4 (0.420%) NetBackup
5 3 (0.315%) Ganglia
6 2 (0.210%) Foglight
6 2 (0.210%) SCCM
7 1 (0.105%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 157 (16.47%) Oracle
2 69 (7.240%) Business Objects
3 55 (5.771%) Microsoft
3 55 (5.771%) Teradata
4 38 (3.987%) SAP
5 36 (3.778%) Informatica
6 26 (2.728%) Cognos
7 22 (2.308%) MicroStrategy
8 21 (2.204%) IBM
9 18 (1.889%) Netezza
10 16 (1.679%) Perforce
10 16 (1.679%) Hyperion
11 15 (1.574%) JDA
12 13 (1.364%) JBoss
12 13 (1.364%) Sybase
13 12 (1.259%) StatPro
14 11 (1.154%) Cisco
14 11 (1.154%) VMware
15 10 (1.049%) CA
15 10 (1.049%) Unica
London
Experience in SAS... Previous experience in customer insight, marketing analytics, insight analytics or campaign insight. KEY WORDS SAS, SQL, SAS analyst, customer insight analyst, analytics, insight analytics, campaign...
Harnham
Rate: £250 - £400 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
Development of SAS/SQL processes to create expected test results from source data... Raise and re-test defectsYou will be an experienced Test Analyst with strong UAT and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £400.00 - £450.00 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Development of SAS/SQL processes to create expected test results from source data... Raise and re-test defects You will be an experienced Test Analyst with strong UAT...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Rate: £400.00 - £450.00 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
This request is for a data analyst and skills required include; - Expert Excel skills - Expert Access skills - SAS capable - SQL capable Undertake a monthly analysis of the specific...
Sanderson
Rate: £350 - £399 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
SAS Analyst - Banking - London - Up to £600/day! Our Client, a Major Bank, are currently looking for a SAS Analyst to work in their London Office, on a...
Orgtel
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 30 May 2013
West Midlands
Orgtel
Rate: £450 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £375 - £425 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
Sanderson
Rate: £400 - £440 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £400.00 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £11.00 - £13.00 per hour
Posted: 11 June 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Sanderson
Rate: £25000 - £39000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Harnham
Rate: £600 - £700 per day
Posted: 16 June 2013
London
Harnham
Rate: £600 - £700 per day
Posted: 16 June 2013
London
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £300.00 - £350.00 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Wiltshire
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £150 - £200 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Harnham
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
City, London
LA International
Posted: 17 June 2013
Bristol, South West
Orgtel
Posted: 22 May 2013
West Yorkshire
Orgtel
Posted: 9 June 2013
City, London
Venturi
Rate: £0.00 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Sanderson
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Hertfordshire
Sanderson
Rate: £600 - £700 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Hitchin, Hertfordshire
Circle Recruitment
Rate: £500 - £730 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Sanderson
Rate: £425 - £450 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Orgtel
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
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