The first table below looks at the demand for Base SAS skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Base SAS over the 3 months to 17 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the West Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Base SAS (SAS Base)
Rank - 91 50
Contract jobs citing Base SAS 0 3 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - 0.185% 2.141%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - 0.822% 9.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 10
Average daily rate - £288 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -20.68%
UK excluding London average daily rate £393 £299 £375
% change year-on-year
+31.38% -20.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £10.00 - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
311 365 264
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 24.51% 22.56% 23.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 209 112
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £215 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £414
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 6
Average hourly rate £23.75 £15.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+58.33% -30.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.40 £12.00 £20.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £32.50 £66.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
Base SAS
Yorkshire

Base SAS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Base SAS across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

West Yorkshire Base SAS Jobs Demand Trend

Base SAS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Base SAS across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Base SAS Daily Rate Trend

Base SAS
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Base 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 Base SAS.

1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) SAS
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) OLAP
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) SAS Macro
2 1 (50.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics

Base SAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Base 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 Base SAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) SAS
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) OLAP
1 1 (50.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SAS Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SAS Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SAS Macro