West Midlands SAS Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for SAS System skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SAS over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

SAS System
Location Abingdon Andover Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Coventry Croydon Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrow Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Horsham Hounslow Hove Inverness Ipswich Kent Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Market Harborough Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Redhill Reigate Romsey Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	147	192
Rank change on same period last year	+45
Matching permanent IT job ads	73	43
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	7.199 %	3.413 %
Salaries quoted	61	33
Average minimum salary	£36,533	£25,650
Average salary	£40,278	£27,538
% change on same period last year	+46.26 %
Average maximum salary	£44,022	£29,425
UK excluding London average salary	£41,678	£40,537
% change on same period last year	+2.81 %
Application Platforms West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	1014	1260
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.587 %	0.542 %
Salaries quoted	868	1105
Average minimum salary	£32,468	£32,456
Average salary	£35,197	£35,139
% change on same period last year	+0.16 %
Average maximum salary	£37,926	£37,821
UK excluding London average salary	£38,084	£38,632
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
SAS England

SAS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SAS across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

SAS
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SAS across the West Midlands region.

SAS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SAS across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

SAS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	+20	28	£51,488	+81.56 %
Coventry	-7	4	£39,667	+44.82 %
Staffordshire	-7	3	-	-
Solihull	-	3	-	-
Walsall	+9	3	£31,000	+12.72 %
Herefordshire	-	2	£32,000	-
Worcestershire	-	1	£30,000	-
Wolverhampton	-4	1	£31,000	+31.91 %

SAS England

SAS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SAS.

1 49 (33.56 %) Business Intelligence 2 41 (28.08 %) Degree 3 36 (24.66 %) ETL 3 36 (24.66 %) Finance 4 35 (23.97 %) Data Analysis 5 34 (23.29 %) SQL 6 30 (20.55 %) Datawarehouse 7 25 (17.12 %) ITIL 8 24 (16.44 %) SPSS 9 22 (15.07 %) Marketing 10 21 (14.38 %) UNIX 11 20 (13.70 %) Business Objects 11 20 (13.70 %) BusinessObjects 12 19 (13.01 %) Data Mining 12 19 (13.01 %) MS Excel

13 17 (11.64 %) Windows 13 17 (11.64 %) OLAP 14 16 (10.96 %) Credit Risk 14 16 (10.96 %) Mathematics 14 16 (10.96 %) OpenView 14 16 (10.96 %) HP 14 16 (10.96 %) Microsoft 14 16 (10.96 %) Service Delivery 15 15 (10.27 %) Risk Management 15 15 (10.27 %) Compuware 16 14 (9.589 %) Oracle 16 14 (9.589 %) Migration 16 14 (9.589 %) Data Migration 17 13 (8.904 %) Data Modelling 18 12 (8.219 %) Retail

SAS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (2.055 %) HTML 2 1 (0.685 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (1.370 %) Lotus Notes 1 2 (1.370 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 24 (16.44 %) SPSS 2 19 (13.01 %) MS Excel 3 10 (6.849 %) MS Office 4 4 (2.740 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 1 (0.685 %) Siebel Analytics
Communications & Networking 1 7 (4.795 %) WAN 2 1 (0.685 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 36 (24.66 %) ETL 2 30 (20.55 %) Datawarehouse 3 20 (13.70 %) BusinessObjects 4 19 (13.01 %) Data Mining 5 17 (11.64 %) OLAP 6 11 (7.534 %) SQL Server 6 11 (7.534 %) Text Mining 6 11 (7.534 %) Base SAS 7 7 (4.795 %) Data Cleansing 7 7 (4.795 %) Star Schema 8 4 (2.740 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 4 (2.740 %) Database Marketing 9 3 (2.055 %) Data Mart 10 2 (1.370 %) SAS Enterprise Guide 11 1 (0.685 %) Oracle BI EE 11 1 (0.685 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 11 1 (0.685 %) PerformancePoint 11 1 (0.685 %) SQL Server 2005 11 1 (0.685 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 1 (0.685 %) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 2 (1.370 %) WinRunner 1 2 (1.370 %) QuickTest Pro 1 2 (1.370 %) LoadRunner	General 1 36 (24.66 %) Finance 2 22 (15.07 %) Marketing 3 12 (8.219 %) Retail 4 8 (5.479 %) Pensions 4 8 (5.479 %) Health 5 4 (2.740 %) Banking 6 3 (2.055 %) Construction 7 2 (1.370 %) Education 7 2 (1.370 %) Government 7 2 (1.370 %) Manufacturing 8 1 (0.685 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 78 (53.42 %) Analyst 2 32 (21.92 %) Consultant 3 27 (18.49 %) SAS Consultant 4 22 (15.07 %) Senior Analyst 5 19 (13.01 %) Marketing Analyst 6 18 (12.33 %) Developer 7 17 (11.64 %) Architect 7 17 (11.64 %) Risk Analyst 7 17 (11.64 %) SAS Architect 8 16 (10.96 %) MI Analyst 8 16 (10.96 %) SAS Analyst 9 15 (10.27 %) SAS Developer 9 15 (10.27 %) Server Specialist 10 13 (8.904 %) Credit Analyst 11 12 (8.219 %) Senior Risk Analyst 12 11 (7.534 %) Report Analyst 13 10 (6.849 %) Senior Marketing Analyst 14 9 (6.164 %) Credit Risk Analyst 15 8 (5.479 %) Senior Credit Risk Analyst 15 8 (5.479 %) Systems Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 16 (10.96 %) Mathematics 1 16 (10.96 %) Credit Risk 2 7 (4.795 %) Statistics 3 5 (3.425 %) AS400 3 5 (3.425 %) Data Extraction 4 4 (2.740 %) Economics 5 2 (1.370 %) Management Information System 6 1 (0.685 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 21 (14.38 %) UNIX 2 17 (11.64 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 49 (33.56 %) Business Intelligence 2 35 (23.97 %) Data Analysis 3 25 (17.12 %) ITIL 4 16 (10.96 %) Service Delivery 5 15 (10.27 %) Risk Management 6 14 (9.589 %) Migration 6 14 (9.589 %) Data Migration 7 13 (8.904 %) Data Modelling 8 11 (7.534 %) Service Management 9 9 (6.164 %) Statistical Analysis 9 9 (6.164 %) Information Management 10 7 (4.795 %) ITSM 11 5 (3.425 %) Operations Research 12 4 (2.740 %) Data Management 12 4 (2.740 %) Business Analysis 12 4 (2.740 %) RAD 13 3 (2.055 %) CRM 13 3 (2.055 %) Business Development 14 2 (1.370 %) Competitor Analysis 14 2 (1.370 %) CHAID
Programming Languages 1 34 (23.29 %) SQL 2 5 (3.425 %) C 2 5 (3.425 %) VBA 3 4 (2.740 %) VB 4 3 (2.055 %) SAS Macro 4 3 (2.055 %) Prolog 4 3 (2.055 %) Modula-2 4 3 (2.055 %) C++ 5 1 (0.685 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (0.685 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (0.685 %) VB6 5 1 (0.685 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 41 (28.08 %) Degree 2 6 (4.110 %) ITIL Certification 3 3 (2.055 %) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (2.055 %) Basel II 1 3 (2.055 %) QA	Systems Management 1 16 (10.96 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 20 (13.70 %) Business Objects 2 16 (10.96 %) Microsoft 2 16 (10.96 %) HP 3 15 (10.27 %) Compuware 4 14 (9.589 %) Oracle 5 6 (4.110 %) Cognos 6 5 (3.425 %) DataFlux 7 3 (2.055 %) Teradata 7 3 (2.055 %) Trillium 8 2 (1.370 %) Lotus 9 1 (0.685 %) Brio 9 1 (0.685 %) Siebel 9 1 (0.685 %) Informatica