SAS Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

SAS System
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 51 62
Rank change year-on-year -20 +11 +10
Contract jobs citing SAS 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.65% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.32% 2.78% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £325 - -
25th Percentile £346 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £576 £572 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% - -
75th Percentile £780 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £499 £534 £358
% change year-on-year -6.51% +49.02% -31.81%

All Application Platform Skills
Birmingham

SAS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 95 36 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 10.31% 6.99% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 18 46
10th Percentile £291 £263 £131
25th Percentile £358 £281 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £477 £350
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +36.29% -17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £594 £620
90th Percentile £594 £665 £638
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £460 £400
% change year-on-year +1.96% +15.00% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - £14.31
25th Percentile £16.25 £56.88 £14.94
Median hourly rate £17.50 £58.75 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.21% +267.19% +4.92%
75th Percentile £20.31 £60.63 £35.50
90th Percentile £23.13 - £47.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £18.74 £15.83
% change year-on-year +180.15% +18.42% +3.77%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

SAS job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SAS
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SAS

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS in Birmingham over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAS in Birmingham

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (50.00%) Metadata
2 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (33.33%) Data Vault
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Marketing
3 2 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Insight Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Lead
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Data Insight Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Insight Data Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Lead Data Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) DataOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Credit Risk
1 3 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 3 (50.00%) Pricing Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Stress Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Data Science
4 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) DataOps
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Marketing Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) VBA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Teradata
2 2 (33.33%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) Informatica
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft