SAS Contracts in Central London

SAS System
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring SAS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 124 160
Rank change year-on-year +4 +36 +20
Contract jobs citing SAS 9 9 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.45% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.52% 2.87% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 3
10th Percentile £364 £353 £411
25th Percentile £370 £388 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -19.05% +3.45%
75th Percentile £512 £588 £567
90th Percentile £570 £718 £585
London median daily rate £538 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.33% -2.27%

All Application Platform Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 256 314 479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.82% 12.84% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 236 319
10th Percentile £256 £250 £262
25th Percentile £403 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% -6.14% +4.76%
75th Percentile £603 £588 £700
90th Percentile £689 £716 £800
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £34.40 -
25th Percentile - £36.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £26.45 £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.88% -23.81% +98.11%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £26.73 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.84% -17.14% -3.45%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing SAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for SAS in Central London

SAS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAS in Central London.

Daily rate trend for SAS in Central London

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAS in Central London

SAS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAS in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for SAS in Central London

SAS
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +8 9 £400 -5.88% 5
SAS
London

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Base SAS
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (33.33%) Metadata
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) SAS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Market Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Market Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Market Data Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) SAS Architect
3 1 (11.11%) SAS Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Systems Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Credit Risk
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
1 3 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (11.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Analytics
1 3 (33.33%) ETL
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (22.22%) Portfolio Management
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (22.22%) Stress Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (11.11%) Credit Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Data Mapping
3 1 (11.11%) Internal Audit
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (11.11%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (11.11%) Sequence Diagram
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) PROC SQL
2 2 (22.22%) SAS Macro
3 1 (11.11%) Assembly Language
3 1 (11.11%) CLIST
3 1 (11.11%) JCL
3 1 (11.11%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) IFRS
1 2 (22.22%) IFRS 9
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) IBM