SAS Contract Job Trends in Central London

SAS System
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring SAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 116 125
Rank change year-on-year -17 +9 +48
Contract jobs citing SAS 2 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.090% 0.30% 0.27%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.02% 2.53% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 7
10th Percentile - £377 £343
25th Percentile £409 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £490 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +22.38% -25.93%
75th Percentile £426 £570 £506
90th Percentile - £613 £565
London median daily rate £475 £550 £483
% change year-on-year -13.64% +13.99% -10.23%

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 197 237 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.89% 11.68% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 135 247
10th Percentile £371 £239 £250
25th Percentile £425 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% -7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £699 £683 £718
London median daily rate £520 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -0.95% +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £18.95 - -
25th Percentile £19.63 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 - £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.56%
75th Percentile £22.13 - £40.00
90th Percentile £22.65 - -
London median hourly rate £19.00 £32.52 £29.50
% change year-on-year -41.57% +10.24% +30.36%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

SAS job vacancy trend in Central London

SAS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SAS

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SAS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing SAS

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 13 March 2026. 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 2 £418 -14.71% 4
SAS
London

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Actimize
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Case Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) ETL Development
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) LexisNexis
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Pega
1 1 (50.00%) Teradata