SAS Contracts in the City of London

SAS System
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 117 160
Rank change year-on-year +7 +43 +12
Contract jobs citing SAS 9 9 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.51% 0.41% 0.33%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.09% 3.19% 2.67%
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% +5.00%
75th Percentile £512 £588 £567
90th Percentile £570 £718 £585
Central London median daily rate £400 £425 £525
% change year-on-year -5.88% -19.05% +3.45%

All Application Platform Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 220 282 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.52% 12.84% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 211 295
10th Percentile £325 £250 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £625 £594 £712
90th Percentile £725 £725 £800
Central London median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -23.81% +98.11%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -33.88% -23.81% +98.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SAS in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SAS in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAS in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for SAS in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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%) Credit Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Data Mapping
3 1 (11.11%) Data Security
3 1 (11.11%) Internal Audit
3 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (11.11%) UML
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
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