SAS Contract Job Trends in Cumbria

SAS System
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring SAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SAS 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cumbria 1.05% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £361 - -
25th Percentile £394 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
75th Percentile £449 - -
90th Percentile £449 - -
North West median daily rate £398 £497 £398
% change year-on-year -19.94% +24.91% -6.47%

All Application Platform Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 18 17 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 6.32% 10.49% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 2
10th Percentile £319 £304 £460
25th Percentile £342 £415 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £438 £523
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -16.27% +22.94%
75th Percentile £410 £450 £549
90th Percentile £449 £461 £550
North West median daily rate £450 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +9.76% -8.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Median hourly rate - £41.84 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - +221.85% -
North West median hourly rate £53.54 £45.11 £31.00
% change year-on-year +18.69% +45.50% +40.91%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

SAS job vacancy trend in Cumbria

SAS
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
Barrow-in-Furness - 3 £447 - 1
SAS
North West

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 3 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Patch Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto