SAS Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

SAS System
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 42 62
Rank change year-on-year -39 +20 +11
Contract jobs citing SAS 1 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.097% 1.39% 0.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.74% 12.50% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £288 £425
25th Percentile £400 £296 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £356 £550
Median % change year-on-year +40.45% -35.27% +37.50%
75th Percentile £600 £435 £563
90th Percentile - £447 £570
England median daily rate £500 £504 £450
% change year-on-year -0.79% +12.00% -10.00%

All Application Platform Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 135 56 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.08% 11.13% 6.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 43 31
10th Percentile £131 £252 £145
25th Percentile £253 £305 £159
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £400 £356
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% +12.36% -5.38%
75th Percentile £475 £488 £459
90th Percentile £600 £537 £550
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 10
10th Percentile £16.25 - £22.42
25th Percentile £20.50 - £23.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £39.53
Median % change year-on-year - - +109.60%
75th Percentile £74.00 - £51.91
90th Percentile £74.50 - -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £28.75
% change year-on-year -38.10% +82.61% +26.01%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

SAS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SAS
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SAS

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SAS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SAS

SAS
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 April 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
Nottinghamshire - 1 £500 - 2
SAS
England

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) MVS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk