PROC SQL Contracts in England

SAS SQL Procedure (PROC SQL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring PROC SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PROC SQL 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 482 - 652
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing PROC SQL 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.012% - 0.002%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.036% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £367 - -
25th Percentile £370 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £750
75th Percentile £469 - £775
90th Percentile £495 - -
UK median daily rate £400 - £750

All Programming Languages
England

PROC SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 8,221 10,920 17,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 33.76% 29.36% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,687 7,931 13,003
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 441 430
10th Percentile £25.25 £35.52 £26.24
25th Percentile £37.65 £48.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

PROC SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing PROC SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for PROC SQL in England

PROC SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PROC SQL in England.

Daily rate trend for PROC SQL in England

PROC SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PROC SQL in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PROC SQL in England

PROC SQL
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PROC SQL within the England 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
London - 3 £400 -
PROC SQL
UK

PROC SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Base SAS
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) SAS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SAS Macro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google