SAS Engineer Contract Job Trends in England

SAS Engineer
UK > England

The median SAS Engineer daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 519 608
Rank change year-on-year +20 +89 +118
Contract jobs requiring an SAS Engineer 4 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.015% 0.012% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.013% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £367 £489 £404
25th Percentile £370 £548 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £591 £600
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% -1.46% +21.21%
75th Percentile £563 £598 £800
90th Percentile £645 £599 £920
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +21.21%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 25,035 30,207 40,332
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.38% 93.06% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,144 19,286 28,324
10th Percentile £281 £304 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,339 1,563 1,311
10th Percentile £13.54 £14.41 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £21.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.23 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -45.60% +5.40% +66.34%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%

SAS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured SAS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SAS Engineer in England

SAS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SAS Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SAS Engineer job vacancies in England

SAS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS Engineer in England over the 6 months to 5 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAS Engineer in England

SAS Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SAS Engineer job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for SAS Engineer job vacancies in England

SAS Engineer
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 SAS Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 5 September 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 +21 2 £395 -32.77%
Midlands - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £700 -
SAS Engineer
UK

SAS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 September 2025, SAS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring SAS Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SAS
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Unix
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Base SAS
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (50.00%) PROC SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Metadata
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Visual Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) GitLab
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native

SAS Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (100.00%) SAS
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Base SAS
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
2 1 (25.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 1 (25.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (25.00%) Scorecard
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Statistics
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) PROC SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) R
3 1 (25.00%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle