SAS Contracts in England

SAS System
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 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 384 414 458
Rank change year-on-year +30 +44 +12
Contract jobs citing SAS 101 128 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.34% 0.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.59% 3.70% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 85 135
10th Percentile £389 £325 £400
25th Percentile £447 £363 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -6.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £550
90th Percentile £699 £666 £675
UK median daily rate £504 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £21.33 - £42.13
25th Percentile £21.44 £22.61 -
Median hourly rate £21.75 £24.43 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.97% -62.42% +23.81%
75th Percentile £21.94 £77.50 £76.44
90th Percentile £21.98 £78.25 £80.88
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -66.92% - +23.81%

All Application Platform Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,817 3,461 5,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.57% 9.31% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,884 2,471 3,915
10th Percentile £283 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £754
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 139 128
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%
75th Percentile £64.50 £45.59 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £65.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for SAS in England

SAS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for SAS in England

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for SAS in England

SAS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAS in England.

Hourly rate trend for SAS in England

SAS
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 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 +50 49 £538 -2.27% 132
North of England +5 16 £500 +5.82% 30
South East +23 14 £650 +83.36% 32
North West +19 12 £497 +4.53% 21
South West +52 7 - - 4
Midlands +16 7 £447 +20.81% 11
East Midlands +12 4 £447 -5.89% 2
Yorkshire -8 4 £500 +16.28% 6
West Midlands +6 3 £534 +49.02% 8
East of England +29 2 £408 -9.44% 6
SAS
UK

SAS
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 5 (4.95%) Confluence
2 1 (0.99%) CICS
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (10.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.96%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.99%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 16 (15.84%) AWS
2 12 (11.88%) Power Platform
3 7 (6.93%) Adobe Analytics
4 5 (4.95%) Azure
5 3 (2.97%) Collibra
5 3 (2.97%) GCP
6 2 (1.98%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.98%) IaaS
6 2 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.98%) SaaS
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.99%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.85%) Oracle Database
2 14 (13.86%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (13.86%) Relational Database
3 12 (11.88%) Power BI
4 10 (9.90%) Metadata
4 10 (9.90%) Tableau
5 9 (8.91%) Data Mining
6 6 (5.94%) Base SAS
6 6 (5.94%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.95%) Hadoop
8 4 (3.96%) QlikView
9 3 (2.97%) Data Hub
9 3 (2.97%) DB2
9 3 (2.97%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 2 (1.98%) Big Data
10 2 (1.98%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (1.98%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.98%) Text Mining
10 2 (1.98%) ThoughtSpot
11 1 (0.99%) HBase
Development Applications
1 6 (5.94%) JIRA
2 1 (0.99%) ERwin
2 1 (0.99%) GitLab
General
1 33 (32.67%) Social Skills
2 32 (31.68%) Banking
3 30 (29.70%) Finance
4 17 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (9.90%) Marketing
6 7 (6.93%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.96%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.97%) Retail
9 2 (1.98%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.98%) Legal
9 2 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.98%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.99%) Automotive
10 1 (0.99%) Electronics
10 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (25.74%) Analyst
2 16 (15.84%) Developer
3 12 (11.88%) Software Developer
4 10 (9.90%) Risk Analyst
5 9 (8.91%) Data Analyst
6 8 (7.92%) Architect
6 8 (7.92%) Credit Analyst
6 8 (7.92%) Credit Risk Analyst
7 7 (6.93%) Analytics Manager
7 7 (6.93%) Data Analytics Manager
7 7 (6.93%) Data Manager
7 7 (6.93%) Insight Manager
7 7 (6.93%) Strategy Manager
8 6 (5.94%) Lead
8 6 (5.94%) Lead Developer
8 6 (5.94%) Lead Software Developer
8 6 (5.94%) Senior
9 5 (4.95%) Banking Analyst
9 5 (4.95%) Programmer
9 5 (4.95%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.94%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.80%) Credit Risk
2 7 (6.93%) Mainframe
3 5 (4.95%) Reference Data
4 4 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.97%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.97%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.98%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.98%) Life Science
6 2 (1.98%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.99%) Acoustics
7 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.99%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.99%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.99%) IoT
7 1 (0.99%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.85%) Linux
2 7 (6.93%) zOS
3 6 (5.94%) Unix
4 2 (1.98%) Windows
5 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (37.62%) Analytics
2 31 (30.69%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (19.80%) Data Analysis
4 19 (18.81%) Migration
4 19 (18.81%) Visualisation
5 18 (17.82%) Data Visualisation
5 18 (17.82%) ETL
6 16 (15.84%) DevOps
7 15 (14.85%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (13.86%) Integration Testing
8 14 (13.86%) Unit Testing
9 13 (12.87%) Software Engineering
10 12 (11.88%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (11.88%) Validation
11 11 (10.89%) Stress Testing
12 10 (9.90%) Mentoring
12 10 (9.90%) Portfolio Management
12 10 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
13 9 (8.91%) Data Science
13 9 (8.91%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (47.52%) SQL
2 35 (34.65%) Python
3 12 (11.88%) R
4 7 (6.93%) JCL
4 7 (6.93%) REXX
5 6 (5.94%) Assembly Language
5 6 (5.94%) CLIST
5 6 (5.94%) MATLAB
6 3 (2.97%) PROC SQL
6 3 (2.97%) SAS Macro
7 2 (1.98%) C++
8 1 (0.99%) C
8 1 (0.99%) COBOL
8 1 (0.99%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (18.81%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.83%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.86%) DV Cleared
4 7 (6.93%) Degree
5 3 (2.97%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.97%) PhD
6 2 (1.98%) CREST Certified
6 2 (1.98%) OSCE
7 1 (0.99%) CBAP
7 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.99%) IIBA
7 1 (0.99%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.88%) IFRS
1 12 (11.88%) IFRS 9
2 9 (8.91%) Data Quality
3 7 (6.93%) GDPR
4 4 (3.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.97%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.98%) QA
7 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.99%) Basel III
System Software
1 6 (5.94%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (0.99%) Firmware
2 1 (0.99%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 5 (4.95%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 21 (20.79%) Oracle
2 10 (9.90%) IBM
3 9 (8.91%) Adobe
4 8 (7.92%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.93%) Teradata
6 5 (4.95%) Informatica
6 5 (4.95%) SAP
7 4 (3.96%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.98%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.98%) Spotify
8 2 (1.98%) Talend
9 1 (0.99%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.99%) Databricks
9 1 (0.99%) Google
9 1 (0.99%) Intel
9 1 (0.99%) Pega
9 1 (0.99%) Syncsort