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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 408 480
Rank change year-on-year -10 +72 -4
Contract jobs citing SAS 81 137 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.37% 0.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.77% 3.63% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 92 99
10th Percentile £382 £325 £400
25th Percentile £412 £375 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% - -3.38%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £568
90th Percentile £691 £686 £688
UK median daily rate £495 £494 £518
% change year-on-year +0.30% -4.59% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 6
10th Percentile £38.75 £20.68 £63.13
25th Percentile £42.50 £21.59 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.82 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +109.89% -63.35% +28.71%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.23 £76.44
90th Percentile £61.25 £78.13 £80.88
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £24.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +104.67% -62.42% +28.71%

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 2,929 3,776 4,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.52% 10.12% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,916 2,704 3,484
10th Percentile £290 £263 £263
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% -4.62% +1.94%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £489 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.20% -1.96% -2.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 143 140
10th Percentile £17.33 £13.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £29.25 £16.13 £21.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £31.71 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.56% -33.24% +115.91%
75th Percentile £72.00 £51.91 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £78.12
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £32.12 £52.50
% change year-on-year +63.48% -38.83% +121.71%

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 28 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAS in England over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 28 June 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 +29 38 £495 -9.95% 145
North of England +12 14 £497 +4.53% 47
South East +24 12 £650 +71.50% 38
North West +16 11 £497 +4.53% 32
South West +45 7 - - 11
East of England +30 3 £408 -9.44% 15
Yorkshire +4 3 £475 -9.52% 13
Midlands -10 3 £447 +5.18% 21
East Midlands -3 2 £447 -0.67% 8
West Midlands -7 1 £572 +57.14% 12
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 2 (2.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.23%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.23%) CICS
2 1 (1.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) IBM Transformation Extender
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.23%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Actimize
1 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.05%) AWS
2 11 (13.58%) Azure
3 7 (8.64%) Adobe Analytics
4 5 (6.17%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.17%) SaaS
5 3 (3.70%) GCP
5 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.47%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.47%) GitHub
6 2 (2.47%) IaaS
6 2 (2.47%) OCI
6 2 (2.47%) Oracle CX
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) DNS
1 1 (1.23%) HTTP
1 1 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.28%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (12.35%) Relational Database
3 7 (8.64%) Data Mining
3 7 (8.64%) Metadata
3 7 (8.64%) Oracle Database
4 6 (7.41%) Tableau
5 5 (6.17%) Base SAS
5 5 (6.17%) Power BI
6 3 (3.70%) DB2
6 3 (3.70%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.70%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.47%) Big Data
7 2 (2.47%) Data Hub
7 2 (2.47%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (2.47%) Oracle ODI
7 2 (2.47%) Pentaho
7 2 (2.47%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.47%) Text Mining
8 1 (1.23%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (2.47%) RStudio
2 1 (1.23%) ERwin
2 1 (1.23%) JIRA
General
1 30 (37.04%) Finance
2 28 (34.57%) Banking
3 22 (27.16%) Social Skills
4 10 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.88%) Marketing
6 4 (4.94%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.47%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.47%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Automotive
8 1 (1.23%) Electronics
8 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.23%) French Language
8 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.23%) Legal
8 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.23%) Retail
8 1 (1.23%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (20.99%) Analyst
2 14 (17.28%) Architect
3 7 (8.64%) Analytics Manager
3 7 (8.64%) Data Analytics Manager
3 7 (8.64%) Data Manager
3 7 (8.64%) Developer
3 7 (8.64%) Insight Manager
3 7 (8.64%) Strategy Manager
4 6 (7.41%) Risk Analyst
4 6 (7.41%) Senior
5 5 (6.17%) Data Analyst
5 5 (6.17%) Programmer
5 5 (6.17%) SAS Architect
5 5 (6.17%) Systems Programmer
5 5 (6.17%) z/OS Systems Programmer
6 4 (4.94%) Credit Analyst
6 4 (4.94%) Credit Risk Analyst
6 4 (4.94%) Data Scientist
6 4 (4.94%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (4.94%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.41%) ISPF
2 2 (2.47%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.23%) .NET
3 1 (1.23%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.23%) Kafka
3 1 (1.23%) MDX
3 1 (1.23%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.05%) Credit Risk
2 8 (9.88%) Mainframe
3 4 (4.94%) Life Science
3 4 (4.94%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.23%) Acoustics
5 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.23%) IoT
5 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.52%) Linux
2 8 (9.88%) zOS
3 6 (7.41%) Unix
4 2 (2.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (46.91%) Analytics
2 19 (23.46%) ETL
3 18 (22.22%) Migration
4 15 (18.52%) Data Visualisation
4 15 (18.52%) Visualisation
5 13 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (14.81%) Stress Testing
7 10 (12.35%) Data Analysis
7 10 (12.35%) Portfolio Management
8 9 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (9.88%) Data Extraction
9 8 (9.88%) Data Science
9 8 (9.88%) Digital Strategy
9 8 (9.88%) Storytelling
9 8 (9.88%) Web Analytics
10 7 (8.64%) Business Transformation
10 7 (8.64%) Critical Thinking
10 7 (8.64%) Digital Banking
10 7 (8.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 33 (40.74%) SQL
2 25 (30.86%) Python
3 16 (19.75%) R
4 8 (9.88%) MATLAB
4 8 (9.88%) REXX
5 7 (8.64%) Assembly Language
5 7 (8.64%) JCL
6 6 (7.41%) CLIST
7 3 (3.70%) PROC SQL
7 3 (3.70%) SAS Macro
8 2 (2.47%) Java
9 1 (1.23%) C
9 1 (1.23%) C++
9 1 (1.23%) COBOL
9 1 (1.23%) PL/1
9 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (12.35%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.88%) Degree
3 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.41%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.94%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.70%) PhD
7 2 (2.47%) CREST Certified
7 2 (2.47%) OSCE
8 1 (1.23%) CBAP
8 1 (1.23%) IIBA
8 1 (1.23%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.05%) IFRS
1 13 (16.05%) IFRS 9
2 5 (6.17%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.94%) GDPR
4 3 (3.70%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.23%) Basel III
5 1 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 6 (7.41%) Time Sharing Option
2 4 (4.94%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (1.23%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 5 (6.17%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 16 (19.75%) Oracle
2 9 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.88%) Adobe
3 8 (9.88%) IBM
4 7 (8.64%) Teradata
5 4 (4.94%) SAP
6 2 (2.47%) Informatica
6 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.47%) Spotify
7 1 (1.23%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.23%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.23%) Google
7 1 (1.23%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.23%) Pega
7 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.23%) Syncsort
7 1 (1.23%) Talend