Base SAS Contract Job Trends in London

Base SAS (SAS Base)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Base SAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 366 397
Rank change year-on-year -20 +31 +125
Contract jobs citing Base SAS 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.032% 0.007% 0.011%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.16% 0.034% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £322 - £561
25th Percentile £335 - £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 - £763
Median % change year-on-year - - +44.55%
75th Percentile £411 - £884
90th Percentile £434 - £954
England median daily rate £370 £312 £763
% change year-on-year +18.59% -59.08% +41.47%

All Database & BI Skills
London

Base SAS falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,077 2,948 3,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.43% 21.90% 19.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,116 2,043 2,631
10th Percentile £361 £363 £385
25th Percentile £420 £455 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £556
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +1.62% -5.36%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £738 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £538 £533
% change year-on-year -6.98% +0.84% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 31 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.25 £28.84 £25.90
Median hourly rate £54.00 £41.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +30.12% -5.14% +4.01%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.75 £54.03
90th Percentile £91.00 £78.75 £65.27
England median hourly rate £54.00 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +35.00% -5.88% -22.73%

Base SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Base SAS job vacancy trend in London

Base SAS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Base SAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Base SAS

Base SAS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Base SAS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Base SAS

Base SAS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Base SAS within the London region over the 6 months to 26 February 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
East London - 1 £449 -
Base SAS
England

Base SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) SAS
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (80.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 3 (60.00%) Big Data
3 3 (60.00%) Data Mart
4 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (80.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (80.00%) Clean Code
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Change Data Capture
3 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Refactoring
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (20.00%) Complex ETL
5 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SAS Macro
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform