SAS Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

SAS Engineer
England > London

The median SAS Engineer daily rate in London is £384, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 - 377
Rank change year-on-year - - +53
Contract jobs requiring an SAS Engineer 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.025% - 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% - 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £303 - £489
25th Percentile £338 - £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 - £591
Median % change year-on-year - - -40.88%
75th Percentile £402 - £608
90th Percentile - - £626
England median daily rate £400 £650 £595
% change year-on-year -38.46% +9.24% -25.63%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 18,822 12,435 15,223
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 92.56% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,167 8,299 9,958
10th Percentile £363 £333 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -1.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 207 178
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £23.89
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.40 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.64% -21.71% -9.58%
75th Percentile £65.60 £48.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.34 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.70%

SAS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SAS Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

SAS Engineer job vacancy trend in London

SAS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

SAS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS Engineer in London over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAS Engineer in London

SAS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 9 October 2026, SAS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring SAS Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SAS
2 4 (80.00%) Base SAS
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 4 (80.00%) SAS Macro
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Validation
3 3 (60.00%) Backtesting
3 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (60.00%) Data Extraction
3 3 (60.00%) Feature Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Impact Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Model Validation
3 3 (60.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 3 (60.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 3 (60.00%) Stress Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Time Series Forecasting
3 3 (60.00%) Trend Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Ansible
4 1 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline

SAS Engineer Skill Set
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
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Base SAS
1 4 (80.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Backtesting
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Data Cleansing
2 3 (60.00%) Data Extraction
2 3 (60.00%) Feature Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Impact Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Model Validation
2 3 (60.00%) Predictive Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Stress Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Time Series Forecasting
2 3 (60.00%) Trend Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SAS Macro
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus