SAS Contracts in London

SAS System
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 304 354 417
Rank change year-on-year +50 +63 +13
Contract jobs citing SAS 49 37 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.39% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.36% 1.88% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 29 43
10th Percentile £383 £325 £433
25th Percentile £466 £388 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £690 £750 £598
90th Percentile £699 £825 £745
England median daily rate £515 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +9.47% -6.00% -2.44%

All Application Platform Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,460 1,967 2,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.64% 11.03% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 1,456 2,104
10th Percentile £333 £263 £310
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £675 £638 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 29
10th Percentile £25.34 £15.50 £17.75
25th Percentile £26.03 £22.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.73 £29.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.84% -17.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £50.94 £33.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £58.75 £82.60
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SAS in London

SAS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SAS in London

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for SAS in London

SAS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SAS in London

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 SAS within the London 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
Central London +4 9 £400 -5.88% 11
SAS
England

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (6.12%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) CICS
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (12.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (6.12%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.45%) AWS
1 11 (22.45%) Power Platform
2 3 (6.12%) Collibra
2 3 (6.12%) GCP
3 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.04%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (30.61%) Oracle Database
2 11 (22.45%) Power BI
3 8 (16.33%) Data Mining
3 8 (16.33%) Metadata
3 8 (16.33%) Tableau
4 7 (14.29%) Relational Database
5 6 (12.24%) Base SAS
5 6 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (12.24%) RDBMS
6 4 (8.16%) QlikView
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.04%) Big Data
7 1 (2.04%) Data Hub
7 1 (2.04%) DB2
7 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.04%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) JIRA
General
1 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.49%) Banking
3 9 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (16.33%) Finance
5 4 (8.16%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Marketing
6 2 (4.08%) Retail
7 1 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Analyst
2 14 (28.57%) Developer
3 12 (24.49%) Software Developer
4 6 (12.24%) Data Analyst
4 6 (12.24%) Lead
4 6 (12.24%) Lead Developer
4 6 (12.24%) Lead Software Developer
5 5 (10.20%) Risk Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Banking Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Credit Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Credit Risk Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Programmer
7 3 (6.12%) Systems Programmer
7 3 (6.12%) z/OS Systems Programmer
8 2 (4.08%) Data Scientist
8 2 (4.08%) Governance Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Reliability Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.37%) Credit Risk
2 5 (10.20%) Reference Data
3 4 (8.16%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (8.16%) Mainframe
4 3 (6.12%) Taxonomies
5 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.04%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (2.04%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.61%) Linux
2 5 (10.20%) Unix
3 4 (8.16%) zOS
4 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.98%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (30.61%) DevOps
3 14 (28.57%) Integration Testing
3 14 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 13 (26.53%) Data Analysis
4 13 (26.53%) Software Engineering
5 12 (24.49%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (24.49%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (22.45%) Analytics
7 9 (18.37%) Visualisation
8 8 (16.33%) Data Visualisation
8 8 (16.33%) ETL
8 8 (16.33%) Mentoring
8 8 (16.33%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (14.29%) Quantitative Analysis
10 6 (12.24%) Change Management
10 6 (12.24%) CI/CD
10 6 (12.24%) Data Management
10 6 (12.24%) Migration
10 6 (12.24%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (55.10%) SQL
2 25 (51.02%) Python
3 4 (8.16%) Assembly Language
3 4 (8.16%) JCL
3 4 (8.16%) R
3 4 (8.16%) REXX
4 3 (6.12%) CLIST
4 3 (6.12%) MATLAB
4 3 (6.12%) PROC SQL
4 3 (6.12%) SAS Macro
5 1 (2.04%) C++
Qualifications
1 14 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 14 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 12 (24.49%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) Degree
4 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (10.20%) GDPR
3 4 (8.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (4.08%) IFRS
4 2 (4.08%) IFRS 9
5 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (2.04%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 17 (34.69%) Oracle
2 7 (14.29%) IBM
3 4 (8.16%) Informatica
4 3 (6.12%) Ab Initio
4 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.08%) Adobe
5 2 (4.08%) Spotify
6 1 (2.04%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.04%) Databricks
6 1 (2.04%) Google
6 1 (2.04%) Intel
6 1 (2.04%) Pega
6 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.04%) SAP
6 1 (2.04%) Syncsort
6 1 (2.04%) Talend