SAS Contract Job Trends in London

SAS System
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring SAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 331 304
Rank change year-on-year -32 -27 +87
Contract jobs citing SAS 77 40 73
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.29% 0.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.83% 2.57% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 23 58
10th Percentile £377 £378 £363
25th Percentile £404 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £491 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.32% -10.82% -
75th Percentile - £534 £699
90th Percentile £616 £638 £825
England median daily rate £515 £515 £550
% change year-on-year - -6.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £48.25
% change year-on-year +40.00% -22.28% -25.77%

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 2,009 1,559 2,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.97% 11.47% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,336 1,068 1,514
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £564
Median % change year-on-year - -6.87% +2.50%
75th Percentile £615 £670 £750
90th Percentile £705 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 25
10th Percentile £17.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.66 £26.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.75 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +7.89% -40.00%
75th Percentile £41.33 £52.81 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.08 £85.13 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £43.09 £33.07
% change year-on-year -24.58% +30.30% -26.51%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SAS job vacancy trend in London

SAS
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SAS

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS in London over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAS in London

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SAS

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 12 August 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
Central London -28 4 £200 -50.00% 2
South London -11 1 £481 -0.10%
East London - 1 £449 -
SAS
England

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 (6.49%) Confluence
2 4 (5.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.88%) AWS
2 8 (10.39%) Amazon EMR
2 8 (10.39%) Amazon S3
2 8 (10.39%) Azure
3 7 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.60%) GCP
5 2 (2.60%) Serverless
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.30%) dbt
6 1 (1.30%) GitHub
6 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.78%) Base SAS
1 16 (20.78%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (14.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 8 (10.39%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (9.09%) Power BI
5 6 (7.79%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 5 (6.49%) Big Data
6 5 (6.49%) Data Lake
7 4 (5.19%) Data Mart
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database
8 3 (3.90%) PowerCenter
8 3 (3.90%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.30%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.30%) Metadata
9 1 (1.30%) Pentaho
9 1 (1.30%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Git
2 7 (9.09%) JIRA
3 3 (3.90%) GitLab
4 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (20.78%) Finance
2 15 (19.48%) Banking
3 8 (10.39%) Social Skills
4 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.19%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (49.35%) Architect
2 14 (18.18%) Developer
3 12 (15.58%) SAS Developer
4 8 (10.39%) Lead
5 7 (9.09%) Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) SAS Architect
5 7 (9.09%) SAS Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Senior
6 5 (6.49%) Technical Architect
7 4 (5.19%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.19%) Lead Architect
7 4 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Technical Leader
8 3 (3.90%) Data Analyst
9 2 (2.60%) Credit Analyst
9 2 (2.60%) Risk Analyst
9 2 (2.60%) Security Architect
9 2 (2.60%) Support Analyst
9 2 (2.60%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.69%) PySpark
2 4 (5.19%) Middleware
3 1 (1.30%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Credit Risk
2 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.19%) IoT
3 4 (5.19%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.90%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.49%) Linux
2 3 (3.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (67.53%) Analytics
2 46 (59.74%) ETL
3 35 (45.45%) Data Integration
4 28 (36.36%) Enterprise Architecture
5 16 (20.78%) Data Pipeline
6 15 (19.48%) Data Engineering
6 15 (19.48%) Validation
7 14 (18.18%) Agile
7 14 (18.18%) Migration
8 13 (16.88%) Data Analysis
9 12 (15.58%) Data Modelling
10 11 (14.29%) Model Validation
11 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
12 9 (11.69%) Backtesting
12 9 (11.69%) DevOps
12 9 (11.69%) Feature Engineering
12 9 (11.69%) Statistical Modelling
13 8 (10.39%) Performance Tuning
13 8 (10.39%) Scrum
13 8 (10.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (31.17%) SQL
2 15 (19.48%) Python
2 15 (19.48%) SAS Macro
3 3 (3.90%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.30%) R
5 1 (1.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 43 (55.84%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.30%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (35.06%) GRC
2 9 (11.69%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.90%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.79%) Terraform
2 4 (5.19%) Control-M
3 3 (3.90%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.60%) Grafana
4 2 (2.60%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.30%) Ansible
5 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (41.56%) Oracle
2 5 (6.49%) Informatica
3 3 (3.90%) LexisNexis
3 3 (3.90%) Pega
4 2 (2.60%) HP
5 1 (1.30%) Denodo
5 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.30%) Murex
5 1 (1.30%) Sonatype