SAS Contract Job Trends in Manchester

SAS System
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring SAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 81 95
Rank change year-on-year -6 +14 +31
Contract jobs citing SAS 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.28% 0.17% 0.31%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.65% 1.94% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £528 - £372
25th Percentile £533 £413 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +27.06% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £544 £438 £498
90th Percentile £546 - £518
North West median daily rate £530 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +24.59% -5.56% +5.14%

All Application Platform Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 113 103 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.55% 8.79% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 71 99
10th Percentile £311 £200 £256
25th Percentile £347 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.12% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £519 £524 £575
90th Percentile £600 £643 £663
North West median daily rate £420 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -6.67% -0.06% +0.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £19.75 £30.60 £13.79
25th Percentile £30.81 £32.25 £15.37
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +79.49% -72.14%
75th Percentile £70.94 £41.88 £34.06
90th Percentile £77.13 £46.00 £52.63
North West median hourly rate £55.26 £33.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +67.45% +73.68% -72.86%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

SAS job vacancy trend in Manchester

SAS
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SAS

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SAS

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Cognos Report Studio
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Cognos Transformer
2 2 (66.67%) OLAP
2 2 (66.67%) OLAP Cube
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cognos Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cognos Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Sprint Review
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cognos
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft