SAS Certification Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

SAS Certification
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for SAS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 116 -
Rank change year-on-year -70 - -
Contract jobs citing SAS Certification 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.046% 0.051% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £671 - -
25th Percentile £671 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 £447 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.14% - -
75th Percentile £671 - -
90th Percentile £671 - -
England median daily rate £671 £447 -
% change year-on-year +50.14% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

SAS Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,306 604 854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.14% 30.58% 31.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 862 395 538
10th Percentile £315 £150 £230
25th Percentile £405 £285 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £588 £575
90th Percentile £650 £692 £683
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.32% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 37 69
10th Percentile £16.35 £16.81 £13.20
25th Percentile £18.20 £18.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% -1.91% +23.25%
75th Percentile £65.25 £37.25 £42.50
90th Percentile £74.00 £55.10 £56.75
England median hourly rate £47.54 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +35.83% -12.50% -25.93%

SAS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SAS Certification job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SAS Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SAS Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SAS Certification

SAS Certification
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS Certification within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
West Midlands - 2 £671 - 1
SAS Certification
England

SAS Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 2 (100.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) SAS Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Security
1 2 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Analytics
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks