SAS Contracts in the Midlands

SAS System
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 104 120 128
Rank change year-on-year +16 +8 +34
Contract jobs citing SAS 7 13 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.37% 0.47% 1.13%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.89% 6.34% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 31
10th Percentile £419 £333 -
25th Percentile - £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £370 £480
Median % change year-on-year +20.81% -22.92% +1.05%
75th Percentile £505 £400 £538
90th Percentile £545 £555 £540
England median daily rate £515 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +9.47% -6.00% -2.44%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 180 205 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.40% 7.44% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 144 323
10th Percentile £250 £147 £209
25th Percentile £363 £298 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £375 £455
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -17.58% +1.56%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £540
90th Percentile £588 £638 £619
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 9
10th Percentile £16.60 £17.47 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.94 £22.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.50 £39.53 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.20% +113.68% -7.50%
75th Percentile £20.24 £51.91 £26.48
90th Percentile £32.36 - £34.93
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SAS in the Midlands

SAS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SAS in the Midlands

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for SAS in the Midlands

SAS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SAS in the Midlands

SAS
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 within the Midlands 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
East Midlands +12 4 £447 -5.89%
West Midlands +6 3 £534 +49.02% 9
SAS
England

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
1 2 (28.57%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 1 (14.29%) SAS Data Integration Studio
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) SAS Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Benchmarking
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CBAP
2 1 (14.29%) IIBA
2 1 (14.29%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (14.29%) Basel III
1 1 (14.29%) IFRS
1 1 (14.29%) IFRS 9
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Talend