SAS Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

SAS System
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring SAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 119 129
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -23
Contract jobs citing SAS 33 20 14
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.20% 0.74% 0.48%
As % of the Application Platforms category 10.71% 9.52% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 14 9
10th Percentile £508 £335 £502
25th Percentile £509 £384 £545
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £453 £662
Median % change year-on-year +16.02% -31.59% +33.64%
75th Percentile £540 £613 £688
90th Percentile £593 £626 £692
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

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 308 210 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.16% 7.81% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 128 208
10th Percentile £270 £250 £189
25th Percentile £350 £353 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -19.19%
75th Percentile £537 £525 £538
90th Percentile £588 £626 £652
England median daily rate £500 £525 £516
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.69% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 13
10th Percentile £22.86 £14.26 £12.89
25th Percentile - £15.38 £17.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 £32.28 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% +74.49% +7.25%
75th Percentile £32.21 £57.68 £19.75
90th Percentile £34.43 £68.07 £21.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £28.75
% change year-on-year -17.65% +47.83% +33.72%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SAS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SAS
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 11 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAS in the Midlands

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SAS

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 11 October 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
West Midlands +9 33 £525 -14.98% 9
SAS
England

SAS
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 8 (24.24%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) AWS
1 10 (30.30%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) PaaS
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.03%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (63.64%) Pentaho
2 13 (39.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 10 (30.30%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 9 (27.27%) Oracle Database
5 4 (12.12%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 19 (57.58%) Git
2 18 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 18 (54.55%) JIRA
3 4 (12.12%) GitLab
General
1 10 (30.30%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Finance
4 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Release Manager
2 5 (15.15%) Data Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) SAS Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Configuration Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Configuration Manager
5 1 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Environment Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Senior
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) .NET
1 1 (3.03%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (87.88%) Analytics
2 28 (84.85%) Data Integration
3 27 (81.82%) DevOps
4 26 (78.79%) CI/CD
5 21 (63.64%) Data Pipeline
6 20 (60.61%) Deployment Automation
6 20 (60.61%) Test Automation
7 19 (57.58%) Data Analytics
8 18 (54.55%) Agile
8 18 (54.55%) Data Modelling
8 18 (54.55%) Data Virtualisation
8 18 (54.55%) ETL
8 18 (54.55%) Scrum
9 17 (51.52%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (48.48%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (45.45%) Business Analytics
11 15 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (36.36%) Migration
13 10 (30.30%) Configuration Management
13 10 (30.30%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) SQL
2 1 (3.03%) Java
2 1 (3.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 30 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 28 (84.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (51.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (87.88%) Oracle
2 21 (63.64%) Denodo
3 20 (60.61%) Talend
4 9 (27.27%) Microsoft