SAS Contracts in the North West

SAS System
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 108 127 148
Rank change year-on-year +19 +21 +7
Contract jobs citing SAS 12 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.36% 0.28%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.91% 5.10% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 6
10th Percentile £390 £372 £383
25th Percentile £426 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £475 £419
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% +13.43% -16.25%
75th Percentile £650 £488 £444
90th Percentile £670 £513 £447
England median daily rate £515 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +9.47% -6.00% -2.44%

All Application Platform Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 307 196 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.60% 7.11% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 123 187
10th Percentile £187 £230 £231
25th Percentile £325 £312 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £510 £520 £550
90th Percentile £588 £613 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 8
10th Percentile £16.25 - £15.18
25th Percentile £22.01 £13.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.59 £32.12 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% +56.66% +9.33%
75th Percentile £65.13 £45.00 £26.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £46.18 £39.93
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for SAS in the North West

SAS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for SAS in the North West

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for SAS in the North West

SAS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for SAS in the North West

SAS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the North West 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
Manchester - 11 £497 - 16
Merseyside - 1 - - 1
SAS
England

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (16.67%) IaaS
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (8.33%) HBase
1 1 (8.33%) Metadata
1 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.33%) Pentaho
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) ERwin
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Banking
3 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Automotive
5 1 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (8.33%) Retail
5 1 (8.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) SAS Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Systems Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Credit Risk Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) SAS Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Server Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Credit Risk
1 1 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (8.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (8.33%) IoT
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (8.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Re-Platforming
2 4 (33.33%) Analytics
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (25.00%) Data Security
4 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (16.67%) Data Mapping
4 2 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
4 2 (16.67%) ETL
4 2 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Red Team
4 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Sequence Diagram
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (16.67%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) CREST Certified
1 2 (16.67%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Informatica
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle