SAS Contract Job Trends in Preston

SAS System
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring SAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SAS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 0.61% - -
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Lancashire median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.66 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £72.66 - -

All Application Platform Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4 10 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 2.44% 12.82% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £383 £370 -
25th Percentile £394 £393 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £424 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% -10.79% +18.01%
75th Percentile £557 £468 £488
90th Percentile £628 £550 -
Lancashire median daily rate £400 £449 £475
% change year-on-year -10.86% -5.53% -25.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
Median hourly rate £72.66 £44.09 £25.30
Median % change year-on-year +64.80% +74.27% -
Lancashire median hourly rate £70.83 £47.12 £45.00
% change year-on-year +50.32% +4.71% -

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

SAS job vacancy trend in Preston

SAS
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing SAS

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing SAS

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle