SAS Contracts in Scotland

SAS System
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 108 118 126
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 +17
Contract jobs citing SAS 8 11 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.49% 0.50% 1.29%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.70% 3.29% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 16
10th Percentile - - £428
25th Percentile - £609 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £655 £528
Median % change year-on-year -27.97% +24.22% +11.05%
75th Percentile - £722 £618
90th Percentile - - £719
UK median daily rate £504 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.50% -2.44%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 216 334 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.29% 15.07% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 203 230
10th Percentile £222 £219 £181
25th Percentile £313 £350 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £453 £436
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% +3.90% -3.11%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £525
90th Percentile £575 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 3
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.36 £17.83
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.42 £17.99
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -8.11% +5.71%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.50 £36.25
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.93 £46.75
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SAS in Scotland

SAS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SAS in Scotland

SAS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for SAS in Scotland

SAS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +2 7 £472 -27.97% 4
Edinburgh +3 1 - - 2
SAS
UK

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
1 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) DB2
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Credit Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Data Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Data Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Data Modeller
2 3 (37.50%) ITSM Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) ITSM Architect
2 3 (37.50%) SAS Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) SAS Architect
2 3 (37.50%) SAS Data Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) SAS Modeller
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Flash
1 1 (12.50%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Credit Risk
2 1 (12.50%) Client/Server
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Experience
2 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) ITSM
2 3 (37.50%) Mathematics
2 3 (37.50%) Scorecard
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) OO
4 1 (12.50%) Preventative Maintenance
4 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
4 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
4 1 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) VBA
4 1 (12.50%) Perl
4 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) GPFS
1 1 (12.50%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Alteryx
2 1 (12.50%) Brocade
2 1 (12.50%) EMC
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp
2 1 (12.50%) Pega
2 1 (12.50%) Sybase
2 1 (12.50%) Teradata
2 1 (12.50%) Veritas
231 SAS jobs Nationwide