SAS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

SAS System
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 109 104 121
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 +36
Contract jobs citing SAS 7 11 15
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.44% 0.59% 0.66%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.38% 4.31% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - £428 £538
25th Percentile - £437 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £492 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% -19.67% +19.80%
75th Percentile - £569 £647
90th Percentile - £633 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.32%

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 160 255 284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 10.03% 13.58% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 154 188
10th Percentile £270 £171 £209
25th Percentile £351 £350 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £436 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -12.85% +6.38%
75th Percentile £525 £535 £633
90th Percentile £618 £646 £700
UK median daily rate £485 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.62% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £25.13 £15.44 £30.50
25th Percentile £35.87 £18.14 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £22.23 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.63% -50.59% +148.48%
75th Percentile £66.88 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £70.25 - £59.50
UK median hourly rate £33.33 £37.25 £35.75
% change year-on-year -10.54% +4.20% +62.50%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

SAS job vacancy trend in Scotland

SAS
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SAS

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing SAS

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 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
Glasgow -16 4 £472 -2.48%
Edinburgh +11 3 - - 1
SAS
UK

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SAS Data Integration Studio
2 1 (14.29%) DB2
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Data Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Data Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Data Modeller
1 3 (42.86%) ITSM Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) ITSM Architect
1 3 (42.86%) SAS Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) SAS Architect
1 3 (42.86%) SAS Data Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) SAS Modeller
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) SAS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SAS Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Flash
1 1 (14.29%) POSIX
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Client/Server
1 1 (14.29%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
1 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) ITSM
2 2 (28.57%) DataOps
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) Preventative Maintenance
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
3 1 (14.29%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (14.29%) SAS Macro
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) COREP
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) IFRS
1 1 (14.29%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) GPFS
1 1 (14.29%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Brocade
1 1 (14.29%) EMC
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) IBM
1 1 (14.29%) NetApp
1 1 (14.29%) Sybase
1 1 (14.29%) Veritas