SAS Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

SAS System
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring SAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 53 53
Rank change year-on-year -44 0 -5
Contract jobs citing SAS 7 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.65% 0.52% 1.25%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.73% 2.82% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £454 - -
25th Percentile £508 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £647 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +61.75% -23.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £780 - £588
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £647 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +36.21% -9.52% +10.53%

All Application Platform Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 148 71 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 13.78% 18.30% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 44 32
10th Percentile £394 £360 £400
25th Percentile £450 £386 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £431 £514
Median % change year-on-year +27.54% -16.02% +8.11%
75th Percentile £613 £536 £606
90th Percentile £688 £621 £644
South Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £425 £507
% change year-on-year +29.41% -16.17% +6.74%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

SAS job vacancy trend in Sheffield

SAS
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing SAS

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS in Sheffield over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAS in Sheffield

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Metadata
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Base SAS
3 1 (14.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 1 (14.29%) SAS Visual Analytics
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Marketing
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Insight Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
1 3 (42.86%) Programmer
1 3 (42.86%) Systems Programmer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Data Insight Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Insight Data Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Data Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Mainframe Programmer
2 2 (28.57%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
2 2 (28.57%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SAS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Credit Risk
1 3 (42.86%) Mainframe
2 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) Validation
2 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (42.86%) Pricing Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
2 3 (42.86%) Stress Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (28.57%) Data Extraction
3 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
4 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Visual Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Assembly Language
1 3 (42.86%) CLIST
1 3 (42.86%) JCL
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) REXX
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) IBM
1 3 (42.86%) Teradata