SAS Contract Job Trends in the South East

SAS System
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring SAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 162 202
Rank change year-on-year -13 +40 +40
Contract jobs citing SAS 3 18 14
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.078% 0.43% 0.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.86% 4.83% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £563 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile - £609 £508
90th Percentile - £638 £600
England median daily rate £519 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.59% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £20.12 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £20.24 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -67.62% +35.87%
75th Percentile - £20.35 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £20.87 £62.50
% change year-on-year +79.71% -66.61% +23.76%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 348 373 565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.08% 9.00% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 214 364
10th Percentile £206 £252 £210
25th Percentile £385 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £467 £486
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% -3.96% +4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £560 £586
90th Percentile £675 £638 £677
England median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 29 39
10th Percentile £13.24 £30.00 £24.00
25th Percentile £16.38 £41.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £47.64 £63.15 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.57% +9.83% +187.50%
75th Percentile £77.88 £70.00 £69.32
90th Percentile £81.00 - £76.19
England median hourly rate £41.00 £42.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -3.53% +57.41% +35.00%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

SAS job vacancy trend in the South East

SAS
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SAS

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SAS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SAS

SAS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Thames Valley -4 2 - - 7
Berkshire +9 1 - - 4
Buckinghamshire 0 1 - - 1
Surrey - 1 - -
SAS
England

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Support
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) MDX
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) IFRS
1 1 (33.33%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) MicroStrategy
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle