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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 161 160
Rank change year-on-year -59 -1 +43
Contract jobs citing SAS 8 4 24
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.12% 0.12% 0.54%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.74% 1.14% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 12
10th Percentile £351 - £308
25th Percentile £435 - £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile - - £600
90th Percentile £462 - £634
England median daily rate £537 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.29% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £25.36
25th Percentile - - £33.21
Median hourly rate - - £47.62
75th Percentile - - £63.21
90th Percentile - - £71.79
England median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £48.25
% change year-on-year +40.00% -22.28% -25.77%

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 459 351 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 6.93% 10.16% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 211 241
10th Percentile £277 £206 £255
25th Percentile £406 £357 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £565
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 12 26
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.25 £25.06
25th Percentile £26.56 £22.63 £30.10
Median hourly rate £38.72 £32.41 £65.09
Median % change year-on-year +19.47% -50.20% +11.09%
75th Percentile £67.47 £59.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.73 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £35.25 £43.00
% change year-on-year -7.80% -18.02% +1.18%

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 23 September 2026. 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
West Sussex - 4 £459 - 3
Buckinghamshire -32 2 £363 - 13
Thames Valley -52 2 £363 - 23
East Sussex - 2 £459 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) DataStage
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Pentaho
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (12.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) GitLab
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) Artifactory
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) SAS Developer
2 2 (25.00%) SAS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Talend Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Unix
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (12.50%) Data Virtualisation
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Kimball Methodology
4 1 (12.50%) Observability
4 1 (12.50%) Open Source
4 1 (12.50%) People Management
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (12.50%) JCL
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) Informatica
2 4 (50.00%) Talend
3 3 (37.50%) Denodo
4 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
4 1 (12.50%) IBM
4 1 (12.50%) SAP
4 1 (12.50%) Teradata