SAS Contracts in the South East

SAS System
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 145 168 191
Rank change year-on-year +23 +23 +54
Contract jobs citing SAS 14 37 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.47% 0.67% 0.53%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.55% 9.76% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 27
10th Percentile £475 £304 £465
25th Percentile £513 £319 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £355 £500
Median % change year-on-year +83.36% -29.10% +17.65%
75th Percentile - £488 £544
90th Percentile £672 £600 £586
England median daily rate £515 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +9.47% -6.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £23.82 -
England median hourly rate £21.75 £24.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year -10.97% -62.42% +23.81%

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 308 379 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.23% 6.82% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 244 459
10th Percentile £263 £225 £230
25th Percentile £401 £325 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £436 £488
Median % change year-on-year +14.61% -10.51% +2.63%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £600
90th Percentile £650 £608 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 25
10th Percentile £25.33 £16.00 £22.16
25th Percentile £38.53 £22.61 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -36.94% +177.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £64.50 £76.50 £77.51
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing SAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for SAS in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for SAS in the South East

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAS in the South East

SAS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SAS in the South East

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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 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
Thames Valley +27 13 £650 +62.50% 4
Buckinghamshire +16 11 £650 +8.33% 1
Berkshire +15 2 £513 +46.43% 3
Surrey +14 1 £475 +54.47%
SAS
England

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Hub
1 1 (7.14%) DB2
1 1 (7.14%) Metadata
1 1 (7.14%) MS Access
1 1 (7.14%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Credit Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Credit Risk Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Risk Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Credit Risk Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Data Modeller
3 2 (14.29%) Procurement Officer
3 2 (14.29%) Risk Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (7.14%) SAS Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) SAS Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Analytics
1 9 (64.29%) Stress Testing
2 8 (57.14%) Portfolio Management
3 5 (35.71%) Credit Risk Management
3 5 (35.71%) Internal Audit
3 5 (35.71%) Validation
4 2 (14.29%) Credit Risk Modelling
4 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 2 (14.29%) E-business
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Management
5 1 (7.14%) ETL
5 1 (7.14%) Fraud Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) IFRS
1 9 (64.29%) IFRS 9
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Ab Initio