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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 163 202
Rank change year-on-year -3 +39 +35
Contract jobs citing SAS 4 18 13
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.11% 0.42% 0.24%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.14% 4.86% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £563 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile - £609 £497
90th Percentile - £638 £524
England median daily rate £520 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.45% +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 £63.75
% change year-on-year +79.71% -67.27% +26.24%

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 350 370 578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.63% 8.68% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 215 380
10th Percentile £206 £250 £209
25th Percentile £378 £363 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.46% +5.14%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £635 £678
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 30 41
10th Percentile £13.21 £30.00 £24.00
25th Percentile £13.25 £41.25 £44.60
Median hourly rate £29.64 £63.15 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.07% +9.83% +207.24%
75th Percentile £65.69 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.05 - £76.10
England median hourly rate £35.25 £42.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.06% +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 22 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
Thames Valley +1 3 - - 6
Berkshire +13 2 - - 3
Buckinghamshire -3 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power Query
2 1 (25.00%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (25.00%) Sisense
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) French Language
1 1 (25.00%) Italian Language
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Credit Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) MDX
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) IFRS
1 1 (25.00%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) MicroStrategy
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle