SAS Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

SAS System
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 98 58 57
Rank change year-on-year -40 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing SAS 7 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.60% 0.67% 1.06%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.52% 3.41% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile £454 £410 -
25th Percentile £508 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £647 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +36.21% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £780 £550 £588
90th Percentile - £580 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £647 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +36.21% -9.52% +10.53%

All Application Platform Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 155 88 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 13.18% 19.51% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 48 38
10th Percentile £400 £350 £400
25th Percentile £450 £381 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £507
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -16.17% +6.74%
75th Percentile £603 £536 £597
90th Percentile £688 £615 £640
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £442 £500
% change year-on-year +13.06% -11.55% +17.65%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

SAS job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

SAS
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SAS

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SAS in South Yorkshire

SAS
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
Sheffield -44 7 £647 +61.75% 1
SAS
Yorkshire

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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