SAS Engineer Contract Job Trends in Telford

SAS Engineer
Shropshire > Telford

The median SAS Engineer daily rate in Telford is £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -31 - -
Contract jobs requiring an SAS Engineer 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 1.68% 3.00% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.86% 3.45% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £514 - -
25th Percentile £524 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £434 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.42% - -
75th Percentile £570 £440 -
90th Percentile £588 £444 -
Shropshire median daily rate £540 £434 -
% change year-on-year +24.42% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Telford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Telford with a recognized job title 215 87 40
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 87.00% 97.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 72 24
10th Percentile £351 £300 £229
25th Percentile £429 £361 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £477 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -0.63% -9.43%
75th Percentile £540 £519 £528
90th Percentile £560 £565 £583
Shropshire median daily rate £500 £469 £475
% change year-on-year +6.61% -1.26% -10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £18.68 £23.60 -
% change year-on-year -20.85% - -

SAS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'SAS Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford.

SAS Engineer job vacancy trend in Telford

SAS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SAS Engineer job vacancies in Telford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SAS Engineer job vacancies in Telford

SAS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford

For the 6 months to 2 November 2025, SAS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Telford region featuring SAS Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Denodo
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Pentaho
1 4 (100.00%) SAS
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (75.00%) Business Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Data Virtualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Talend

SAS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 4 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Pentaho
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (50.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (75.00%) Business Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Data Virtualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Denodo
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Talend