SAS Engineer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SAS Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median SAS Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 369 419
Rank change year-on-year +2 +50 +39
Contract jobs requiring an SAS Engineer 4 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.017% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.018% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £490 £380
25th Percentile - £513 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £478
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +15.18% -3.54%
75th Percentile - £575 £539
90th Percentile - £590 £576
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +21.21%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,760 16,487 20,409
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.95% 92.34% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,425 9,764 13,710
10th Percentile £213 £225 £228
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,238 1,522 1,154
10th Percentile £13.27 £14.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £19.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +12.50% +81.82%
75th Percentile £53.75 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.80 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%

SAS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured SAS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SAS Engineer in the UK excluding London

SAS Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SAS Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SAS Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

SAS Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 September 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
Scotland +6 2 - -
East of England - 1 £700 -
Midlands - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
SAS Engineer
UK

SAS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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

1 4 (100.00%) SAS
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) DataOps
3 2 (50.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Docker
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) R
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk
4 1 (25.00%) System Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Statistics
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) SQL

SAS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) SAS
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
2 1 (25.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 1 (25.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Retail Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) DataOps
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Scorecard
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Statistics
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) R
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle