SAS Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SAS System
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 298 327
Rank change year-on-year +26 +29 -49
Contract jobs citing SAS 117 56 79
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.38% 0.40%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.30% 3.43% 4.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 33 51
10th Percentile £473 £325 £400
25th Percentile £496 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £490 £493
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -0.51% -0.51%
75th Percentile £540 £600 £625
90th Percentile £582 £626 £662
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.73% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £20.24 -
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £21.50 -
% change year-on-year +46.51% - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,856 1,631 1,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.21% 10.92% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,268 949 1,240
10th Percentile £213 £206 £213
25th Percentile £360 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £563 £552 £594
90th Percentile £669 £638 £678
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 59 102
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.95 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £20.77 £16.40
Median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £23.13
Median % change year-on-year -35.98% +83.78% +32.14%
75th Percentile £69.45 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% +29.63% +46.14%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SAS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SAS
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SAS

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAS in the UK excluding London

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SAS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SAS

SAS
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
West Midlands +36 91 £519 +7.24% 8
Midlands +23 91 £519 +12.35% 8
North of England -35 16 £513 +20.59% 10
North West -11 15 £513 +20.59% 9
East of England - 5 £662 -
Scotland -4 3 - -
South East -30 2 - - 4
Yorkshire -49 1 - - 1
SAS
UK

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.42%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.09%) AWS
2 19 (16.24%) OpenShift
3 18 (15.38%) Azure
4 8 (6.84%) GCP
5 5 (4.27%) PaaS
6 4 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (33.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 38 (32.48%) Pentaho
3 24 (20.51%) Oracle Database
4 19 (16.24%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (11.97%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 12 (10.26%) Metadata
7 5 (4.27%) Metadata Repository
7 5 (4.27%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 4 (3.42%) Cognos Framework Manager
8 4 (3.42%) Cognos Report Studio
9 3 (2.56%) Cognos Transformer
9 3 (2.56%) OLAP
9 3 (2.56%) OLAP Cube
9 3 (2.56%) Tableau
10 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.85%) Base SAS
11 1 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.85%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 55 (47.01%) Git
2 54 (46.15%) Jenkins
3 34 (29.06%) JIRA
4 23 (19.66%) GitLab
5 17 (14.53%) Selenium
6 16 (13.68%) JUnit
General
1 36 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.24%) Public Sector
3 18 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (15.38%) Finance
4 6 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.42%) Banking
6 3 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Advertising
7 1 (0.85%) Automotive
7 1 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (17.09%) Test Specialist
2 19 (16.24%) Release Manager
3 16 (13.68%) Architect
4 15 (12.82%) Data Engineer
5 9 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 9 (7.69%) SAS Engineer
6 8 (6.84%) Test Automation Specialist
7 7 (5.98%) Developer
8 5 (4.27%) Network Specialist
9 4 (3.42%) Cognos Developer
9 4 (3.42%) Software Engineer
10 3 (2.56%) Analyst
10 3 (2.56%) Denodo Engineer
10 3 (2.56%) SAS Developer
11 2 (1.71%) Configuration Engineer
11 2 (1.71%) Data Analyst
11 2 (1.71%) Integration Specialist
11 2 (1.71%) SAS Architect
11 2 (1.71%) Senior
12 1 (0.85%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (17.09%) REST
2 17 (14.53%) pytest
3 2 (1.71%) Node.js
4 1 (0.85%) .NET
4 1 (0.85%) ISPF
4 1 (0.85%) MDX
4 1 (0.85%) PySpark
4 1 (0.85%) React
4 1 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.11%) Credit Risk
2 5 (4.27%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.85%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (70.94%) Analytics
2 74 (63.25%) CI/CD
3 68 (58.12%) Agile
4 61 (52.14%) DevOps
5 60 (51.28%) Data Integration
6 53 (45.30%) Data Pipeline
6 53 (45.30%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (45.30%) Test Automation
7 50 (42.74%) Data Modelling
8 46 (39.32%) Scrum
9 43 (36.75%) ETL
10 39 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
11 34 (29.06%) Deployment Automation
12 33 (28.21%) Data Virtualisation
13 32 (27.35%) Data Analytics
14 30 (25.64%) Test Strategy
15 27 (23.08%) Migration
15 27 (23.08%) Risk Assessment
16 26 (22.22%) Business Analytics
17 25 (21.37%) Visual Analytics
Programming Languages
1 49 (41.88%) SQL
2 37 (31.62%) Python
3 13 (11.11%) R
4 6 (5.13%) Java
5 2 (1.71%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.71%) SAS Macro
5 2 (1.71%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.85%) Assembly Language
6 1 (0.85%) CLIST
6 1 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.85%) JCL
6 1 (0.85%) REXX
6 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 83 (70.94%) Security Cleared
2 78 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.42%) Degree
4 3 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.71%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (29.06%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.42%) QA
3 3 (2.56%) IFRS
4 2 (1.71%) CRD IV
4 2 (1.71%) FINREP
5 1 (0.85%) COREP
5 1 (0.85%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 55 (47.01%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 58 (49.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (0.85%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 68 (58.12%) Oracle
2 37 (31.62%) Denodo
2 37 (31.62%) Talend
3 11 (9.40%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.98%) Pega
5 6 (5.13%) Cognos
6 3 (2.56%) IBM
7 1 (0.85%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.85%) Remedy