SAS Contracts in the UK excluding London

SAS System
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SAS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAS over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 294 325
Rank change year-on-year -32 +31 -6
Contract jobs citing SAS 47 77 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.42% 0.46%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.79% 4.56% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 43 64
10th Percentile £392 £321 £400
25th Percentile £447 £373 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.33% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £650 £569 £576
90th Percentile - £626 £650
UK median daily rate £490 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.44% -2.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £25.36 £64.35
25th Percentile - £33.21 £69.00
Median hourly rate - £47.62 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year - -39.34% +93.83%
75th Percentile - £63.21 £80.88
90th Percentile - £71.79 £81.25
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £48.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -22.28% -25.77% +17.12%

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 1,684 1,690 2,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.01% 9.13% 10.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 1,136 1,621
10th Percentile £235 £225 £200
25th Percentile £350 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £474
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -2.85% +2.93%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £576
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £505
% change year-on-year -7.32% +1.49% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 82 102
10th Percentile £16.78 £13.53 £14.65
25th Percentile £32.05 £16.50 £19.44
Median hourly rate £47.12 £30.91 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.43% -27.26% +112.50%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £64.31
90th Percentile £79.13 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £44.75 £31.71 £52.50
% change year-on-year +41.12% -39.60% +133.33%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SAS in the UK excluding London

SAS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SAS in the UK excluding London

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 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SAS in the UK excluding London

SAS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SAS in the UK excluding London

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 2 August 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
South East 0 13 £650 +62.50% 22
North of England -3 12 £497 +24.13% 25
North West +1 9 £497 +24.91% 14
Scotland 0 9 £472 -10.10% 17
South West +34 7 - - 2
East of England +6 3 £408 -9.44% 1
Yorkshire -5 3 £475 - 7
Midlands -33 3 £447 -0.11% 30
Wales +5 2 £650 +57.77% 6
East Midlands -11 2 £447 -0.67% 5
West Midlands -22 1 £572 +51.32% 23
SAS
UK

SAS
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 1 (2.13%) Confluence
1 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Actimize
1 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.02%) Azure
2 7 (14.89%) Adobe Analytics
3 6 (12.77%) AWS
4 3 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.38%) SaaS
5 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.26%) IaaS
5 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) DNS
1 1 (2.13%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (2.13%) HTTP
1 1 (2.13%) iSCSI
1 1 (2.13%) SAN
1 1 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (14.89%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.38%) DB2
2 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.38%) Tableau
3 2 (4.26%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.26%) Power BI
3 2 (4.26%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 2 (4.26%) Text Mining
4 1 (2.13%) Easytrieve
4 1 (2.13%) Metadata
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (2.13%) MS Access
4 1 (2.13%) Power Query
4 1 (2.13%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (2.13%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 1 (2.13%) Sisense
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 23 (48.94%) Finance
2 19 (40.43%) Banking
3 17 (36.17%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.89%) Marketing
5 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.38%) Retail Banking
7 2 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.13%) Automotive
8 1 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.13%) French Language
8 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.13%) Italian Language
8 1 (2.13%) Retail
8 1 (2.13%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Analyst
2 12 (25.53%) Architect
3 9 (19.15%) SAS Architect
4 7 (14.89%) Analytics Manager
4 7 (14.89%) Data Analytics Manager
4 7 (14.89%) Data Manager
4 7 (14.89%) Insight Manager
4 7 (14.89%) Strategy Manager
5 6 (12.77%) Data Analyst
5 6 (12.77%) Data Modeller
5 6 (12.77%) SAS Analyst
5 6 (12.77%) SAS Data Analyst
6 5 (10.64%) Credit Analyst
6 5 (10.64%) Data Architect
6 5 (10.64%) ITSM Analyst
6 5 (10.64%) ITSM Architect
6 5 (10.64%) Risk Analyst
6 5 (10.64%) SAS Modeller
6 5 (10.64%) Senior
7 4 (8.51%) Credit Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) ISPF
1 2 (4.26%) MDX
2 1 (2.13%) .NET
2 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.13%) Flash
2 1 (2.13%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) Credit Risk
2 3 (6.38%) Life Science
2 3 (6.38%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.13%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (2.13%) IoT
4 1 (2.13%) NVMe
4 1 (2.13%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.13%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) zOS
2 2 (4.26%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.13%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.13%) Unix
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (48.94%) Analytics
2 10 (21.28%) ETL
2 10 (21.28%) Migration
3 9 (19.15%) Data Visualisation
3 9 (19.15%) Visualisation
4 8 (17.02%) Stress Testing
5 7 (14.89%) Business Transformation
5 7 (14.89%) Critical Thinking
5 7 (14.89%) Data Extraction
5 7 (14.89%) Data Modelling
5 7 (14.89%) Digital Banking
5 7 (14.89%) Digital Strategy
5 7 (14.89%) Portfolio Management
5 7 (14.89%) Storytelling
5 7 (14.89%) Web Analytics
6 5 (10.64%) Data Analysis
6 5 (10.64%) ITIL
6 5 (10.64%) ITSM
6 5 (10.64%) Re-Platforming
6 5 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) SQL
2 9 (19.15%) R
3 7 (14.89%) Python
4 3 (6.38%) CLIST
4 3 (6.38%) JCL
4 3 (6.38%) REXX
5 2 (4.26%) Assembly Language
5 2 (4.26%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.13%) COBOL
6 1 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.13%) Perl
6 1 (2.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) CREST Certified
2 2 (4.26%) OSCE
2 2 (4.26%) PhD
3 1 (2.13%) CBAP
3 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.13%) IIBA
3 1 (2.13%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (2.13%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.15%) IFRS
1 9 (19.15%) IFRS 9
2 2 (4.26%) GDPR
2 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.13%) Basel III
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (2.13%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) GPFS
2 1 (2.13%) NFS
2 1 (2.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Adobe
1 7 (14.89%) Teradata
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.51%) IBM
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle
5 2 (4.26%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (4.26%) SAP
6 1 (2.13%) Ab Initio
6 1 (2.13%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.13%) Brocade
6 1 (2.13%) EMC
6 1 (2.13%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) NetApp
6 1 (2.13%) Sybase
6 1 (2.13%) Veritas