SAS Architect Contract Job Trends

SAS Architect
UK

The median SAS Architect daily rate in the UK is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 516 -
Rank change year-on-year -108 - -
Contract jobs requiring an SAS Architect 19 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.038% 0.027% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.030% -
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 0
10th Percentile £594 £433 -
25th Percentile £606 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £489 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.92% - -
75th Percentile £670 £517 -
90th Percentile £671 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £663 £479 -
% change year-on-year +38.56% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 45,859 27,036 40,213
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.35% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,926 17,399 25,887
10th Percentile £325 £287 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,063 1,119 2,897
10th Percentile £15.15 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.84 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.61 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.73% -25.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.47 £61.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -5.88%

SAS Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SAS Architect job vacancy trend in the UK

SAS Architect
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SAS Architect job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for SAS Architect job vacancies in the UK

SAS Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS Architect over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAS Architect in the UK

SAS Architect
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England -114 18 £643 +31.49% 4
Work from Home -38 15 £656 - 1
UK excluding London -93 12 £663 +38.56% 4
Midlands - 12 £663 - 4
West Midlands - 12 £663 - 4
London -70 6 £606 +20.24%

SAS Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 June 2026, SAS Architect 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 featuring SAS Architect in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) SAS
1 19 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 19 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (57.89%) Analytics
2 11 (57.89%) Azure
3 10 (52.63%) Containerisation
3 10 (52.63%) Migration
4 9 (47.37%) AWS
4 9 (47.37%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (42.11%) Data Integration
5 8 (42.11%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (36.84%) Data Governance
6 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
6 7 (36.84%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 6 (31.58%) Data Lake
7 6 (31.58%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 6 (31.58%) Visual Analytics
8 5 (26.32%) Agile
8 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
8 5 (26.32%) Data Validation
8 5 (26.32%) DevOps
8 5 (26.32%) ETL
8 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (26.32%) Technical Architecture
8 5 (26.32%) Validation
9 4 (21.05%) Analytical Modelling
9 4 (21.05%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
9 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree

SAS Architect Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 19 (100.00%) SAS
2 4 (21.05%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) Azure
2 9 (47.37%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
3 4 (21.05%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.26%) dbt
4 1 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (47.37%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (36.84%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 6 (31.58%) Data Lake
3 6 (31.58%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 4 (21.05%) Power BI
5 3 (15.79%) Base SAS
5 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (10.53%) Metadata
6 2 (10.53%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) GitLab
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 10 (52.63%) Public Sector
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (26.32%) Cloud Native
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (15.79%) IoT
5 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
6 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Analytics
2 10 (52.63%) Containerisation
2 10 (52.63%) Migration
3 8 (42.11%) Data Integration
3 8 (42.11%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (36.84%) Data Governance
5 6 (31.58%) Visual Analytics
6 5 (26.32%) Agile
6 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
6 5 (26.32%) Data Validation
6 5 (26.32%) DevOps
6 5 (26.32%) ETL
6 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (26.32%) Technical Architecture
6 5 (26.32%) Validation
7 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
7 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (21.05%) Data Security
7 4 (21.05%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Python
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 19 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 4 (21.05%) SAS Certification
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Databricks
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Denodo
3 1 (5.26%) Informatica
3 1 (5.26%) Remedy
3 1 (5.26%) Talend