SAS Certification Contract Job Trends

SAS Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for SAS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 519 -
Rank change year-on-year -113 - -
Contract jobs citing SAS Certification 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.003% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.020% 0.011% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £439 - -
25th Percentile £526 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £671 £447 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.11% - -
75th Percentile £671 - -
90th Percentile £671 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £671 £447 -
% change year-on-year +50.14% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

SAS Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 15,370 8,878 12,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.64% 31.03% 29.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,197 5,609 7,914
10th Percentile £350 £275 £307
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.42% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £645
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.90% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,105 502 1,060
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.04 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.34 £17.80
Median hourly rate £48.05 £33.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.37% -15.63% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71.50 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.50 £75.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year +46.15% -20.62% -18.12%

SAS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAS Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SAS Certification job vacancy trend in the UK

SAS Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

SAS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS Certification over the 6 months to 23 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAS Certification in the UK

SAS Certification
Top 5 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 Certification within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Midlands -70 2 £671 +50.14% 1
UK excluding London -101 2 £671 +50.14% 1
England -111 2 £671 +50.14% 1
West Midlands - 2 £671 - 1
Work from Home -42 1 £671 +50.17% 1

SAS Certification
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 3 (100.00%) SAS
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 2 (66.67%) SAS Visual Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Base SAS
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) SAS Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SAS Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SAS Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Refactoring
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks