SAS Macro Contract Job Trends

SAS Macro
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SAS Macro skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 601 527 599
Rank change year-on-year -74 +72 +122
Contract jobs citing SAS Macro 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.056% 0.010% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £326 - -
25th Percentile £346 £306 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £312 £1,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.59% -68.80% +85.87%
75th Percentile £394 £318 -
90th Percentile £427 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £312 -
% change year-on-year +20.19% - -

All Programming Languages
UK

SAS Macro falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,412 10,357 12,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.95% 33.75% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,281 6,669 9,127
10th Percentile £353 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -5.36%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £650
90th Percentile £715 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -0.67% -3.10% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 236 491
10th Percentile £41.25 £21.63 £35.00
25th Percentile £53.53 £35.56 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £69.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £85.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.97% +1.99% -3.85%

SAS Macro
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SAS Macro job vacancy trend in the UK

SAS Macro
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

SAS Macro
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

SAS Macro
Top 7 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 Macro within the UK over the 6 months to 26 February 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 -86 6 £370 +18.59% 3
London - 5 £365 - 3
Work from Home - 3 £345 - 3
UK excluding London -76 2 £375 +20.19%
North of England - 1 £375 -
North West - 1 £375 -
Scotland - 1 - -

SAS Macro
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 7 (100.00%) SAS
2 3 (42.86%) Apache Spark
3 1 (14.29%) Apache
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon EMR
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Base SAS
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (71.43%) SAS Data Integration Studio
3 3 (42.86%) Big Data
3 3 (42.86%) Data Mart
3 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (14.29%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Spark SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) SAS Developer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) ETL
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Analytics
3 4 (57.14%) Clean Code
3 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (57.14%) Migration
3 4 (57.14%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (42.86%) Change Data Capture
4 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Refactoring
4 3 (42.86%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
5 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (14.29%) Analytical Modelling
6 1 (14.29%) Data Science
6 1 (14.29%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) COREP
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) IFRS
1 1 (14.29%) IFRS 9
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform