Base SAS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Base SAS (SAS Base)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Base SAS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Base SAS 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.095% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £626 - -
25th Percentile £643 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 - -
75th Percentile £671 - -
90th Percentile £671 - -
England median daily rate £426 £445 -
% change year-on-year -4.44% - -

All Database & BI Skills
West Midlands

Base SAS falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 599 233 302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.89% 17.04% 15.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 153 228
10th Percentile £350 £277 £275
25th Percentile £413 £410 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £568 £600 £584
90th Percentile £670 £655 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £33.38 £15.63 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £16.15 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £17.59 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +155.86% -56.57% +60.40%
75th Percentile £53.75 £18.45 -
90th Percentile £68.00 £18.62 -
England median hourly rate £43.75 £32.43 £40.00
% change year-on-year +34.91% -18.93% -28.19%

Base SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Base SAS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Base SAS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Base SAS
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Base SAS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Base SAS

Base SAS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Base SAS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 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
Shropshire - 3 £670 - 1
Base SAS
England

Base SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (66.67%) SAS Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality