SAS Contracts in the West Midlands

SAS System
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 100 114
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 +13
Contract jobs citing SAS 3 11 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.56% 1.05%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.22% 7.75% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 18
10th Percentile £494 £331 £421
25th Percentile £507 £347 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £358 £525
Median % change year-on-year +49.02% -31.81% +8.81%
75th Percentile £555 £377 £538
90th Percentile £565 £447 £539
England median daily rate £515 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +9.47% -6.00% -2.44%

All Application Platform Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 135 142 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.04% 7.29% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 105 229
10th Percentile £259 £213 £273
25th Percentile £381 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.13% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £548 £550 £540
90th Percentile £625 £645 £600
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 3
10th Percentile £16.55 £14.24 £12.62
25th Percentile £16.88 £14.77 £13.55
Median hourly rate £18.00 £15.65 £15.97
Median % change year-on-year +15.02% -2.00% -7.42%
75th Percentile £20.24 £35.33 £17.80
90th Percentile £36.39 £47.13 £18.37
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing SAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for SAS in the West Midlands

SAS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAS in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for SAS in the West Midlands

SAS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAS in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for SAS in the West Midlands

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 SAS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Shropshire -10 2 £495 +38.27%
Birmingham +17 1 £572 - 2
SAS
England

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) QA Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) Talend