SAS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

SAS System
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 270 276 378
Rank change year-on-year +6 +102 +42
Contract jobs citing SAS 34 69 99
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.45% 0.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.01% 4.42% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 36 65
10th Percentile £426 £338 £412
25th Percentile £461 £360 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% -8.10% -2.44%
75th Percentile £532 £588 £575
90th Percentile £590 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £504 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £21.33 £22.61 £30.75
25th Percentile £21.44 £33.21 £48.00
Median hourly rate £21.75 £65.00 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.54% -17.20% +40.18%
75th Percentile £21.94 £74.38 £80.88
90th Percentile £21.98 £78.13 £81.25
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -66.92% - +23.81%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

SAS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,129 1,560 2,932
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.40% 10.17% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,093 2,063
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -2.50%
75th Percentile £633 £608 £638
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 39 72
10th Percentile £27.03 £16.28 £19.33
25th Percentile £38.39 £22.55 £22.16
Median hourly rate £57.00 £30.16 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.99% -45.16% +57.14%
75th Percentile £64.50 £47.94 £66.69
90th Percentile £66.00 £71.50 £82.40
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

SAS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SAS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SAS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SAS.

SAS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SAS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SAS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SAS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SAS.

SAS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (8.82%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) Adobe Analytics
2 6 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 3 (8.82%) Azure
4 2 (5.88%) AWS
4 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.88%) GCP
4 2 (5.88%) IaaS
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (20.59%) Relational Database
3 6 (17.65%) Power BI
4 3 (8.82%) Base SAS
5 2 (5.88%) Metadata
5 2 (5.88%) Tableau
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.94%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.94%) Big Data
6 1 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.94%) Data Hub
6 1 (2.94%) DB2
6 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.94%) Impala
6 1 (2.94%) MS Access
6 1 (2.94%) MySQL
6 1 (2.94%) Pentaho
6 1 (2.94%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Git
2 2 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 12 (35.29%) Finance
3 9 (26.47%) Banking
4 8 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (23.53%) Marketing
5 2 (5.88%) Legal
5 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Automotive
6 1 (2.94%) Dutch Language
6 1 (2.94%) French Language
6 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) Analytics Manager
2 7 (20.59%) Data Analytics Manager
2 7 (20.59%) Data Manager
2 7 (20.59%) Insight Manager
2 7 (20.59%) Strategy Manager
3 6 (17.65%) Risk Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Credit Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Credit Risk Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Procurement Officer
6 2 (5.88%) SAS Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Data Business Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Data Scientist
7 1 (2.94%) ITSM Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) ITSM Architect
7 1 (2.94%) SAS Modeller
7 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Credit Risk
2 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (2.94%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (2.94%) IoT
2 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
2 1 (2.94%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Unix
2 2 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) ETL
1 11 (32.35%) Migration
1 11 (32.35%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (29.41%) Analytics
2 10 (29.41%) Data Analysis
3 9 (26.47%) Data Visualisation
3 9 (26.47%) Visualisation
4 8 (23.53%) Data Extraction
4 8 (23.53%) Web Analytics
5 7 (20.59%) Business Transformation
5 7 (20.59%) Critical Thinking
5 7 (20.59%) Digital Banking
5 7 (20.59%) Digital Strategy
5 7 (20.59%) Storytelling
6 6 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (11.76%) Strategic Thinking
8 3 (8.82%) Agile
8 3 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (8.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (8.82%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 24 (70.59%) SQL
2 8 (23.53%) R
3 6 (17.65%) Python
4 1 (2.94%) Bash
4 1 (2.94%) C++
4 1 (2.94%) HiveQL
4 1 (2.94%) Java
4 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.94%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) CREST Certified
2 2 (5.88%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) OSCE
3 1 (2.94%) CBAP
3 1 (2.94%) IIBA
3 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.94%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.94%) Basel III
2 1 (2.94%) IFRS
2 1 (2.94%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Ansible
1 1 (2.94%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Adobe
2 7 (20.59%) Teradata
3 6 (17.65%) Oracle
4 2 (5.88%) Atlassian
4 2 (5.88%) Talend
5 1 (2.94%) Ab Initio
5 1 (2.94%) Databricks
5 1 (2.94%) Denodo
5 1 (2.94%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) Informatica
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.94%) Pega