SAS Job Trends in the East Midlands

SAS System
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring SAS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 125 120
Rank change year-on-year -17 -5 +43
Permanent jobs citing SAS 1 6 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.040% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.70% 3.55% 5.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile £81,250 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - £48,750
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.07%
75th Percentile £83,750 - £52,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +22.73% -4.35%

All Application Platform Skills
East Midlands

SAS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring application platform skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 143 169 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.65% 7.63% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 115 102 96
10th Percentile £25,375 £26,250 £25,125
25th Percentile £29,750 £30,063 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,000 £49,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -28.93% +9.44%
75th Percentile £51,875 £42,375 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,950 £56,000 £67,500
England median annual salary £50,500 £57,000 £52,501
% change year-on-year -11.40% +8.57% -4.54%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SAS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

SAS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

SAS
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SAS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing SAS

SAS
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire - 1 £82,500 -
SAS
England

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SAS EBI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Service Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Development
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks