SAS Job Trends in England

SAS System
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring SAS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 572 383
Rank change year-on-year -27 -189 +113
Permanent jobs citing SAS 94 61 600
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.15% 0.66%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.71% 1.67% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 67 31 146
10th Percentile £55,175 £45,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% +25.71%
75th Percentile £77,424 £89,237 £76,800
90th Percentile £130,000 £110,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% +29.41%

All Application Platform Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,471 3,648 8,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.20% 9.25% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 2,555 6,602
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,246 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% +10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SAS job vacancy trend in England

SAS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SAS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing SAS

SAS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAS in England over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SAS in England

SAS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the England region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
London +1 44 £73,750 +1.72% 27
Midlands - 17 £70,000 - 13
West Midlands - 17 £70,000 - 13
South East -12 13 £65,000 - 9
East of England -10 11 £59,450 - 2
North of England -48 5 £70,932 +28.97% 7
North West -27 2 £70,932 +23.36% 5
North East -41 2 £100,000 +110.53%
Yorkshire -49 1 £70,932 +1.59% 2
South West -62 1 - - 2
SAS
UK

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (3.19%) Apache
1 3 (3.19%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.19%) Jupyter
1 3 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 16 (17.02%) SPSS
2 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 23 (24.47%) AWS
2 11 (11.70%) Dropbox
3 9 (9.57%) Azure
4 8 (8.51%) Power Platform
4 8 (8.51%) Serverless
5 6 (6.38%) GCP
5 6 (6.38%) SaaS
6 4 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (4.26%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.19%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.19%) Fivetran
7 3 (3.19%) GitHub
7 3 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.13%) Google Docs
8 2 (2.13%) Google Sheets
9 1 (1.06%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.06%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.38%) 5G
1 6 (6.38%) Broadband
2 3 (3.19%) DHCP
2 3 (3.19%) DNS
2 3 (3.19%) Firewall
2 3 (3.19%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (25.53%) Big Data
2 14 (14.89%) EDRMS
3 9 (9.57%) Metadata
4 8 (8.51%) Power BI
5 6 (6.38%) BigQuery
5 6 (6.38%) Tableau
6 4 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (4.26%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.26%) Pentaho
6 4 (4.26%) SAS EBI
6 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.19%) Airbyte
7 3 (3.19%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (2.13%) Apache Hive
8 2 (2.13%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.13%) Looker
8 2 (2.13%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.19%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) Mocha
General
1 43 (45.74%) Social Skills
2 38 (40.43%) Finance
3 29 (30.85%) Public Sector
4 20 (21.28%) Banking
5 17 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (18.09%) Legal
6 7 (7.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (7.45%) Law
7 5 (5.32%) Marketing
7 5 (5.32%) Retail
8 3 (3.19%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (3.19%) Games
8 3 (3.19%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Advertising
9 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (28.72%) Data Engineer
2 23 (24.47%) SAS Engineer
3 18 (19.15%) Lead
4 14 (14.89%) Analyst
5 11 (11.70%) Forensic Manager
5 11 (11.70%) Senior
6 8 (8.51%) Delivery Manager
6 8 (8.51%) Qualitative Analyst
6 8 (8.51%) Quantitative Analyst
6 8 (8.51%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
6 8 (8.51%) Risk Analyst
6 8 (8.51%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 8 (8.51%) Technical Leader
6 8 (8.51%) Technical Manager
7 5 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Data Scientist
8 4 (4.26%) Architect
8 4 (4.26%) Senior Architect
8 4 (4.26%) Senior Technical Architect
8 4 (4.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.38%) Streamlit
2 3 (3.19%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (2.13%) PySpark
4 1 (1.06%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.06%) Jest
4 1 (1.06%) Middleware
4 1 (1.06%) Node.js
4 1 (1.06%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.89%) Cybercrime
2 12 (12.77%) Credit Risk
3 9 (9.57%) Product Ownership
4 8 (8.51%) Clustering
5 6 (6.38%) Algorithms
6 5 (5.32%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.19%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.13%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (44.68%) Analytics
2 29 (30.85%) Business Intelligence
3 26 (27.66%) Agile
4 25 (26.60%) Data Analytics
5 17 (18.09%) Data Engineering
5 17 (18.09%) Data Integration
5 17 (18.09%) Information Security
5 17 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (18.09%) SDLC
6 16 (17.02%) Data Science
7 15 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (14.89%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 14 (14.89%) Data Modelling
8 14 (14.89%) Digital Forensics
8 14 (14.89%) E-Discovery
8 14 (14.89%) Electronic Discovery Reference Model
9 13 (13.83%) AI
9 13 (13.83%) Mentoring
10 12 (12.77%) ETL
11 11 (11.70%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 33 (35.11%) Python
2 29 (30.85%) SQL
3 7 (7.45%) R
4 4 (4.26%) Bash
5 3 (3.19%) Java
5 3 (3.19%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.19%) Scala
6 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.06%) PROC SQL
6 1 (1.06%) SAS Macro
6 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (37.23%) Degree
2 22 (23.40%) SC Cleared
2 22 (23.40%) Security Cleared
3 10 (10.64%) Master's Degree
4 8 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (8.51%) DBS Check
5 3 (3.19%) A+ Certification
5 3 (3.19%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.02%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.19%) SLA
3 2 (2.13%) QA
4 1 (1.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (3.19%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.19%) Hyper-V
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 3 (3.19%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (11.70%) EnCase
1 11 (11.70%) FTK
2 3 (3.19%) Kibana
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (11.70%) Cellebrite
2 8 (8.51%) Cloudera
2 8 (8.51%) Oracle
3 7 (7.45%) Informatica
3 7 (7.45%) Talend
4 5 (5.32%) Google
5 3 (3.19%) Alteryx
5 3 (3.19%) Cisco
5 3 (3.19%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.19%) Nuix
5 3 (3.19%) SonicWALL
6 1 (1.06%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.06%) Teradata