Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
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The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SAS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SAS over the 6 months to 17 May 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

SAS System
UK > England
6 months to
17 May 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 497 471 491
Rank change year-on-year -26 +20 +67
Permanent jobs citing SAS 873 424 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.65% 0.53% 0.51%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.64% 3.88% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 355 196 369
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £76,194 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,875 £90,000
UK median annual salary £54,882 £57,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.49% +6.00%

SAS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for application platform skills.

All Application Platform Skills
England
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 18,823 10,915 12,675
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in England 13.94% 13.71% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,794 8,194 10,180
10th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,313 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SAS in England

SAS
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAS in England.

Salary trend for SAS in England

SAS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAS in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2022.

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 17 May 2022. 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 -60 443 £63,500 +5.83% 27
North of England +23 140 £49,415 -5.88% 8
East of England -47 97 £47,250 -9.13% 5
South East -97 84 £52,500 +23.53% 6
Yorkshire +19 83 £48,829 -13.19% 3
Midlands -59 61 £47,000 -6.00% 1
North West -42 44 £51,250 -1.44% 5
East Midlands -20 35 £41,000 +9.33%
West Midlands -53 26 £53,500 +7.00% 1
South West -11 22 £50,238 -12.63% 1
North East - 13 £45,000 -
SAS
UK

For the 6 months to 17 May 2022, IT jobs citing SAS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region with a requirement for SAS.

1 469 (53.72%) SQL
2 339 (38.83%) Analytics
3 288 (32.99%) Analytical Skills
4 286 (32.76%) Social Skills
4 286 (32.76%) R
5 269 (30.81%) Statistics
6 257 (29.44%) Finance
7 234 (26.80%) Python
8 220 (25.20%) Degree
9 219 (25.09%) Mathematics
10 196 (22.45%) Data Analysis
11 180 (20.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 175 (20.05%) Visualisation
13 172 (19.70%) Data Management
14 171 (19.59%) Data Modelling
15 170 (19.47%) Computer Science
16 163 (18.67%) CDISC
17 161 (18.44%) Agile
18 155 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
19 143 (16.38%) Power Platform
19 143 (16.38%) Power BI
20 139 (15.92%) Data Analytics
21 137 (15.69%) Banking
22 135 (15.46%) Business Intelligence
22 135 (15.46%) Data Visualisation
23 130 (14.89%) Statistical Analysis
23 130 (14.89%) Data Science
24 129 (14.78%) ETL
25 124 (14.20%) Microsoft Excel
26 121 (13.86%) Tableau

SAS
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (3.21%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.69%) Confluence
3 5 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.46%) R Markdown
5 3 (0.34%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.11%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.11%) OnBase
Applications
1 124 (14.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 111 (12.71%) SPSS
3 40 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.57%) Stata
6 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.23%) EViews
7 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.11%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 143 (16.38%) Power Platform
2 90 (10.31%) AWS
3 85 (9.74%) Azure
4 47 (5.38%) Collibra
5 46 (5.27%) Amazon S3
6 39 (4.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 29 (3.32%) GCP
8 22 (2.52%) Google Analytics
9 14 (1.60%) GitHub
10 11 (1.26%) Snowflake
11 6 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (0.69%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (0.69%) Serverless
12 5 (0.57%) Tricentis Tosca
13 3 (0.34%) Azure Active Directory
13 3 (0.34%) Azure Monitor
13 3 (0.34%) Azure Storage
13 3 (0.34%) SaaS
14 2 (0.23%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.23%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.06%) ATM
2 6 (0.69%) Network Security
2 6 (0.69%) WAN
3 4 (0.46%) Wireshark
4 3 (0.34%) Broadband
4 3 (0.34%) Firewall
4 3 (0.34%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.23%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.23%) DHCP
5 2 (0.23%) DNS
5 2 (0.23%) FTP
5 2 (0.23%) NAS
5 2 (0.23%) SAN
5 2 (0.23%) SSH
5 2 (0.23%) Telnet
6 1 (0.11%) DMZ
6 1 (0.11%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (16.38%) Power BI
2 121 (13.86%) Tableau
3 93 (10.65%) Data Warehouse
4 79 (9.05%) QlikView
5 71 (8.13%) Big Data
5 71 (8.13%) PostgreSQL
6 60 (6.87%) Metadata
7 50 (5.73%) Amazon RDS
8 48 (5.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 45 (5.15%) Hadoop
10 43 (4.93%) Apache Hive
11 40 (4.58%) Amazon DynamoDB
12 38 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
12 38 (4.35%) KNIME
13 37 (4.24%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (4.01%) Data Mining
15 34 (3.89%) MySQL
16 32 (3.67%) Qlik Sense
17 30 (3.44%) BusinessObjects
18 27 (3.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (2.18%) ProC
2 16 (1.83%) Git (software)
3 11 (1.26%) ER Studio
3 11 (1.26%) ERwin
3 11 (1.26%) PowerDesigner
4 10 (1.15%) Cypress.io
5 9 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.03%) JIRA
6 6 (0.69%) GitLab
7 5 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (0.46%) Maven
9 3 (0.34%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.23%) Gerrit
10 2 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.11%) PyCharm
11 1 (0.11%) Travis CI
11 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 288 (32.99%) Analytical Skills
2 286 (32.76%) Social Skills
3 257 (29.44%) Finance
4 180 (20.62%) Pharmaceutical
5 137 (15.69%) Banking
6 112 (12.83%) Retail
7 97 (11.11%) Marketing
8 58 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (5.04%) Retail Banking
10 41 (4.70%) Presentation Skills
11 39 (4.47%) Public Sector
12 33 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (3.44%) Games
14 28 (3.21%) Publishing
15 25 (2.86%) Law
16 24 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
17 22 (2.52%) Advertising
18 16 (1.83%) Legal
19 10 (1.15%) Retail Finance
20 5 (0.57%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 332 (38.03%) Analyst
2 233 (26.69%) Programmer
3 150 (17.18%) Statistical Programmer
4 146 (16.72%) Data Analyst
5 92 (10.54%) Senior Analyst
6 68 (7.79%) Data Engineer
7 54 (6.19%) Senior Programmer
8 50 (5.73%) Risk Analyst
9 49 (5.61%) Credit Analyst
9 49 (5.61%) Credit Risk Analyst
10 45 (5.15%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 45 (5.15%) Customer Analyst
11 43 (4.93%) Architect
12 37 (4.24%) Senior Statistical Programmer
13 34 (3.89%) Developer
14 33 (3.78%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
15 29 (3.32%) Graduate
16 26 (2.98%) Analytics Manager
16 26 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
17 25 (2.86%) Data Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (9.39%) XML
2 40 (4.58%) JSON
3 38 (4.35%) FHIR
4 21 (2.41%) AngularJS
5 20 (2.29%) Middleware
6 17 (1.95%) Shiny
7 15 (1.72%) PySpark
8 12 (1.37%) Apache Flex
8 12 (1.37%) jQuery
8 12 (1.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 11 (1.26%) .NET
10 9 (1.03%) HTML
10 9 (1.03%) Node.js
10 9 (1.03%) React
11 7 (0.80%) Django
11 7 (0.80%) REST
12 6 (0.69%) Kafka
13 4 (0.46%) ActiveMQ
13 4 (0.46%) Apache Camel
13 4 (0.46%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.42%) Credit Risk
2 61 (6.99%) Life Science
3 44 (5.04%) Management Information System
4 41 (4.70%) Biotechnology
5 28 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.52%) Algorithms
7 21 (2.41%) Social Media
8 20 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (2.06%) SWIFT
10 15 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.72%) Pharmacovigilance
11 10 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.80%) Private Cloud
13 6 (0.69%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.57%) User Experience
15 4 (0.46%) Data Centre
15 4 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
15 4 (0.46%) Mobile App
15 4 (0.46%) Smart Meter
16 3 (0.34%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.29%) Unix
2 14 (1.60%) Windows
3 9 (1.03%) Linux
4 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) SUSE
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (38.83%) Analytics
2 269 (30.81%) Statistics
3 219 (25.09%) Mathematics
4 196 (22.45%) Data Analysis
5 175 (20.05%) Visualisation
6 172 (19.70%) Data Management
7 171 (19.59%) Data Modelling
8 170 (19.47%) Computer Science
9 161 (18.44%) Agile
10 155 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
11 139 (15.92%) Data Analytics
12 135 (15.46%) Business Intelligence
12 135 (15.46%) Data Visualisation
13 130 (14.89%) Data Science
13 130 (14.89%) Statistical Analysis
14 129 (14.78%) ETL
15 110 (12.60%) Machine Learning
16 101 (11.57%) Validation
17 93 (10.65%) Mentoring
18 91 (10.42%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 469 (53.72%) SQL
2 286 (32.76%) R
3 234 (26.80%) Python
4 54 (6.19%) Java
5 46 (5.27%) VBA
6 43 (4.93%) JavaScript
7 37 (4.24%) SAS Macro
8 33 (3.78%) PL/SQL
9 32 (3.67%) MATLAB
10 18 (2.06%) PROC SQL
11 15 (1.72%) HiveQL
12 14 (1.60%) T-SQL
13 13 (1.49%) C
14 11 (1.26%) C++
15 10 (1.15%) PowerShell
16 8 (0.92%) C#
17 7 (0.80%) VB
18 6 (0.69%) Scala
19 5 (0.57%) PL/1
19 5 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 220 (25.20%) Degree
2 71 (8.13%) Master's Degree
3 62 (7.10%) Numerate Degree
4 37 (4.24%) PhD
5 19 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.60%) CCA
7 9 (1.03%) SC Cleared
7 9 (1.03%) Security Cleared
8 3 (0.34%) SAS Certification
9 2 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
10 1 (0.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.11%) CISA
10 1 (0.11%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.11%) HND
10 1 (0.11%) ISEB
10 1 (0.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (18.67%) CDISC
2 94 (10.77%) Data Quality
3 67 (7.67%) Good Clinical Practice
4 40 (4.58%) GDPR
5 38 (4.35%) HL7
6 37 (4.24%) IFRS
7 35 (4.01%) IFRS 9
8 28 (3.21%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 23 (2.63%) QA
10 5 (0.57%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.23%) COREP
11 2 (0.23%) CRD IV
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.23%) SEPA
11 2 (0.23%) SLA
12 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.11%) Dodd-Frank
12 1 (0.11%) FINREP
System Software
1 15 (1.72%) HDFS
2 5 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.23%) NFS
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.11%) Docker
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 6 (0.69%) Ansible
2 4 (0.46%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.11%) Control-M
4 1 (0.11%) Opscode Chef
4 1 (0.11%) Perfmon
4 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (0.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 83 (9.51%) Oracle
2 75 (8.59%) Microsoft
3 64 (7.33%) Talend
4 49 (5.61%) Google
5 43 (4.93%) Alteryx
6 41 (4.70%) Cognos
7 39 (4.47%) Informatica
8 36 (4.12%) Facebook
9 35 (4.01%) SAP
10 21 (2.41%) YouTube
11 19 (2.18%) Databricks
12 13 (1.49%) Teradata
13 8 (0.92%) MicroStrategy
14 5 (0.57%) DataFlux
15 4 (0.46%) IBM
16 3 (0.34%) Dataiku
16 3 (0.34%) Minitab
16 3 (0.34%) Netezza
16 3 (0.34%) Salesforce.com
17 2 (0.23%) Yardi