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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 490 465
Rank change year-on-year -51 -25 +187
Permanent jobs citing SAS 56 191 232
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.40% 0.47%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.93% 4.32% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 39 40 96
10th Percentile £46,188 £42,450 £33,896
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,433 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% +20.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £86,875 £92,118 £78,088
90th Percentile £130,000 £123,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £68,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.82% +25.00% -4.35%

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 2,909 4,419 5,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.57% 9.19% 10.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,096 2,603 4,185
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +8.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £108,750 £91,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 12 January 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 12 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
London +26 34 £80,000 +14.29% 4
South East +6 9 £57,500 +15.00% 2
Midlands +16 7 £60,000 - 8
West Midlands +24 6 £60,000 - 8
North of England -36 3 £48,897 +0.80% 5
North West +7 2 - - 5
East of England +7 1 £28,000 -44.00% 2
North East +1 1 £48,897 -
South West 0 1 - -
East Midlands -12 1 £82,500 -
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 2 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.79%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (19.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (17.86%) SPSS
3 4 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (5.36%) Stata
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Relativity
2 1 (1.79%) ProductWriter
2 1 (1.79%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 10 (17.86%) AWS
2 10 (17.86%) Dropbox
3 8 (14.29%) Azure
4 5 (8.93%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.79%) GCP
5 1 (1.79%) IaaS
5 1 (1.79%) PaaS
5 1 (1.79%) SaaS
5 1 (1.79%) Serverless
5 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (28.57%) Power BI
2 13 (23.21%) Big Data
3 10 (17.86%) EDRMS
4 8 (14.29%) SAS EBI
5 7 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (10.71%) Data Lake
6 6 (10.71%) Pentaho
6 6 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (7.14%) Relational Database
7 4 (7.14%) Tableau
8 3 (5.36%) Apache Hive
8 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (5.36%) Hadoop
8 3 (5.36%) Impala
9 2 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Git
1 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 40 (71.43%) Finance
2 28 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 19 (33.93%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (32.14%) Banking
5 11 (19.64%) Legal
6 7 (12.50%) Retail
7 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
8 5 (8.93%) Marketing
9 3 (5.36%) Financial Institution
10 2 (3.57%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.79%) Automotive
11 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (30.36%) Analyst
2 10 (17.86%) Data Engineer
2 10 (17.86%) Risk Analyst
3 8 (14.29%) Forensic Manager
4 7 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) Data Manager
5 6 (10.71%) Qualitative Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) Quantitative Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
6 5 (8.93%) Senior
6 5 (8.93%) Service Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Developer
7 3 (5.36%) Quantitative Risk Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Risk Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Senior Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Senior Risk Manager
7 3 (5.36%) Technology Manager
8 2 (3.57%) Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Managing Consultant
8 2 (3.57%) Report Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) PySpark
2 1 (1.79%) .NET
2 1 (1.79%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.21%) Credit Risk
2 10 (17.86%) Cybercrime
3 4 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.36%) Derivative
5 2 (3.57%) Clustering
5 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.79%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.79%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (48.21%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (41.07%) Analytics
3 18 (32.14%) Data Analytics
4 17 (30.36%) Mentoring
5 15 (26.79%) Agile
6 14 (25.00%) Data Engineering
7 13 (23.21%) Mathematics
8 12 (21.43%) Information Security
9 11 (19.64%) Credit Risk Modelling
9 11 (19.64%) Economics
10 10 (17.86%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 10 (17.86%) Business Development
10 10 (17.86%) Data Governance
10 10 (17.86%) Decision-Making
10 10 (17.86%) E-Discovery
10 10 (17.86%) Electronic Discovery Reference Model
10 10 (17.86%) Fintech
10 10 (17.86%) Forensic Accounting
10 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (17.86%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 32 (57.14%) SQL
2 26 (46.43%) Python
3 8 (14.29%) R
4 5 (8.93%) Bash
4 5 (8.93%) VBA
5 3 (5.36%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 25 (44.64%) Degree
2 6 (10.71%) Master's Degree
3 3 (5.36%) CFA
4 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.79%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) EnCase
1 8 (14.29%) FTK
2 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.79%) Control-M
Vendors
1 12 (21.43%) Databricks
2 8 (14.29%) Cellebrite
3 7 (12.50%) Informatica
3 7 (12.50%) Oracle
3 7 (12.50%) Talend
4 6 (10.71%) Cloudera
5 2 (3.57%) Google
5 2 (3.57%) IBM
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.57%) Nuix
6 1 (1.79%) Denodo
6 1 (1.79%) Murex
6 1 (1.79%) Palantir
6 1 (1.79%) Pega
6 1 (1.79%) SAP