SAS Job Trends in the Midlands

SAS System
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 231 216
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 +101
Permanent jobs citing SAS 7 15 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.089% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.03% 3.39% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 11
10th Percentile £54,125 - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £52,500
90th Percentile £75,250 - -
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,465 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.11% +19.03% -2.65%

All Application Platform Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 344 442 462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.37% 6.79% 8.62%
Number of salaries quoted 253 269 411
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,600 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £33,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,039 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -15.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £65,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £50,500 £56,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -10.62% +4.63% -1.82%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

SAS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

SAS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SAS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing SAS

SAS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SAS in the Midlands

SAS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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
West Midlands +23 6 £60,000 - 10
East Midlands -5 1 £82,500 -
SAS
England

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Pentaho
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) SAS EBI
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (57.14%) Data Integration
3 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) ETL
3 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
4 3 (42.86%) Community of Practice
4 3 (42.86%) Data Acquisition
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (14.29%) AI
6 1 (14.29%) Business Development
6 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
6 1 (14.29%) Data Management
6 1 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (14.29%) Migration
6 1 (14.29%) Scrum
6 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
1 4 (57.14%) Talend
2 3 (42.86%) Cloudera
2 3 (42.86%) Informatica
3 2 (28.57%) Databricks
4 1 (14.29%) Denodo