SAS Job Trends in the North of England

SAS System
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring SAS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 285 257 247
Rank change year-on-year -28 -10 -31
Permanent jobs citing SAS 13 72 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.14% 0.51% 0.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.45% 8.20% 7.83%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 66
10th Percentile £43,250 £45,000 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,465 £44,033
Median % change year-on-year -27.44% +48.67% -18.75%
75th Percentile £57,500 £71,991 £56,492
90th Percentile £59,000 - £72,433
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £44,033
% change year-on-year - +36.26% -19.94%

All Application Platform Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 530 878 881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.64% 6.23% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 351 525 776
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,600 £27,600
25th Percentile £31,100 £34,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,991 £79,250
England median annual salary £53,688 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.63% - +4.55%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SAS in the North of England

SAS
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SAS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing SAS

SAS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAS in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Salary histogram for SAS in the North of England

SAS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 September 2025. 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
North West -15 10 £57,500 +1.80% 8
North East +10 3 £47,500 -27.44% 1
SAS
England

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (23.08%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) GCP
1 3 (23.08%) GitHub
1 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle Database
2 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
3 3 (23.08%) Apache Hive
3 3 (23.08%) Big Data
3 3 (23.08%) BigQuery
3 3 (23.08%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (23.08%) Hadoop
3 3 (23.08%) HBase
3 3 (23.08%) Impala
3 3 (23.08%) MySQL
3 3 (23.08%) Neo4j
3 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
3 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (23.08%) Power BI
3 3 (23.08%) Qlik Sense
3 3 (23.08%) QlikView
3 3 (23.08%) Spark SQL
3 3 (23.08%) SQLite
3 3 (23.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) ER Studio
2 3 (23.08%) Git
General
1 10 (76.92%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Legal
4 3 (23.08%) Banking
4 3 (23.08%) Investment Banking
4 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Data Manager
1 5 (38.46%) Data Modeller
1 5 (38.46%) Data Warehouse Manager
1 5 (38.46%) Finance Modeller
2 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) SAS Modeller
3 2 (15.38%) Statistical Modeller
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (23.08%) Kafka
1 3 (23.08%) Plotly
1 3 (23.08%) PySpark
1 3 (23.08%) Regular Expression
1 3 (23.08%) Shiny
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Analytics
2 8 (61.54%) Data Modelling
2 8 (61.54%) ETL
2 8 (61.54%) Machine Learning
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) Statistical Analysis
4 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
4 4 (30.77%) Data Security
4 4 (30.77%) Mathematics
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Data Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Data Validation
5 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
5 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Validation
5 3 (23.08%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) R
2 8 (61.54%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 3 (23.08%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) PROC SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
2 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Apache Flume
1 3 (23.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kibana
1 3 (23.08%) logstash
1 3 (23.08%) Oozie
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Databricks
2 3 (23.08%) Informatica
2 3 (23.08%) MicroStrategy
2 3 (23.08%) SAP