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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 241 221
Rank change year-on-year -13 -20 -1
Permanent jobs citing SAS 8 64 53
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.085% 0.57% 0.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.63% 7.49% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 34
10th Percentile £42,250 £47,231 £33,830
25th Percentile £43,750 £57,344 £41,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,465 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year -27.44% +27.05% +2.57%
75th Percentile £49,936 £71,991 £66,778
90th Percentile £50,648 £80,000 £76,391
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +35.92% -6.36%

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 492 854 689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.23% 7.61% 9.80%
Number of salaries quoted 359 466 593
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,750 £36,049 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +3.26% -3.16%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,548
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

SAS job vacancy trend 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
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 4 December 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 +20 5 - - 11
North East +10 3 £47,500 -27.44% 1
SAS
England

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Apache Hive
1 3 (37.50%) Big Data
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (37.50%) Impala
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (25.00%) HBase
2 2 (25.00%) Metadata
2 2 (25.00%) Metadata Repository
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) Neo4j
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (25.00%) QlikView
2 2 (25.00%) Spark SQL
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) ER Studio
2 2 (25.00%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Data Modeller
1 3 (37.50%) Finance Modeller
2 2 (25.00%) SAS Modeller
2 2 (25.00%) Statistical Modeller
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) Plotly
1 2 (25.00%) PySpark
1 2 (25.00%) Regular Expression
1 2 (25.00%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (62.50%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
3 4 (50.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Coaching
4 3 (37.50%) Data Science
4 3 (37.50%) ETL
4 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 3 (37.50%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (37.50%) Statistical Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Data Development
5 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) Fraud Detection
5 2 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
5 2 (25.00%) Operational Stability
5 2 (25.00%) Physical Data Model
5 2 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) R
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Flume
1 2 (25.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kibana
1 2 (25.00%) logstash
1 2 (25.00%) Oozie
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks
1 3 (37.50%) Informatica
2 2 (25.00%) MicroStrategy
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (12.50%) Cloudera
3 1 (12.50%) Pega