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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 245 238
Rank change year-on-year -41 -7 -28
Permanent jobs citing SAS 10 69 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.11% 0.53% 0.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.05% 8.22% 7.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 47
10th Percentile £42,250 £45,125 £37,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £42,687
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,465 £50,139
Median % change year-on-year -27.44% +30.57% -0.20%
75th Percentile £48,750 £71,991 £56,492
90th Percentile - - £72,433
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +26.21% -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 488 839 826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.18% 6.46% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 336 442 721
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,025 £27,600
25th Percentile £30,500 £36,438 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £49,274 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% +3.73% +1.63%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £71,991 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,050
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.45% +0.09%

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 15 October 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 -23 7 - - 8
North East +5 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 3 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (30.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) GCP
2 3 (30.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (30.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (30.00%) Big Data
2 3 (30.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (30.00%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (30.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (30.00%) HBase
2 3 (30.00%) Impala
2 3 (30.00%) Metadata
2 3 (30.00%) Metadata Repository
2 3 (30.00%) Neo4j
2 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 3 (30.00%) Qlik Sense
2 3 (30.00%) QlikView
2 3 (30.00%) Spark SQL
2 3 (30.00%) SQLite
2 3 (30.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) ER Studio
2 3 (30.00%) Git
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Investment Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Modeller
1 5 (50.00%) Finance Modeller
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) SAS Modeller
3 2 (20.00%) Statistical Modeller
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (30.00%) Kafka
1 3 (30.00%) Plotly
1 3 (30.00%) PySpark
1 3 (30.00%) Regular Expression
1 3 (30.00%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Machine Learning
2 8 (80.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (70.00%) Analytics
4 5 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
5 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
5 4 (40.00%) Data Science
5 4 (40.00%) ETL
6 3 (30.00%) AI
6 3 (30.00%) Business Strategy
6 3 (30.00%) Coaching
6 3 (30.00%) Data Analytics
6 3 (30.00%) Data Development
6 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
6 3 (30.00%) Data Matching
6 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (30.00%) Operational Stability
6 3 (30.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (30.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (90.00%) R
3 8 (80.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) Bash
4 3 (30.00%) Java
4 3 (30.00%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Apache Flume
1 3 (30.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kibana
1 3 (30.00%) logstash
1 3 (30.00%) Oozie
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
1 3 (30.00%) Informatica
1 3 (30.00%) MicroStrategy
1 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Pega