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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 211 239
Rank change year-on-year -42 +28 +70
Permanent jobs citing SAS 3 66 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.029% 0.70% 0.63%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.62% 8.14% 6.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 30
10th Percentile - £42,500 £32,763
25th Percentile £46,672 £51,490 £40,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,897 £65,465 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year -25.31% +27.05% +2.57%
75th Percentile £51,122 £71,991 £59,159
90th Percentile - - £72,433
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,465 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.11% +19.03% -

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 482 811 691
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.58% 8.57% 9.25%
Number of salaries quoted 341 452 592
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,783 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £34,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £63,188
90th Percentile £81,250 £71,991 £82,548
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% -

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 30 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 -6 2 - - 14
North East -3 1 £48,897 -25.31% 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Impala
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Stress Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) R
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudera
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
1 1 (33.33%) Pega