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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 235 268
Rank change year-on-year -42 +33 +87
Permanent jobs citing SAS 6 42 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.047% 0.54% 0.51%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.13% 6.19% 5.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 35
10th Percentile £52,002 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £59,997 £44,865 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,932 £56,500 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year +25.54% +9.65% +3.06%
75th Percentile £77,424 £98,474 £69,341
90th Percentile - - £77,813
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -

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 533 678 1,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.14% 8.67% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 392 357 998
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,755 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,250 £45,000 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% +2.27% -7.37%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,125 £77,350 £76,250
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

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
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAS in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

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 20 February 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
North West -16 4 £70,932 +25.54% 9
North East -12 1 £48,897 - 2
Yorkshire -48 1 £70,932 -0.89% 3
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 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (50.00%) Metadata
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Impala
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Technical Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Analytics
2 4 (66.67%) Coaching
2 4 (66.67%) Data Science
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) Metadata Management
3 3 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 1 (16.67%) Analytical Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (16.67%) Service Design
5 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cloudera
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Informatica
1 1 (16.67%) Pega