SAS Jobs in Scotland

SAS System
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring SAS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SAS over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 260 185
Rank change year-on-year +105 -75 +7
Permanent jobs citing SAS 11 18 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.36% 0.27% 0.79%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.39% 1.47% 9.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 31
10th Percentile - £40,800 £35,000
25th Percentile £75,563 £43,143 £35,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,606 £51,528 £40,113
Median % change year-on-year +50.61% +28.46% -10.86%
75th Percentile £79,648 £67,971 £57,500
90th Percentile - £73,000 £103,911
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £38,903
% change year-on-year +13.64% +41.38% -29.12%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 204 1,228 392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.70% 18.31% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 84 199 258
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,350 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £36,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,914 £45,000 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year +15.36% -10.43% +0.48%
75th Percentile £78,037 £53,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £72,600 £77,715
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,667
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.18% +1.43%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing SAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for SAS in Scotland

SAS
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAS in Scotland.

Salary trend for SAS in Scotland

SAS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Edinburgh +23 10 £77,606 +25.65% 4
Glasgow +175 1 - - 4
SAS
UK

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Tableau
2 1 (9.09%) Data Mining
General
1 7 (63.64%) Banking
2 5 (45.45%) Finance
3 4 (36.36%) Retail
3 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Wholesale Banking
4 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Legal
5 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Risk Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Risk Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Data Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Credit Risk Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Fraud Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Fraud Data Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Risk Officer
5 1 (9.09%) Strategy Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Analytics
2 5 (45.45%) Mathematics
2 5 (45.45%) Statistical Modelling
3 4 (36.36%) Decision-Making
3 4 (36.36%) Mathematical Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) Credit Risk Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Customer Insight
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Data Extraction
5 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (18.18%) Decision Science
5 2 (18.18%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
5 2 (18.18%) Model Validation
5 2 (18.18%) People Management
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (81.82%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) CRD IV
1 2 (18.18%) IFRS
1 2 (18.18%) IFRS 9
2 1 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines