SAS Job Trends in the South East

SAS System
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring SAS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 241 283
Rank change year-on-year -35 +42 +69
Permanent jobs citing SAS 13 7 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.095% 0.10% 0.64%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.71% 1.45% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 9
10th Percentile £49,125 £76,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £78,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +6.25% +119.89%
75th Percentile £69,688 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £84,875 £89,500 -
England median annual salary £67,500 £71,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +29.55% +17.54%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 479 482 1,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.51% 7.13% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 373 283 1,068
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,100 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,750 £32,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% -13.27%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £59,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -10.71%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

SAS job vacancy trend in the South East

SAS
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SAS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing SAS

SAS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAS in the South East over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for SAS in the South East

SAS
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
Thames Valley -8 9 £65,000 -27.78% 1
Buckinghamshire -20 6 £75,000 -16.67%
Berkshire +5 3 £55,000 -
West Sussex - 3 £60,000 -
Middlesex - 1 - -
SAS
England

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Metadata
2 3 (23.08%) Power BI
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (15.38%) Pentaho
4 1 (7.69%) Base SAS
4 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
4 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.69%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (7.69%) SAS EBI
4 1 (7.69%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (30.77%) Banking
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Data Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) SAS Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Report Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Data Migration Expert
3 1 (7.69%) Data Migration Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Service Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Data Engineering
1 5 (38.46%) ETL
1 5 (38.46%) Migration
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
2 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
2 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (23.08%) Community of Practice
3 3 (23.08%) Data Integration
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Project Management
4 2 (15.38%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Change Management
4 2 (15.38%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (15.38%) Data Acquisition
4 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (7.69%) Fraud Detection
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) PROC SQL
4 1 (7.69%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Cloudera
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) Databricks
3 2 (15.38%) Informatica
3 2 (15.38%) Talend
4 1 (7.69%) IBM
4 1 (7.69%) Teradata