SAS Job Trends in the Thames Valley

SAS System
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring SAS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 189 104
Rank change year-on-year +4 -85 +109
Permanent jobs citing SAS 2 7 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.055% 0.16% 2.72%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.84% 2.21% 17.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £66,625 - -
25th Percentile £69,063 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £90,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.06% - -
75th Percentile £79,063 - -
90th Percentile £81,875 - -
South East median annual salary £55,250 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% +6.25% -20.00%

All Application Platform Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 238 317 523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.50% 7.28% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 165 176 328
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,125 £30,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £81,875 £80,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £49,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.16% +8.89% -10.00%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

SAS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

SAS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SAS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing SAS

SAS
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Salary histogram for SAS in the Thames Valley

SAS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Buckinghamshire +7 1 £65,000 -27.78% 1
Berkshire +4 1 £82,500 - 3
SAS
South East

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SAS EBI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Development
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) IBM