SAS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SAS System
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SAS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 426 474
Rank change year-on-year -114 +48 -34
Permanent jobs citing SAS 41 66 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.25% 0.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.84% 2.93% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 30 22 83
10th Percentile £51,917 £42,579 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,175 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +21.29% +40.41%
75th Percentile £65,938 £79,648 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,424 £97,626 £83,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £72,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +31.82% +29.41%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,230 2,251 6,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.52% 8.46% 10.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,649 1,572 4,703
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £73,886 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SAS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SAS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SAS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SAS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SAS

SAS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for SAS in the UK excluding London

SAS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East -33 13 £60,000 -29.41% 6
West Midlands -21 12 £60,000 - 17
Midlands -27 12 £60,000 - 21
East of England -28 9 £59,450 -
North of England -78 5 £70,932 +23.36% 9
North West -35 3 £70,932 +23.36% 5
Scotland -31 1 - -
North East -38 1 £48,897 - 3
South West -54 1 - - 1
Yorkshire -71 1 £70,932 -0.89% 1
SAS
UK

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 20 (48.78%) AWS
2 8 (19.51%) Serverless
3 4 (9.76%) Azure
3 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (7.32%) GCP
4 3 (7.32%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) Big Data
1 9 (21.95%) Pentaho
2 7 (17.07%) Metadata
3 4 (9.76%) Data Lake
3 4 (9.76%) Power BI
4 3 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (7.32%) BigQuery
4 3 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (4.88%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (2.44%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.44%) Base SAS
6 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.44%) Impala
6 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.44%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 1 (2.44%) SAS EBI
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Git
1 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 16 (39.02%) Public Sector
2 9 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (19.51%) Banking
4 5 (12.20%) Retail
4 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
5 4 (9.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) Data Engineer
2 10 (24.39%) Lead
3 8 (19.51%) Delivery Manager
3 8 (19.51%) SAS Engineer
3 8 (19.51%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 8 (19.51%) Technical Leader
3 8 (19.51%) Technical Manager
4 6 (14.63%) Analyst
5 5 (12.20%) Data Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Architect
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Technical Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Report Developer
8 1 (2.44%) Data Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.44%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (2.44%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) Agile
1 21 (51.22%) Data Engineering
2 19 (46.34%) Data Integration
3 16 (39.02%) Data Modelling
4 15 (36.59%) ETL
4 15 (36.59%) Mentoring
5 13 (31.71%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (29.27%) Analytics
6 12 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (24.39%) Community of Practice
7 10 (24.39%) Computer Science
7 10 (24.39%) Data Management
8 9 (21.95%) DevOps
9 8 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (19.51%) Change Control
9 8 (19.51%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (19.51%) Server Management
9 8 (19.51%) Storage Management
10 5 (12.20%) Decision-Making
10 5 (12.20%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 25 (60.98%) SQL
2 9 (21.95%) Python
3 8 (19.51%) Bash
4 1 (2.44%) PROC SQL
4 1 (2.44%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (24.39%) Degree
2 9 (21.95%) Master's Degree
3 8 (19.51%) DBS Check
3 8 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 8 (19.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (36.59%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Cloudera
2 10 (24.39%) Oracle
3 9 (21.95%) Informatica
3 9 (21.95%) Talend
4 6 (14.63%) Databricks
5 1 (2.44%) Denodo
5 1 (2.44%) IBM
5 1 (2.44%) Teradata