SAS Jobs in the UK excluding London

SAS System
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 503 429
Rank change year-on-year -29 -74 -28
Permanent jobs citing SAS 45 280 338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.35% 0.61%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.63% 3.94% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 14 79 225
10th Percentile £42,737 £35,500 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,025 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £36,500
Median % change year-on-year - +50.68% -27.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £53,029
90th Percentile £88,056 £87,500 £58,422
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £43,377
% change year-on-year +13.64% +26.80% -21.13%

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 2,766 7,100 5,429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.97% 8.83% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,690 4,551 3,794
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -13.27% +7.69%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £54,160 £50,000 £55,043
% change year-on-year +8.32% -9.16% +0.08%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SAS in the UK excluding London

SAS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SAS in the UK excluding London

SAS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

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 14 June 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
North of England +9 21 £51,250 -2.38% 39
North West +7 13 £57,500 +21.05% 31
Scotland +108 10 - - 10
South West +96 9 £58,750 +38.24% 2
Yorkshire +35 5 £94,637 +45.60% 6
Northern Ireland +43 4 - -
South East -11 4 - - 37
North East +44 3 £47,500 -3.26% 2
Midlands +48 1 £42,500 -22.73% 7
West Midlands +44 1 £42,500 -22.73% 4
East of England +42 1 - - 5
SAS
UK

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.56%) GCP
2 5 (11.11%) AWS
3 3 (6.67%) Azure
3 3 (6.67%) GitHub
3 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) PuTTY
2 1 (2.22%) BGP
2 1 (2.22%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.22%) Firewall
2 1 (2.22%) Internet
2 1 (2.22%) MPLS
2 1 (2.22%) Network Security
2 1 (2.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.22%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (15.56%) NoSQL
3 5 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 5 (11.11%) Tableau
4 4 (8.89%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.67%) Apache Hive
5 3 (6.67%) Big Data
5 3 (6.67%) BigQuery
5 3 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (6.67%) HBase
5 3 (6.67%) Impala
5 3 (6.67%) MySQL
5 3 (6.67%) Neo4j
5 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.67%) Power BI
5 3 (6.67%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (6.67%) QlikView
5 3 (6.67%) Spark SQL
5 3 (6.67%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) ER Studio
2 3 (6.67%) Git
General
1 24 (53.33%) Banking
2 19 (42.22%) Finance
3 14 (31.11%) Retail
4 12 (26.67%) Wholesale Banking
5 11 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
6 4 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (8.89%) Legal
6 4 (8.89%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
8 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.22%) Front Office
9 1 (2.22%) Marketing
9 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (37.78%) Analyst
2 13 (28.89%) Senior
2 13 (28.89%) Senior Analyst
3 12 (26.67%) Risk Analyst
3 12 (26.67%) Senior Risk Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Data Modeller
4 7 (15.56%) Finance Modeller
5 6 (13.33%) Data Manager
6 5 (11.11%) Data Analyst
6 5 (11.11%) Data Warehouse Manager
6 5 (11.11%) Lead
6 5 (11.11%) SAS Modeller
7 4 (8.89%) Architect
7 4 (8.89%) Enterprise Management Architect
7 4 (8.89%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 4 (8.89%) Lead Architect
7 4 (8.89%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 4 (8.89%) Programmer
7 4 (8.89%) SAS Programmer
7 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (6.67%) Kafka
1 3 (6.67%) Plotly
1 3 (6.67%) PySpark
1 3 (6.67%) Regular Expression
1 3 (6.67%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Credit Risk
2 4 (8.89%) Biopharmaceutical
2 4 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.89%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.89%) Market Risk
2 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
2 3 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (71.11%) Analytics
2 18 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 13 (28.89%) ETL
4 12 (26.67%) Mathematical Modelling
4 12 (26.67%) Statistical Modelling
5 10 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 10 (22.22%) Data Science
6 9 (20.00%) Statistical Analysis
7 8 (17.78%) Agile
7 8 (17.78%) Machine Learning
8 7 (15.56%) Computer Science
8 7 (15.56%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (15.56%) Fraud Detection
8 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (15.56%) Regulatory Compliance
9 6 (13.33%) Coaching
10 5 (11.11%) Data Analytics
10 5 (11.11%) Data Management
10 5 (11.11%) Risk Analytics
10 5 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 37 (82.22%) Python
2 30 (66.67%) SQL
3 18 (40.00%) R
4 3 (6.67%) Bash
4 3 (6.67%) Java
4 3 (6.67%) PROC SQL
5 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (42.22%) Degree
2 5 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.89%) DBS Check
4 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.44%) PhD
6 1 (2.22%) CCNA
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.89%) Basel II
2 4 (8.89%) Basel III
2 4 (8.89%) Dodd-Frank
2 4 (8.89%) GDPR
2 4 (8.89%) IFRS
2 4 (8.89%) IFRS 9
2 4 (8.89%) PCI DSS
2 4 (8.89%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Apache Flume
1 3 (6.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Kibana
1 3 (6.67%) logstash
1 3 (6.67%) Oozie
Vendors
1 5 (11.11%) Oracle
2 3 (6.67%) Databricks
2 3 (6.67%) Informatica
2 3 (6.67%) MicroStrategy
2 3 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (2.22%) Cisco
3 1 (2.22%) Nokia
3 1 (2.22%) Teradata