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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 489 438
Rank change year-on-year -3 -51 +19
Permanent jobs citing SAS 65 284 336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.40% 0.55%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.53% 3.88% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 21 87 221
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £51,528 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.29% +47.22% -26.32%
75th Percentile £79,648 £60,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £83,000 £67,070
UK median annual salary £72,500 £55,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +31.82% +37.50% -27.27%

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 2,574 7,311 6,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.99% 10.40% 10.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,718 4,699 4,035
10th Percentile £28,425 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,628 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +1.85%

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 1 May 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 1 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
North of England +36 27 £57,500 +11.59% 30
Yorkshire +52 13 £71,572 +38.90% 6
North West +15 13 £57,500 +21.05% 21
Scotland +125 12 £77,606 +50.61% 8
South West +86 8 £55,000 +29.41% 4
South East +4 6 £90,000 +37.93% 32
Midlands +57 4 - - 11
Northern Ireland +37 4 - -
East of England +55 3 - - 6
East Midlands +39 2 - - 2
West Midlands +36 2 - - 8
North East +42 1 - - 3
Wales +36 1 £40,000 -11.11%
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 (4.62%) Mule
2 1 (1.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.31%) GCP
2 1 (1.54%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (1.54%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
2 1 (1.54%) AWS
2 1 (1.54%) Azure
2 1 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (1.54%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
2 1 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (1.54%) Canva
2 1 (1.54%) Google Analytics
2 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
2 1 (1.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) Internet
2 2 (3.08%) BGP
2 2 (3.08%) Ethernet
2 2 (3.08%) Firewall
2 2 (3.08%) MPLS
2 2 (3.08%) Network Security
2 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.08%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.77%) NoSQL
2 5 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.15%) Oracle Database
3 4 (6.15%) Tableau
4 3 (4.62%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.54%) Looker
6 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.54%) Power BI
6 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.54%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 1 (1.54%) JIRA
General
1 46 (70.77%) Banking
2 33 (50.77%) Finance
3 30 (46.15%) Social Skills
4 20 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (27.69%) Legal
6 15 (23.08%) Retail
7 12 (18.46%) Wholesale Banking
8 10 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (10.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (6.15%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (4.62%) Retail Banking
12 2 (3.08%) Front Office
12 2 (3.08%) Marketing
13 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (50.77%) Analyst
2 17 (26.15%) Senior
2 17 (26.15%) Senior Analyst
3 12 (18.46%) Risk Analyst
3 12 (18.46%) Senior Risk Analyst
3 12 (18.46%) Strategy Analyst
4 8 (12.31%) Architect
4 8 (12.31%) Lead
5 7 (10.77%) Enterprise Management Architect
5 7 (10.77%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
5 7 (10.77%) Lead Architect
5 7 (10.77%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 7 (10.77%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (9.23%) Data Analyst
6 6 (9.23%) Fraud Analyst
6 6 (9.23%) Risk Manager
7 5 (7.69%) Credit Risk Manager
7 5 (7.69%) Data Manager
8 4 (6.15%) Data Warehouse Manager
8 4 (6.15%) Insight Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.54%) Credit Risk
2 8 (12.31%) Management Information System
2 8 (12.31%) Product Ownership
3 7 (10.77%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (10.77%) Market Risk
4 4 (6.15%) Biopharmaceutical
5 3 (4.62%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.54%) Clustering
7 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.54%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Linux
1 3 (4.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (78.46%) Analytics
2 24 (36.92%) Mathematics
3 22 (33.85%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (26.15%) Decision-Making
5 16 (24.62%) Regulatory Compliance
5 16 (24.62%) Statistical Modelling
6 12 (18.46%) ETL
6 12 (18.46%) Mathematical Modelling
7 10 (15.38%) Data Science
7 10 (15.38%) Fraud Detection
7 10 (15.38%) Risk Management
8 9 (13.85%) Computer Science
9 8 (12.31%) Agile
9 8 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (12.31%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (12.31%) Risk Analytics
10 7 (10.77%) Continuous Deployment
10 7 (10.77%) Data Encryption
10 7 (10.77%) DevOps
10 7 (10.77%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 48 (73.85%) SQL
2 37 (56.92%) Python
3 12 (18.46%) R
4 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.54%) Java
5 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.54%) Scala
5 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (55.38%) Degree
2 5 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.15%) DBS Check
3 4 (6.15%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.62%) PhD
5 2 (3.08%) CCNA
5 2 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.92%) IFRS
1 11 (16.92%) IFRS 9
2 7 (10.77%) Basel II
2 7 (10.77%) Basel III
2 7 (10.77%) Dodd-Frank
2 7 (10.77%) GDPR
2 7 (10.77%) PCI DSS
3 4 (6.15%) CRD IV
4 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (13.85%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 4 (6.15%) Oracle
2 2 (3.08%) Cisco
2 2 (3.08%) Nokia
3 1 (1.54%) Adobe
3 1 (1.54%) Databricks
3 1 (1.54%) Google
3 1 (1.54%) Teradata