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

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 497 427
Rank change year-on-year -21 -70 +17
Permanent jobs citing SAS 57 281 339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.39% 0.57%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.12% 3.90% 5.68%
Number of salaries quoted 18 85 223
10th Percentile £42,500 £34,176 -
25th Percentile £46,495 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,528 £35,667
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% +44.47% -24.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £52,712
90th Percentile £85,295 £83,250 £57,931
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £38,951
% change year-on-year +13.64% +41.20% -29.03%

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 2,695 7,208 5,973
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.77% 10.07% 10.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,687 4,630 3,930
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,628 £42,500 £47,710
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -10.92% +6.02%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,667
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.18% +1.21%

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 19 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 19 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 -7 23 £51,754 +0.44% 87
Scotland +112 11 £77,606 +50.61% 24
North West -24 11 £57,500 +21.05% 45
Yorkshire +37 10 £48,507 -5.86% 34
South West +84 8 £55,000 +29.41% 22
South East -11 5 - - 64
Northern Ireland +45 4 - - 2
East of England +37 3 - - 12
Midlands +44 2 - - 36
North East +34 2 £47,500 -3.26% 8
Wales +29 1 £40,000 -11.11% 4
West Midlands +28 1 - - 24
East Midlands +14 1 - - 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 1 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.75%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.28%) GCP
2 3 (5.26%) AWS
2 3 (5.26%) Snowflake
3 1 (1.75%) Azure
3 1 (1.75%) Canva
3 1 (1.75%) GitHub
3 1 (1.75%) Google Analytics
3 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) BGP
1 2 (3.51%) Ethernet
1 2 (3.51%) Firewall
1 2 (3.51%) Internet
1 2 (3.51%) MPLS
1 2 (3.51%) Network Security
1 2 (3.51%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.51%) VPLS
2 1 (1.75%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) NoSQL
1 6 (10.53%) Tableau
2 5 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.02%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.26%) Data Mining
4 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.51%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.75%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.75%) Big Data
6 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.75%) HBase
6 1 (1.75%) Impala
6 1 (1.75%) MySQL
6 1 (1.75%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.75%) QlikView
6 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.75%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (1.75%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Git
1 1 (1.75%) JIRA
General
1 36 (63.16%) Banking
2 26 (45.61%) Finance
3 24 (42.11%) Social Skills
4 16 (28.07%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (26.32%) Retail
6 12 (21.05%) Legal
6 12 (21.05%) Wholesale Banking
7 10 (17.54%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (8.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (7.02%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (3.51%) Front Office
10 2 (3.51%) Marketing
11 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (50.88%) Analyst
2 14 (24.56%) Senior
2 14 (24.56%) Senior Analyst
3 12 (21.05%) Risk Analyst
3 12 (21.05%) Senior Risk Analyst
4 9 (15.79%) Strategy Analyst
5 8 (14.04%) Data Analyst
6 6 (10.53%) Lead
7 5 (8.77%) Architect
7 5 (8.77%) Data Manager
7 5 (8.77%) Enterprise Management Architect
7 5 (8.77%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 5 (8.77%) Lead Architect
7 5 (8.77%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 5 (8.77%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (7.02%) Data Warehouse Manager
8 4 (7.02%) Programmer
8 4 (7.02%) Risk Manager
8 4 (7.02%) SAS Programmer
9 3 (5.26%) Fraud Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) PySpark
2 1 (1.75%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.75%) Kafka
2 1 (1.75%) Plotly
2 1 (1.75%) Regular Expression
2 1 (1.75%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Credit Risk
2 6 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 5 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.77%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.77%) Market Risk
4 4 (7.02%) Biopharmaceutical
5 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.75%) Clustering
6 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.26%) Linux
1 3 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (73.68%) Analytics
2 21 (36.84%) Mathematics
3 17 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (28.07%) Statistical Modelling
5 15 (26.32%) Decision-Making
6 14 (24.56%) Regulatory Compliance
7 12 (21.05%) Mathematical Modelling
8 11 (19.30%) ETL
9 10 (17.54%) Data Science
10 8 (14.04%) Agile
10 8 (14.04%) Computer Science
10 8 (14.04%) Risk Management
11 7 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
12 6 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (10.53%) Data Management
12 6 (10.53%) Risk Analytics
12 6 (10.53%) Statistics
12 6 (10.53%) Visualisation
13 5 (8.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 5 (8.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (70.18%) SQL
2 35 (61.40%) Python
3 11 (19.30%) R
4 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.75%) Bash
5 1 (1.75%) Java
5 1 (1.75%) PROC SQL
5 1 (1.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (56.14%) Degree
2 5 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.02%) DBS Check
4 3 (5.26%) Master's Degree
4 3 (5.26%) PhD
5 2 (3.51%) CCNA
5 2 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) IFRS
1 7 (12.28%) IFRS 9
2 5 (8.77%) Basel II
2 5 (8.77%) Basel III
2 5 (8.77%) Dodd-Frank
2 5 (8.77%) GDPR
2 5 (8.77%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.51%) CRD IV
3 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.51%) QA
4 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.75%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.75%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.75%) Kibana
1 1 (1.75%) logstash
1 1 (1.75%) Oozie
Vendors
1 4 (7.02%) Oracle
2 2 (3.51%) Cisco
2 2 (3.51%) Nokia
3 1 (1.75%) Adobe
3 1 (1.75%) Databricks
3 1 (1.75%) Google
3 1 (1.75%) Informatica
3 1 (1.75%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (1.75%) SAP
3 1 (1.75%) Teradata