PROC SQL Job Trends

SAS SQL Procedure (PROC SQL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring PROC SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 660 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing PROC SQL 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.006% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.025% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £42,250 - -
25th Percentile £43,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 - -

All Programming Languages
UK

PROC SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,991 21,477 21,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.64% 31.60% 41.04%
Number of salaries quoted 8,576 12,741 17,735
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £108,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

PROC SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PROC SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

PROC SQL job vacancy trend in the UK

PROC SQL
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PROC SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PROC SQL

PROC SQL
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PROC SQL within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
North East - 3 £47,500 -
England - 3 £47,500 -
UK excluding London - 3 £47,500 -
North of England - 3 £47,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £42,500 -
Midlands - 1 £42,500 -

PROC SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 3 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (100.00%) HBase
1 3 (100.00%) Impala
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) Neo4j
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
1 3 (100.00%) Qlik Sense
1 3 (100.00%) QlikView
1 3 (100.00%) Spark SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQLite
1 3 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) Plotly
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
1 3 (100.00%) Regular Expression
1 3 (100.00%) Shiny
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Coaching
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Data Development
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) R
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Flume
1 3 (100.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kibana
1 3 (100.00%) logstash
1 3 (100.00%) Oozie
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
1 3 (100.00%) Informatica
1 3 (100.00%) MicroStrategy
1 3 (100.00%) SAP