SAS Job Trends

SAS System
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SAS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 497 467
Rank change year-on-year -91 -30 +218
Permanent jobs citing SAS 61 222 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.41% 0.46%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.79% 4.54% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 42 48 114
10th Percentile £46,714 £42,350 £36,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £45,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £89,688 £90,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £130,000 £123,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £51,528
% change year-on-year +9.09% +6.74% +3.06%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,409 4,888 6,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.65% 9.12% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,277 2,867 4,499
10th Percentile £27,800 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £38,820 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,039 £47,500 £45,196
% change year-on-year -11.50% +5.10% -4.85%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SAS job vacancy trend in the UK

SAS
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SAS

SAS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAS over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SAS in the UK

SAS
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the UK over the 6 months to 15 January 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
England -62 59 £67,500 - 24
London +33 36 £80,000 +14.29% 2
Work from Home +23 26 £82,500 +50.00% 17
UK excluding London -90 23 £60,000 +9.09% 21
South East +7 9 £57,500 -11.54% 5
Midlands +17 7 £60,000 - 7
West Midlands +21 6 £60,000 - 7
North of England -31 3 £48,897 +0.80% 7
North West 0 2 - - 6
Scotland -22 2 - -
East of England +13 1 £28,000 -44.00% 2
North East +7 1 £48,897 - 1
South West -13 1 - -
East Midlands -17 1 £82,500 -

SAS
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 2 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.28%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.64%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (18.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (16.39%) SPSS
3 4 (6.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (4.92%) Stata
5 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Relativity
2 1 (1.64%) ProductWriter
2 1 (1.64%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (27.87%) Power Platform
2 11 (18.03%) AWS
3 10 (16.39%) Dropbox
4 8 (13.11%) Azure
5 5 (8.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.64%) GCP
6 1 (1.64%) GitHub
6 1 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (1.64%) IaaS
6 1 (1.64%) PaaS
6 1 (1.64%) SaaS
6 1 (1.64%) Serverless
6 1 (1.64%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (27.87%) Power BI
2 13 (21.31%) Big Data
3 10 (16.39%) EDRMS
4 9 (14.75%) SAS EBI
5 7 (11.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (9.84%) Data Lake
6 6 (9.84%) Pentaho
6 6 (9.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (8.20%) Tableau
8 4 (6.56%) Relational Database
9 3 (4.92%) Apache Hive
9 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (4.92%) Hadoop
9 3 (4.92%) Impala
9 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
10 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
10 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (1.64%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (1.64%) ER Studio
1 1 (1.64%) Git
1 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.64%) JIRA
1 1 (1.64%) Mocha
General
1 43 (70.49%) Finance
2 31 (50.82%) Social Skills
3 21 (34.43%) Banking
4 20 (32.79%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (19.67%) Legal
6 8 (13.11%) Retail
7 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
8 5 (8.20%) Marketing
9 3 (4.92%) Financial Institution
10 2 (3.28%) Investment Banking
10 2 (3.28%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.64%) Automotive
11 1 (1.64%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (32.79%) Analyst
2 11 (18.03%) Risk Analyst
3 10 (16.39%) Data Engineer
4 9 (14.75%) Data Analyst
5 8 (13.11%) Forensic Manager
6 7 (11.48%) Qualitative Analyst
6 7 (11.48%) Quantitative Analyst
6 7 (11.48%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
7 6 (9.84%) Data Manager
7 6 (9.84%) Senior
8 5 (8.20%) Service Manager
9 4 (6.56%) Developer
10 3 (4.92%) Quantitative Risk Manager
10 3 (4.92%) Risk Manager
10 3 (4.92%) Senior Manager
10 3 (4.92%) Senior Risk Manager
10 3 (4.92%) Technology Manager
11 2 (3.28%) E-Discovery Manager
11 2 (3.28%) Risk Data Analyst
11 2 (3.28%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.92%) PySpark
2 1 (1.64%) .NET
2 1 (1.64%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.64%) Jest
2 1 (1.64%) Kafka
2 1 (1.64%) Node.js
2 1 (1.64%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.95%) Credit Risk
2 10 (16.39%) Cybercrime
3 4 (6.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (4.92%) Derivative
5 2 (3.28%) Clustering
5 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.64%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.64%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.64%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (45.90%) Business Intelligence
2 25 (40.98%) Analytics
3 20 (32.79%) Data Analytics
4 17 (27.87%) Mentoring
5 16 (26.23%) Agile
6 14 (22.95%) Data Engineering
6 14 (22.95%) Mathematics
7 12 (19.67%) Credit Risk Modelling
7 12 (19.67%) Decision-Making
7 12 (19.67%) Economics
7 12 (19.67%) Information Security
8 10 (16.39%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 10 (16.39%) Business Development
8 10 (16.39%) Data Analysis
8 10 (16.39%) Digital Forensics
8 10 (16.39%) E-Discovery
8 10 (16.39%) Electronic Discovery Reference Model
8 10 (16.39%) Fintech
8 10 (16.39%) Forensic Accounting
8 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 34 (55.74%) SQL
2 30 (49.18%) Python
3 10 (16.39%) R
4 5 (8.20%) Bash
4 5 (8.20%) VBA
5 3 (4.92%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (42.62%) Degree
2 6 (9.84%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.92%) CFA
4 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (4.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (13.11%) EnCase
1 8 (13.11%) FTK
2 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.64%) Control-M
3 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (21.31%) Databricks
2 8 (13.11%) Cellebrite
2 8 (13.11%) Informatica
2 8 (13.11%) Oracle
2 8 (13.11%) Talend
3 6 (9.84%) Cloudera
4 2 (3.28%) Google
4 2 (3.28%) IBM
4 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.28%) Nuix
5 1 (1.64%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.64%) Denodo
5 1 (1.64%) Murex
5 1 (1.64%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.64%) Palantir
5 1 (1.64%) Pega
5 1 (1.64%) SAP