SAS System
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SAS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SAS over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 476 366 357
Rank change year-on-year -110 -9 +184
Permanent jobs citing SAS 265 1,116 1,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.91% 0.97%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.11% 7.73% 7.79%
Number of salaries quoted 118 268 338
10th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £35,250
25th Percentile £42,874 £45,694 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,528 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,941 £75,625 £67,406
90th Percentile £88,250 £108,693 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £50,238 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.51% +5.76% -10.38%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

SAS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 5,189 14,436 16,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.79% 11.75% 12.49%
Number of salaries quoted 3,931 8,523 10,326
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £37,883
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,290 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,565 £50,000 £45,369
% change year-on-year -0.87% +10.21% +0.82%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SAS in the UK

SAS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAS.

Salary trend for SAS in the UK

SAS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAS over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for SAS in the UK

SAS
Top 16 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 7 December 2023. 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 -55 225 £51,528 -6.31% 145
UK excluding London -67 184 £51,500 +2.51% 89
Work from Home +61 159 £51,528 -6.11% 134
South East +75 73 £40,000 -15.79% 22
London +114 65 £65,000 +4.00% 62
North of England -11 55 £51,528 +2.57% 45
Yorkshire +7 39 £51,528 +2.57% 25
North West +35 16 £44,033 -12.35% 19
Scotland -59 15 £51,528 -31.30% 3
Wales +18 13 £51,528 +14.51%
South West +56 11 £47,557 -4.89% 5
Midlands +27 11 £41,250 -17.50% 8
East Midlands +31 7 £48,750 -18.07% 4
East of England +92 4 - - 6
West Midlands +43 4 £28,500 -43.00% 4
Northern Ireland +39 2 £35,000 -33.33%

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (5.28%) Apache
1 14 (5.28%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.64%) SPSS
4 4 (1.51%) EViews
4 4 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.51%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 19 (7.17%) Azure
1 19 (7.17%) GCP
2 12 (4.53%) Power Platform
3 10 (3.77%) Snowflake
4 7 (2.64%) AWS
5 6 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (2.26%) Vertex AI
6 4 (1.51%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.13%) Veeva
8 1 (0.38%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) ADSL
1 1 (0.38%) DNS
1 1 (0.38%) FTP
1 1 (0.38%) IPv4
1 1 (0.38%) iSCSI
1 1 (0.38%) MPLS
1 1 (0.38%) NAS
1 1 (0.38%) SAN
1 1 (0.38%) VLAN
1 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (32.83%) Base SAS
2 67 (25.28%) Metadata
3 29 (10.94%) Tableau
4 25 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (7.17%) Data Mining
6 15 (5.66%) Amazon QuickSight
7 12 (4.53%) Power BI
8 8 (3.02%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.64%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.26%) Big Data
10 6 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.51%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.51%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 3 (1.13%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.13%) KNIME
13 3 (1.13%) Neo4j
13 3 (1.13%) Qlik Sense
13 3 (1.13%) SAS Data Integration Studio
13 3 (1.13%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 5 (1.89%) ERwin
1 5 (1.89%) JIRA
2 3 (1.13%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.38%) DBeaver
3 1 (0.38%) PEAR
General
1 130 (49.06%) Finance
2 99 (37.36%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (33.58%) Banking
4 86 (32.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 84 (31.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 62 (23.40%) Retail
7 58 (21.89%) Social Skills
8 23 (8.68%) Retail Finance
9 15 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (4.53%) Marketing
11 9 (3.40%) Financial Institution
11 9 (3.40%) Retail Banking
12 8 (3.02%) Advertising
13 5 (1.89%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.13%) Dutch Language
14 3 (1.13%) Games
14 3 (1.13%) German Language
14 3 (1.13%) Police
15 2 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.38%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 112 (42.26%) Senior
2 82 (30.94%) Analyst
3 65 (24.53%) Programmer
3 65 (24.53%) Statistical Programmer
4 64 (24.15%) SAS Programmer
4 64 (24.15%) SAS Statistical Programmer
5 50 (18.87%) Senior Analyst
6 34 (12.83%) Senior Programmer
6 34 (12.83%) Senior SAS Programmer
6 34 (12.83%) Senior Statistical Programmer
7 30 (11.32%) Principal Statistical Programmer
8 23 (8.68%) Data Analyst
9 10 (3.77%) Data Engineer
10 9 (3.40%) Data Model Manager
10 9 (3.40%) Implementation Manager
11 8 (3.02%) Marketing Analyst
11 8 (3.02%) Risk Manager
11 8 (3.02%) Senior Marketing Analyst
12 7 (2.64%) Business Data Analyst
12 7 (2.64%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (25.28%) XML
2 6 (2.26%) .NET
3 4 (1.51%) HTML
4 3 (1.13%) .NET Framework
4 3 (1.13%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.13%) ASP.NET
4 3 (1.13%) Entity Framework
4 3 (1.13%) Keras
4 3 (1.13%) PyTorch
4 3 (1.13%) TensorFlow
5 2 (0.75%) Django
5 2 (0.75%) jQuery
5 2 (0.75%) JSON
5 2 (0.75%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (0.38%) CSS
6 1 (0.38%) MDX
6 1 (0.38%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.38%) Web Services
6 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 98 (36.98%) Onboarding
2 81 (30.57%) Life Science
3 60 (22.64%) Credit Risk
4 14 (5.28%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.40%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.89%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.51%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.51%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.13%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.75%) FMCG
9 2 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.75%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.38%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.38%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.38%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.38%) CentOS
1 1 (0.38%) Linux
1 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
1 1 (0.38%) Unix
1 1 (0.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (53.96%) Problem-Solving
2 108 (40.75%) Analytics
2 108 (40.75%) Statistics
3 106 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 104 (39.25%) Mathematics
5 102 (38.49%) Agile
6 98 (36.98%) Computer Science
7 83 (31.32%) Biotechnology
8 82 (30.94%) Creative Thinking
9 81 (30.57%) Collaborative Working
10 80 (30.19%) Line Management
11 63 (23.77%) Project Management
12 56 (21.13%) Data Management
13 52 (19.62%) Statistical Modelling
14 50 (18.87%) Time Management
15 49 (18.49%) Clinical Data Management
16 48 (18.11%) Biostatistics
16 48 (18.11%) Immunology
17 41 (15.47%) Validation
18 39 (14.72%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 128 (48.30%) Python
2 121 (45.66%) SQL
3 85 (32.08%) SAS Macro
4 78 (29.43%) R
5 21 (7.92%) MATLAB
6 12 (4.53%) C
7 6 (2.26%) C#
8 5 (1.89%) C++
8 5 (1.89%) Java
8 5 (1.89%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.51%) Rust
10 3 (1.13%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.13%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.75%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.38%) Bash
12 1 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.38%) Lua
12 1 (0.38%) VBA
12 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 158 (59.62%) Degree
2 31 (11.70%) Numerate Degree
3 9 (3.40%) Master's Degree
3 9 (3.40%) PhD
4 7 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.51%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.38%) ACCA
6 1 (0.38%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (30.57%) CDISC
2 65 (24.53%) QA
3 23 (8.68%) Data Quality
4 21 (7.92%) IFRS
4 21 (7.92%) IFRS 9
5 17 (6.42%) CRD IV
6 15 (5.66%) PMO
7 6 (2.26%) Basel III
8 4 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.75%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.75%) GDPR
10 1 (0.38%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
1 1 (0.38%) Docker
1 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.38%) KVM
1 1 (0.38%) QEMU
1 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) HAProxy
1 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (7.17%) Google
2 12 (4.53%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.15%) Oracle
4 7 (2.64%) IBM
5 6 (2.26%) SAP
6 5 (1.89%) Alteryx
6 5 (1.89%) Teradata
7 4 (1.51%) Databricks
7 4 (1.51%) Informatica
8 2 (0.75%) Minitab
8 2 (0.75%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.75%) Sybase
9 1 (0.38%) Barracuda Networks
9 1 (0.38%) Citrix
9 1 (0.38%) Dell
9 1 (0.38%) HP
9 1 (0.38%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.38%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.38%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.38%) VMware