SAS System
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 607 391 525
Rank change year-on-year -216 +134 -114
Permanent jobs citing SAS 98 656 526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.66% 0.52%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.19% 6.14% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 40 184 321
10th Percentile £43,211 £32,588 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £39,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +41.03% -29.09%
75th Percentile £98,474 £73,188 £57,931
90th Percentile £110,500 £91,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £51,528 £35,333
% change year-on-year +11.59% +45.83% -24.82%

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 4,480 10,682 11,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.12% 10.79% 11.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,947 7,087 7,680
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +0.92%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £109,250 £95,000 £95,025
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,147 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.23% -10.53% +5.56%

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 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SAS in the UK

SAS
Top 17 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 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
England -255 74 £62,500 +13.64% 321
UK excluding London -35 58 £57,500 +11.59% 186
Work from Home -163 34 £55,000 +6.74% 145
London -155 30 £72,500 +26.09% 170
North of England +5 24 £57,500 +11.59% 55
Yorkshire +41 12 £71,572 +38.90% 15
Scotland +106 11 £77,606 +50.61% 12
North West -20 11 £57,500 +21.05% 38
South West +97 8 £55,000 +29.41% 15
South East -10 5 - - 59
Northern Ireland +46 4 - - 1
East of England +40 3 - - 16
Midlands +40 2 - - 29
West Midlands +41 1 - - 20
North East +34 1 - - 2
Wales +30 1 £40,000 -11.11% 2
East Midlands +27 1 - - 8

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 1 (1.02%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (13.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (8.16%) SPSS
3 2 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.02%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.20%) AWS
2 8 (8.16%) GCP
3 6 (6.12%) Amazon S3
4 5 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (5.10%) Azure
5 4 (4.08%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.06%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.02%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.02%) Canva
7 1 (1.02%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.02%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.16%) Internet
2 2 (2.04%) BGP
2 2 (2.04%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.04%) Firewall
2 2 (2.04%) MPLS
2 2 (2.04%) Network Security
2 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.04%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.31%) Tableau
2 13 (13.27%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (12.24%) NoSQL
4 9 (9.18%) Data Mining
5 6 (6.12%) Amazon QuickSight
5 6 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (6.12%) Hadoop
6 5 (5.10%) Apache Hive
6 5 (5.10%) DynamoDB
6 5 (5.10%) MySQL
6 5 (5.10%) Oracle Database
7 4 (4.08%) Power BI
8 2 (2.04%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.04%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.02%) Metadata
9 1 (1.02%) QlikView
9 1 (1.02%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 2 (2.04%) JIRA
2 1 (1.02%) Git
2 1 (1.02%) GitLab
General
1 48 (48.98%) Social Skills
2 47 (47.96%) Banking
3 40 (40.82%) Finance
4 30 (30.61%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (18.37%) Retail
6 14 (14.29%) Legal
7 12 (12.24%) Wholesale Banking
8 11 (11.22%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (9.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (6.12%) Telecoms
11 5 (5.10%) Advertising
12 4 (4.08%) Marketing
12 4 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (3.06%) Retail Banking
14 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
14 2 (2.04%) Front Office
15 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
15 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (39.80%) Analyst
2 25 (25.51%) Senior
3 18 (18.37%) Senior Analyst
4 14 (14.29%) Risk Analyst
5 12 (12.24%) Data Analyst
5 12 (12.24%) Senior Risk Analyst
6 11 (11.22%) Architect
6 11 (11.22%) Lead
7 10 (10.20%) Strategy Analyst
8 8 (8.16%) Data Engineer
9 7 (7.14%) Enterprise Management Architect
9 7 (7.14%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
9 7 (7.14%) Lead Architect
9 7 (7.14%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 7 (7.14%) Programmer
9 7 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (5.10%) Data Manager
10 5 (5.10%) Risk Manager
11 4 (4.08%) Data Architect
11 4 (4.08%) SAS Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.08%) PySpark
2 1 (1.02%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.02%) ISPF
2 1 (1.02%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.39%) Credit Risk
2 8 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.16%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.16%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.14%) Market Risk
4 4 (4.08%) Biopharmaceutical
4 4 (4.08%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.02%) Clustering
6 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.02%) Derivative
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.02%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.02%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.02%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.02%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.02%) Social Media
6 1 (1.02%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.08%) Linux
1 4 (4.08%) Windows
2 1 (1.02%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (67.35%) Analytics
2 27 (27.55%) Mathematics
3 25 (25.51%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (23.47%) ETL
5 21 (21.43%) Visualisation
6 20 (20.41%) Computer Science
7 18 (18.37%) Data Science
7 18 (18.37%) Data Visualisation
7 18 (18.37%) Decision-Making
7 18 (18.37%) Regulatory Compliance
8 17 (17.35%) Statistical Modelling
9 16 (16.33%) Statistics
10 15 (15.31%) Risk Management
11 13 (13.27%) Data Management
11 13 (13.27%) Risk Analytics
12 12 (12.24%) Data Analysis
12 12 (12.24%) Mathematical Modelling
12 12 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (12.24%) Stress Testing
13 11 (11.22%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 69 (70.41%) SQL
2 60 (61.22%) Python
3 34 (34.69%) R
4 12 (12.24%) MATLAB
5 4 (4.08%) Java
6 3 (3.06%) Scala
7 2 (2.04%) JCL
7 2 (2.04%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.04%) VBA
8 1 (1.02%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.02%) C#
8 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.02%) Perl
8 1 (1.02%) PHP
8 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.02%) REXX
8 1 (1.02%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.02%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (46.94%) Degree
2 10 (10.20%) Master's Degree
3 6 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.08%) DBS Check
5 3 (3.06%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (3.06%) PhD
6 2 (2.04%) CCNA
6 2 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.04%) MOS
6 2 (2.04%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.04%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.02%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.27%) IFRS
1 13 (13.27%) IFRS 9
2 9 (9.18%) GDPR
3 8 (8.16%) Basel III
3 8 (8.16%) Data Quality
4 7 (7.14%) Basel II
4 7 (7.14%) Dodd-Frank
4 7 (7.14%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.06%) CDISC
6 2 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (2.04%) CRD IV
7 1 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.02%) QA
System Software
1 10 (10.20%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.02%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (1.02%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 15 (15.31%) Oracle
2 7 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.10%) Intel
3 5 (5.10%) Teradata
3 5 (5.10%) Vertica
4 2 (2.04%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (2.04%) Cisco
4 2 (2.04%) Databricks
4 2 (2.04%) Google
4 2 (2.04%) IBM
4 2 (2.04%) Nokia
5 1 (1.02%) Adobe
5 1 (1.02%) Syncsort