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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 367 478 336
Rank change year-on-year +111 -142 +53
Permanent jobs citing SAS 628 491 2,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.61% 1.16%
As % of the Application Platforms category 7.21% 5.57% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 122 313 344
10th Percentile £33,886 - £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,722 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.44% -22.32% -
75th Percentile £73,852 £57,500 £67,625
90th Percentile £114,750 £78,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,250 £36,699 £50,238
% change year-on-year +42.38% -26.95% +4.39%

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 8,710 8,813 24,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.64% 10.92% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 5,787 6,758 11,737
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,834 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.97% +1.52% +4.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £48,050 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.35% +1.16% +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 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for SAS in the UK

SAS
Top 18 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 26 July 2024. 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 +137 586 £60,000 +41.18% 38
Work from Home +183 378 £60,000 +9.33% 26
London +239 332 £60,000 - 16
UK excluding London -44 290 £52,250 +42.38% 25
South East +59 107 £60,000 +71.43% 8
North of England -26 81 £53,750 +38.17% 7
North West -17 38 £50,000 +28.53% 5
Yorkshire +25 32 £65,465 +65.94% 1
Scotland -55 30 £40,185 -15.50%
South West -20 29 £42,500 -10.63% 3
Midlands -18 26 £130,446 +272.70% 2
West Midlands +5 16 £130,446 +272.70% 1
North East -9 11 £60,232 +72.09% 1
East Midlands -33 10 - - 1
East of England -11 8 £37,500 +7.14% 3
Wales +16 5 £40,000 -9.16% 1
Northern Ireland +20 2 - - 1
Channel Islands -3 2 - -

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 4 (0.64%) Confluence
1 4 (0.64%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.48%) Jupyter
2 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.32%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 47 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (3.18%) SPSS
4 5 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.48%) Stata
Business Applications
1 299 (47.61%) SAP ERP
2 3 (0.48%) Relativity
3 2 (0.32%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 1 (0.16%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.16%) FastStats
4 1 (0.16%) Maximo
4 1 (0.16%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 51 (8.12%) Power Platform
2 30 (4.78%) AWS
3 24 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
3 24 (3.82%) Amazon S3
4 22 (3.50%) Azure
5 8 (1.27%) Snowflake
6 5 (0.80%) GCP
7 4 (0.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (0.64%) Dropbox
7 4 (0.64%) Google Analytics
7 4 (0.64%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.48%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (0.48%) Google Workspace
8 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.32%) Collibra
9 2 (0.32%) GitHub
9 2 (0.32%) SaaS
10 1 (0.16%) IaaS
10 1 (0.16%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 299 (47.61%) Broadband
2 5 (0.80%) iSCSI
2 5 (0.80%) SAN
2 5 (0.80%) VLAN
2 5 (0.80%) VPN
2 5 (0.80%) Wireless
3 3 (0.48%) Firewall
3 3 (0.48%) HTTPS
3 3 (0.48%) Internet
4 1 (0.16%) DNS
4 1 (0.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.39%) Tableau
2 50 (7.96%) Power BI
3 39 (6.21%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (5.57%) Data Mining
5 28 (4.46%) Amazon QuickSight
5 28 (4.46%) NoSQL
6 24 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (3.66%) DynamoDB
8 17 (2.71%) Geospatial Data
9 16 (2.55%) Big Data
10 14 (2.23%) SQL Server
11 13 (2.07%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.59%) Metadata
12 10 (1.59%) QlikView
13 8 (1.27%) SAS EBI
14 7 (1.11%) EDRMS
15 6 (0.96%) Base SAS
15 6 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (0.80%) MySQL
16 5 (0.80%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (0.80%) ERwin
2 4 (0.64%) JIRA
3 3 (0.48%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.32%) Git
4 2 (0.32%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.32%) Spinnaker
General
1 454 (72.29%) Finance
2 412 (65.61%) Social Skills
3 172 (27.39%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (14.97%) Legal
5 70 (11.15%) Banking
6 40 (6.37%) Publishing
7 22 (3.50%) Law
8 20 (3.18%) Marketing
9 17 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
11 7 (1.11%) Retail
12 6 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.96%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.96%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.64%) Korean Language
15 3 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.48%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.32%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 302 (48.09%) Architect
2 299 (47.61%) Solutions Architect
3 124 (19.75%) Senior
4 114 (18.15%) Analyst
5 54 (8.60%) Senior Analyst
6 40 (6.37%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 36 (5.73%) Developer
8 22 (3.50%) ServiceNow Developer
9 21 (3.34%) Pricing Analyst
10 20 (3.18%) Credit Analyst
10 20 (3.18%) Data Engineer
11 17 (2.71%) Lead
11 17 (2.71%) Senior Pricing Analyst
12 16 (2.55%) Risk Analyst
13 15 (2.39%) Credit Risk Analyst
13 15 (2.39%) Data Analyst
14 13 (2.07%) Data Scientist
15 12 (1.91%) Fraud Analyst
15 12 (1.91%) Senior Credit Risk Analyst
15 12 (1.91%) Senior Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.98%) CSS
1 25 (3.98%) HTML
2 24 (3.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 22 (3.50%) AngularJS
3 22 (3.50%) Web Services
4 7 (1.11%) ISPF
4 7 (1.11%) Pandas
5 4 (0.64%) EDI
6 3 (0.48%) CodeIgniter
6 3 (0.48%) D3.js
6 3 (0.48%) Google Chart
6 3 (0.48%) Laravel
6 3 (0.48%) React
6 3 (0.48%) Symfony
7 2 (0.32%) .NET
7 2 (0.32%) Django
7 2 (0.32%) jQuery
7 2 (0.32%) Kafka
7 2 (0.32%) REST
8 1 (0.16%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 81 (12.90%) Credit Risk
2 40 (6.37%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.50%) CMDB
3 22 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (1.91%) Management Information System
5 8 (1.27%) Algorithms
6 7 (1.11%) Cybercrime
6 7 (1.11%) Mainframe
7 6 (0.96%) Market Risk
8 5 (0.80%) Semantic Web
9 4 (0.64%) IBM Mainframe
9 4 (0.64%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.64%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.48%) Blog
10 3 (0.48%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.48%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.32%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.32%) Clustering
11 2 (0.32%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.39%) Windows
2 9 (1.43%) Linux
3 3 (0.48%) zOS
4 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (53.18%) Data Management
2 329 (52.39%) Agile
3 327 (52.07%) Change Management
4 313 (49.84%) Roadmaps
5 303 (48.25%) ERP
6 301 (47.93%) Enterprise Architecture
6 301 (47.93%) Performance Management
7 300 (47.77%) Strategic Roadmap
8 299 (47.61%) TOGAF
9 136 (21.66%) Analytics
10 98 (15.61%) Business Intelligence
11 85 (13.54%) Visualisation
12 82 (13.06%) Data Visualisation
13 73 (11.62%) Data Analysis
13 73 (11.62%) Risk Management
14 62 (9.87%) Decision-Making
15 54 (8.60%) Data Science
16 53 (8.44%) Actionable Insight
17 51 (8.12%) Data Modelling
18 49 (7.80%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 189 (30.10%) SQL
2 143 (22.77%) Python
3 80 (12.74%) R
4 31 (4.94%) MATLAB
5 22 (3.50%) VBA
6 7 (1.11%) Java
6 7 (1.11%) JCL
6 7 (1.11%) REXX
7 5 (0.80%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.80%) SAS Macro
8 4 (0.64%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.64%) PHP
9 3 (0.48%) Assembly Language
10 2 (0.32%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.16%) C
11 1 (0.16%) C++
11 1 (0.16%) Scala
Qualifications
1 54 (8.60%) Degree
2 13 (2.07%) Numerate Degree
3 6 (0.96%) SAS Certification
3 6 (0.96%) SC Cleared
3 6 (0.96%) Security Cleared
4 3 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (0.48%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.48%) PhD
5 2 (0.32%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.32%) VCAP
6 1 (0.16%) CISSP
6 1 (0.16%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.48%) IFRS
2 46 (7.32%) IFRS 9
3 31 (4.94%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.27%) GDPR
5 4 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.32%) QA
7 1 (0.16%) CDISC
7 1 (0.16%) COREP
7 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.16%) FINREP
7 1 (0.16%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.16%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.48%) ACF2
2 3 (0.48%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.48%) RACF
2 3 (0.48%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (0.32%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.16%) Docker
4 1 (0.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (0.64%) CA Endevor
2 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (0.48%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (0.48%) SCCM
3 1 (0.16%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 332 (52.87%) Oracle
2 304 (48.41%) SAP
3 299 (47.61%) Anaplan
3 299 (47.61%) Hyperion
4 62 (9.87%) Microsoft
5 24 (3.82%) Alteryx
6 22 (3.50%) ServiceNow
7 18 (2.87%) Google
8 16 (2.55%) IBM
9 10 (1.59%) Informatica
10 8 (1.27%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.96%) Pega
11 6 (0.96%) UiPath
12 5 (0.80%) Adobe
12 5 (0.80%) VMware
13 4 (0.64%) CA
14 3 (0.48%) Dataiku
14 3 (0.48%) Embarcadero
14 3 (0.48%) Intapp
14 3 (0.48%) MicroStrategy