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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 500 503
Rank change year-on-year -109 +3 +71
Permanent jobs citing SAS 83 172 352
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.39% 0.42%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.24% 4.02% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 60 49 179
10th Percentile £54,750 £46,442 £31,500
25th Percentile £56,919 £52,500 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +31.82% +9.48%
75th Percentile £89,063 £98,474 £76,200
90th Percentile £130,000 £123,750 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £51,528
% change year-on-year -4.00% +21.29% +24.75%

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 3,705 4,278 9,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.00% 9.81% 10.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2,499 2,798 6,728
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,675 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £38,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £69,704 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £102,575 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.78% +5.88% -10.53%

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 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for SAS in the UK

SAS
Top 15 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 14 March 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 -95 80 £67,500 -3.57% 39
UK excluding London -89 39 £60,000 -4.00% 30
London -1 38 £90,000 +24.14% 12
Work from Home +5 35 £82,500 +32.00% 16
South East -19 13 £60,000 -33.33% 5
Midlands -14 12 £60,000 - 19
West Midlands +13 11 £60,000 - 18
East of England +2 6 £59,450 -
North of England -76 6 £70,932 +25.54% 5
North West -26 4 £70,932 +25.54% 5
North East -21 1 £48,897 -
Scotland -28 1 - -
East Midlands -34 1 £82,500 - 1
South West -40 1 - -
Yorkshire -54 1 £70,932 -0.89%

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 3 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (12.05%) SPSS
2 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (7.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Relativity
2 1 (1.20%) ProductWriter
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.51%) AWS
2 19 (22.89%) Power Platform
3 11 (13.25%) Azure
4 10 (12.05%) Dropbox
5 7 (8.43%) GCP
6 6 (7.23%) Serverless
7 5 (6.02%) Snowflake
8 4 (4.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (3.61%) GitHub
10 2 (2.41%) Google Docs
10 2 (2.41%) Google Sheets
11 1 (1.20%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.20%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (1.20%) IaaS
11 1 (1.20%) PaaS
11 1 (1.20%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.89%) Power BI
2 18 (21.69%) Big Data
3 12 (14.46%) SAS EBI
4 11 (13.25%) Metadata
5 10 (12.05%) EDRMS
6 9 (10.84%) Data Lake
6 9 (10.84%) Pentaho
7 6 (7.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (7.23%) BigQuery
7 6 (7.23%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (7.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (7.23%) Tableau
8 5 (6.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (4.82%) SQL Server
10 3 (3.61%) Apache Hive
10 3 (3.61%) Hadoop
10 3 (3.61%) Impala
10 3 (3.61%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
11 2 (2.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Git
1 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.20%) JIRA
1 1 (1.20%) Mocha
General
1 42 (50.60%) Finance
2 34 (40.96%) Social Skills
3 31 (37.35%) Banking
4 17 (20.48%) Public Sector
5 16 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (15.66%) Legal
7 9 (10.84%) Retail
8 7 (8.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (4.82%) Investment Banking
9 4 (4.82%) Law
9 4 (4.82%) Marketing
10 3 (3.61%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (2.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (25.30%) Analyst
2 15 (18.07%) Data Engineer
3 14 (16.87%) Risk Analyst
4 12 (14.46%) Lead
5 10 (12.05%) Qualitative Analyst
5 10 (12.05%) Quantitative Analyst
5 10 (12.05%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
5 10 (12.05%) Senior
6 8 (9.64%) Architect
6 8 (9.64%) Data Analyst
6 8 (9.64%) Forensic Manager
6 8 (9.64%) SAS Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Senior Architect
8 5 (6.02%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (6.02%) Technical Delivery Manager
8 5 (6.02%) Technical Leader
8 5 (6.02%) Technical Manager
9 4 (4.82%) Data Manager
9 4 (4.82%) Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.61%) PySpark
2 1 (1.20%) .NET
2 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.20%) Jest
2 1 (1.20%) Middleware
2 1 (1.20%) Node.js
2 1 (1.20%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.48%) Credit Risk
2 10 (12.05%) Cybercrime
3 6 (7.23%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.82%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.41%) Clustering
6 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.41%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.20%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.20%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (48.19%) Analytics
2 34 (40.96%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (33.73%) Data Analytics
4 21 (25.30%) Agile
4 21 (25.30%) Mentoring
5 20 (24.10%) Data Engineering
6 17 (20.48%) Decision-Making
7 16 (19.28%) Data Modelling
7 16 (19.28%) ETL
7 16 (19.28%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (16.87%) Data Integration
8 14 (16.87%) Data Pipeline
8 14 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (15.66%) Coaching
9 13 (15.66%) Mathematics
10 12 (14.46%) Economics
10 12 (14.46%) Information Security
11 11 (13.25%) Credit Risk Modelling
11 11 (13.25%) Data Management
12 10 (12.05%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 40 (48.19%) SQL
2 33 (39.76%) Python
3 7 (8.43%) R
4 6 (7.23%) Bash
5 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.20%) PROC SQL
5 1 (1.20%) SAS Macro
5 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 31 (37.35%) Degree
2 9 (10.84%) SC Cleared
2 9 (10.84%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.64%) Master's Degree
4 7 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (6.02%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (3.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (9.64%) EnCase
1 8 (9.64%) FTK
2 3 (3.61%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.20%) Control-M
3 1 (1.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (14.46%) Informatica
1 12 (14.46%) Talend
2 11 (13.25%) Cloudera
2 11 (13.25%) Databricks
2 11 (13.25%) Oracle
3 8 (9.64%) Cellebrite
4 5 (6.02%) Google
5 3 (3.61%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.41%) Nuix
6 2 (2.41%) YouTube
7 1 (1.20%) Denodo
7 1 (1.20%) IBM
7 1 (1.20%) Murex
7 1 (1.20%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.20%) Palantir
7 1 (1.20%) Pega
7 1 (1.20%) Teradata