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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 637 399 500
Rank change year-on-year -238 +101 -94
Permanent jobs citing SAS 84 640 525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.60% 0.56%
As % of the Application Platforms category 1.87% 5.99% 5.00%
Number of salaries quoted 34 161 326
10th Percentile £42,737 £32,500 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,800 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +29.41% -22.56%
75th Percentile £79,063 £73,750 £57,931
90th Percentile £110,000 £93,750 £78,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,450 £36,699
% change year-on-year +2.90% +45.65% -25.73%

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 4,490 10,693 10,492
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.03% 10.11% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,835 7,105 7,325
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £104,100 £99,389 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,074 £42,500 £48,161
% change year-on-year +6.06% -11.75% +7.02%

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 5 June 2025.

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 5 June 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 -259 62 £62,500 +13.64% 509
UK excluding London -24 47 £55,000 +2.90% 409
Work from Home -163 34 £55,000 +10.36% 334
London -155 27 £72,500 +23.40% 147
North of England +4 19 £55,000 +5.74% 120
North West -1 12 £57,500 +21.05% 75
South West +101 10 £55,000 +29.41% 40
Scotland +112 9 - - 16
Yorkshire +36 6 £69,819 +26.94% 35
Northern Ireland +42 4 - - 4
South East -21 4 - - 112
East of England +37 2 - - 51
North East +39 1 £47,500 -3.26% 10
Wales +37 1 £40,000 -5.88% 11

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 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (11.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (8.33%) SPSS
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.19%) Stata
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.90%) AWS
2 5 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (5.95%) Amazon S3
2 5 (5.95%) GCP
3 4 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.57%) Azure
4 3 (3.57%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.19%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.14%) Internet
2 1 (1.19%) BGP
2 1 (1.19%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.19%) Firewall
2 1 (1.19%) MPLS
2 1 (1.19%) Network Security
2 1 (1.19%) PuTTY
2 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.19%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.86%) Tableau
2 14 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (11.90%) NoSQL
4 9 (10.71%) Data Mining
5 7 (8.33%) Hadoop
6 6 (7.14%) Apache Hive
6 6 (7.14%) MySQL
6 6 (7.14%) Oracle Database
7 5 (5.95%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (5.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (5.95%) DynamoDB
8 4 (4.76%) Power BI
9 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
10 2 (2.38%) Big Data
10 2 (2.38%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (2.38%) Metadata
10 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (2.38%) QlikView
11 1 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (1.19%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 5 (5.95%) ER Studio
2 2 (2.38%) Git
3 1 (1.19%) GitLab
3 1 (1.19%) JIRA
General
1 35 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 33 (39.29%) Banking
3 28 (33.33%) Finance
4 27 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (21.43%) Retail
6 12 (14.29%) Wholesale Banking
7 8 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (5.95%) Advertising
8 5 (5.95%) Legal
8 5 (5.95%) Telecoms
9 4 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (3.57%) Investment Banking
10 3 (3.57%) Marketing
10 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (3.57%) Retail Banking
11 2 (2.38%) Financial Institution
11 2 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.19%) Front Office
12 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 31 (36.90%) Analyst
2 25 (29.76%) Senior
3 18 (21.43%) Senior Analyst
4 14 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 14 (16.67%) Risk Analyst
5 12 (14.29%) Senior Risk Analyst
6 8 (9.52%) Data Engineer
6 8 (9.52%) Lead
7 7 (8.33%) Programmer
8 6 (7.14%) Data Manager
9 5 (5.95%) Architect
9 5 (5.95%) Data Modeller
9 5 (5.95%) Data Warehouse Manager
9 5 (5.95%) Finance Modeller
10 4 (4.76%) Enterprise Management Architect
10 4 (4.76%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.76%) Lead Architect
10 4 (4.76%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.76%) SAS Programmer
10 4 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) PySpark
2 2 (2.38%) Kafka
3 1 (1.19%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.19%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.19%) ISPF
3 1 (1.19%) Plotly
3 1 (1.19%) Regular Expression
3 1 (1.19%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.67%) Credit Risk
2 5 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.76%) Biopharmaceutical
3 4 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.76%) Market Risk
3 4 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.19%) Derivative
4 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.19%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (1.19%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.19%) Pricing Data
4 1 (1.19%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.95%) Linux
1 5 (5.95%) Windows
2 1 (1.19%) Unix
2 1 (1.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (61.90%) Analytics
2 28 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 22 (26.19%) ETL
4 21 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 19 (22.62%) Computer Science
6 18 (21.43%) Data Visualisation
7 17 (20.24%) Statistical Modelling
8 16 (19.05%) Data Modelling
8 16 (19.05%) Data Science
9 15 (17.86%) Statistics
10 14 (16.67%) Data Analysis
10 14 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (15.48%) Statistical Analysis
12 12 (14.29%) Mathematical Modelling
12 12 (14.29%) Risk Management
13 11 (13.10%) Business Intelligence
14 10 (11.90%) Data Management
14 10 (11.90%) Risk Analytics
14 10 (11.90%) Roadmaps
14 10 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (72.62%) Python
2 57 (67.86%) SQL
3 37 (44.05%) R
4 12 (14.29%) MATLAB
5 4 (4.76%) Java
6 2 (2.38%) JCL
6 2 (2.38%) Scala
6 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.19%) Assembly Language
7 1 (1.19%) Bash
7 1 (1.19%) C#
7 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.19%) Perl
7 1 (1.19%) PHP
7 1 (1.19%) PROC SQL
7 1 (1.19%) REXX
7 1 (1.19%) VB
7 1 (1.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (44.05%) Degree
2 9 (10.71%) Master's Degree
3 6 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.76%) DBS Check
5 3 (3.57%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (3.57%) PhD
6 2 (2.38%) HNC
6 2 (2.38%) MOS
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.19%) CCNA
7 1 (1.19%) CFA
7 1 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.19%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.52%) IFRS
2 8 (9.52%) IFRS 9
3 5 (5.95%) Basel III
3 5 (5.95%) GDPR
4 4 (4.76%) Basel II
4 4 (4.76%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (4.76%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.76%) QA
5 3 (3.57%) CDISC
6 2 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1 (1.19%) Apache Flume
1 1 (1.19%) HDFS
1 1 (1.19%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (1.19%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (1.19%) Kibana
1 1 (1.19%) logstash
1 1 (1.19%) Oozie
Vendors
1 16 (19.05%) Oracle
2 5 (5.95%) Intel
2 5 (5.95%) Vertica
3 4 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.57%) Teradata
5 2 (2.38%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.38%) Databricks
5 2 (2.38%) IBM
6 1 (1.19%) Cisco
6 1 (1.19%) Informatica
6 1 (1.19%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.19%) Nokia
6 1 (1.19%) SAP
6 1 (1.19%) Syncsort