Hybrid/Remote SAS Job Trends

SAS System
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring SAS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 387 256
Rank change year-on-year +15 -131 +209
Permanent jobs citing SAS 30 34 402
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.23% 1.24%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.75% 1.78% 11.02%
Number of salaries quoted 22 21 77
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £64,439 £52,500 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £55,000 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% +6.74% -0.19%
75th Percentile £130,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile - £98,474 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,466 £68,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% +25.00% +39.24%

All Application Platform Skills
Work from Home

SAS falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,092 1,915 3,648
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.95% 13.18% 11.24%
Number of salaries quoted 792 1,262 2,835
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SAS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SAS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

SAS
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SAS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SAS

SAS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SAS over the 6 months to 13 May 2026.

SAS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

SAS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) SaaS
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (10.00%) GCP
3 3 (10.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.33%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) 5G
1 6 (20.00%) Broadband
2 1 (3.33%) DHCP
2 1 (3.33%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Power BI
2 3 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.00%) Metadata
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (10.00%) SAS EBI
2 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.00%) Tableau
3 2 (6.67%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
1 1 (3.33%) Mocha
General
1 19 (63.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (50.00%) Finance
3 14 (46.67%) Banking
4 9 (30.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (13.33%) Investment Banking
7 3 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (10.00%) Legal
8 1 (3.33%) Games
8 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Analyst
2 11 (36.67%) Risk Analyst
3 10 (33.33%) Qualitative Analyst
3 10 (33.33%) Quantitative Analyst
3 10 (33.33%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
4 7 (23.33%) Senior
5 5 (16.67%) Data Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) SAS Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Auditor
6 3 (10.00%) Data Scientist
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Auditor
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Technical Architect
6 3 (10.00%) Technical Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Machine Learning Scientist
8 1 (3.33%) IT Support
8 1 (3.33%) Risk Business Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Scientist
8 1 (3.33%) SEO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) Streamlit
2 1 (3.33%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.33%) Jest
2 1 (3.33%) Node.js
2 1 (3.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) Credit Risk
2 6 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (20.00%) Clustering
2 6 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Analytics
2 10 (33.33%) Agile
2 10 (33.33%) AI
2 10 (33.33%) Credit Risk Modelling
2 10 (33.33%) Economics
2 10 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 10 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (30.00%) Data Science
3 9 (30.00%) Visualisation
4 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (23.33%) Clean Code
4 7 (23.33%) Model Validation
5 6 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
5 6 (20.00%) Customer Experience
5 6 (20.00%) Feature Engineering
5 6 (20.00%) Feature Extraction
5 6 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 6 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
5 6 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 6 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 21 (70.00%) Python
2 7 (23.33%) SQL
3 3 (10.00%) R
4 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) A+ Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
1 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Control-M
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Alteryx
1 3 (10.00%) Informatica
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle
1 3 (10.00%) Talend
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Murex
2 1 (3.33%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.33%) SonicWALL