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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 376 403 261
Rank change year-on-year +27 -142 +205
Permanent jobs citing SAS 34 32 399
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.18% 0.21% 1.23%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.07% 1.68% 10.90%
Number of salaries quoted 25 20 74
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £64,439 £50,198 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £55,000 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% +6.74% +0.54%
75th Percentile £130,000 £65,313 £62,500
90th Percentile - £98,474 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,466 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.75% +13.64% +41.03%

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 1,106 1,908 3,660
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.88% 12.64% 11.24%
Number of salaries quoted 807 1,255 2,844
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 £76,837 £90,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -10.18%

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 20 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 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) SPSS
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) SaaS
2 5 (14.71%) Azure
3 4 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (8.82%) GCP
4 3 (8.82%) Snowflake
5 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.94%) AWS
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) 5G
1 6 (17.65%) Broadband
2 2 (5.88%) DHCP
2 2 (5.88%) DNS
2 2 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Power BI
2 3 (8.82%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (8.82%) BigQuery
2 3 (8.82%) Data Lake
2 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.82%) Metadata
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (8.82%) SAS EBI
2 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.82%) Tableau
3 2 (5.88%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Mocha
General
1 21 (61.76%) Social Skills
2 18 (52.94%) Finance
3 14 (41.18%) Banking
4 10 (29.41%) Public Sector
5 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (11.76%) Investment Banking
7 3 (8.82%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (8.82%) Legal
8 2 (5.88%) Games
9 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) Analyst
2 11 (32.35%) Risk Analyst
3 10 (29.41%) Qualitative Analyst
3 10 (29.41%) Quantitative Analyst
3 10 (29.41%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
4 9 (26.47%) Senior
5 6 (17.65%) Data Engineer
5 6 (17.65%) SAS Engineer
6 5 (14.71%) Data Scientist
7 3 (8.82%) Architect
7 3 (8.82%) Auditor
7 3 (8.82%) Senior Architect
7 3 (8.82%) Senior Auditor
7 3 (8.82%) Senior Data Scientist
7 3 (8.82%) Senior Technical Architect
7 3 (8.82%) Technical Architect
8 2 (5.88%) IT Analyst
8 2 (5.88%) IT Support
8 2 (5.88%) IT Support Analyst
8 2 (5.88%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) Streamlit
2 1 (2.94%) .NET
2 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.94%) Jest
2 1 (2.94%) Node.js
2 1 (2.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (32.35%) Credit Risk
2 6 (17.65%) Algorithms
2 6 (17.65%) Clustering
2 6 (17.65%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.82%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Analytics
2 11 (32.35%) Data Science
3 10 (29.41%) Agile
3 10 (29.41%) AI
3 10 (29.41%) Credit Risk Modelling
3 10 (29.41%) Economics
3 10 (29.41%) Mathematics
3 10 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (26.47%) Visualisation
5 7 (20.59%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (20.59%) Clean Code
5 7 (20.59%) Model Validation
6 6 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
6 6 (17.65%) Customer Experience
6 6 (17.65%) Feature Engineering
6 6 (17.65%) Feature Extraction
6 6 (17.65%) IT Strategy
6 6 (17.65%) Sprint Planning
6 6 (17.65%) Sprint Retrospective
6 6 (17.65%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (67.65%) Python
2 9 (26.47%) SQL
3 5 (14.71%) R
4 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) A+ Certification
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 2 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.94%) Control-M
2 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Alteryx
1 3 (8.82%) Informatica
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle
1 3 (8.82%) Talend
2 2 (5.88%) Cisco
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) SonicWALL
3 1 (2.94%) Murex
3 1 (2.94%) OpenAI