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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 364 307
Rank change year-on-year +5 -57 +181
Permanent jobs citing SAS 31 36 297
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.18% 0.28% 0.94%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.88% 2.01% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 25 22 70
10th Percentile £53,125 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £40,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £57,500 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% +11.59% -14.12%
75th Percentile £130,000 £70,000 £61,063
90th Percentile - £98,474 £87,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £73,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.47% +34.09% +22.22%

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 1,075 1,789 3,515
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.18% 13.70% 11.09%
Number of salaries quoted 764 1,302 2,784
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 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 12 April 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 3 (9.68%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) Power Platform
2 4 (12.90%) AWS
2 4 (12.90%) Azure
3 3 (9.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (9.68%) GCP
3 3 (9.68%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) Power BI
2 4 (12.90%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (12.90%) Data Lake
2 4 (12.90%) SAS EBI
3 3 (9.68%) BigQuery
3 3 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.68%) Metadata
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.68%) Tableau
4 2 (6.45%) Pentaho
4 2 (6.45%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.23%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.23%) Big Data
5 1 (3.23%) Impala
5 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.23%) Redis
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Mocha
General
1 19 (61.29%) Banking
2 18 (58.06%) Social Skills
3 16 (51.61%) Finance
4 9 (29.03%) Public Sector
5 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (16.13%) Retail
6 4 (12.90%) Investment Banking
7 3 (9.68%) Corporate Banking
7 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (9.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Analyst
2 11 (35.48%) Risk Analyst
3 10 (32.26%) Qualitative Analyst
3 10 (32.26%) Quantitative Analyst
3 10 (32.26%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
4 7 (22.58%) Data Engineer
5 6 (19.35%) Senior
6 5 (16.13%) Data Analyst
7 3 (9.68%) Architect
7 3 (9.68%) Auditor
7 3 (9.68%) SAS Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Architect
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Auditor
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Technical Architect
7 3 (9.68%) Technical Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Business Analyst
8 1 (3.23%) Credit Risk Analyst
8 1 (3.23%) Developer
8 1 (3.23%) SEO Developer
8 1 (3.23%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) .NET
1 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.23%) Jest
1 1 (3.23%) Node.js
1 1 (3.23%) PySpark
1 1 (3.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (35.48%) Credit Risk
2 6 (19.35%) Product Ownership
3 3 (9.68%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Analytics
2 10 (32.26%) Credit Risk Modelling
2 10 (32.26%) Economics
2 10 (32.26%) Mathematics
2 10 (32.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (29.03%) ETL
3 9 (29.03%) Mentoring
4 8 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (25.81%) Coaching
4 8 (25.81%) Data Analytics
4 8 (25.81%) Data Modelling
4 8 (25.81%) Decision-Making
5 7 (22.58%) Agile
6 6 (19.35%) Data Engineering
6 6 (19.35%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (16.13%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 4 (12.90%) AI
8 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
8 4 (12.90%) Community of Practice
8 4 (12.90%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Python
2 10 (32.26%) SQL
3 3 (9.68%) R
4 2 (6.45%) Bash
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Control-M
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Databricks
1 6 (19.35%) Informatica
2 5 (16.13%) Oracle
2 5 (16.13%) Talend
3 3 (9.68%) Alteryx
3 3 (9.68%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.23%) Murex
4 1 (3.23%) OpenAI