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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 374 362
Rank change year-on-year +30 -12 +153
Permanent jobs citing SAS 27 75 148
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.17% 0.46% 0.62%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.65% 3.76% 5.82%
Number of salaries quoted 20 23 50
10th Percentile £47,050 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,250 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £55,000 £52,014
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +5.74% -9.54%
75th Percentile £130,000 £70,000 £78,088
90th Percentile - £94,779 £95,063
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +27.27% -2.22%

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 1,017 1,995 2,545
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.57% 12.17% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 731 1,311 2,057
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £85,250 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £91,934
UK median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% +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 22 January 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 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 5 (18.52%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (14.81%) AWS
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) Power BI
2 7 (25.93%) SAS EBI
3 6 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (18.52%) Data Lake
4 5 (18.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (7.41%) Pentaho
5 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 2 (7.41%) Tableau
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
6 1 (3.70%) Big Data
6 1 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (3.70%) Impala
6 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (3.70%) QlikView
6 1 (3.70%) Redis
6 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Mocha
General
1 18 (66.67%) Finance
2 15 (55.56%) Banking
2 15 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (18.52%) Retail
5 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.70%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Analyst
2 10 (37.04%) Risk Analyst
3 8 (29.63%) Qualitative Analyst
3 8 (29.63%) Quantitative Analyst
3 8 (29.63%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
4 6 (22.22%) Data Analyst
4 6 (22.22%) Data Manager
5 5 (18.52%) Service Manager
6 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Lead
7 1 (3.70%) Power BI Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Report Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Risk Analytics Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Risk Business Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Risk Data Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) SAS Risk Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Senior
7 1 (3.70%) SQL Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) .NET
1 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.70%) Jest
1 1 (3.70%) Node.js
1 1 (3.70%) PySpark
1 1 (3.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Credit Risk
2 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (29.63%) Agile
2 8 (29.63%) Credit Risk Modelling
2 8 (29.63%) Data Engineering
2 8 (29.63%) Decision-Making
2 8 (29.63%) Economics
2 8 (29.63%) Mathematics
2 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
2 8 (29.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (25.93%) Analytics
3 7 (25.93%) Data Analytics
3 7 (25.93%) Data Governance
4 6 (22.22%) Data Management
5 5 (18.52%) Business Development
5 5 (18.52%) Coaching
5 5 (18.52%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 5 (18.52%) Dimensional Modelling
5 5 (18.52%) Kimball Methodology
5 5 (18.52%) Technical Debt
5 5 (18.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) Python
1 15 (55.56%) SQL
2 2 (7.41%) Bash
2 2 (7.41%) VBA
3 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.70%) R
3 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Control-M
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Databricks
2 4 (14.81%) Informatica
3 3 (11.11%) Cloudera
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (11.11%) Talend
4 1 (3.70%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) Murex
4 1 (3.70%) OpenAI