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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 374 350
Rank change year-on-year +18 -24 +116
Permanent jobs citing SAS 22 76 128
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.14% 0.44% 0.62%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.12% 3.60% 5.69%
Number of salaries quoted 15 26 30
10th Percentile £48,753 £41,875 £38,379
25th Percentile £57,500 £45,625 £50,172
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £63,982 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.94% +6.64% +9.21%
75th Percentile £130,000 £71,991 £78,088
90th Percentile - £75,995 £95,063
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,465 £51,528
% change year-on-year +3.11% +27.05% -6.31%

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 1,037 2,109 2,250
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.79% 12.28% 10.94%
Number of salaries quoted 759 1,445 1,795
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,738 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,868
Median % change year-on-year - +5.51% -1.10%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £116,250 £96,539
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,145
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.58% -1.55%

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 28 December 2025.

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 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Power BI
2 6 (27.27%) SAS EBI
2 6 (27.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (22.73%) Data Lake
3 5 (22.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (9.09%) Pentaho
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.55%) Apache Hive
5 1 (4.55%) Big Data
5 1 (4.55%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (4.55%) Impala
5 1 (4.55%) QlikView
5 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.55%) Tableau
General
1 14 (63.64%) Finance
2 11 (50.00%) Banking
2 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (22.73%) Retail
5 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Analyst
2 7 (31.82%) Risk Analyst
3 6 (27.27%) Data Analyst
3 6 (27.27%) Data Manager
4 5 (22.73%) Qualitative Analyst
4 5 (22.73%) Quantitative Analyst
4 5 (22.73%) Quantitative Risk Analyst
4 5 (22.73%) Service Manager
5 4 (18.18%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Lead
6 1 (4.55%) Power BI Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Report Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Risk Analytics Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Risk Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Risk Data Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) SAS Data Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) SAS Risk Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) .NET
1 1 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Credit Risk
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Data Engineering
1 8 (36.36%) Mentoring
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) Data Governance
2 7 (31.82%) Decision-Making
3 6 (27.27%) Analytics
3 6 (27.27%) Data Analytics
4 5 (22.73%) Business Development
4 5 (22.73%) Credit Risk Modelling
4 5 (22.73%) Data Management
4 5 (22.73%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 5 (22.73%) Dimensional Modelling
4 5 (22.73%) Economics
4 5 (22.73%) Kimball Methodology
4 5 (22.73%) Mathematics
4 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (22.73%) Technical Debt
4 5 (22.73%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (18.18%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) SQL
2 10 (45.45%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) Bash
3 2 (9.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Control-M
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Databricks
2 3 (13.64%) Cloudera
2 3 (13.64%) Informatica
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) Talend
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Murex