SAS Contracts in England

SAS System
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SAS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SAS over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 401 474 473
Rank change year-on-year +73 -1 -63
Contract jobs citing SAS 136 179 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.37% 0.46%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.90% 3.48% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 120 200
10th Percentile £325 £400 £353
25th Percentile £378 £427 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.50% +0.50%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £600
90th Percentile £695 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 11
10th Percentile £20.80 - £32.50
25th Percentile £21.93 - £39.38
Median hourly rate £23.22 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.28% +16.07% +113.33%
75th Percentile £50.97 £80.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £78.00 £81.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.43 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year -62.42% +16.07% +107.72%

All Application Platform Skills
England

SAS is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,484 5,146 8,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.58% 10.68% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,503 3,681 6,066
10th Percentile £255 £263 £263
25th Percentile £363 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +7.37%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £625
90th Percentile £775 £763 £723
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 132 195
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.55 £13.65
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.50 £16.12
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +63.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £53.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.25 £45.00 £26.17
% change year-on-year -35.00% +71.95% +17.86%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SAS in England

SAS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAS in England.

Daily rate trend for SAS in England

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAS in England

SAS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAS in England.

Hourly rate trend for SAS in England

SAS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAS in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SAS in England

SAS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +70 42 £545 +1.40% 55
South East +24 40 £358 -28.40% 18
North of England +41 30 £473 +8.00% 21
Yorkshire +29 20 £430 -9.47% 14
Midlands +11 13 £370 -12.94% 11
West Midlands +22 11 £358 -29.80% 9
North West +19 10 £475 +13.43% 7
East of England +11 3 £450 -5.26% 1
East Midlands +1 2 £475 +18.75% 2
South West -9 1 £615 +17.14% 5
SAS
UK

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (8.09%) CICS
2 10 (7.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (7.35%) SPSS
2 6 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.47%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.47%) Stata
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Adobe Campaign
1 4 (2.94%) FastStats
1 4 (2.94%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 13 (9.56%) Power Platform
2 10 (7.35%) Snowflake
3 9 (6.62%) AWS
4 8 (5.88%) Azure
5 7 (5.15%) Collibra
5 7 (5.15%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.21%) GCP
7 2 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.47%) SaaS
7 2 (1.47%) Serverless
7 2 (1.47%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.74%) Bloomreach
8 1 (0.74%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.29%) DB2
1 14 (10.29%) Qlik Sense
2 13 (9.56%) Power BI
3 11 (8.09%) IDMS
4 10 (7.35%) Crystal Reports
4 10 (7.35%) Data Lake
4 10 (7.35%) Relational Database
4 10 (7.35%) Tableau
5 8 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.15%) Ataccama
6 7 (5.15%) KDB
7 6 (4.41%) Data Mining
7 6 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (4.41%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 4 (2.94%) SAS Data Integration Studio
9 3 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.21%) IBM InfoSphere
9 3 (2.21%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.21%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.21%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 11 (8.09%) Git
2 7 (5.15%) JIRA
2 7 (5.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (2.21%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.47%) Gradle
4 2 (1.47%) IntelliJ
4 2 (1.47%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.74%) GitLab
5 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle Forms
General
1 46 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 37 (27.21%) Finance
3 18 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.76%) Banking
5 11 (8.09%) Telecoms
6 10 (7.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (5.88%) Front Office
7 8 (5.88%) Marketing
8 7 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (4.41%) Retail
10 5 (3.68%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.47%) Retail Finance
13 1 (0.74%) Back Office
13 1 (0.74%) Electronics
13 1 (0.74%) Law
13 1 (0.74%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (26.47%) Developer
2 31 (22.79%) Analyst
3 24 (17.65%) Data Analyst
4 22 (16.18%) Programmer
5 17 (12.50%) Systems Programmer
5 17 (12.50%) z/OS Systems Programmer
6 16 (11.76%) Senior
7 11 (8.09%) IBM Mainframe Developer
7 11 (8.09%) Mainframe Developer
8 9 (6.62%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (5.15%) Architect
9 7 (5.15%) Data Quality Analyst
9 7 (5.15%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 7 (5.15%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
9 7 (5.15%) IFS Developer
9 7 (5.15%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.15%) QA Analyst
9 7 (5.15%) Quality Analyst
10 6 (4.41%) Senior QA Analyst
10 6 (4.41%) Senior Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.44%) ISPF
2 7 (5.15%) D3.js
3 6 (4.41%) Spring
4 2 (1.47%) JSON
4 2 (1.47%) REST
4 2 (1.47%) XML
5 1 (0.74%) MDX
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 32 (23.53%) Mainframe
2 14 (10.29%) Credit Risk
3 11 (8.09%) IBM Mainframe
4 8 (5.88%) Algorithms
5 7 (5.15%) Data Structures
5 7 (5.15%) Derivative
5 7 (5.15%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (5.15%) Fixed Income
6 6 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (4.41%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.47%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.74%) Biopharmaceutical
8 1 (0.74%) Social Media
8 1 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.53%) zOS
2 7 (5.15%) Linux
3 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (24.26%) Analytics
2 30 (22.06%) Agile
3 27 (19.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (16.91%) Data Modelling
4 23 (16.91%) Risk Management
5 22 (16.18%) Data Analysis
6 21 (15.44%) Performance Monitoring
7 20 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
9 16 (11.76%) Data Analytics
10 14 (10.29%) Data Governance
10 14 (10.29%) Scrum
11 13 (9.56%) Computer Science
11 13 (9.56%) Data Management
11 13 (9.56%) Validation
12 12 (8.82%) Data Security
12 12 (8.82%) Migration
12 12 (8.82%) Statistics
12 12 (8.82%) User Acceptance Testing
12 12 (8.82%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 57 (41.91%) SQL
2 38 (27.94%) Python
3 32 (23.53%) REXX
4 21 (15.44%) JCL
5 19 (13.97%) R
6 17 (12.50%) Assembly Language
7 13 (9.56%) CLIST
8 11 (8.09%) COBOL
9 10 (7.35%) SELCOPY
10 8 (5.88%) Java
11 3 (2.21%) C
12 2 (1.47%) C++
13 1 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.74%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (11.76%) Degree
2 15 (11.03%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.56%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.94%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.94%) PhD
5 3 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.47%) MBA
7 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.35%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.88%) IFRS
2 8 (5.88%) IFRS 9
3 7 (5.15%) QA
4 4 (2.94%) GDPR
5 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.74%) CDISC
5 1 (0.74%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (15.44%) Time Sharing Option
2 15 (11.03%) ACF2
2 15 (11.03%) RACF
3 1 (0.74%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (14.71%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (0.74%) Ansible
Vendors
1 32 (23.53%) IBM
2 19 (13.97%) Broadcom
3 18 (13.24%) Splunk
4 11 (8.09%) Oracle
4 11 (8.09%) Syncsort
5 10 (7.35%) IFS
6 8 (5.88%) SAP
7 7 (5.15%) Alteryx
7 7 (5.15%) Dataiku
7 7 (5.15%) ION Trading
7 7 (5.15%) Trillium
8 6 (4.41%) Google
9 5 (3.68%) Adobe
9 5 (3.68%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.94%) CA
10 4 (2.94%) Facebook
10 4 (2.94%) Salesforce
10 4 (2.94%) Snapchat
10 4 (2.94%) Talend
11 3 (2.21%) BiZZdesign