SAS Contracts in Scotland

SAS System
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 118 123 140
Rank change year-on-year +5 +17 -9
Contract jobs citing SAS 7 37 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.33% 1.37% 0.79%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.32% 11.46% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 22
10th Percentile - £428 £403
25th Percentile £665 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £693 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £722 £618 £550
90th Percentile - £719 £575
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +3.54%

All Application Platform Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 302 323 405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 14.04% 11.95% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 235 285
10th Percentile £209 £179 £213
25th Percentile £350 £353 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -3.23% +9.41%
75th Percentile £575 £526 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £15.80 - £14.84
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.25 £16.27
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +5.71% -72.29%
75th Percentile £17.50 £18.75 £28.55
90th Percentile £35.63 - £37.90
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SAS in Scotland

SAS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SAS in Scotland

SAS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for SAS in Scotland

SAS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -9 5 £693 +21.37% 1
Edinburgh +26 2 - - 1
SAS
UK

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (71.43%) iSCSI
2 4 (57.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) DB2
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Investment Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Linux Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Python Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Flash
1 5 (71.43%) POSIX
2 2 (28.57%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) NVMe
2 4 (57.14%) Client/Server
3 2 (28.57%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (28.57%) Mainframe
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Data ONTAP
2 4 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Unix
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 2 (28.57%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Capacity Management
2 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 5 (71.43%) High Availability
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Observability
2 5 (71.43%) Preventative Maintenance
2 5 (71.43%) Problem Management
2 5 (71.43%) SDLC
2 5 (71.43%) Storage Management
3 4 (57.14%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (57.14%) OO
3 4 (57.14%) Storage Virtualisation
4 3 (42.86%) Investment Management
4 3 (42.86%) Wealth Management
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
1 5 (71.43%) Perl
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Assembly Language
3 2 (28.57%) JCL
3 2 (28.57%) REXX
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) NFS
2 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 4 (57.14%) GPFS
3 2 (28.57%) ACF2
3 2 (28.57%) RACF
3 2 (28.57%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) IBM
2 4 (57.14%) Brocade
2 4 (57.14%) EMC
2 4 (57.14%) Google
2 4 (57.14%) NetApp
2 4 (57.14%) Sybase
2 4 (57.14%) Veritas
3 2 (28.57%) BMC
3 2 (28.57%) Broadcom