SAS System
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 436 469 471
Rank change year-on-year +33 +2 -78
Contract jobs citing SAS 166 247 434
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.41% 0.49%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.97% 3.77% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 161 260
10th Percentile £325 £400 £362
25th Percentile £363 £431 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -2.44% +6.77%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -14.00% +5.26% +10.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 13
10th Percentile £22.61 £42.13 £26.90
25th Percentile £23.52 - £36.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% +96.41%
75th Percentile £71.25 £76.44 £68.75
90th Percentile £78.00 £80.88 £69.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.82 £79.75 £26.00
% change year-on-year -70.13% +206.73% +1.96%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,179 6,556 11,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.59% 10.98% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,874 4,603 7,595
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.97% +8.95%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 147 210
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.50 £13.99
25th Percentile £15.42 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £27.52 £40.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.21% +81.82% +0.41%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £78.48 £65.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.75 £26.24 £18.50
% change year-on-year -9.49% +41.84% -2.63%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SAS in the UK

SAS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SAS in the UK

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAS in the UK

SAS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SAS in the UK

SAS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SAS in the UK

SAS
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England +39 129 £460 -8.00% 111
UK excluding London +22 96 £430 -14.00% 55
Work from Home +88 69 £460 -8.10% 41
London +68 37 £550 +2.33% 54
South East +24 37 £355 -29.10% 13
North of England +44 30 £473 +8.00% 20
Yorkshire +37 20 £430 -9.47% 7
Midlands +2 13 £370 -22.92% 12
West Midlands +14 11 £358 -31.81% 9
Scotland +9 11 £655 +24.22%
North West +25 10 £475 +13.43% 13
East of England +15 4 £438 -7.89% 4
Wales - 3 £412 - 4
East Midlands +10 2 £475 +18.75% 3
South West -7 1 £615 +17.14% 4

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (8.43%) CICS
2 8 (4.82%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (8.43%) SPSS
2 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Adobe Campaign
1 4 (2.41%) FastStats
1 4 (2.41%) Unica
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.60%) PeopleSoft CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (13.25%) Power Platform
2 16 (9.64%) AWS
2 16 (9.64%) Azure
3 10 (6.02%) Snowflake
4 7 (4.22%) Collibra
4 7 (4.22%) Power Automate
4 7 (4.22%) Veeva
5 4 (2.41%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.81%) Serverless
7 2 (1.20%) GCP
7 2 (1.20%) SaaS
7 2 (1.20%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.60%) Bloomreach
8 1 (0.60%) OCI
8 1 (0.60%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.22%) Fibre Channel
1 7 (4.22%) iSCSI
2 4 (2.41%) SAN
3 1 (0.60%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.25%) Power BI
2 21 (12.65%) DB2
3 15 (9.04%) Qlik Sense
4 14 (8.43%) IDMS
5 12 (7.23%) Data Lake
6 11 (6.63%) Tableau
7 10 (6.02%) Crystal Reports
7 10 (6.02%) Relational Database
7 10 (6.02%) SQL Server
8 9 (5.42%) Data Mining
8 9 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (4.22%) Ataccama
9 7 (4.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 6 (3.61%) KDB
11 5 (3.01%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 3 (1.81%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.81%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.81%) IBM InfoSphere
12 3 (1.81%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.81%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 15 (9.04%) Git
2 9 (5.42%) JIRA
3 7 (4.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.81%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.20%) Gradle
5 2 (1.20%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.60%) GitLab
6 1 (0.60%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle Forms
General
1 61 (36.75%) Social Skills
2 38 (22.89%) Finance
3 19 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.84%) Banking
5 14 (8.43%) Telecoms
6 11 (6.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (4.82%) Marketing
8 7 (4.22%) Front Office
8 7 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.22%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.41%) Retail
10 3 (1.81%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.20%) Electronics
11 2 (1.20%) Law
11 2 (1.20%) Legal
11 2 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.20%) Police
Job Titles
1 38 (22.89%) Developer
2 28 (16.87%) Analyst
2 28 (16.87%) Programmer
3 23 (13.86%) Data Analyst
4 18 (10.84%) Systems Programmer
4 18 (10.84%) z/OS Systems Programmer
5 17 (10.24%) Senior
6 13 (7.83%) IBM Mainframe Developer
6 13 (7.83%) Mainframe Developer
7 9 (5.42%) Administrator
7 9 (5.42%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (4.22%) Architect
8 7 (4.22%) Data Quality Analyst
8 7 (4.22%) IFS Developer
8 7 (4.22%) Java Developer
8 7 (4.22%) QA Analyst
8 7 (4.22%) Quality Analyst
8 7 (4.22%) SAS Administrator
8 7 (4.22%) SAS Developer
9 6 (3.61%) SAS Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (15.66%) ISPF
2 7 (4.22%) D3.js
2 7 (4.22%) Flash
2 7 (4.22%) POSIX
3 5 (3.01%) Spring
4 2 (1.20%) JSON
4 2 (1.20%) MDX
4 2 (1.20%) REST
4 2 (1.20%) XML
5 1 (0.60%) Kafka
5 1 (0.60%) LDAP
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 40 (24.10%) Mainframe
2 16 (9.64%) IBM Mainframe
3 11 (6.63%) Credit Risk
4 8 (4.82%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.22%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.61%) Derivative
6 6 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.61%) Fixed Income
6 6 (3.61%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (3.01%) NVMe
8 4 (2.41%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.81%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.60%) Biopharmaceutical
11 1 (0.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 40 (24.10%) zOS
2 18 (10.84%) Linux
3 7 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.22%) Unix
4 6 (3.61%) Windows
4 6 (3.61%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.41%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (1.20%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (19.88%) Analytics
2 32 (19.28%) Agile
3 29 (17.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (16.87%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (16.87%) Data Modelling
5 25 (15.06%) Data Analysis
6 24 (14.46%) Performance Monitoring
6 24 (14.46%) Risk Management
7 21 (12.65%) Data Management
8 19 (11.45%) Data Cleansing
9 18 (10.84%) Validation
10 17 (10.24%) Computer Science
10 17 (10.24%) Scrum
11 16 (9.64%) Data Analytics
12 14 (8.43%) Data Governance
12 14 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (8.43%) Requirements Gathering
12 14 (8.43%) User Experience
13 13 (7.83%) Data Architecture
13 13 (7.83%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 68 (40.96%) SQL
2 49 (29.52%) Python
3 40 (24.10%) REXX
4 29 (17.47%) R
5 26 (15.66%) JCL
6 22 (13.25%) Assembly Language
7 19 (11.45%) CLIST
8 14 (8.43%) COBOL
8 14 (8.43%) Java
9 13 (7.83%) SELCOPY
10 7 (4.22%) C#
10 7 (4.22%) VB
11 5 (3.01%) Perl
12 4 (2.41%) JavaScript
12 4 (2.41%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (1.20%) Scala
14 1 (0.60%) C
14 1 (0.60%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 17 (10.24%) Degree
2 15 (9.04%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.43%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.63%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.42%) CDISC
3 8 (4.82%) IFRS
3 8 (4.82%) IFRS 9
3 8 (4.82%) QA
4 4 (2.41%) GDPR
4 4 (2.41%) GxP
5 3 (1.81%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (15.66%) Time Sharing Option
2 17 (10.24%) ACF2
2 17 (10.24%) RACF
3 7 (4.22%) NFS
4 4 (2.41%) Docker
4 4 (2.41%) GPFS
5 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.60%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (13.86%) OMEGAMON
2 5 (3.01%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.41%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (0.60%) Ansible
4 1 (0.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (26.51%) IBM
2 21 (12.65%) Broadcom
3 18 (10.84%) Splunk
4 14 (8.43%) Syncsort
5 13 (7.83%) Oracle
6 10 (6.02%) IFS
7 9 (5.42%) Google
7 9 (5.42%) SAP
8 7 (4.22%) Alteryx
8 7 (4.22%) Dataiku
8 7 (4.22%) Trillium
9 6 (3.61%) ION Trading
9 6 (3.61%) Microsoft
10 5 (3.01%) CA
11 4 (2.41%) Adobe
11 4 (2.41%) Brocade
11 4 (2.41%) EMC
11 4 (2.41%) NetApp
11 4 (2.41%) Sybase
11 4 (2.41%) Teradata