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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 400 479 484
Rank change year-on-year +79 +5 -84
Contract jobs citing SAS 174 228 418
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.40% 0.48%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.20% 3.66% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 145 257
10th Percentile £325 £400 £344
25th Percentile £378 £430 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +3.54%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £704 £683 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -14.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 11
10th Percentile £21.02 - £32.50
25th Percentile £22.61 - £39.38
Median hourly rate £24.43 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.42% +16.07% +107.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £80.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.75 £81.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.22 £79.75 £26.00
% change year-on-year -70.89% +206.73% -

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 4,145 6,233 10,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 10.92% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,859 4,369 7,516
10th Percentile £256 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
75th Percentile £609 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 146 221
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.45 £19.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.25 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +80.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.50 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -10.91% +37.50% +5.26%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 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
England +58 139 £475 -5.00% 113
UK excluding London +14 93 £430 -14.00% 57
Work from Home +106 72 £480 -4.00% 55
London +73 46 £540 +0.47% 58
South East +30 39 £358 -28.40% 18
North of England +36 30 £473 +8.00% 18
Yorkshire +35 20 £430 -9.47% 11
Midlands +16 13 £370 -12.94% 10
West Midlands +15 11 £358 -29.80% 8
North West +19 10 £475 +13.43% 7
Scotland +17 7 £693 +26.00% 2
East of England +13 3 £450 -5.26% 1
Wales - 3 £412 - 3
East Midlands +3 2 £475 +18.75% 2
South West -1 1 £615 +17.14% 5

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 (8.05%) CICS
2 10 (5.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (8.05%) SPSS
2 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.15%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.15%) Stata
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Adobe Campaign
1 4 (2.30%) FastStats
1 4 (2.30%) Unica
2 2 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.15%) PeopleSoft CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.49%) Power Platform
2 15 (8.62%) AWS
3 14 (8.05%) Azure
4 10 (5.75%) Snowflake
5 7 (4.02%) Collibra
5 7 (4.02%) Power Automate
5 7 (4.02%) Veeva
6 4 (2.30%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.72%) GCP
8 2 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.15%) OCI
8 2 (1.15%) SaaS
8 2 (1.15%) Serverless
8 2 (1.15%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.57%) Bloomreach
9 1 (0.57%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.87%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (2.87%) iSCSI
2 4 (2.30%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.07%) DB2
2 20 (11.49%) Power BI
3 14 (8.05%) IDMS
3 14 (8.05%) Qlik Sense
4 13 (7.47%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.32%) Relational Database
6 10 (5.75%) Crystal Reports
6 10 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (5.17%) Data Mining
7 9 (5.17%) Tableau
8 8 (4.60%) SQL Server
9 7 (4.02%) Ataccama
9 7 (4.02%) KDB
10 6 (3.45%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 5 (2.87%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 3 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.72%) IBM InfoSphere
12 3 (1.72%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.72%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.72%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (8.62%) Git
2 8 (4.60%) JIRA
3 7 (4.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.72%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.15%) Gradle
5 2 (1.15%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.15%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.57%) GitLab
6 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
General
1 63 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 43 (24.71%) Finance
3 19 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (10.92%) Banking
4 12 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 11 (6.32%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (4.60%) Front Office
7 7 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (4.02%) Marketing
8 6 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.45%) Retail
9 4 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.15%) Billing
11 2 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.15%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.15%) Law
11 2 (1.15%) Legal
Job Titles
1 39 (22.41%) Developer
2 32 (18.39%) Analyst
3 28 (16.09%) Programmer
4 24 (13.79%) Data Analyst
5 18 (10.34%) Senior
5 18 (10.34%) Systems Programmer
5 18 (10.34%) z/OS Systems Programmer
6 13 (7.47%) IBM Mainframe Developer
6 13 (7.47%) Mainframe Developer
7 9 (5.17%) Administrator
7 9 (5.17%) Architect
7 9 (5.17%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (4.02%) Data Quality Analyst
8 7 (4.02%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 7 (4.02%) IFS Developer
8 7 (4.02%) Java Developer
8 7 (4.02%) QA Analyst
8 7 (4.02%) Quality Analyst
8 7 (4.02%) SAS Administrator
8 7 (4.02%) SAS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.94%) ISPF
2 7 (4.02%) D3.js
3 6 (3.45%) Spring
4 5 (2.87%) Flash
4 5 (2.87%) POSIX
5 2 (1.15%) JSON
5 2 (1.15%) REST
5 2 (1.15%) XML
6 1 (0.57%) LDAP
6 1 (0.57%) MDX
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 40 (22.99%) Mainframe
2 18 (10.34%) Credit Risk
3 16 (9.20%) IBM Mainframe
4 9 (5.17%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.02%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.02%) Derivative
5 7 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.02%) Fixed Income
6 6 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.87%) NVMe
8 4 (2.30%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.72%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.57%) Biopharmaceutical
11 1 (0.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 40 (22.99%) zOS
2 17 (9.77%) Linux
3 5 (2.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.87%) Unix
4 4 (2.30%) Data ONTAP
4 4 (2.30%) Windows
4 4 (2.30%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.15%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (20.69%) Analytics
2 34 (19.54%) Agile
3 30 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (15.52%) Data Analysis
5 26 (14.94%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (14.94%) Risk Management
6 25 (14.37%) Data Modelling
7 24 (13.79%) Performance Monitoring
8 22 (12.64%) Validation
9 21 (12.07%) Data Management
10 20 (11.49%) Computer Science
11 19 (10.92%) Data Cleansing
11 19 (10.92%) Scrum
12 17 (9.77%) Data Analytics
13 16 (9.20%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (8.05%) Data Governance
14 14 (8.05%) Migration
14 14 (8.05%) Requirements Gathering
14 14 (8.05%) Statistics
14 14 (8.05%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 70 (40.23%) SQL
2 54 (31.03%) Python
3 40 (22.99%) REXX
4 33 (18.97%) R
5 26 (14.94%) JCL
6 22 (12.64%) Assembly Language
7 19 (10.92%) CLIST
8 14 (8.05%) COBOL
9 13 (7.47%) Java
9 13 (7.47%) SELCOPY
10 7 (4.02%) C#
10 7 (4.02%) VB
11 5 (2.87%) Perl
12 4 (2.30%) JavaScript
12 4 (2.30%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.72%) C
14 2 (1.15%) C++
15 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.57%) HiveQL
15 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (10.92%) Degree
2 17 (9.77%) Security Cleared
3 15 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.30%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.30%) PhD
5 3 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.15%) MBA
7 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.75%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.17%) CDISC
3 8 (4.60%) IFRS
3 8 (4.60%) IFRS 9
3 8 (4.60%) QA
4 4 (2.30%) GDPR
4 4 (2.30%) GxP
5 3 (1.72%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (14.94%) Time Sharing Option
2 17 (9.77%) ACF2
2 17 (9.77%) RACF
3 5 (2.87%) NFS
4 4 (2.30%) Docker
4 4 (2.30%) GPFS
5 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (13.22%) OMEGAMON
2 5 (2.87%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.30%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (0.57%) Ansible
4 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (25.29%) IBM
2 21 (12.07%) Broadcom
3 18 (10.34%) Splunk
4 14 (8.05%) Syncsort
5 13 (7.47%) Oracle
6 10 (5.75%) Google
6 10 (5.75%) IFS
7 8 (4.60%) SAP
8 7 (4.02%) Alteryx
8 7 (4.02%) CA
8 7 (4.02%) Dataiku
8 7 (4.02%) ION Trading
8 7 (4.02%) Trillium
9 5 (2.87%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.30%) Adobe
10 4 (2.30%) EMC
10 4 (2.30%) NetApp
10 4 (2.30%) Salesforce
10 4 (2.30%) Sybase
10 4 (2.30%) Veritas