SAS Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 471 491
Rank change year-on-year +80 +20 -68
Contract jobs citing SAS 189 218 398
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.39% 0.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 4.44% 3.58% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 131 247
10th Percentile £325 £400 £363
25th Percentile £375 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +1.94% +3.00%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £600
90th Percentile £641 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 13
10th Percentile £21.02 £61.70 £21.29
25th Percentile £22.61 £63.50 £32.50
Median hourly rate £24.43 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.42% +23.81% +94.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.63 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.75 £80.75 £69.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.22 £78.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year -70.43% +201.92% -

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 4,252 6,095 10,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.88% 10.87% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,271 7,550
10th Percentile £258 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £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 162 148 208
10th Percentile £13.28 £16.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.08 £51.25 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.31% +125.27% +10.98%
75th Percentile £50.47 £66.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +116.22% -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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +70 155 £475 -5.94% 125
UK excluding London +21 101 £438 -12.50% 81
Work from Home +106 78 £455 -9.10% 91
London +70 55 £545 +1.40% 51
South East +25 41 £358 -28.40% 20
North of England +38 31 £475 +9.76% 22
Yorkshire +34 21 £450 -5.26% 14
Midlands +19 19 £389 -3.35% 19
West Midlands +16 11 £358 -31.81% 14
North West +20 10 £475 +11.76% 8
East Midlands +6 8 £450 +12.50% 5
Scotland +8 6 £597 +4.47% 11
East of England +6 3 £450 -5.26%
Wales - 3 £412 - 3
South West -12 1 £615 +17.14% 6

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 (7.41%) CICS
2 10 (5.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (7.94%) SPSS
2 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.06%) Stata
Business Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Adobe Campaign
1 4 (2.12%) FastStats
1 4 (2.12%) Unica
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.06%) PeopleSoft CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (10.58%) Power Platform
2 14 (7.41%) Azure
3 13 (6.88%) AWS
4 10 (5.29%) Snowflake
5 7 (3.70%) Collibra
5 7 (3.70%) Power Automate
5 7 (3.70%) Veeva
6 3 (1.59%) GCP
6 3 (1.59%) SaaS
7 2 (1.06%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.06%) OCI
7 2 (1.06%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.06%) Serverless
7 2 (1.06%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.53%) Bloomreach
8 1 (0.53%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.59%) Fibre Channel
1 3 (1.59%) iSCSI
2 2 (1.06%) SAN
3 1 (0.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (10.58%) Power BI
2 19 (10.05%) DB2
3 14 (7.41%) IDMS
3 14 (7.41%) Qlik Sense
4 13 (6.88%) Data Lake
4 13 (6.88%) Tableau
5 11 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (5.82%) Relational Database
6 10 (5.29%) Crystal Reports
6 10 (5.29%) Data Mining
7 9 (4.76%) Hadoop
8 7 (3.70%) Ataccama
8 7 (3.70%) KDB
8 7 (3.70%) Oracle Database
8 7 (3.70%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.17%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 5 (2.65%) Apache Hive
11 4 (2.12%) Big Data
11 4 (2.12%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.12%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 18 (9.52%) Git
2 7 (3.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (3.17%) JIRA
4 3 (1.59%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.06%) Gradle
5 2 (1.06%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.06%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.53%) GitLab
6 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
General
1 62 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.63%) Finance
3 23 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.47%) Banking
5 13 (6.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 11 (5.82%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.23%) Front Office
7 8 (4.23%) Marketing
7 8 (4.23%) Retail
8 7 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.70%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.17%) Billing
10 4 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.59%) Legal
11 3 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.06%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.06%) Retail Finance
13 1 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 45 (23.81%) Developer
2 40 (21.16%) Analyst
3 30 (15.87%) Programmer
4 26 (13.76%) Data Analyst
4 26 (13.76%) Senior
5 19 (10.05%) Systems Programmer
5 19 (10.05%) z/OS Systems Programmer
6 13 (6.88%) IBM Mainframe Developer
6 13 (6.88%) Mainframe Developer
7 12 (6.35%) SAS Developer
8 10 (5.29%) Senior Analyst
8 10 (5.29%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.76%) Architect
9 9 (4.76%) Risk Analyst
9 9 (4.76%) SAS Analyst
10 7 (3.70%) Data Quality Analyst
10 7 (3.70%) Java Developer
10 7 (3.70%) QA Analyst
10 7 (3.70%) Quality Analyst
10 7 (3.70%) SAS Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.29%) ISPF
2 7 (3.70%) D3.js
3 6 (3.17%) Spring
4 3 (1.59%) Flash
4 3 (1.59%) POSIX
4 3 (1.59%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.06%) JSON
5 2 (1.06%) REST
5 2 (1.06%) XML
6 1 (0.53%) LDAP
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.69%) Mainframe
2 22 (11.64%) Credit Risk
3 16 (8.47%) IBM Mainframe
4 12 (6.35%) Algorithms
5 8 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (4.23%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.70%) Derivative
6 7 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.70%) Fixed Income
7 6 (3.17%) Management Information System
7 6 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.59%) FMCG
8 3 (1.59%) NVMe
8 3 (1.59%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.06%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.53%) Biopharmaceutical
10 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.53%) Social Media
10 1 (0.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 41 (21.69%) zOS
2 11 (5.82%) Linux
3 3 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.59%) Unix
4 2 (1.06%) CentOS
4 2 (1.06%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.06%) Windows
4 2 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.53%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (24.34%) Analytics
2 39 (20.63%) Agile
3 30 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 27 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 27 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 26 (13.76%) Data Analysis
6 25 (13.23%) Performance Monitoring
7 24 (12.70%) Validation
8 20 (10.58%) Data Analytics
8 20 (10.58%) Scrum
9 19 (10.05%) Computer Science
9 19 (10.05%) Data Management
10 18 (9.52%) Data Cleansing
10 18 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (9.52%) Statistics
11 16 (8.47%) Mathematics
11 16 (8.47%) Migration
12 15 (7.94%) User Experience
12 15 (7.94%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 82 (43.39%) SQL
2 57 (30.16%) Python
3 41 (21.69%) REXX
4 36 (19.05%) R
5 27 (14.29%) JCL
6 23 (12.17%) Assembly Language
7 20 (10.58%) CLIST
8 14 (7.41%) COBOL
8 14 (7.41%) Java
9 13 (6.88%) SELCOPY
10 7 (3.70%) C#
10 7 (3.70%) PL/SQL
10 7 (3.70%) VB
11 4 (2.12%) JavaScript
12 3 (1.59%) C
12 3 (1.59%) Perl
13 2 (1.06%) C++
14 1 (0.53%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.53%) SAS Macro
14 1 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (12.17%) Degree
2 18 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.12%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.12%) PhD
5 3 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.59%) Numerate Degree
6 2 (1.06%) MBA
7 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.29%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.76%) CDISC
3 8 (4.23%) QA
4 7 (3.70%) IFRS
4 7 (3.70%) IFRS 9
5 5 (2.65%) GDPR
6 4 (2.12%) GxP
7 3 (1.59%) Good Clinical Practice
8 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (14.29%) Time Sharing Option
2 17 (8.99%) ACF2
2 17 (8.99%) RACF
3 4 (2.12%) HDFS
4 3 (1.59%) Docker
4 3 (1.59%) NFS
5 2 (1.06%) GPFS
6 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (12.70%) OMEGAMON
2 4 (2.12%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.06%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 1 (0.53%) Ansible
4 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (22.75%) IBM
2 21 (11.11%) Broadcom
3 19 (10.05%) Oracle
4 18 (9.52%) Splunk
5 14 (7.41%) Syncsort
6 10 (5.29%) Alteryx
6 10 (5.29%) IFS
7 8 (4.23%) CA
7 8 (4.23%) Google
8 7 (3.70%) Dataiku
8 7 (3.70%) ION Trading
8 7 (3.70%) SAP
8 7 (3.70%) Trillium
9 5 (2.65%) Adobe
9 5 (2.65%) Microsoft
10 4 (2.12%) Facebook
10 4 (2.12%) Salesforce
10 4 (2.12%) Snapchat
10 4 (2.12%) Talend
11 3 (1.59%) BiZZdesign