SAS Contracts in the UK excluding London

SAS System
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 297 327 355
Rank change year-on-year +30 +28 -50
Contract jobs citing SAS 101 120 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.52% 0.50%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.67% 4.78% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 78 112
10th Percentile £322 £400 £406
25th Percentile £374 £417 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +7.24%
75th Percentile £531 £558 £550
90th Percentile £596 £652 £588
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -9.52% +0.96% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £21.11 £64.35 -
25th Percentile £22.61 £69.00 £25.50
Median hourly rate £23.22 £78.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.43% +201.92% -
75th Percentile £24.43 £80.88 £26.50
90th Percentile £56.27 £81.25 -
UK median hourly rate £24.43 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -62.42% +23.81% +94.73%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,782 2,511 3,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.55% 10.96% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,212 1,767 2,684
10th Percentile £213 £200 £185
25th Percentile £325 £339 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.70%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 101 138
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.50 £13.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.00 £14.45
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +116.22% -2.63%
75th Percentile £51.91 £64.50 £44.03
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £30.08 £51.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -41.31% +127.78% +9.76%

SAS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SAS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SAS in the UK excluding London

SAS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SAS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for SAS in the UK excluding London

SAS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SAS in the UK excluding London

SAS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SAS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SAS in the UK excluding London

SAS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SAS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for SAS in the UK excluding London

SAS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +24 41 £358 -28.40% 16
North of England +44 31 £475 +9.76% 21
Yorkshire +37 21 £450 -5.26% 12
Midlands +21 19 £389 -3.35% 18
West Midlands +17 11 £358 -31.81% 13
North West +15 10 £475 +11.76% 8
East Midlands +4 8 £450 +12.50% 5
Scotland +12 6 £597 +4.47% 11
East of England +9 3 £450 -5.26%
Wales - 3 £412 - 3
South West -8 1 £615 +17.14% 5
SAS
UK

SAS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (10.89%) CICS
2 5 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.99%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (9.90%) SPSS
2 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.99%) Stata
Business Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Adobe Campaign
1 4 (3.96%) FastStats
1 4 (3.96%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.88%) Power Platform
2 10 (9.90%) Snowflake
3 7 (6.93%) AWS
3 7 (6.93%) Collibra
3 7 (6.93%) Power Automate
4 6 (5.94%) Azure
5 2 (1.98%) GCP
5 2 (1.98%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.99%) Bloomreach
6 1 (0.99%) SaaS
6 1 (0.99%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) Fibre Channel
1 3 (2.97%) iSCSI
2 2 (1.98%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.86%) Qlik Sense
2 13 (12.87%) DB2
3 12 (11.88%) Power BI
4 11 (10.89%) IDMS
5 10 (9.90%) Crystal Reports
6 8 (7.92%) Data Mining
6 8 (7.92%) Tableau
7 7 (6.93%) Ataccama
7 7 (6.93%) SQL Server
8 6 (5.94%) Data Lake
9 5 (4.95%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 2 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.98%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.98%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 1 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.99%) Impala
11 1 (0.99%) Looker
11 1 (0.99%) MySQL
11 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (10.89%) Git
2 7 (6.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.99%) GitLab
3 1 (0.99%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.99%) JIRA
General
1 44 (43.56%) Social Skills
2 15 (14.85%) Finance
3 11 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.90%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.93%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.94%) Marketing
7 4 (3.96%) Banking
7 4 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.96%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.97%) Retail
9 2 (1.98%) Legal
10 1 (0.99%) Advertising
10 1 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (25.74%) Analyst
1 26 (25.74%) Developer
2 20 (19.80%) Programmer
3 18 (17.82%) Data Analyst
3 18 (17.82%) Systems Programmer
3 18 (17.82%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 11 (10.89%) IBM Mainframe Developer
4 11 (10.89%) Mainframe Developer
4 11 (10.89%) Senior
5 9 (8.91%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (6.93%) Data Quality Analyst
6 7 (6.93%) IFS Developer
6 7 (6.93%) QA Analyst
6 7 (6.93%) Quality Analyst
6 7 (6.93%) Risk Analyst
7 6 (5.94%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
7 6 (5.94%) Senior QA Analyst
7 6 (5.94%) Senior Quality Analyst
8 5 (4.95%) Product Manager
9 4 (3.96%) SAS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (22.77%) ISPF
2 7 (6.93%) D3.js
3 3 (2.97%) Flash
3 3 (2.97%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 34 (33.66%) Mainframe
2 15 (14.85%) Credit Risk
3 13 (12.87%) IBM Mainframe
4 5 (4.95%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.96%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.97%) NVMe
7 2 (1.98%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.99%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 34 (33.66%) zOS
2 3 (2.97%) Linux
2 3 (2.97%) Unix
3 2 (1.98%) Data ONTAP
3 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.98%) Windows
3 2 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.99%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (31.68%) Analytics
2 21 (20.79%) Performance Monitoring
3 20 (19.80%) Risk Management
3 20 (19.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (18.81%) Agile
5 18 (17.82%) Data Analysis
6 17 (16.83%) Data Modelling
7 16 (15.84%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (14.85%) Data Analytics
9 13 (12.87%) Scrum
10 12 (11.88%) Data Cleansing
10 12 (11.88%) Requirements Gathering
11 11 (10.89%) Data Governance
11 11 (10.89%) User Experience
11 11 (10.89%) Visualisation
12 10 (9.90%) Computer Science
12 10 (9.90%) Data Security
12 10 (9.90%) Matrix Organization
13 9 (8.91%) Data Management
13 9 (8.91%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 52 (51.49%) SQL
2 34 (33.66%) REXX
3 33 (32.67%) Python
4 23 (22.77%) JCL
5 19 (18.81%) Assembly Language
6 15 (14.85%) R
7 13 (12.87%) CLIST
8 11 (10.89%) COBOL
9 10 (9.90%) SELCOPY
10 4 (3.96%) Java
11 3 (2.97%) Perl
12 1 (0.99%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.99%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 12 (11.88%) Degree
2 11 (10.89%) Security Cleared
3 10 (9.90%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.99%) PhD
6 1 (0.99%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.90%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.93%) QA
3 6 (5.94%) IFRS
3 6 (5.94%) IFRS 9
4 5 (4.95%) GDPR
5 1 (0.99%) CDISC
System Software
1 23 (22.77%) Time Sharing Option
2 17 (16.83%) ACF2
2 17 (16.83%) RACF
3 3 (2.97%) NFS
4 2 (1.98%) Docker
4 2 (1.98%) GPFS
5 1 (0.99%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (19.80%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.98%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (0.99%) Ansible
Vendors
1 36 (35.64%) IBM
2 21 (20.79%) Broadcom
3 18 (17.82%) Splunk
4 11 (10.89%) Syncsort
5 10 (9.90%) IFS
6 7 (6.93%) Alteryx
6 7 (6.93%) Dataiku
6 7 (6.93%) Google
6 7 (6.93%) SAP
6 7 (6.93%) Trillium
7 5 (4.95%) Adobe
7 5 (4.95%) Microsoft
8 4 (3.96%) Facebook
8 4 (3.96%) Salesforce
8 4 (3.96%) Snapchat
9 3 (2.97%) Oracle
10 2 (1.98%) EMC
10 2 (1.98%) NetApp
10 2 (1.98%) Sybase
10 2 (1.98%) Veritas