SAS System
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SAS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SAS over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 402 516 397
Rank change year-on-year +114 -119 -2
Permanent jobs citing SAS 648 533 1,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.54% 0.93%
As % of the Application Platforms category 6.07% 4.77% 6.60%
Number of salaries quoted 174 327 403
10th Percentile £32,500 - £34,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £40,113 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +37.11% -26.91% -0.21%
75th Percentile £73,852 £57,931 £72,875
90th Percentile £92,500 £77,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,528 £36,699 £47,000
% change year-on-year +40.41% -21.92% -6.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 10,673 11,180 23,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.50% 11.42% 14.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,096 7,524 11,576
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £37,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.16% +0.08% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £48,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.46% +6.67% -

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SAS.

Salary trend for SAS in the UK

SAS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SAS over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SAS in the UK

SAS
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SAS within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +131 612 £55,000 +37.11% 117
Work from Home +212 415 £51,528 +0.54% 69
London +263 347 £57,500 -4.17% 60
UK excluding London -55 277 £51,528 +40.41% 77
South East +44 113 £62,750 +79.29% 33
North of England -12 73 £51,528 +40.41% 23
Yorkshire +41 34 £52,500 +42.80% 11
North West -9 30 £47,500 +35.71% 11
Midlands -14 29 £55,000 +57.14% 10
South West -47 29 £42,500 +9.25% 2
West Midlands 0 17 £55,000 +55.66% 8
Scotland -82 16 £51,528 +18.15% 6
East Midlands -17 12 £32,500 -7.14% 2
North East -6 9 £49,100 +40.29% 1
Wales +3 8 £43,750 -2.65% 3
East of England +7 5 £37,500 +7.14%
Channel Islands -2 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

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 7 (1.08%) Apache Spark
1 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (0.93%) Apache
2 6 (0.93%) Confluence
3 5 (0.77%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 42 (6.48%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (5.09%) SPSS
3 4 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.46%) Stata
Business Applications
1 299 (46.14%) SAP ERP
2 4 (0.62%) Relativity
3 2 (0.31%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 1 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.15%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.15%) FastStats
4 1 (0.15%) Ringtail
4 1 (0.15%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 31 (4.78%) Power Platform
2 26 (4.01%) Azure
3 19 (2.93%) AWS
4 14 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (2.16%) Amazon S3
4 14 (2.16%) GCP
5 11 (1.70%) Dropbox
6 8 (1.23%) Google Analytics
6 8 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (1.08%) Adobe Analytics
8 6 (0.93%) Vertex AI
9 4 (0.62%) Google Workspace
9 4 (0.62%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.46%) Rubrik
10 3 (0.46%) SaaS
11 2 (0.31%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.31%) Collibra
11 2 (0.31%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 299 (46.14%) Broadband
2 10 (1.54%) SAN
3 9 (1.39%) iSCSI
4 7 (1.08%) Firewall
4 7 (1.08%) Internet
4 7 (1.08%) VLAN
4 7 (1.08%) Wireless
5 6 (0.93%) VPN
6 5 (0.77%) DNS
7 4 (0.62%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.62%) SMS
7 4 (0.62%) WAN
8 3 (0.46%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (0.46%) LAN
8 3 (0.46%) VoIP
8 3 (0.46%) WebEx
9 1 (0.15%) HTTP
9 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (8.18%) Tableau
2 41 (6.33%) Big Data
3 31 (4.78%) Power BI
4 30 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (4.48%) Data Mining
6 19 (2.93%) Amazon QuickSight
7 18 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 17 (2.62%) Base SAS
9 15 (2.31%) EDRMS
9 15 (2.31%) NoSQL
10 14 (2.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (2.16%) DynamoDB
11 13 (2.01%) SQL Server
12 12 (1.85%) Metadata
12 12 (1.85%) SAS Data Integration Studio
13 10 (1.54%) QlikView
14 9 (1.39%) BusinessObjects
15 8 (1.23%) Text Mining
16 5 (0.77%) SAS EBI
16 5 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (1.39%) JIRA
2 7 (1.08%) ERwin
3 3 (0.46%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.31%) Git
4 2 (0.31%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.31%) RStudio
4 2 (0.31%) Spinnaker
General
1 461 (71.14%) Finance
2 438 (67.59%) Social Skills
3 165 (25.46%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (12.96%) Legal
5 80 (12.35%) Banking
6 40 (6.17%) Publishing
7 38 (5.86%) Marketing
8 30 (4.63%) Law
9 23 (3.55%) Retail
10 18 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.54%) Korean Language
13 10 (1.54%) Military
14 7 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.93%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.93%) Retail Finance
15 6 (0.93%) Wearables
16 4 (0.62%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 301 (46.45%) Architect
2 299 (46.14%) Solutions Architect
3 112 (17.28%) Senior
4 90 (13.89%) Analyst
5 43 (6.64%) Senior Analyst
6 40 (6.17%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 31 (4.78%) Data Scientist
8 30 (4.63%) Developer
9 25 (3.86%) Data Analyst
10 22 (3.40%) ServiceNow Developer
11 20 (3.09%) Pricing Analyst
12 14 (2.16%) Data Manager
13 12 (1.85%) Consultant
13 12 (1.85%) Credit Analyst
13 12 (1.85%) Credit Risk Analyst
13 12 (1.85%) Lead
13 12 (1.85%) Project Manager
13 12 (1.85%) Risk Analyst
14 11 (1.70%) Senior Manager
14 11 (1.70%) Senior Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.86%) CSS
1 25 (3.86%) HTML
2 24 (3.70%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 22 (3.40%) AngularJS
3 22 (3.40%) Web Services
4 11 (1.70%) XML
5 10 (1.54%) EDI
6 7 (1.08%) Pandas
7 4 (0.62%) D3.js
7 4 (0.62%) PySpark
7 4 (0.62%) Tidyverse
8 3 (0.46%) CodeIgniter
8 3 (0.46%) Google Chart
8 3 (0.46%) ISPF
8 3 (0.46%) Laravel
8 3 (0.46%) React
8 3 (0.46%) Symfony
9 2 (0.31%) Django
9 2 (0.31%) jQuery
9 2 (0.31%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 86 (13.27%) Credit Risk
2 33 (5.09%) Onboarding
3 22 (3.40%) CMDB
3 22 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (2.93%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.31%) Cybercrime
6 10 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.39%) Algorithms
7 9 (1.39%) Life Science
8 8 (1.23%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.08%) Biopharmaceutical
9 7 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.93%) Blog
10 6 (0.93%) Clustering
10 6 (0.93%) Market Risk
11 5 (0.77%) Semantic Web
12 4 (0.62%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.62%) Taxonomies
13 3 (0.46%) Mainframe
13 3 (0.46%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.93%) Windows
2 9 (1.39%) Linux
3 5 (0.77%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (0.46%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (51.39%) Agile
2 332 (51.23%) Change Management
3 315 (48.61%) Data Management
4 310 (47.84%) Roadmaps
5 304 (46.91%) Performance Management
6 303 (46.76%) ERP
7 299 (46.14%) Enterprise Architecture
7 299 (46.14%) Strategic Roadmap
7 299 (46.14%) TOGAF
8 159 (24.54%) Analytics
9 95 (14.66%) Data Analysis
10 92 (14.20%) Business Intelligence
11 82 (12.65%) Data Science
12 76 (11.73%) Risk Management
13 64 (9.88%) Statistics
14 61 (9.41%) Visualisation
15 59 (9.10%) Decision-Making
15 59 (9.10%) Economics
16 58 (8.95%) Mathematics
17 57 (8.80%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 158 (24.38%) SQL
2 137 (21.14%) Python
3 97 (14.97%) R
4 20 (3.09%) MATLAB
5 15 (2.31%) SAS Macro
6 8 (1.23%) Java
7 6 (0.93%) VBA
8 5 (0.77%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.62%) JavaScript
9 4 (0.62%) PHP
10 3 (0.46%) Assembly Language
10 3 (0.46%) JCL
10 3 (0.46%) REXX
11 2 (0.31%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.15%) C++
12 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.15%) Scala
12 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 116 (17.90%) Degree
2 20 (3.09%) Numerate Degree
3 6 (0.93%) SAS Certification
4 4 (0.62%) PhD
5 3 (0.46%) Azure Certification
5 3 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.46%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.31%) VCAP
7 1 (0.15%) CCNP
7 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.33%) IFRS
2 53 (8.18%) IFRS 9
3 21 (3.24%) Data Quality
4 18 (2.78%) GDPR
5 14 (2.16%) CDISC
6 9 (1.39%) CRD IV
7 6 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.77%) Good Clinical Practice
9 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.31%) QA
10 1 (0.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.15%) COREP
10 1 (0.15%) FINREP
System Software
1 10 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.62%) vSphere
4 3 (0.46%) ACF2
4 3 (0.46%) RACF
4 3 (0.46%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.31%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.62%) SCCM
3 3 (0.46%) OMEGAMON
4 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 320 (49.38%) Oracle
2 306 (47.22%) SAP
3 300 (46.30%) Anaplan
4 299 (46.14%) Hyperion
5 52 (8.02%) Microsoft
6 28 (4.32%) Google
7 22 (3.40%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.78%) Alteryx
9 14 (2.16%) IBM
9 14 (2.16%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.54%) VMware
11 9 (1.39%) Adobe
12 6 (0.93%) Coremetrics
12 6 (0.93%) iManage
12 6 (0.93%) Pega
12 6 (0.93%) UiPath
13 5 (0.77%) Teradata
14 4 (0.62%) Aruba
14 4 (0.62%) Intapp
14 4 (0.62%) Veeam