Sass Contract Job Trends in England

Sass (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) including SCSS
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Sass skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 523 455 502
Rank change year-on-year -68 +47 -25
Contract jobs citing Sass 37 33 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.51% 0.56% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 36
10th Percentile £360 £300 £350
25th Percentile £411 £335 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £373 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.81% -25.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £535 £581 £575
90th Percentile £645 £729 £597
UK median daily rate £450 £380 £500
% change year-on-year +18.42% -24.00% -4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Sass falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,266 5,944 7,736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.11% 22.34% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,862 3,776 5,577
10th Percentile £356 £363 £358
25th Percentile £415 £430 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £662
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £538
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.47% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 77 181
10th Percentile £34.80 £26.25 £26.78
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £68.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.20 £75.80 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%

Sass
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Sass relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Sass job vacancy trend in England

Sass
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sass.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sass

Sass
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sass in England over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Sass in England

Sass
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sass.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sass

Sass
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sass within the England region over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. 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
London -20 21 £513 +28.13% 12
North West -22 10 £450 -25.00% 7
North of England -61 10 £450 +28.57% 14
Midlands - 3 £421 - 4
South East -30 2 £410 +36.67% 13
West Midlands - 2 - -
South West -16 1 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 £421 - 4
Sass
UK

Sass
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (2.70%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Adobe XD
1 2 (5.41%) Sketch
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (51.35%) AWS
2 15 (40.54%) GitHub
3 13 (35.14%) Amazon S3
4 12 (32.43%) Serverless
5 11 (29.73%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (18.92%) Amazon Cognito
6 7 (18.92%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (13.51%) AWS Step Functions
7 5 (13.51%) Azure
8 4 (10.81%) Figma
8 4 (10.81%) npm
9 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (8.11%) Google Analytics
9 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
10 2 (5.41%) PowerApps
11 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (2.70%) AWS CodeBuild
11 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
11 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
1 1 (2.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (18.92%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (13.51%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.70%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.70%) MySQL
4 1 (2.70%) Power BI
4 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (56.76%) Git
2 13 (35.14%) Cypress.io
3 5 (13.51%) GitLab
3 5 (13.51%) SonarQube
4 4 (10.81%) gulp
4 4 (10.81%) webpack
5 3 (8.11%) Grunt
5 3 (8.11%) Jasmine
5 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
5 3 (8.11%) Vite
6 2 (5.41%) Artifactory
6 2 (5.41%) Maven
7 1 (2.70%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (2.70%) ESLint
7 1 (2.70%) JIRA
7 1 (2.70%) rollup.js
7 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Finance
2 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Military
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Marketing
5 1 (2.70%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (62.16%) Developer
2 12 (32.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (18.92%) Software Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 5 (13.51%) UI Developer
5 4 (10.81%) JavaScript Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 3 (8.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) React Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Angular Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Designer
7 2 (5.41%) Interaction Designer
7 2 (5.41%) Power Apps Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Designer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Interaction Designer
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (97.30%) CSS
2 24 (64.86%) React
3 23 (62.16%) HTML
4 22 (59.46%) Jest
5 21 (56.76%) Node.js
6 16 (43.24%) HTML5
6 16 (43.24%) RESTful
7 13 (35.14%) CSS3
8 12 (32.43%) Enzyme
9 9 (24.32%) Playwright
9 9 (24.32%) REST
10 8 (21.62%) AngularJS
10 8 (21.62%) LESS
10 8 (21.62%) Spring
10 8 (21.62%) Spring Boot
11 5 (13.51%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (13.51%) Next.js
11 5 (13.51%) Redux
11 5 (13.51%) Spring MVC
12 3 (8.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.81%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.70%) FMCG
5 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.70%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (64.86%) Agile
2 18 (48.65%) CI/CD
3 17 (45.95%) Front End Development
4 12 (32.43%) End-to-End Testing
4 12 (32.43%) TDD
5 11 (29.73%) Software Engineering
6 9 (24.32%) Continuous Delivery
7 8 (21.62%) DevOps
7 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (18.92%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (18.92%) Design Patterns
8 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (18.92%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (18.92%) Responsive Web Design
8 7 (18.92%) Test Automation
8 7 (18.92%) Unit Testing
9 6 (16.22%) Analytics
9 6 (16.22%) BDD
9 6 (16.22%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (16.22%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (72.97%) TypeScript
2 26 (70.27%) JavaScript
3 9 (24.32%) Java
4 8 (21.62%) SQL
5 7 (18.92%) JSX
6 1 (2.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (43.24%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (37.84%) Accessibility
2 10 (27.03%) WCAG
3 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
1 3 (8.11%) ISA Server
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Adobe
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) Google
3 3 (8.11%) Perforce
3 3 (8.11%) Splunk
4 1 (2.70%) Amplitude
4 1 (2.70%) DevExpress
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.70%) Telerik