Sass Contract Job Trends

Sass (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) including SCSS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Sass skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 507 537
Rank change year-on-year -38 +30 -66
Contract jobs citing Sass 47 36 70
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.57% 0.49% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 27 49
10th Percentile £343 £300 £320
25th Percentile £411 £346 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £380 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.07% -24.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £531 £494 £575
90th Percentile £598 £860 £590
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £350 £453
% change year-on-year +25.00% -22.65% -4.74%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,288 7,411 9,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.39% 21.95% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,491 4,699 6,768
10th Percentile £353 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 92 172
10th Percentile £31.15 £21.33 £32.30
25th Percentile £43.75 £34.56 £46.18
Median hourly rate £58.73 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.99 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.25 £65.00 £52.20
% change year-on-year -2.69% +24.53% -19.70%

Sass
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Sass job vacancy trend in the UK

Sass
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sass.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sass

Sass
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sass over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sass in the UK

Sass
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sass.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sass

Sass
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sass within the UK over the 6 months to 23 December 2025. 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 -22 45 £463 +21.71% 91
London +4 28 £523 +22.94% 23
UK excluding London -38 18 £438 +25.00% 86
Work from Home -2 15 £525 +17.32% 82
North of England -41 11 £450 +28.57% 22
North West -23 9 £450 +24.14% 15
Midlands - 3 £421 - 11
West Midlands - 2 - - 4
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 6
Scotland +5 1 £325 -10.34% 4
South West -3 1 - - 12
South East -15 1 £410 +36.67% 22
East of England - 1 - - 10
East Midlands - 1 £421 - 6

Sass
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (6.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.13%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Adobe XD
1 2 (4.26%) Sketch
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 25 (53.19%) AWS
2 16 (34.04%) GitHub
3 14 (29.79%) Serverless
4 13 (27.66%) Amazon S3
5 11 (23.40%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (19.15%) Azure
7 8 (17.02%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (14.89%) Amazon Cognito
9 5 (10.64%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (8.51%) Figma
10 4 (8.51%) Google Analytics
10 4 (8.51%) npm
11 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
12 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (4.26%) GCP
12 2 (4.26%) PowerApps
13 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) DNS
1 2 (4.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.53%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (14.89%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (10.64%) DynamoDB
3 5 (10.64%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.38%) MySQL
4 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.13%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.13%) Power BI
6 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (51.06%) Git
2 14 (29.79%) Cypress.io
3 7 (14.89%) GitLab
3 7 (14.89%) Jenkins
4 6 (12.77%) webpack
5 5 (10.64%) SonarQube
6 4 (8.51%) gulp
6 4 (8.51%) Vite
7 3 (6.38%) Grunt
7 3 (6.38%) Jasmine
7 3 (6.38%) Maven
8 2 (4.26%) Artifactory
8 2 (4.26%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (4.26%) JIRA
8 2 (4.26%) JMeter
8 2 (4.26%) Selenium
9 1 (2.13%) NeoLoad
9 1 (2.13%) rollup.js
9 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.53%) Finance
3 10 (21.28%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.64%) Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Military
6 2 (4.26%) Marketing
6 2 (4.26%) Retail
7 1 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (65.96%) Developer
2 12 (25.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 9 (19.15%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (14.89%) UI Developer
5 6 (12.77%) React Developer
5 6 (12.77%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Angular Developer
6 4 (8.51%) JavaScript Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior
7 3 (6.38%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) AWS Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Designer
8 2 (4.26%) DevOps Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Interaction Designer
8 2 (4.26%) Node.js Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Power Apps Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Interaction Designer
8 2 (4.26%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (89.36%) CSS
2 33 (70.21%) HTML
3 29 (61.70%) React
4 24 (51.06%) Jest
4 24 (51.06%) Node.js
5 21 (44.68%) HTML5
6 20 (42.55%) RESTful
7 17 (36.17%) CSS3
8 15 (31.91%) REST
9 12 (25.53%) AngularJS
9 12 (25.53%) Enzyme
10 11 (23.40%) LESS
11 9 (19.15%) Spring
11 9 (19.15%) Spring Boot
12 8 (17.02%) Playwright
13 6 (12.77%) Lambda Expressions
13 6 (12.77%) Redux
14 5 (10.64%) JSON
14 5 (10.64%) NestJS
14 5 (10.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.51%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.26%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (4.26%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.13%) FMCG
5 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.13%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (61.70%) Agile
2 27 (57.45%) CI/CD
3 18 (38.30%) Front End Development
4 14 (29.79%) TDD
5 13 (27.66%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (25.53%) DevOps
6 12 (25.53%) End-to-End Testing
7 11 (23.40%) Software Engineering
8 10 (21.28%) Microservices
9 9 (19.15%) Analytics
9 9 (19.15%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (19.15%) Responsive Web Design
9 9 (19.15%) Test Automation
9 9 (19.15%) User Experience
10 8 (17.02%) BDD
10 8 (17.02%) Code Quality
10 8 (17.02%) Continuous Delivery
10 8 (17.02%) Wealth Management
11 7 (14.89%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 34 (72.34%) JavaScript
1 34 (72.34%) TypeScript
2 15 (31.91%) SQL
3 12 (25.53%) Java
4 7 (14.89%) JSX
5 4 (8.51%) Python
6 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (36.17%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.13%) Degree
4 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (38.30%) Accessibility
2 11 (23.40%) WCAG
3 3 (6.38%) QA
4 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) ISA Server
3 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.13%) Grafana
3 1 (2.13%) Kibana
3 1 (2.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (12.77%) Adobe
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.51%) Google
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle
4 3 (6.38%) Perforce
4 3 (6.38%) Splunk
5 2 (4.26%) Amplitude
6 1 (2.13%) DevExpress
6 1 (2.13%) Pega
6 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.13%) Telerik