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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 490 510
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 -59
Contract jobs citing Sass 66 72 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.87% 0.83% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 54 88
10th Percentile £404 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £545
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% -12.84% +3.42%
75th Percentile £548 £584 £644
90th Percentile £813 £1,000 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +34.00% -22.22% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 7,545 8,634 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.90% 22.41% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,010 5,617 7,893
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.24% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 188 180
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £36.19
25th Percentile £41.82 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.85 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +2.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £72.41
90th Percentile £72.25 £74.61 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year -11.54% +10.11% -6.67%

Sass
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sass as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sass 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -5 55 £500 +5.26% 33
London -11 35 £550 +10.00% 7
Work from Home +11 25 £500 -11.11% 32
UK excluding London +17 20 £469 +34.00% 30
North of England -22 10 £464 +24.71% 13
North West -6 6 £421 +13.16% 4
South East +17 3 £525 +50.00% 6
Scotland -3 3 £525 +44.83%
East of England +2 2 - -
Yorkshire -16 2 £500 - 5
Midlands - 2 £420 - 4
North East - 2 £480 - 4
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £420 - 3

Sass
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 2 (3.03%) nginx
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.52%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) Drupal
2 1 (1.52%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.52%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.52%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.88%) AWS
2 12 (18.18%) GitHub
3 9 (13.64%) Azure
4 8 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (12.12%) Google Analytics
5 7 (10.61%) Amazon S3
5 7 (10.61%) npm
5 7 (10.61%) Serverless
6 6 (9.09%) CloudFront
7 5 (7.58%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (7.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (7.58%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 5 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.03%) Figma
9 2 (3.03%) GCP
10 1 (1.52%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (1.52%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.52%) Azure API Management
10 1 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) DNS
1 5 (7.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.58%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.58%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.03%) ClickHouse
4 2 (3.03%) MySQL
4 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.52%) Big Data
5 1 (1.52%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.52%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.52%) PouchDB
5 1 (1.52%) Redis
5 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (42.42%) Git
2 17 (25.76%) Cypress.io
3 9 (13.64%) Jenkins
4 8 (12.12%) Bitbucket
4 8 (12.12%) TeamCity
4 8 (12.12%) webpack
5 7 (10.61%) gulp
6 6 (9.09%) Grunt
6 6 (9.09%) SonarQube
7 5 (7.58%) Browser DevTools
7 5 (7.58%) Vite
8 4 (6.06%) GitLab
9 3 (4.55%) JIRA
9 3 (4.55%) Maven
9 3 (4.55%) Newman
9 3 (4.55%) Selenium
10 2 (3.03%) Cucumber
10 2 (3.03%) JMeter
10 2 (3.03%) Visual Studio
11 1 (1.52%) Eclipse
General
1 21 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) Banking
3 15 (22.73%) Finance
4 12 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (13.64%) Investment Banking
5 9 (13.64%) Public Sector
6 7 (10.61%) Front Office
6 7 (10.61%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (7.58%) Marketing
8 2 (3.03%) Retail
9 1 (1.52%) Advertising
9 1 (1.52%) Automotive
9 1 (1.52%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (75.76%) Developer
2 18 (27.27%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (22.73%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 10 (15.15%) React Developer
4 10 (15.15%) UI Developer
5 6 (9.09%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 5 (7.58%) Web Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Senior
7 4 (6.06%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Angular Developer
8 3 (4.55%) C# Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Node.js Developer
9 2 (3.03%) .NET Developer
9 2 (3.03%) DevOps Developer
9 2 (3.03%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 2 (3.03%) JavaScript Developer
9 2 (3.03%) Senior UI Developer
9 2 (3.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (75.76%) React
2 48 (72.73%) CSS
3 45 (68.18%) HTML
4 35 (53.03%) Node.js
5 32 (48.48%) Jest
6 26 (39.39%) HTML5
7 18 (27.27%) AngularJS
7 18 (27.27%) LESS
7 18 (27.27%) Redux
8 17 (25.76%) REST
9 14 (21.21%) Express.js
10 13 (19.70%) .NET
11 12 (18.18%) CSS3
11 12 (18.18%) Vue
12 11 (16.67%) RESTful
12 11 (16.67%) Tailwind CSS
13 10 (15.15%) Enzyme
13 10 (15.15%) Next.js
14 8 (12.12%) ASP.NET Web API
14 8 (12.12%) hapi
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (7.58%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.52%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (48.48%) CI/CD
2 30 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
3 23 (34.85%) Front End Development
4 22 (33.33%) Agile
5 21 (31.82%) DevOps
5 21 (31.82%) Scrum
6 17 (25.76%) Microservices
7 14 (21.21%) Clean Code
8 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (18.18%) Analytics
10 10 (15.15%) Code Quality
10 10 (15.15%) OO
10 10 (15.15%) OOP
10 10 (15.15%) TDD
10 10 (15.15%) User Experience
11 9 (13.64%) A/B Testing
11 9 (13.64%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (13.64%) Responsive Web Design
12 8 (12.12%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (12.12%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 53 (80.30%) JavaScript
2 41 (62.12%) TypeScript
3 13 (19.70%) SQL
4 12 (18.18%) C#
4 12 (18.18%) Java
5 10 (15.15%) Python
6 6 (9.09%) C++
7 2 (3.03%) Elm
7 2 (3.03%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.52%) Bash
8 1 (1.52%) Ruby
8 1 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.61%) Degree
3 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (30.30%) Accessibility
2 10 (15.15%) WCAG
3 5 (7.58%) Data Quality
3 5 (7.58%) QA
System Software
1 7 (10.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.12%) Terraform
2 3 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.52%) Kibana
3 1 (1.52%) logstash
3 1 (1.52%) MIIS
Vendors
1 8 (12.12%) Google
2 6 (9.09%) Perforce
3 5 (7.58%) Adobe
3 5 (7.58%) Amplitude
4 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.03%) Oracle
5 2 (3.03%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.52%) IBM
6 1 (1.52%) Pega
6 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.52%) Splunk