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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 489 535
Rank change year-on-year -78 +46 -38
Contract jobs citing Sass 37 38 58
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.089% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.41% 0.55% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 43
10th Percentile £397 £300 £365
25th Percentile £417 £358 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% -20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £541 £675 £588
90th Percentile £648 £750 £648
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £350 £453
% change year-on-year +28.57% -22.65% -6.65%

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 9,132 6,923 9,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.00% 22.74% 20.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,102 4,522 6,405
10th Percentile £358 £360 £341
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -1.95% -1.69% -6.64%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 89 228
10th Percentile £35.03 £26.05 £20.77
25th Percentile £52.50 £38.50 £39.98
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%
75th Percentile £73.46 £68.00 £65.31
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.23 £75.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
% change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%

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 1 March 2026.

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 11 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 1 March 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
England -74 37 £456 +14.06% 69
London -36 22 £519 +6.41% 7
UK excluding London -81 15 £450 +28.57% 64
Work from Home -20 12 £550 -15.38% 17
North West -38 10 £450 -25.00% 6
North of England -60 10 £450 +28.57% 12
South East -36 2 £410 +36.67% 16
Midlands -49 2 £421 +14.71% 8
East Midlands -24 1 £421 +14.71% 6
South West -26 1 - - 16
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

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 6 (16.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Foundry
3 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 18 (48.65%) 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
9 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (8.11%) npm
9 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
10 2 (5.41%) Google Analytics
10 2 (5.41%) PowerApps
10 2 (5.41%) SaaS
11 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (2.70%) AWS CodeBuild
11 1 (2.70%) CloudFront
11 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (18.92%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (13.51%) DynamoDB
4 4 (10.81%) MySQL
5 1 (2.70%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.70%) Power BI
5 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (51.35%) Git
2 13 (35.14%) Cypress.io
3 5 (13.51%) GitLab
3 5 (13.51%) Maven
4 4 (10.81%) SonarQube
5 3 (8.11%) gulp
5 3 (8.11%) Jasmine
5 3 (8.11%) webpack
6 2 (5.41%) Artifactory
6 2 (5.41%) Grunt
6 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
6 2 (5.41%) Vite
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 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 11 (29.73%) Finance
3 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.11%) Military
4 3 (8.11%) Retail
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Marketing
5 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (54.05%) Developer
2 10 (27.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 8 (21.62%) Software Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Senior
5 4 (10.81%) JavaScript Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) UI Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Delivery Manager
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
6 3 (8.11%) Service Delivery Manager
6 3 (8.11%) Service Manager
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 Front-End Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (97.30%) CSS
2 22 (59.46%) React
3 20 (54.05%) HTML
3 20 (54.05%) Node.js
4 19 (51.35%) Jest
5 14 (37.84%) HTML5
5 14 (37.84%) RESTful
6 12 (32.43%) CSS3
7 11 (29.73%) Enzyme
7 11 (29.73%) REST
7 11 (29.73%) Spring
8 9 (24.32%) AngularJS
8 9 (24.32%) Playwright
9 8 (21.62%) Spring Boot
9 8 (21.62%) Spring MVC
10 7 (18.92%) LESS
11 5 (13.51%) Bootstrap
11 5 (13.51%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (13.51%) Redux
12 4 (10.81%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) 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%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
1 3 (8.11%) Unix
1 3 (8.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (62.16%) Agile
2 16 (43.24%) CI/CD
3 14 (37.84%) Front End Development
4 12 (32.43%) Software Engineering
5 11 (29.73%) End-to-End Testing
5 11 (29.73%) TDD
6 9 (24.32%) Continuous Delivery
6 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (21.62%) Design Patterns
7 8 (21.62%) DevOps
7 8 (21.62%) MVC
8 7 (18.92%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (16.22%) BDD
9 6 (16.22%) Clean Code
9 6 (16.22%) Code Quality
9 6 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (16.22%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (16.22%) Unit Testing
9 6 (16.22%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (16.22%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 26 (70.27%) TypeScript
2 25 (67.57%) JavaScript
3 12 (32.43%) Java
4 8 (21.62%) SQL
5 7 (18.92%) JSX
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 11 (29.73%) Accessibility
2 8 (21.62%) WCAG
3 3 (8.11%) SLA
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%) Splunk
4 2 (5.41%) Google
4 2 (5.41%) Perforce
5 1 (2.70%) DevExpress
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.70%) Telerik