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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 521 503 536
Rank change year-on-year -18 +33 -72
Contract jobs citing Sass 53 46 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 0.58% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 37 64
10th Percentile £350 £314 £300
25th Percentile £410 £356 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -10.53% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £575
90th Percentile £579 £885 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £350 £438
% change year-on-year +21.43% -20.00% -9.79%
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 8,186 7,970 10,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.79% 21.69% 22.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,436 5,031 7,369
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 117 190
10th Percentile £30.15 £22.00 £36.19
25th Percentile £42.50 £36.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.66% -15.72%

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 22 November 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 22 November 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 -15 50 £500 +17.65% 70
London +8 31 £523 +10.00% 22
Work from Home -2 19 £497 +4.63% 50
UK excluding London -38 19 £425 +21.43% 59
North of England -36 9 £442 +26.36% 14
North West -24 7 £421 +16.21% 10
South East -2 3 £525 +75.00% 28
Midlands - 3 £421 - 4
East of England -12 2 - - 3
West Midlands - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 3
Scotland -1 1 £325 -10.34% 2
South West -3 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £421 - 4

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 (5.66%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.89%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Adobe XD
1 2 (3.77%) Sketch
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 23 (43.40%) AWS
2 16 (30.19%) GitHub
3 12 (22.64%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (18.87%) Azure
4 10 (18.87%) Serverless
5 9 (16.98%) Amazon S3
5 9 (16.98%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (15.09%) npm
7 7 (13.21%) Amazon Cognito
8 5 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (9.43%) Google Analytics
9 4 (7.55%) Figma
10 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
11 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (3.77%) CloudFront
11 2 (3.77%) GCP
11 2 (3.77%) PowerApps
12 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.89%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) DNS
1 3 (5.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.30%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (15.09%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (9.43%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.66%) MySQL
4 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.89%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.89%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.89%) PouchDB
6 1 (1.89%) Power BI
6 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (52.83%) Git
2 19 (35.85%) Cypress.io
3 8 (15.09%) Jenkins
3 8 (15.09%) SonarQube
3 8 (15.09%) webpack
4 7 (13.21%) GitLab
4 7 (13.21%) gulp
5 6 (11.32%) Grunt
6 5 (9.43%) Vite
7 3 (5.66%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (5.66%) Maven
7 3 (5.66%) Selenium
8 2 (3.77%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.77%) JIRA
8 2 (3.77%) JMeter
9 1 (1.89%) ESLint
9 1 (1.89%) NeoLoad
9 1 (1.89%) Postman
9 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Finance
2 8 (15.09%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.43%) Banking
4 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Marketing
4 3 (5.66%) Military
5 2 (3.77%) Retail
6 1 (1.89%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (71.70%) Developer
2 15 (28.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 9 (16.98%) UI Developer
4 8 (15.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (15.09%) React Developer
5 6 (11.32%) Software Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (7.55%) JavaScript Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Senior
7 3 (5.66%) Angular Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Web Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Architect
8 2 (3.77%) Designer
8 2 (3.77%) DevOps Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Interaction Designer
8 2 (3.77%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Designer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (84.91%) CSS
2 39 (73.58%) React
3 32 (60.38%) HTML
4 29 (54.72%) Jest
5 26 (49.06%) Node.js
6 20 (37.74%) HTML5
7 18 (33.96%) REST
8 15 (28.30%) CSS3
8 15 (28.30%) Enzyme
8 15 (28.30%) RESTful
9 14 (26.42%) LESS
10 11 (20.75%) AngularJS
11 9 (16.98%) Redux
11 9 (16.98%) Vue
12 8 (15.09%) JSON
13 6 (11.32%) Ajax
13 6 (11.32%) Nightwatchjs
14 5 (9.43%) jQuery
14 5 (9.43%) Next.js
14 5 (9.43%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) Distributed Architecture
2 3 (5.66%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.77%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.89%) FMCG
4 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.89%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (58.49%) CI/CD
2 25 (47.17%) Agile
3 24 (45.28%) Front End Development
4 12 (22.64%) Analytics
4 12 (22.64%) Software Engineering
5 11 (20.75%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (20.75%) TDD
6 10 (18.87%) Code Quality
6 10 (18.87%) Performance Optimisation
6 10 (18.87%) Responsive Web Design
7 9 (16.98%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (16.98%) DevOps
7 9 (16.98%) End-to-End Testing
7 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (16.98%) Test Automation
7 9 (16.98%) Unit Testing
8 8 (15.09%) BDD
8 8 (15.09%) Clean Code
8 8 (15.09%) User Experience
9 7 (13.21%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 42 (79.25%) JavaScript
2 33 (62.26%) TypeScript
3 16 (30.19%) SQL
4 8 (15.09%) Java
5 7 (13.21%) JSX
6 5 (9.43%) Python
7 2 (3.77%) Elm
7 2 (3.77%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (32.08%) Security Cleared
2 12 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.77%) Degree
5 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (41.51%) Accessibility
2 12 (22.64%) WCAG
3 3 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.66%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) Grafana
3 1 (1.89%) Kibana
3 1 (1.89%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
1 6 (11.32%) Perforce
2 5 (9.43%) Google
3 3 (5.66%) Adobe
3 3 (5.66%) Amplitude
3 3 (5.66%) Oracle
4 2 (3.77%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.89%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.89%) Pega
5 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.89%) Telerik