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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 456 487
Rank change year-on-year -154 +31 +57
Contract jobs citing Sass 18 66 93
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.037% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 1.02% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 49 71
10th Percentile £436 £406 £325
25th Percentile £440 £470 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -4.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £550 £750 £619
90th Percentile £585 £813 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £480 £350
% change year-on-year +14.58% +37.14% -21.35%

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 9,564 6,498 8,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.62% 22.74% 20.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 4,458 6,210
10th Percentile £363 £360 £345
25th Percentile £420 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 105 249
10th Percentile £30.87 £27.44 £21.63
25th Percentile £51.25 £37.80 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £72.75 £68.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.22 £74.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%

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 27 May 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 8 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 27 May 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 -158 17 £500 -6.98% 15
Work from Home -61 7 £550 - 7
London -98 7 £500 -24.53% 5
UK excluding London -120 7 £550 +14.58% 11
North of England -74 6 £550 +14.58% 2
North West -40 5 £500 -16.67% 2
South East -58 1 - - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -

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 (33.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (11.11%) CMS
3 1 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (5.56%) Confluence
3 1 (5.56%) Drupal
3 1 (5.56%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Shopify
2 1 (5.56%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
1 3 (16.67%) GitHub
1 3 (16.67%) Serverless
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (11.11%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Figma
3 1 (5.56%) Google Analytics
3 1 (5.56%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) MySQL
2 3 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Cypress.io
1 4 (22.22%) Git
1 4 (22.22%) Maven
2 2 (11.11%) Jasmine
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) Capybara
3 1 (5.56%) minitest
3 1 (5.56%) RSpec
3 1 (5.56%) Selenium
3 1 (5.56%) Subversion
3 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Finance
3 5 (27.78%) Retail
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Delivery Manager
2 4 (22.22%) Service Delivery Manager
2 4 (22.22%) Service Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Angular Developer
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (5.56%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
4 1 (5.56%) Ruby Developer
4 1 (5.56%) UI Developer
4 1 (5.56%) UX Designer
4 1 (5.56%) Web Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (94.44%) CSS
2 9 (50.00%) HTML
3 8 (44.44%) AngularJS
3 8 (44.44%) HTML5
3 8 (44.44%) React
3 8 (44.44%) REST
4 7 (38.89%) CSS3
4 7 (38.89%) Node.js
4 7 (38.89%) Spring
4 7 (38.89%) Spring MVC
5 6 (33.33%) jQuery
6 5 (27.78%) Jest
6 5 (27.78%) RESTful
7 4 (22.22%) Bootstrap
7 4 (22.22%) GraphQL
7 4 (22.22%) J2EE
7 4 (22.22%) Playwright
7 4 (22.22%) Web Services
8 3 (16.67%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 3 (16.67%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
1 4 (22.22%) Unix
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Agile
2 8 (44.44%) MVC
3 7 (38.89%) E-Commerce
3 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (27.78%) User Experience
5 4 (22.22%) Change Management
5 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) ITIL
5 4 (22.22%) Problem Management
5 4 (22.22%) Release Management
5 4 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (22.22%) Service Delivery
5 4 (22.22%) TDD
5 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 4 (22.22%) Time Management
5 4 (22.22%) Wealth Management
6 3 (16.67%) Asset Management
6 3 (16.67%) Open Source
6 3 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
6 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 9 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 7 (38.89%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) Ruby
4 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 4 (22.22%) SLA
2 2 (11.11%) QA
3 1 (5.56%) WAI
3 1 (5.56%) WAI-ARIA
3 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) ISA Server
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Adobe
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk
3 1 (5.56%) CODA
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Pardot
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Telerik