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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 643 493 502
Rank change year-on-year -150 +9 +41
Contract jobs citing Sass 40 60 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.073% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.34% 0.70% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 40 49
10th Percentile £322 £396 £350
25th Percentile £368 £411 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -12.84%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £588
90th Percentile £638 £813 £1,000
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £460 £363
% change year-on-year -6.15% +26.76% -19.44%

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 11,912 8,557 9,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.70% 26.06% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,841 5,694 6,057
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 188 187
10th Percentile £28.75 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.19 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -13.04% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £74.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% -9.62% +10.11%

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 30 September 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 10 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 30 September 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 -147 29 £490 - 54
UK excluding London -104 19 £431 -6.15% 29
London -98 16 £461 -16.14% 27
Work from Home -80 12 £322 -31.29% 24
Scotland -15 7 £322 -38.67% 3
Yorkshire -38 7 £575 +15.00% 2
North of England -84 7 £575 +23.86% 5
Midlands -38 4 £469 +11.47% 4
West Midlands -43 4 £469 - 2
South East -62 1 £600 +27.66% 11

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 5 (12.50%) CMS
2 4 (10.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (10.00%) ColdFusion
2 4 (10.00%) WordPress
3 2 (5.00%) Apache
4 1 (2.50%) Confluence
4 1 (2.50%) Drupal
4 1 (2.50%) Headless CMS
4 1 (2.50%) nginx
4 1 (2.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.50%) AWS
2 4 (10.00%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) SaaS
3 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (7.50%) Figma
4 2 (5.00%) Google Analytics
4 2 (5.00%) Serverless
5 1 (2.50%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (2.50%) Cloudinary
5 1 (2.50%) GCP
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.50%) npm
5 1 (2.50%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) MySQL
2 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.00%) Redis
4 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.50%) Flink
4 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (55.00%) Git
2 10 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (17.50%) Cypress.io
3 7 (17.50%) JIRA
3 7 (17.50%) Maven
4 4 (10.00%) Storybook
5 3 (7.50%) GitLab
5 3 (7.50%) IntelliJ
6 2 (5.00%) Capybara
6 2 (5.00%) JProfiler
6 2 (5.00%) RSpec
6 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
6 2 (5.00%) Subversion
6 2 (5.00%) webpack
7 1 (2.50%) minitest
7 1 (2.50%) Rational Rhapsody
7 1 (2.50%) Selenium
General
1 5 (12.50%) Banking
1 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Finance
2 3 (7.50%) Retail
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (5.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.50%) International Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Legal
4 1 (2.50%) Local Government
4 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (60.00%) Developer
2 15 (37.50%) Senior
3 10 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 10 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 8 (20.00%) React Developer
5 6 (15.00%) Java Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (10.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 3 (7.50%) UI Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Web Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Ruby Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior React Developer
8 2 (5.00%) Web Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Angular Developer
9 1 (2.50%) Drupal Designer
9 1 (2.50%) Senior Ruby Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (95.00%) CSS
2 37 (92.50%) HTML
3 26 (65.00%) React
4 24 (60.00%) HTML5
5 19 (47.50%) CSS3
6 17 (42.50%) Node.js
7 16 (40.00%) REST
8 10 (25.00%) RESTful
9 9 (22.50%) Redux
10 8 (20.00%) FreeMarker
10 8 (20.00%) jQuery
10 8 (20.00%) Spring
10 8 (20.00%) Spring Boot
11 7 (17.50%) JDBC
11 7 (17.50%) JPA
11 7 (17.50%) JSF
11 7 (17.50%) LESS
11 7 (17.50%) Servlets
11 7 (17.50%) Spring MVC
12 6 (15.00%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) NHS
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) Agile
2 18 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 15 (37.50%) Front End Development
4 14 (35.00%) Test Automation
5 11 (27.50%) TDD
5 11 (27.50%) User Experience
6 10 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (22.50%) Microservices
7 9 (22.50%) Web Accessibility
8 8 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
8 8 (20.00%) Scrum
8 8 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (20.00%) UX Design
9 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
9 7 (17.50%) MVC
10 6 (15.00%) Analytics
10 6 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (15.00%) Software Engineering
11 5 (12.50%) DevOps
11 5 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (87.50%) JavaScript
2 9 (22.50%) Java
3 8 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (12.50%) SQL
5 4 (10.00%) CFML
5 4 (10.00%) PHP
6 2 (5.00%) C#
6 2 (5.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (62.50%) Accessibility
2 10 (25.00%) WCAG
3 9 (22.50%) QA
4 1 (2.50%) GDPR
4 1 (2.50%) HL7
4 1 (2.50%) WAI
4 1 (2.50%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Adobe
2 4 (10.00%) MuleSoft
2 4 (10.00%) OpenAI
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.00%) Google
4 2 (5.00%) Optimizely
5 1 (2.50%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.50%) CODA
5 1 (2.50%) New Relic
5 1 (2.50%) Okta
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle
5 1 (2.50%) Pardot
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow