Sass Contracts

Sass (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) including SCSS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Sass skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sass over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 499 528
Rank change year-on-year +29 +29 -56
Contract jobs citing Sass 69 91 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.97% 0.98% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 70 105
10th Percentile £408 £325 £313
25th Percentile £459 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -16.67% +18.81%
75th Percentile £713 £656 £650
90th Percentile £813 £1,000 £759
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £350 £469
% change year-on-year +37.14% -25.33% +10.29%
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 7,122 9,314 12,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.73% 21.42% 22.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,822 6,381 9,223
10th Percentile £350 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 280 155
10th Percentile £28.29 £22.50 £28.50
25th Percentile £35.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.51 £74.44 £80.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sass.

Daily rate trend for Sass in the UK

Sass
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sass over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sass in the UK

Sass
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sass.

Hourly rate trend for Sass in the UK

Sass
Top 12 Contract 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 3 July 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 +28 55 £514 +2.75% 105
London +18 37 £675 +25.00% 36
Work from Home +11 28 £538 -2.27% 67
UK excluding London +33 16 £480 +37.14% 83
North of England +7 7 £480 +26.82% 16
North East +4 4 £480 +28.00% 3
South East +39 3 £525 +50.00% 15
North West +6 3 £460 +20.29% 6
Scotland - 3 £525 - 1
Midlands +15 2 £394 +12.43% 8
East Midlands - 2 £394 - 6
East of England +24 1 - - 15

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 (2.90%) nginx
2 1 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.45%) Drupal
2 1 (1.45%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.45%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.45%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.13%) AWS
2 14 (20.29%) GitHub
3 13 (18.84%) Amazon SQS
4 11 (15.94%) Amazon S3
4 11 (15.94%) Serverless
5 10 (14.49%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (14.49%) CloudFront
6 9 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (13.04%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 6 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.70%) Google Analytics
8 5 (7.25%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (7.25%) npm
9 4 (5.80%) Azure
10 2 (2.90%) BigCommerce
10 2 (2.90%) Figma
11 1 (1.45%) AWS CodeBuild
11 1 (1.45%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.45%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.59%) HTTP
2 3 (4.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (28.99%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.25%) DynamoDB
3 5 (7.25%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.90%) ClickHouse
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.45%) Big Data
6 1 (1.45%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.45%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.45%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.45%) MySQL
6 1 (1.45%) PouchDB
6 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (42.03%) Git
2 15 (21.74%) Cypress.io
3 8 (11.59%) Bitbucket
3 8 (11.59%) TeamCity
4 7 (10.14%) webpack
5 6 (8.70%) Grunt
6 5 (7.25%) git-flow
6 5 (7.25%) gulp
7 4 (5.80%) Jenkins
7 4 (5.80%) SonarQube
8 3 (4.35%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (4.35%) Maven
8 3 (4.35%) Newman
8 3 (4.35%) Vite
9 2 (2.90%) GitLab
9 2 (2.90%) JIRA
9 2 (2.90%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (1.45%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (30.43%) Banking
2 19 (27.54%) Social Skills
3 14 (20.29%) Finance
4 12 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (14.49%) Investment Banking
5 10 (14.49%) Public Sector
6 7 (10.14%) Front Office
6 7 (10.14%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (7.25%) Marketing
8 2 (2.90%) Retail
9 1 (1.45%) Advertising
9 1 (1.45%) Automotive
9 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 53 (76.81%) Developer
2 17 (24.64%) Full-Stack Developer
3 15 (21.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 8 (11.59%) UI Developer
5 7 (10.14%) Node.js Developer
5 7 (10.14%) React Developer
6 6 (8.70%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 5 (7.25%) Senior
7 5 (7.25%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.80%) C# Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Java Developer
9 3 (4.35%) .NET Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Backend Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 3 (4.35%) JavaScript Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Lead
9 3 (4.35%) Web Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Senior C# Developer
10 2 (2.90%) Senior UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (71.01%) CSS
1 49 (71.01%) React
2 44 (63.77%) HTML
3 42 (60.87%) Node.js
4 34 (49.28%) Jest
5 20 (28.99%) HTML5
5 20 (28.99%) LESS
6 19 (27.54%) Redux
7 16 (23.19%) AngularJS
7 16 (23.19%) Express.js
8 14 (20.29%) .NET
9 12 (17.39%) hapi
10 11 (15.94%) Nunjucks
11 10 (14.49%) REST
11 10 (14.49%) RESTful
11 10 (14.49%) Tailwind CSS
11 10 (14.49%) Vue
12 9 (13.04%) ASP.NET
12 9 (13.04%) JSON
13 8 (11.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (4.35%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.04%) Windows
2 1 (1.45%) Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (43.48%) Full-Stack Development
2 24 (34.78%) Front End Development
3 21 (30.43%) CI/CD
4 17 (24.64%) Agile
4 17 (24.64%) DevOps
4 17 (24.64%) Scrum
5 14 (20.29%) Clean Code
5 14 (20.29%) Microservices
6 11 (15.94%) OO
6 11 (15.94%) OOP
6 11 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (15.94%) TDD
7 10 (14.49%) Test Automation
8 9 (13.04%) Analytics
8 9 (13.04%) Mentoring
9 8 (11.59%) Progressive Enhancement
9 8 (11.59%) SOA
9 8 (11.59%) Unit Testing
9 8 (11.59%) User Experience
10 7 (10.14%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 54 (78.26%) JavaScript
2 41 (59.42%) TypeScript
3 16 (23.19%) C#
4 14 (20.29%) Java
5 12 (17.39%) SQL
6 8 (11.59%) Python
7 6 (8.70%) C++
8 5 (7.25%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.90%) Elm
9 2 (2.90%) PHP
10 1 (1.45%) Bash
10 1 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.70%) Degree
2 6 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (23.19%) Accessibility
2 10 (14.49%) WCAG
3 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.90%) QA
5 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (10.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.14%) Terraform
2 3 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.45%) MIIS
Vendors
1 7 (10.14%) Adobe
2 6 (8.70%) Google
3 4 (5.80%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.80%) Perforce
4 3 (4.35%) Amplitude
4 3 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.90%) SAP
5 2 (2.90%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.90%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.45%) IBM
6 1 (1.45%) Splunk
6 1 (1.45%) Sun