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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 510 542
Rank change year-on-year -3 +32 -70
Contract jobs citing Sass 57 48 91
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.72% 0.60% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 40 68
10th Percentile £357 £321 £300
25th Percentile £409 £358 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £456 £485
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -5.93% -9.77%
75th Percentile £538 £644 £591
90th Percentile £541 £1,005 £654
UK excluding London median daily rate £442 £348 £450
% change year-on-year +26.99% -22.61% -8.16%
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 7,926 7,968 10,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.92% 21.82% 22.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,265 5,040 7,429
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £664
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 119 187
10th Percentile £29.70 £23.44 £36.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £40.63 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.09 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -3.85% +19.13% -16.06%

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 5 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 5 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 +2 51 £475 - 70
London +10 31 £520 +6.67% 26
UK excluding London -24 22 £442 +26.99% 67
Work from Home -6 19 £445 -13.59% 36
North of England -39 9 £442 +24.14% 18
North West -24 7 £421 +16.21% 11
South East -1 4 £470 +56.67% 27
Scotland +2 3 £525 +44.83% 6
Midlands - 3 £421 - 4
East of England -13 2 - -
Yorkshire -27 2 £500 - 1
West Midlands - 2 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 £421 - 1
South West - 1 - - 6

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 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.51%) Drupal
3 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Adobe XD
1 2 (3.51%) Sketch
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 27 (47.37%) AWS
2 20 (35.09%) GitHub
3 16 (28.07%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (17.54%) Amazon S3
4 10 (17.54%) Azure
4 10 (17.54%) Serverless
5 9 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (14.04%) npm
7 7 (12.28%) Amazon Cognito
8 6 (10.53%) Google Analytics
9 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (5.26%) CloudFront
10 3 (5.26%) Figma
10 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
11 2 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (3.51%) GCP
11 2 (3.51%) PowerApps
12 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.75%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) DNS
1 4 (7.02%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (31.58%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (14.04%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.02%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.26%) MySQL
4 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.75%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.75%) PouchDB
6 1 (1.75%) Power BI
6 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (49.12%) Git
2 21 (36.84%) Cypress.io
3 9 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 9 (15.79%) webpack
4 8 (14.04%) SonarQube
5 7 (12.28%) GitLab
5 7 (12.28%) gulp
6 6 (10.53%) Grunt
7 5 (8.77%) Vite
8 4 (7.02%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (5.26%) JIRA
9 3 (5.26%) Maven
9 3 (5.26%) Newman
9 3 (5.26%) Selenium
10 2 (3.51%) Artifactory
10 2 (3.51%) JMeter
11 1 (1.75%) Cucumber
11 1 (1.75%) Postman
11 1 (1.75%) rollup.js
11 1 (1.75%) SoapUI
General
1 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.54%) Public Sector
3 8 (14.04%) Finance
4 5 (8.77%) Banking
5 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Marketing
6 3 (5.26%) Military
7 2 (3.51%) Retail
8 1 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (73.68%) Developer
2 17 (29.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 9 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (14.04%) React Developer
4 8 (14.04%) UI Developer
5 6 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 5 (8.77%) Senior
7 4 (7.02%) JavaScript Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Web Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Angular Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Designer
9 2 (3.51%) DevOps Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Interaction Designer
9 2 (3.51%) Java Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Node.js Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Senior Designer
9 2 (3.51%) Senior Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (80.70%) CSS
2 40 (70.18%) React
3 36 (63.16%) HTML
4 34 (59.65%) Jest
5 28 (49.12%) Node.js
6 20 (35.09%) HTML5
7 18 (31.58%) REST
8 15 (26.32%) Enzyme
8 15 (26.32%) RESTful
9 14 (24.56%) CSS3
9 14 (24.56%) LESS
10 13 (22.81%) AngularJS
11 9 (15.79%) Redux
11 9 (15.79%) Vue
12 8 (14.04%) JSON
13 6 (10.53%) Ajax
13 6 (10.53%) Express.js
13 6 (10.53%) jQuery
13 6 (10.53%) Next.js
13 6 (10.53%) Nightwatchjs
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Distributed Architecture
1 4 (7.02%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (61.40%) CI/CD
2 26 (45.61%) Agile
2 26 (45.61%) Front End Development
3 15 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
4 13 (22.81%) Analytics
5 12 (21.05%) DevOps
5 12 (21.05%) Responsive Web Design
6 11 (19.30%) Code Quality
6 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (19.30%) Scrum
6 11 (19.30%) Software Engineering
6 11 (19.30%) TDD
7 10 (17.54%) Performance Optimisation
8 9 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (15.79%) Design Patterns
8 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
9 8 (14.04%) BDD
9 8 (14.04%) Clean Code
9 8 (14.04%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (14.04%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 47 (82.46%) JavaScript
2 37 (64.91%) TypeScript
3 17 (29.82%) SQL
4 7 (12.28%) Java
4 7 (12.28%) JSX
5 5 (8.77%) Python
6 2 (3.51%) Elm
6 2 (3.51%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (29.82%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) Degree
4 3 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (42.11%) Accessibility
2 14 (24.56%) WCAG
3 4 (7.02%) Data Quality
3 4 (7.02%) QA
System Software
1 10 (17.54%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.77%) Terraform
3 1 (1.75%) Kibana
3 1 (1.75%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) Google
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 6 (10.53%) Perforce
2 4 (7.02%) Amplitude
3 3 (5.26%) Adobe
4 2 (3.51%) Oracle
4 2 (3.51%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.75%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.75%) Pega
5 1 (1.75%) Telerik