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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 477 494
Rank change year-on-year -159 +17 +21
Contract jobs citing Sass 39 78 83
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.073% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.38% 1.06% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 58 64
10th Percentile £319 £405 £325
25th Percentile £343 £462 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £503
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +1.99% -8.64%
75th Percentile £556 £644 £781
90th Percentile £638 £813 £1,000
UK excluding London median daily rate £374 £480 £350
% change year-on-year -22.14% +37.14% -17.65%

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 10,136 7,346 8,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.92% 22.39% 22.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,589 4,921 5,783
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £411 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £663
90th Percentile £738 £740 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 177 230
10th Percentile £28.00 £29.70 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.19 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% -1.35% -6.54%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.63 £81.15 £74.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £61.60
% change year-on-year +15.56% -8.69% +5.14%

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 19 August 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 9 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 19 August 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 -151 29 £500 -2.68% 37
London -98 18 £480 -12.73% 22
UK excluding London -88 15 £374 -22.14% 21
Work from Home -82 14 £354 -31.97% 17
Scotland -10 7 £322 -24.24% 4
Yorkshire -38 7 £575 +15.00%
North of England -80 7 £575 +19.79% 3
Midlands -41 1 £500 +19.05% 5
West Midlands -55 1 £500 - 2

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 4 (10.26%) CMS
1 4 (10.26%) WordPress
2 3 (7.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (5.13%) Apache
3 2 (5.13%) ColdFusion
4 1 (2.56%) Confluence
4 1 (2.56%) Drupal
4 1 (2.56%) nginx
4 1 (2.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Shopify
2 1 (2.56%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) AWS
2 3 (7.69%) Azure
3 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.13%) Figma
3 2 (5.13%) Google Analytics
3 2 (5.13%) SaaS
4 1 (2.56%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.56%) Cloudinary
4 1 (2.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) GitHub
4 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (2.56%) npm
4 1 (2.56%) Serverless
4 1 (2.56%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) MySQL
2 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.13%) Redis
4 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.56%) Flink
4 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (46.15%) Git
2 10 (25.64%) Jenkins
2 10 (25.64%) Maven
3 7 (17.95%) Cypress.io
3 7 (17.95%) JIRA
4 3 (7.69%) GitLab
4 3 (7.69%) IntelliJ
5 2 (5.13%) Capybara
5 2 (5.13%) JProfiler
5 2 (5.13%) RSpec
5 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.13%) Storybook
5 2 (5.13%) Subversion
5 2 (5.13%) webpack
6 1 (2.56%) minitest
6 1 (2.56%) Rational Rhapsody
6 1 (2.56%) Selenium
General
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Finance
2 6 (15.38%) Retail
3 5 (12.82%) Banking
3 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Retail Banking
4 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.56%) International Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Legal
5 1 (2.56%) Local Government
5 1 (2.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (53.85%) Developer
2 12 (30.77%) Senior
3 9 (23.08%) Senior Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 6 (15.38%) React Developer
5 4 (10.26%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Front-End Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Service Delivery Manager
6 3 (7.69%) Service Manager
6 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (5.13%) Ruby Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (5.13%) Web Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Designer
8 1 (2.56%) Java Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) UI Developer
8 1 (2.56%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (94.87%) CSS
2 33 (84.62%) HTML
3 25 (64.10%) React
4 22 (56.41%) HTML5
5 20 (51.28%) REST
6 17 (43.59%) CSS3
6 17 (43.59%) Node.js
7 11 (28.21%) Spring
8 10 (25.64%) jQuery
8 10 (25.64%) Spring MVC
9 9 (23.08%) Redux
9 9 (23.08%) RESTful
10 8 (20.51%) AngularJS
10 8 (20.51%) FreeMarker
10 8 (20.51%) GraphQL
10 8 (20.51%) Spring Boot
11 7 (17.95%) JDBC
11 7 (17.95%) JPA
11 7 (17.95%) JSF
11 7 (17.95%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.69%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.13%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.56%) NHS
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
1 3 (7.69%) Unix
1 3 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) Agile
2 17 (43.59%) CI/CD
3 12 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 11 (28.21%) MVC
5 10 (25.64%) TDD
6 9 (23.08%) Front End Development
6 9 (23.08%) Microservices
6 9 (23.08%) User Experience
7 8 (20.51%) E-Commerce
7 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (20.51%) Scrum
7 8 (20.51%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (17.95%) UX Design
8 7 (17.95%) Web Accessibility
9 6 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (15.38%) Mentoring
9 6 (15.38%) Responsive Web Design
10 5 (12.82%) Analytics
11 4 (10.26%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 35 (89.74%) JavaScript
2 12 (30.77%) Java
3 11 (28.21%) TypeScript
4 4 (10.26%) PHP
4 4 (10.26%) SQL
5 2 (5.13%) CFML
5 2 (5.13%) Ruby
6 1 (2.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.56%) Degree
1 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (51.28%) Accessibility
2 9 (23.08%) QA
3 6 (15.38%) WCAG
4 3 (7.69%) SLA
5 1 (2.56%) GDPR
5 1 (2.56%) HL7
5 1 (2.56%) WAI
5 1 (2.56%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Adobe
1 4 (10.26%) MuleSoft
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.13%) Google
3 2 (5.13%) OpenAI
3 2 (5.13%) Optimizely
4 1 (2.56%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.56%) CODA
4 1 (2.56%) New Relic
4 1 (2.56%) Okta
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) Pardot
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) Telerik