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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 460 510
Rank change year-on-year -134 +50 +32
Contract jobs citing Sass 28 59 81
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.061% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.30% 0.89% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 43 63
10th Percentile £425 £374 £325
25th Percentile £437 £466 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £731 £597
90th Percentile £610 £813 £796
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £480 £363
% change year-on-year -6.25% +32.41% -18.99%

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 9,449 6,643 8,855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.67% 22.69% 20.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,293 4,558 6,177
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 102 185
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.28 £18.39
25th Percentile £52.50 £45.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +39.67% -28.95%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -26.11%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -126 27 £475 -13.64% 17
London -82 14 £518 -21.89% 5
Work from Home -56 10 £550 -15.38% 8
UK excluding London -102 10 £450 -6.25% 11
North West -35 7 £450 -25.00% 3
North of England -82 7 £450 -6.25% 4
South West -31 1 - - 3
Midlands -66 1 - -
South East - 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 - -

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 7 (25.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.57%) Apache
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (3.57%) CMS
3 1 (3.57%) Drupal
3 1 (3.57%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) AWS
2 9 (32.14%) Amazon S3
2 9 (32.14%) Serverless
3 8 (28.57%) GitHub
4 6 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (17.86%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
6 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (10.71%) Azure
8 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (7.14%) SaaS
9 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
9 1 (3.57%) Figma
9 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
9 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
9 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) DynamoDB
2 4 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (14.29%) MySQL
2 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) Power BI
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Git
2 7 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 5 (17.86%) Maven
4 3 (10.71%) Jasmine
5 2 (7.14%) GitLab
5 2 (7.14%) JIRA
5 2 (7.14%) Vite
5 2 (7.14%) webpack
6 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
6 1 (3.57%) Capybara
6 1 (3.57%) ESLint
6 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
6 1 (3.57%) minitest
6 1 (3.57%) rollup.js
6 1 (3.57%) RSpec
6 1 (3.57%) Selenium
6 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
General
1 15 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 13 (46.43%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Retail
4 2 (7.14%) Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Marketing
5 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 5 (17.86%) Software Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (14.29%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) Service Delivery Manager
3 4 (14.29%) Service Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) JavaScript Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) UI Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Front-End Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
6 1 (3.57%) Ruby Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (100.00%) CSS
2 14 (50.00%) HTML
2 14 (50.00%) React
3 13 (46.43%) Node.js
4 11 (39.29%) CSS3
4 11 (39.29%) HTML5
4 11 (39.29%) RESTful
5 10 (35.71%) AngularJS
5 10 (35.71%) Jest
5 10 (35.71%) Spring
6 9 (32.14%) REST
6 9 (32.14%) Spring MVC
7 6 (21.43%) jQuery
7 6 (21.43%) Playwright
7 6 (21.43%) Spring Boot
8 5 (17.86%) Bootstrap
8 5 (17.86%) Enzyme
8 5 (17.86%) Lambda Expressions
9 4 (14.29%) J2EE
9 4 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.71%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (10.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) FMCG
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
1 4 (14.29%) Unix
1 4 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Agile
2 10 (35.71%) MVC
3 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 8 (28.57%) E-Commerce
4 8 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
5 7 (25.00%) DevOps
5 7 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (25.00%) TDD
6 6 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (21.43%) Design Patterns
6 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 6 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (21.43%) User Experience
7 5 (17.86%) Asset Management
7 5 (17.86%) Front End Development
7 5 (17.86%) Open Source
7 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
7 5 (17.86%) Thought Leadership
7 5 (17.86%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) JavaScript
1 19 (67.86%) TypeScript
2 11 (39.29%) Java
3 6 (21.43%) SQL
4 3 (10.71%) JSX
5 1 (3.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (17.86%) WCAG
3 4 (14.29%) SLA
4 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) ISA Server
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Adobe
1 3 (10.71%) Splunk
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Telerik
3 1 (3.57%) DevExpress
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce