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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 496 512
Rank change year-on-year -41 +16 -24
Contract jobs citing Sass 41 38 68
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.49% 0.54% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 51
10th Percentile £329 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £340 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £373 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.81% -25.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £531 £534 £575
90th Percentile £636 £725 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £423 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +20.86% -22.22% -7.17%

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 8,283 7,014 9,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.33% 22.03% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,497 4,460 6,425
10th Percentile £356 £355 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 83 168
10th Percentile £32.17 £21.40 £28.28
25th Percentile £44.75 £34.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.62% -16.11%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year - +14.62% -16.11%

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 15 January 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 13 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 15 January 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 -45 39 £450 +20.81% 27
London -17 23 £519 +18.57% 2
UK excluding London -63 17 £423 +20.86% 28
Work from Home +1 13 £525 +29.63% 18
North West -24 9 £450 -6.49% 5
North of England -44 9 £450 +26.32% 12
Midlands - 3 £421 - 2
South East -17 2 £410 +36.67% 4
West Midlands - 2 - -
Scotland +5 1 £325 -10.34% 2
South West -20 1 - - 3
East Midlands - 1 £421 - 2
East of England - 1 - - 3

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 (7.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (7.32%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.44%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (2.44%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Adobe XD
1 2 (4.88%) Sketch
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 22 (53.66%) AWS
2 15 (36.59%) GitHub
3 14 (34.15%) Serverless
4 13 (31.71%) Amazon S3
5 10 (24.39%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (19.51%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (17.07%) Amazon Cognito
8 6 (14.63%) Azure
9 5 (12.20%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (9.76%) Figma
10 4 (9.76%) npm
11 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (7.32%) Google Analytics
11 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
12 2 (4.88%) PowerApps
13 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (2.44%) CloudFront
13 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
13 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) DNS
1 1 (2.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.95%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (17.07%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (12.20%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.88%) MySQL
5 1 (2.44%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.44%) Power BI
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (53.66%) Git
2 12 (29.27%) Cypress.io
3 5 (12.20%) GitLab
3 5 (12.20%) SonarQube
3 5 (12.20%) webpack
4 4 (9.76%) gulp
5 3 (7.32%) Grunt
5 3 (7.32%) Jasmine
5 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
5 3 (7.32%) Vite
6 2 (4.88%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.88%) Maven
7 1 (2.44%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (2.44%) ESLint
7 1 (2.44%) JIRA
7 1 (2.44%) rollup.js
7 1 (2.44%) Selenium
7 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 10 (24.39%) Public Sector
3 9 (21.95%) Finance
4 3 (7.32%) Military
5 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Marketing
6 1 (2.44%) Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (65.85%) Developer
2 13 (31.71%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 6 (14.63%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (14.63%) Software Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) UI Developer
4 5 (12.20%) React Developer
5 4 (9.76%) JavaScript Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Senior
6 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Angular Developer
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Designer
7 2 (4.88%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (4.88%) Interaction Designer
7 2 (4.88%) Power Apps Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Designer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Interaction Designer
7 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (90.24%) CSS
2 27 (65.85%) HTML
2 27 (65.85%) React
3 23 (56.10%) Jest
3 23 (56.10%) Node.js
4 17 (41.46%) HTML5
4 17 (41.46%) RESTful
5 14 (34.15%) CSS3
6 12 (29.27%) Enzyme
6 12 (29.27%) REST
7 10 (24.39%) LESS
8 9 (21.95%) AngularJS
9 8 (19.51%) Playwright
9 8 (19.51%) Spring
9 8 (19.51%) Spring Boot
10 6 (14.63%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (12.20%) Redux
11 5 (12.20%) Spring MVC
12 4 (9.76%) Next.js
12 4 (9.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.76%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.44%) FMCG
5 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.44%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.44%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.44%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (63.41%) Agile
2 21 (51.22%) CI/CD
3 17 (41.46%) Front End Development
4 12 (29.27%) End-to-End Testing
4 12 (29.27%) TDD
5 11 (26.83%) Software Engineering
6 10 (24.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (21.95%) Continuous Delivery
7 9 (21.95%) DevOps
8 8 (19.51%) Analytics
8 8 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (19.51%) Responsive Web Design
8 8 (19.51%) Test Automation
9 7 (17.07%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (17.07%) Unit Testing
10 6 (14.63%) BDD
10 6 (14.63%) Microservices
10 6 (14.63%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (14.63%) User Experience
10 6 (14.63%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (75.61%) JavaScript
2 29 (70.73%) TypeScript
3 11 (26.83%) SQL
4 10 (24.39%) Java
5 7 (17.07%) JSX
6 2 (4.88%) Python
7 1 (2.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (41.46%) Security Cleared
2 11 (26.83%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.44%) Degree
4 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (36.59%) Accessibility
2 10 (24.39%) WCAG
3 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Docker
1 3 (7.32%) ISA Server
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Adobe
2 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.32%) Google
3 3 (7.32%) Perforce
3 3 (7.32%) Splunk
4 1 (2.44%) Amplitude
4 1 (2.44%) DevExpress
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle
4 1 (2.44%) Pega
4 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.44%) Telerik