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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 504 520
Rank change year-on-year 0 +16 -58
Contract jobs citing Sass 53 53 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.14% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.69% 0.65% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 43 81
10th Percentile £362 £324 £300
25th Percentile £411 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% -5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £713 £638
90th Percentile £575 £1,000 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £442 £347 £450
% change year-on-year +27.63% -23.00% -8.63%
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 7,688 8,166 10,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.98% 22.04% 22.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,062 5,179 7,739
10th Percentile £350 £350 £369
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £672
90th Percentile £725 £788 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 153 197
10th Percentile £30.05 £25.15 £36.42
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £51.44 £65.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.86% +16.07% -13.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.95 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%

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 21 October 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 21 October 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 0 47 £500 +5.26% 47
London -3 26 £525 +5.00% 14
UK excluding London +6 22 £442 +27.63% 44
Work from Home +9 18 £445 -17.59% 36
North of England -23 9 £442 +22.00% 10
North West -14 7 £421 +16.21% 7
South East +7 4 £470 +56.67% 16
Scotland +6 3 £525 +44.83%
Midlands - 3 £421 - 4
East of England 0 2 - - 2
Yorkshire -28 2 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 2 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 £421 -
South West - 1 - - 7

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 2 (3.77%) Drupal
1 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Adobe XD
1 2 (3.77%) Sketch
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 24 (45.28%) AWS
2 15 (28.30%) GitHub
3 12 (22.64%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (16.98%) Azure
5 8 (15.09%) npm
6 7 (13.21%) Amazon S3
6 7 (13.21%) Serverless
7 6 (11.32%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (11.32%) Google Analytics
8 5 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (7.55%) CloudFront
10 3 (5.66%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (5.66%) Figma
10 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
11 2 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (3.77%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
11 2 (3.77%) GCP
11 2 (3.77%) PowerApps
12 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.55%) DNS
1 4 (7.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (28.30%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.43%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.55%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.66%) MySQL
4 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.89%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.89%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.89%) PouchDB
6 1 (1.89%) Power BI
6 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (43.40%) Git
2 17 (32.08%) Cypress.io
3 9 (16.98%) Jenkins
4 8 (15.09%) SonarQube
5 7 (13.21%) GitLab
5 7 (13.21%) gulp
5 7 (13.21%) webpack
6 6 (11.32%) Grunt
7 4 (7.55%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (7.55%) Vite
8 3 (5.66%) JIRA
8 3 (5.66%) Maven
8 3 (5.66%) Newman
8 3 (5.66%) Selenium
9 2 (3.77%) Artifactory
9 2 (3.77%) Bitbucket
9 2 (3.77%) JMeter
9 2 (3.77%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.89%) Postman
10 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 20 (37.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.87%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.21%) Banking
4 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.32%) Finance
5 4 (7.55%) Marketing
6 3 (5.66%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Military
7 2 (3.77%) Front Office
7 2 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Retail
8 1 (1.89%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (75.47%) Developer
2 15 (28.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 10 (18.87%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (13.21%) React Developer
4 7 (13.21%) UI Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (7.55%) Senior
6 4 (7.55%) Web Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Angular Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Designer
8 2 (3.77%) DevOps Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Interaction Designer
8 2 (3.77%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Node.js Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Power Apps Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Designer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (77.36%) CSS
2 37 (69.81%) HTML
3 36 (67.92%) React
4 28 (52.83%) Jest
5 26 (49.06%) Node.js
6 21 (39.62%) HTML5
7 17 (32.08%) REST
8 14 (26.42%) LESS
9 13 (24.53%) AngularJS
9 13 (24.53%) CSS3
10 10 (18.87%) Enzyme
10 10 (18.87%) RESTful
11 9 (16.98%) Redux
11 9 (16.98%) Vue
12 8 (15.09%) JSON
13 7 (13.21%) Express.js
14 6 (11.32%) Ajax
14 6 (11.32%) jQuery
14 6 (11.32%) Next.js
14 6 (11.32%) Nightwatchjs
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (3.77%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (3.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.89%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (56.60%) CI/CD
2 23 (43.40%) Front End Development
3 21 (39.62%) Agile
4 17 (32.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (26.42%) DevOps
6 13 (24.53%) Analytics
6 13 (24.53%) Scrum
7 11 (20.75%) Code Quality
7 11 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (18.87%) Performance Optimisation
8 10 (18.87%) Responsive Web Design
9 9 (16.98%) Clean Code
9 9 (16.98%) TDD
10 8 (15.09%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (15.09%) Microservices
10 8 (15.09%) Software Engineering
10 8 (15.09%) Test Automation
10 8 (15.09%) Unit Testing
10 8 (15.09%) User Experience
11 7 (13.21%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 42 (79.25%) JavaScript
2 32 (60.38%) TypeScript
3 13 (24.53%) SQL
4 9 (16.98%) Java
5 6 (11.32%) Python
6 4 (7.55%) JSX
7 2 (3.77%) C#
7 2 (3.77%) C++
7 2 (3.77%) Elm
7 2 (3.77%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) Degree
4 3 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (39.62%) Accessibility
2 11 (20.75%) WCAG
3 4 (7.55%) Data Quality
3 4 (7.55%) QA
System Software
1 10 (18.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (11.32%) Kubernetes
1 6 (11.32%) Terraform
2 1 (1.89%) Kibana
2 1 (1.89%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (11.32%) Google
1 6 (11.32%) Perforce
2 5 (9.43%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.55%) Amplitude
4 3 (5.66%) Adobe
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle
5 2 (3.77%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.89%) Pega