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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 606 469 503
Rank change year-on-year -137 +34 +26
Contract jobs citing Sass 26 63 86
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.057% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% 0.95% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 46 65
10th Percentile £425 £384 £325
25th Percentile £437 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% +2.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £550 £703 £594
90th Percentile £610 £813 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £363
% change year-on-year - +24.14% -18.54%

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 9,428 6,651 8,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 22.66% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,290 4,556 6,230
10th Percentile £358 £363 £338
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -0.57% -4.00%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 101 193
10th Percentile £35.00 £26.50 £20.48
25th Percentile £52.50 £43.00 £36.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%
75th Percentile £71.62 £68.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £84.00 £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 17 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 7 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 17 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 -138 25 £475 -7.54% 17
London -87 14 £518 -17.20% 6
Work from Home -38 10 £550 -8.33% 9
UK excluding London -99 8 £450 - 12
North West -36 7 £450 -25.00% 3
North of England -78 7 £450 -6.25% 4
South East - 1 - - 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 7 (26.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (3.85%) CMS
2 1 (3.85%) nginx
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 9 (34.62%) Amazon S3
2 9 (34.62%) Serverless
3 8 (30.77%) GitHub
4 6 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (19.23%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (15.38%) Amazon Cognito
6 4 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (7.69%) Azure
7 2 (7.69%) SaaS
8 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.85%) Figma
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) DynamoDB
2 4 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (15.38%) MySQL
2 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Git
2 7 (26.92%) Cypress.io
3 4 (15.38%) Maven
4 3 (11.54%) Jasmine
5 2 (7.69%) Vite
5 2 (7.69%) webpack
6 1 (3.85%) Capybara
6 1 (3.85%) ESLint
6 1 (3.85%) GitLab
6 1 (3.85%) JIRA
6 1 (3.85%) minitest
6 1 (3.85%) rollup.js
6 1 (3.85%) RSpec
6 1 (3.85%) Selenium
General
1 13 (50.00%) Finance
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Retail
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Delivery Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Service Delivery Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Service Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) JavaScript Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) UI Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Angular Developer
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Developer
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
6 1 (3.85%) Ruby Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (100.00%) CSS
2 14 (53.85%) React
3 13 (50.00%) Node.js
4 12 (46.15%) HTML
5 11 (42.31%) RESTful
6 10 (38.46%) AngularJS
6 10 (38.46%) CSS3
6 10 (38.46%) HTML5
6 10 (38.46%) Jest
7 9 (34.62%) Spring
7 9 (34.62%) Spring MVC
8 8 (30.77%) REST
9 6 (23.08%) Playwright
10 5 (19.23%) Enzyme
10 5 (19.23%) jQuery
10 5 (19.23%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (19.23%) Spring Boot
11 4 (15.38%) Bootstrap
11 4 (15.38%) J2EE
11 4 (15.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.54%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (11.54%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.69%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) FMCG
4 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
1 4 (15.38%) Unix
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Agile
2 10 (38.46%) MVC
3 8 (30.77%) E-Commerce
3 8 (30.77%) End-to-End Testing
3 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
4 7 (26.92%) TDD
5 6 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
5 6 (23.08%) Design Patterns
5 6 (23.08%) DevOps
5 6 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 6 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (19.23%) Asset Management
6 5 (19.23%) Open Source
6 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
6 5 (19.23%) Thought Leadership
6 5 (19.23%) User Experience
6 5 (19.23%) Wealth Management
7 4 (15.38%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (69.23%) JavaScript
1 18 (69.23%) TypeScript
2 10 (38.46%) Java
3 5 (19.23%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) JSX
5 1 (3.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) Accessibility
2 4 (15.38%) SLA
3 3 (11.54%) WCAG
4 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) ISA Server
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Adobe
1 3 (11.54%) Splunk
2 2 (7.69%) Telerik
3 1 (3.85%) DevExpress
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce