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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 474 485
Rank change year-on-year -153 +11 +18
Contract jobs citing Sass 36 77 87
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.068% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.35% 1.03% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 58 66
10th Percentile £322 £405 £325
25th Percentile £385 £462 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £644 £763
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 10,155 7,440 8,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.09% 22.61% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,639 5,024 5,854
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £638 £634 £666
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 165 248
10th Percentile £28.26 £30.10 £22.50
25th Percentile £41.33 £40.75 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% +2.09% -10.42%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £79.48 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £58.60
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.15% +0.02%

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 5 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 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 5 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 -160 29 £490 -4.39% 28
London -74 19 £480 -12.73% 12
UK excluding London -109 13 £374 -22.14% 20
Work from Home -75 12 £393 -25.24% 16
Yorkshire -41 7 £575 +15.00%
North of England -62 7 £575 +19.79%
Scotland -8 6 £322 -38.67% 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 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 4 (11.11%) CMS
1 4 (11.11%) WordPress
2 2 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) ColdFusion
3 1 (2.78%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) Drupal
3 1 (2.78%) nginx
3 1 (2.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Shopify
2 1 (2.78%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) AWS
2 2 (5.56%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) Figma
2 2 (5.56%) Google Analytics
3 1 (2.78%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (2.78%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.78%) Cloudinary
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) GitHub
3 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (2.78%) SaaS
3 1 (2.78%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) MySQL
2 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.56%) Redis
4 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.78%) Flink
4 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (44.44%) Git
2 10 (27.78%) Maven
3 9 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (16.67%) Cypress.io
4 6 (16.67%) JIRA
5 3 (8.33%) GitLab
5 3 (8.33%) IntelliJ
6 2 (5.56%) Capybara
6 2 (5.56%) JProfiler
6 2 (5.56%) RSpec
6 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
6 2 (5.56%) Subversion
6 2 (5.56%) webpack
7 1 (2.78%) minitest
7 1 (2.78%) Selenium
7 1 (2.78%) Storybook
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Finance
2 7 (19.44%) Retail
3 5 (13.89%) Banking
3 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Retail Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.78%) International Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Local Government
5 1 (2.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Developer
2 11 (30.56%) Senior
3 8 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 6 (16.67%) React Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (13.89%) Java Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (11.11%) Service Delivery Manager
6 4 (11.11%) Service Manager
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 2 (5.56%) Ruby Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 2 (5.56%) Web Engineer
9 1 (2.78%) Java Software Engineer
9 1 (2.78%) Senior React Developer
9 1 (2.78%) UI Developer
9 1 (2.78%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (94.44%) CSS
2 29 (80.56%) HTML
3 24 (66.67%) React
4 20 (55.56%) HTML5
5 19 (52.78%) REST
6 16 (44.44%) Node.js
7 15 (41.67%) CSS3
8 11 (30.56%) Spring
9 10 (27.78%) Spring MVC
10 9 (25.00%) jQuery
11 8 (22.22%) AngularJS
11 8 (22.22%) GraphQL
11 8 (22.22%) Redux
12 7 (19.44%) FreeMarker
12 7 (19.44%) Jakarta EE
12 7 (19.44%) RESTful
12 7 (19.44%) Spring Boot
13 6 (16.67%) Bootstrap
13 6 (16.67%) JPA
13 6 (16.67%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.33%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.78%) NHS
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
1 4 (11.11%) Unix
1 4 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Agile
2 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 11 (30.56%) MVC
4 10 (27.78%) Test Automation
5 9 (25.00%) E-Commerce
5 9 (25.00%) TDD
6 8 (22.22%) Microservices
6 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (22.22%) User Experience
7 7 (19.44%) Scrum
7 7 (19.44%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (16.67%) Front End Development
8 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (16.67%) UX Design
8 6 (16.67%) Web Accessibility
9 5 (13.89%) Analytics
9 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
10 4 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
10 4 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (88.89%) JavaScript
2 12 (33.33%) Java
3 11 (30.56%) TypeScript
4 4 (11.11%) PHP
4 4 (11.11%) SQL
5 2 (5.56%) Ruby
6 1 (2.78%) CFML
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.78%) Degree
1 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 9 (25.00%) QA
3 6 (16.67%) WCAG
4 4 (11.11%) SLA
5 1 (2.78%) GDPR
5 1 (2.78%) WAI
5 1 (2.78%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Adobe
2 3 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.56%) Google
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Optimizely
4 1 (2.78%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.78%) CODA
4 1 (2.78%) New Relic
4 1 (2.78%) Okta
4 1 (2.78%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Pardot
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.78%) Telerik