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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 507 542
Rank change year-on-year -6 +35 -79
Contract jobs citing Sass 57 44 87
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.12% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.70% 0.55% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 36 65
10th Percentile £353 £312 £300
25th Percentile £409 £357 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £553 £575
90th Percentile £569 £975 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £423 £348 £438
% change year-on-year +21.46% -20.40% -9.79%
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 8,130 7,934 10,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.90% 21.66% 22.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,406 5,021 7,460
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 114 190
10th Percentile £29.50 £22.00 £35.59
25th Percentile £42.19 £36.06 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £65.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -3.08% +19.13% -16.06%

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 November 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 15 November 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 -18 53 £488 +8.33% 60
London +6 33 £523 +10.00% 16
Work from Home +9 21 £469 -3.79% 36
UK excluding London -24 20 £423 +21.46% 51
North of England -37 9 £442 +24.14% 13
North West -18 7 £421 +16.21% 10
South East +4 4 £470 +56.67% 21
Midlands - 3 £421 - 4
East of England -19 2 - -
Yorkshire - 2 £500 - 3
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
South West 0 1 - - 5
Scotland -3 1 £325 -10.34% 3
East Midlands - 1 £421 - 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 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.51%) Drupal
3 1 (1.75%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Adobe XD
1 2 (3.51%) Sketch
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 26 (45.61%) AWS
2 18 (31.58%) GitHub
3 14 (24.56%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (17.54%) Amazon S3
4 10 (17.54%) Azure
4 10 (17.54%) Serverless
5 9 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (14.04%) npm
7 7 (12.28%) Amazon Cognito
8 6 (10.53%) Google Analytics
9 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (7.02%) Figma
11 3 (5.26%) CloudFront
11 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
12 2 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (3.51%) GCP
12 2 (3.51%) PowerApps
13 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (1.75%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
13 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) DNS
1 4 (7.02%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (28.07%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (14.04%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (8.77%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.26%) MySQL
4 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.75%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.75%) PouchDB
6 1 (1.75%) Power BI
6 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (50.88%) Git
2 20 (35.09%) Cypress.io
3 9 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 9 (15.79%) webpack
4 8 (14.04%) GitLab
4 8 (14.04%) SonarQube
5 7 (12.28%) gulp
6 6 (10.53%) Grunt
6 6 (10.53%) Vite
7 4 (7.02%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (5.26%) JIRA
8 3 (5.26%) Maven
8 3 (5.26%) Selenium
9 2 (3.51%) Artifactory
9 2 (3.51%) JMeter
10 1 (1.75%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.75%) Eclipse
10 1 (1.75%) Gradle
10 1 (1.75%) NeoLoad
10 1 (1.75%) SoapUI
General
1 19 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.79%) Finance
3 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.53%) Banking
5 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Marketing
6 3 (5.26%) Military
7 2 (3.51%) Retail
8 1 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (71.93%) Developer
2 17 (29.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 9 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (15.79%) UI Developer
4 8 (14.04%) React Developer
5 6 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 5 (8.77%) Senior
7 4 (7.02%) JavaScript Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Web Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Angular Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Architect
9 2 (3.51%) Designer
9 2 (3.51%) Interaction Designer
9 2 (3.51%) Java Developer
9 2 (3.51%) Senior Designer
9 2 (3.51%) Senior Interaction Designer
9 2 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (84.21%) CSS
2 41 (71.93%) React
3 36 (63.16%) HTML
4 32 (56.14%) Jest
5 27 (47.37%) Node.js
6 21 (36.84%) HTML5
7 18 (31.58%) REST
8 15 (26.32%) CSS3
8 15 (26.32%) Enzyme
8 15 (26.32%) RESTful
9 14 (24.56%) LESS
10 13 (22.81%) AngularJS
11 10 (17.54%) Vue
12 9 (15.79%) Redux
13 8 (14.04%) JSON
14 6 (10.53%) Ajax
14 6 (10.53%) jQuery
14 6 (10.53%) Next.js
14 6 (10.53%) Nightwatchjs
15 5 (8.77%) Parceljs
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Distributed Architecture
1 4 (7.02%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.51%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.75%) FMCG
4 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (59.65%) CI/CD
2 27 (47.37%) Agile
3 26 (45.61%) Front End Development
4 13 (22.81%) Analytics
4 13 (22.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 12 (21.05%) Responsive Web Design
5 12 (21.05%) Software Engineering
6 11 (19.30%) Code Quality
6 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (19.30%) TDD
7 10 (17.54%) DevOps
7 10 (17.54%) Performance Optimisation
7 10 (17.54%) Scrum
8 9 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (15.79%) End-to-End Testing
8 9 (15.79%) Test Automation
8 9 (15.79%) Unit Testing
8 9 (15.79%) User Experience
9 8 (14.04%) BDD
9 8 (14.04%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 46 (80.70%) JavaScript
2 36 (63.16%) TypeScript
3 17 (29.82%) SQL
4 8 (14.04%) Java
5 7 (12.28%) JSX
6 5 (8.77%) Python
7 2 (3.51%) Elm
7 2 (3.51%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.75%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (29.82%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.02%) Degree
4 3 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (42.11%) Accessibility
2 14 (24.56%) WCAG
3 4 (7.02%) Data Quality
3 4 (7.02%) QA
System Software
1 8 (14.04%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (1.75%) Grafana
3 1 (1.75%) Kibana
3 1 (1.75%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) Google
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 6 (10.53%) Perforce
2 4 (7.02%) Amplitude
3 3 (5.26%) Adobe
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle
4 2 (3.51%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.75%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.75%) Pega
5 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.75%) Telerik