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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 464 490
Rank change year-on-year -154 +26 +41
Contract jobs citing Sass 21 74 87
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.041% 0.25% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 1.08% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 55 67
10th Percentile £334 £408 £325
25th Percentile £425 £464 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.24% +2.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £694 £638
90th Percentile £655 £813 £970
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £480 £350
% change year-on-year +14.58% +37.14% -24.32%

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 9,934 6,861 9,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.51% 22.84% 21.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,532 4,676 6,354
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 134 280
10th Percentile £30.05 £29.12 £22.45
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.84 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £74.82 £68.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £57.13
% change year-on-year +4.00% +9.41% -11.43%

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 24 June 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 9 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 24 June 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 -149 18 £525 +0.96% 9
London -99 10 £450 -32.08% 2
Work from Home -68 9 £550 +2.33% 7
UK excluding London -109 7 £550 +14.58% 10
North of England -86 4 £600 +25.00% 3
Scotland -15 2 £316 -39.76% 1
North West -53 2 £550 +18.47% 3
Yorkshire - 2 £700 -
South East -62 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 4 (19.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (9.52%) CMS
3 1 (4.76%) Apache
3 1 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (4.76%) Drupal
3 1 (4.76%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Shopify
2 1 (4.76%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) GitHub
2 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (9.52%) Google Analytics
2 2 (9.52%) SaaS
3 1 (4.76%) Adobe Creative Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) Figma
3 1 (4.76%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Git
2 7 (33.33%) Maven
3 5 (23.81%) Cypress.io
4 3 (14.29%) IntelliJ
4 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 3 (14.29%) JIRA
5 2 (9.52%) JProfiler
5 2 (9.52%) Subversion
5 2 (9.52%) webpack
6 1 (4.76%) Capybara
6 1 (4.76%) minitest
6 1 (4.76%) RSpec
6 1 (4.76%) Selenium
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Retail
3 5 (23.81%) Finance
4 4 (19.05%) Banking
5 2 (9.52%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
5 2 (9.52%) Marketing
5 2 (9.52%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Delivery Manager
2 4 (19.05%) React Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Senior
2 4 (19.05%) Service Delivery Manager
2 4 (19.05%) Service Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 2 (9.52%) Java Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Web Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Designer
4 1 (4.76%) Drupal Designer
4 1 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (4.76%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
4 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Ruby Developer
4 1 (4.76%) UI Developer
4 1 (4.76%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (90.48%) CSS
2 14 (66.67%) React
3 12 (57.14%) REST
4 11 (52.38%) HTML
5 9 (42.86%) HTML5
5 9 (42.86%) Node.js
6 7 (33.33%) Spring
6 7 (33.33%) Spring MVC
7 6 (28.57%) GraphQL
7 6 (28.57%) jQuery
7 6 (28.57%) Redux
8 5 (23.81%) AngularJS
8 5 (23.81%) CSS3
9 4 (19.05%) Bootstrap
9 4 (19.05%) J2EE
9 4 (19.05%) Jest
9 4 (19.05%) RESTful
9 4 (19.05%) Web Services
10 3 (14.29%) Next.js
10 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
2 3 (14.29%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
1 4 (19.05%) Unix
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Agile
2 8 (38.10%) MVC
3 7 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
5 4 (19.05%) Change Management
5 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (19.05%) ITIL
5 4 (19.05%) Problem Management
5 4 (19.05%) Release Management
5 4 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (19.05%) Service Delivery
5 4 (19.05%) TDD
5 4 (19.05%) Time Management
5 4 (19.05%) User Experience
6 3 (14.29%) Clean Code
6 3 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (14.29%) Scrum
6 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) JavaScript
2 8 (38.10%) Java
2 8 (38.10%) TypeScript
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) Accessibility
2 6 (28.57%) QA
3 4 (19.05%) SLA
4 2 (9.52%) WCAG
5 1 (4.76%) WAI
5 1 (4.76%) WAI-ARIA
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Adobe
2 1 (4.76%) CODA
2 1 (4.76%) Pardot
2 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.76%) Telerik