Sass Contracts

Sass (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) including SCSS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Sass skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sass over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 493 512
Rank change year-on-year +46 +19 -64
Contract jobs citing Sass 66 93 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.22% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.01% 1.04% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 70 124
10th Percentile £400 £325 £333
25th Percentile £445 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £531 £531
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% - -1.62%
75th Percentile £741 £599 £650
90th Percentile £813 £801 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £350 £445
% change year-on-year +37.14% -21.35% +4.71%

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 6,560 8,919 13,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.58% 20.74% 23.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,517 6,180 9,848
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 244 156
10th Percentile £29.25 £21.25 £30.38
25th Percentile £50.53 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.00%
75th Percentile £68.38 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.10 £74.85 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +28.00%

Sass
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Sass as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Sass in the UK

Sass
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Sass.

Daily rate trend for Sass in the UK

Sass
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sass over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sass in the UK

Sass
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Sass.

Hourly rate trend for Sass in the UK

Sass
Top 11 Contract 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 13 May 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 +36 53 £538 +3.12% 160
London +5 34 £663 +20.45% 70
Work from Home +24 24 £550 - 214
UK excluding London +47 18 £480 +37.14% 120
North of England +27 13 £480 +6.67% 37
North West +24 8 £600 +26.32% 27
North East -2 5 £480 +28.00% 4
Scotland - 3 £525 - 3
Midlands +20 2 £394 +12.43% 10
East Midlands - 2 £394 - 5
South West - 2 - - 19

Sass
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (3.03%) nginx
2 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.52%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.52%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.52%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (31.82%) AWS
2 12 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
3 11 (16.67%) GitHub
4 10 (15.15%) Serverless
5 9 (13.64%) Amazon S3
5 9 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (12.12%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
6 8 (12.12%) CloudFront
7 5 (7.58%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (6.06%) Azure
8 4 (6.06%) Google Analytics
9 3 (4.55%) BigCommerce
9 3 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.03%) Figma
10 2 (3.03%) npm
11 1 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (1.52%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.09%) HTTP
2 1 (1.52%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (24.24%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.58%) DynamoDB
3 5 (7.58%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.03%) ClickHouse
5 2 (3.03%) MySQL
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.52%) Big Data
6 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.52%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (48.48%) Git
2 8 (12.12%) Bitbucket
2 8 (12.12%) Cypress.io
2 8 (12.12%) Grunt
2 8 (12.12%) TeamCity
3 7 (10.61%) gulp
3 7 (10.61%) Jasmine
3 7 (10.61%) Mocha
4 6 (9.09%) Subversion
5 5 (7.58%) git-flow
5 5 (7.58%) webpack
6 4 (6.06%) Maven
7 2 (3.03%) ESLint
7 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
7 2 (3.03%) Newman
7 2 (3.03%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.52%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.52%) ScalaTest
8 1 (1.52%) Vite
General
1 19 (28.79%) Banking
2 15 (22.73%) Finance
2 15 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 14 (21.21%) Public Sector
4 10 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (15.15%) Investment Banking
5 7 (10.61%) Front Office
5 7 (10.61%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.06%) Marketing
7 3 (4.55%) Retail
8 1 (1.52%) Advertising
8 1 (1.52%) Automotive
8 1 (1.52%) Electronics
8 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (77.27%) Developer
2 22 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 14 (21.21%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (10.61%) Node.js Developer
4 7 (10.61%) Senior
4 7 (10.61%) Senior Developer
5 6 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
6 5 (7.58%) React Developer
6 5 (7.58%) UI Developer
7 4 (6.06%) C# Developer
7 4 (6.06%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 3 (4.55%) .NET Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Backend Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Lead
8 3 (4.55%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 2 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (3.03%) Senior UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (77.27%) CSS
2 48 (72.73%) HTML
3 44 (66.67%) Node.js
4 39 (59.09%) React
5 25 (37.88%) HTML5
6 24 (36.36%) Jest
7 17 (25.76%) LESS
8 16 (24.24%) Redux
9 14 (21.21%) .NET
9 14 (21.21%) Express.js
10 12 (18.18%) RESTful
11 11 (16.67%) AngularJS
11 11 (16.67%) jQuery
11 11 (16.67%) Nunjucks
12 10 (15.15%) hapi
12 10 (15.15%) Tailwind CSS
13 9 (13.64%) ASP.NET
14 8 (12.12%) ASP.NET Web API
14 8 (12.12%) REST
14 8 (12.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.15%) Windows
2 8 (12.12%) Linux
3 7 (10.61%) Unix
4 5 (7.58%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (42.42%) Front End Development
2 25 (37.88%) Full-Stack Development
3 19 (28.79%) Agile
4 17 (25.76%) TDD
5 15 (22.73%) DevOps
5 15 (22.73%) User Experience
6 14 (21.21%) Microservices
6 14 (21.21%) Scrum
7 13 (19.70%) CI/CD
7 13 (19.70%) Clean Code
8 12 (18.18%) Test Automation
9 11 (16.67%) OO
9 11 (16.67%) OOP
9 11 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
10 9 (13.64%) Web Development
11 8 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (12.12%) Progressive Enhancement
11 8 (12.12%) SOA
12 7 (10.61%) Mentoring
12 7 (10.61%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 54 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 34 (51.52%) TypeScript
3 20 (30.30%) Java
4 16 (24.24%) C#
5 10 (15.15%) SQL
6 7 (10.61%) Python
7 6 (9.09%) C++
8 5 (7.58%) T-SQL
9 2 (3.03%) PHP
10 1 (1.52%) Bash
10 1 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (28.79%) Accessibility
2 16 (24.24%) WCAG
3 2 (3.03%) SLA
4 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (9.09%) Terraform
2 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.52%) MIIS
Vendors
1 8 (12.12%) Adobe
2 4 (6.06%) Google
2 4 (6.06%) Salesforce
2 4 (6.06%) SAP
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.55%) Sitecore
4 2 (3.03%) Sun
5 1 (1.52%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.52%) IBM
5 1 (1.52%) Perforce
5 1 (1.52%) Splunk