The first table below looks at the demand for LESS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LESS over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LESS (Dynamic Stylesheet Language)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing LESS 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
503 536 754
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 21.49% 16.91% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 252 328
Average daily rate £400 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 54
Average hourly rate £35.00 £19.00 £42.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+84.21% -55.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
LESS
South East

LESS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing LESS across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Berkshire LESS Jobs Demand Trend

LESS
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing LESS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited LESS.

1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) iPad
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) Sass
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Ext JS
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) iPhone
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS

LESS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing LESS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited LESS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Sass
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Ext JS
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) iPad
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) iPhone
1 1 (50.00%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) PHP