The first table below looks at the demand for Sass 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 Sass over the 3 months to 21 May 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sass (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets)
Rank 113 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Sass 12 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.486% - -
As % of the Application Development category 2.143% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
Average daily rate £388 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £175 -
% change year-on-year
+78.57% -
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
560 554 710
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 22.67% 17.76% 24.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 253 289
Average daily rate £388 £325 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.23% +3.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £238 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 11 65
Average hourly rate £35.00 £21.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.79% -49.41%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Sass
South East

Sass
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Sass Jobs Demand Trend

Sass
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Sass across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Sass Daily Rate Trend

Sass
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sass within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading - 11 £388 -
Sass
South East

Sass
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Sass 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 Sass.

1 13 (100.00%) HTML5
2 12 (92.31%) C#
3 11 (84.62%) MVC
3 11 (84.62%) KnockoutJS
4 10 (76.92%) Jasmine
4 10 (76.92%) CSS
5 9 (69.23%) CSS3
6 8 (61.54%) MVVM
6 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
7 7 (53.85%) Razor View Engine
8 5 (38.46%) jQuery
9 4 (30.77%) .NET
9 4 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (30.77%) TDD
9 4 (30.77%) HTML
10 3 (23.08%) OO
10 3 (23.08%) BDD
11 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
11 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
11 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
12 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 1 (7.692%) Mobile App
12 1 (7.692%) LESS
12 1 (7.692%) W3C
12 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
12 1 (7.692%) IIS
12 1 (7.692%) Visual Studio
12 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET
12 1 (7.692%) Ajax
12 1 (7.692%) .NET Framework

Sass
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Sass 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 Sass. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (100.00%) HTML5
2 11 (84.62%) KnockoutJS
3 10 (76.92%) CSS
4 9 (69.23%) CSS3
5 7 (53.85%) Razor View Engine
6 5 (38.46%) jQuery
7 4 (30.77%) .NET
7 4 (30.77%) HTML
8 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
8 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 1 (7.692%) LESS
9 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET
9 1 (7.692%) Ajax
9 1 (7.692%) .NET Framework
9 1 (7.692%) Ext JS
9 1 (7.692%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Jasmine
2 1 (7.692%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 8 (61.54%) Front-End Developer
3 5 (38.46%) UI Programmer
3 5 (38.46%) UI Developer
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.692%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Mobile App
1 1 (7.692%) W3C
1 1 (7.692%) iPhone
1 1 (7.692%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (7.692%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) Android
1 1 (7.692%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) MVC
2 8 (61.54%) MVVM
3 4 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (30.77%) TDD
4 3 (23.08%) OO
4 3 (23.08%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) C#
2 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft