LESS Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for LESS skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LESS 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 City of London 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
LESS (Dynamic Stylesheet Language)
Rank 191 212 -
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -
Contract jobs citing LESS 12 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.187% 0.064% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.652% 0.251% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 0
Average daily rate £325 £431 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.63% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £245 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 1841 1995 2685
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.65% 25.38% 27.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1452 1472 2083
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 28 21
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £44.75 £125.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LESS
London

LESS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London LESS Jobs Demand Trend

LESS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing LESS across the City of London region.

City of London LESS Daily Rate Trend

LESS
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 12 (100.00%) HTML
1 12 (100.00%) CSS
2 11 (91.67%) .NET
2 11 (91.67%) ASP.NET
3 10 (83.33%) C#
3 10 (83.33%) BDD
3 10 (83.33%) Windows Azure
3 10 (83.33%) Rapid Prototyping
3 10 (83.33%) Razor View Engine
3 10 (83.33%) Gherkin
3 10 (83.33%) Analytics
3 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 10 (83.33%) MS Excel
3 10 (83.33%) PhD
3 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 10 (83.33%) MVC
3 10 (83.33%) Scrum
3 10 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (83.33%) TDD
3 10 (83.33%) Selenium
3 10 (83.33%) WCF
4 2 (16.67%) Photoshop
4 2 (16.67%) Sass
4 2 (16.67%) HTML5
5 1 (8.333%) CSS3
5 1 (8.333%) jQuery
5 1 (8.333%) Git (software)
5 1 (8.333%) Subversion

LESS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 12 (100.00%) HTML
1 12 (100.00%) CSS
2 11 (91.67%) .NET
2 11 (91.67%) ASP.NET
3 10 (83.33%) Razor View Engine
3 10 (83.33%) Gherkin
3 10 (83.33%) WCF
4 2 (16.67%) Sass
4 2 (16.67%) HTML5
5 1 (8.333%) CSS3
5 1 (8.333%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 10 (83.33%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 10 (83.33%) MS Excel
2 2 (16.67%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Selenium
2 1 (8.333%) Git (software)
2 1 (8.333%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (8.333%) User Experience Developer
2 1 (8.333%) UI Programmer
2 1 (8.333%) Senior Developer
2 1 (8.333%) UI Developer
2 1 (8.333%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (8.333%) Senior Front-End Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) BDD
1 10 (83.33%) Rapid Prototyping
1 10 (83.33%) Analytics
1 10 (83.33%) MVC
1 10 (83.33%) Scrum
1 10 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
1 10 (83.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) C#
1 10 (83.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) PhD
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
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