The first table below looks at the demand for Sass 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 Sass over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sass (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets)
Rank 201 216 244
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +28
Contract jobs citing Sass 2 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.031% 0.025% 0.010%
As % of the Application Development category 0.110% 0.099% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £363 £550 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.09% +91.30%
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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1821 2016 2741
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.55% 25.63% 27.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1439 1499 2137
Average daily rate £405 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.70% -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 25 28 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -42.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £75.00 £45.00 £119.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Sass
London

Sass
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Sass Daily Rate Trend

Sass
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) jQuery
3 3 (60.00%) HTML5
3 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) Linux
4 2 (40.00%) OO
4 2 (40.00%) Apache
4 2 (40.00%) MySQL
4 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 2 (40.00%) Haml
4 2 (40.00%) Memcached
4 2 (40.00%) OAuth
4 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
4 2 (40.00%) nginx
4 2 (40.00%) RSpec
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Ruby
4 2 (40.00%) Ajax
4 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (40.00%) Web Development
4 2 (40.00%) JSON
4 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (40.00%) MongoDB

Sass
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) jQuery
3 3 (60.00%) HTML5
4 2 (40.00%) Haml
4 2 (40.00%) Memcached
4 2 (40.00%) OAuth
4 2 (40.00%) Ajax
4 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (40.00%) JSON
4 2 (40.00%) Sinatra
4 2 (40.00%) REST
4 2 (40.00%) CSS3
4 2 (40.00%) LESS
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (20.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Redis
1 2 (40.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (40.00%) RSpec
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) Capybara
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Front-End Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 1 (20.00%) UI Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) UI Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) OO
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (40.00%) TDD
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (40.00%) Web Development
1 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby
City, London
Front-End Developer with solid OO JavaScript required... Working to make UX designs a reality by collaborating closely with Designers, Product Managers and working just as closely with...
Oliver Bernard
Rate: From £450 to £550 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013