The first table below looks at the demand for Sass skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sass over the 3 months to 17 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 Hertfordshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sass (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets)
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Sass 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.311% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.939% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £85 - -
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
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
213 276 222
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 33.13% 28.51% 25.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 120 94
Average daily rate £400 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £275 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £490 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 25
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £20.00 £33.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.50 £36.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Sass
East of England

Sass
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Hemel Hempstead - 2 £85 -
Sass
East of England

Sass
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) Photoshop
2 4 (80.00%) XHTML
2 4 (80.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (60.00%) MVC
3 3 (60.00%) C#
3 3 (60.00%) jQuery
3 3 (60.00%) HTML5
3 3 (60.00%) CSS3
3 3 (60.00%) LESS
4 2 (40.00%) Node.js
4 2 (40.00%) Web Usability
4 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (40.00%) XPath
4 2 (40.00%) Selenium
4 2 (40.00%) YUI
4 2 (40.00%) Advertising
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (40.00%) Ajax
4 2 (40.00%) HTML
4 2 (40.00%) XML
4 2 (40.00%) XSLT
4 2 (40.00%) OO
4 2 (40.00%) Adobe
4 2 (40.00%) IIS
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (20.00%) Finance
5 1 (20.00%) .NET

Sass
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) XHTML
3 3 (60.00%) jQuery
3 3 (60.00%) HTML5
3 3 (60.00%) CSS3
3 3 (60.00%) LESS
4 2 (40.00%) YUI
4 2 (40.00%) Node.js
4 2 (40.00%) Ajax
4 2 (40.00%) XML
4 2 (40.00%) XSLT
4 2 (40.00%) HTML
5 1 (20.00%) .NET
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (20.00%) Apache Flex
5 1 (20.00%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Photoshop
2 2 (40.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Jasmine
General
1 2 (40.00%) Advertising
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Web Designer
2 2 (40.00%) Graphic Designer
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (20.00%) UI Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 1 (20.00%) UI Programmer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Animation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (60.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Web Usability
3 2 (40.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (20.00%) Web Design
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) XPath
4 1 (20.00%) CoffeeScript
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe