The first table below looks at the demand for Sass skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sass over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sass (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets)
Rank 349 402 427
Rank change year-on-year
+53 +25
Contract jobs citing Sass 38 16 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.173% 0.059% 0.020%
As % of the Application Development category 0.595% 0.209% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 11 6
Average daily rate £350 £335 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.47% -4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £275 £294
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £375 £413
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
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6387 7659 9377
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.04% 28.01% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4619 5048 6312
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 106 136
Average hourly rate £41.50 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.05% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.90 £17.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Sass
England

Sass
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London Sass Daily Rate Trend

Sass
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sass across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London Sass Daily Rate Histogram

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 London region over the 3 months to 22 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
City of London +10 2 £363 -34.09%
Docklands, London - 1 - -
Sass
England

Sass
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 66 (97.06%) CSS
2 63 (92.65%) JavaScript
3 54 (79.41%) HTML5
4 51 (75.00%) CSS3
5 41 (60.29%) jQuery
6 36 (52.94%) HTML
7 35 (51.47%) LESS
8 22 (32.35%) Git (software)
9 21 (30.88%) TDD
10 18 (26.47%) Java
11 17 (25.00%) Scrum
11 17 (25.00%) Android
11 17 (25.00%) Apple iOS
12 14 (20.59%) BDD
12 14 (20.59%) Subversion
12 14 (20.59%) Ruby
12 14 (20.59%) Web Development
12 14 (20.59%) OO
13 12 (17.65%) Ajax
13 12 (17.65%) Ruby on Rails
13 12 (17.65%) Progressive Enhancement
14 11 (16.18%) Agile Software Development
14 11 (16.18%) Java EE
15 10 (14.71%) Unit Testing
16 9 (13.24%) Finance
17 8 (11.76%) SQL
17 8 (11.76%) Photoshop
17 8 (11.76%) Backbone.js
18 7 (10.29%) MongoDB
18 7 (10.29%) PHP

Sass
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 66 (97.06%) CSS
2 54 (79.41%) HTML5
3 51 (75.00%) CSS3
4 41 (60.29%) jQuery
5 36 (52.94%) HTML
6 35 (51.47%) LESS
7 12 (17.65%) Ajax
7 12 (17.65%) Ruby on Rails
8 11 (16.18%) Java EE
9 8 (11.76%) Backbone.js
10 7 (10.29%) JSON
11 6 (8.824%) Haml
12 5 (7.353%) REST
12 5 (7.353%) .NET
13 4 (5.882%) ASP.NET
13 4 (5.882%) DOM
13 4 (5.882%) KnockoutJS
13 4 (5.882%) Node.js
14 3 (4.412%) AngularJS
14 3 (4.412%) Semantic HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.353%) CMS
2 4 (5.882%) Apache
3 3 (4.412%) nginx
4 2 (2.941%) Drupal
5 1 (1.471%) Jetty
5 1 (1.471%) Confluence
5 1 (1.471%) Google App Engine
5 1 (1.471%) Magento
Applications
1 8 (11.76%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.471%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 2 (2.941%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.941%) HTTP
2 1 (1.471%) SSH
2 1 (1.471%) Internet
2 1 (1.471%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) MongoDB
2 6 (8.824%) MySQL
3 5 (7.353%) NoSQL
3 5 (7.353%) Redis
4 3 (4.412%) Neo4j
4 3 (4.412%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.941%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 22 (32.35%) Git (software)
2 14 (20.59%) Subversion
3 6 (8.824%) Cucumber
3 6 (8.824%) RSpec
4 5 (7.353%) Jasmine
4 5 (7.353%) Capistrano
5 4 (5.882%) JIRA
5 4 (5.882%) Maven
6 3 (4.412%) Capybara
7 2 (2.941%) GitHub
8 1 (1.471%) Phing
8 1 (1.471%) JsTestDriver
8 1 (1.471%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.471%) QUnit
8 1 (1.471%) Behat
8 1 (1.471%) Cactus
8 1 (1.471%) Selenium
8 1 (1.471%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.471%) PHPUnit
8 1 (1.471%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (13.24%) Finance
2 4 (5.882%) Games
3 2 (2.941%) Banking
3 2 (2.941%) Publishing
3 2 (2.941%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.471%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.471%) Marketing
4 1 (1.471%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 64 (94.12%) Developer
2 26 (38.24%) Front-End Developer
3 14 (20.59%) Mobile Developer
4 13 (19.12%) JavaScript Developer
5 11 (16.18%) Web Developer
6 9 (13.24%) UI Developer
7 6 (8.824%) Ruby on Rails Developer
8 4 (5.882%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.882%) Ruby Developer
9 3 (4.412%) UI Programmer
9 3 (4.412%) C# Developer
10 2 (2.941%) User Experience Developer
11 1 (1.471%) Senior JavaScript Developer
11 1 (1.471%) User Experience Consultant
11 1 (1.471%) Java Applications Developer
11 1 (1.471%) Senior UI Developer
11 1 (1.471%) Drupal Developer
11 1 (1.471%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 1 (1.471%) Front-End Web Developer
11 1 (1.471%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.824%) iPhone
1 6 (8.824%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.882%) iPad
3 3 (4.412%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.941%) W3C
4 2 (2.941%) Open Source
4 2 (2.941%) Social Network
5 1 (1.471%) Social Media
5 1 (1.471%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.471%) RIA
5 1 (1.471%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.471%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.471%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.471%) 3D Graphics
5 1 (1.471%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 17 (25.00%) Android
1 17 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 7 (10.29%) Linux
3 5 (7.353%) Windows
4 3 (4.412%) Windows Phone
5 1 (1.471%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.88%) TDD
2 17 (25.00%) Scrum
3 14 (20.59%) BDD
3 14 (20.59%) Web Development
3 14 (20.59%) OO
4 12 (17.65%) Progressive Enhancement
5 11 (16.18%) Agile Software Development
6 10 (14.71%) Unit Testing
7 6 (8.824%) E-Commerce
7 6 (8.824%) MVC
8 4 (5.882%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (5.882%) Analytics
9 3 (4.412%) Refactoring
10 2 (2.941%) Web Analytics
10 2 (2.941%) Web Application Development
10 2 (2.941%) Graceful Degradation
11 1 (1.471%) Responsive Web Design
11 1 (1.471%) Content Management
11 1 (1.471%) Multithreading
11 1 (1.471%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 63 (92.65%) JavaScript
2 18 (26.47%) Java
3 14 (20.59%) Ruby
4 8 (11.76%) SQL
5 7 (10.29%) PHP
6 4 (5.882%) C#
7 1 (1.471%) GLSL
7 1 (1.471%) Groovy
7 1 (1.471%) Scala
7 1 (1.471%) C++
7 1 (1.471%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.471%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (1.471%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.471%) WCAG
Vendors
1 5 (7.353%) Adobe
2 2 (2.941%) Oracle
2 2 (2.941%) Google
3 1 (1.471%) Facebook
3 1 (1.471%) Twitter
3 1 (1.471%) Omniture
3 1 (1.471%) Atlassian
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