The first table below looks at the demand for Sass skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Sass 11 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.317% - -
As % of the Application Development category 5.500% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
200 160 242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.95% 14.35% 23.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 59 115
Average daily rate £375 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £426 £488 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -23.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Sass
Berkshire

Sass
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Sass Daily Rate Trend

Sass
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 12 (100.00%) C#
1 12 (100.00%) HTML5
2 11 (91.67%) MVC
3 10 (83.33%) KnockoutJS
4 9 (75.00%) Jasmine
4 9 (75.00%) CSS
5 8 (66.67%) MVVM
5 8 (66.67%) CSS3
6 7 (58.33%) Razor View Engine
6 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
7 4 (33.33%) jQuery
7 4 (33.33%) .NET
7 4 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (33.33%) TDD
8 3 (25.00%) HTML
8 3 (25.00%) BDD
9 2 (16.67%) OO
9 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
9 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
9 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 1 (8.333%) Mobile App
10 1 (8.333%) LESS
10 1 (8.333%) W3C
10 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
10 1 (8.333%) IIS
10 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
10 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET
10 1 (8.333%) Ajax
10 1 (8.333%) .NET Framework

Sass
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 12 (100.00%) HTML5
2 10 (83.33%) KnockoutJS
3 9 (75.00%) CSS
4 8 (66.67%) CSS3
5 7 (58.33%) Razor View Engine
6 4 (33.33%) jQuery
6 4 (33.33%) .NET
7 3 (25.00%) HTML
8 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
8 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 1 (8.333%) LESS
9 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET
9 1 (8.333%) Ajax
9 1 (8.333%) .NET Framework
9 1 (8.333%) Ext JS
9 1 (8.333%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 9 (75.00%) Jasmine
2 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
2 7 (58.33%) Front-End Developer
3 5 (41.67%) UI Programmer
3 5 (41.67%) UI Developer
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Software Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.333%) .NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Senior Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Mobile App
1 1 (8.333%) W3C
1 1 (8.333%) iPhone
1 1 (8.333%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (8.333%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) Android
1 1 (8.333%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) MVC
2 8 (66.67%) MVVM
3 4 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (33.33%) TDD
4 3 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (16.67%) OO
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft