Sass Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Sass skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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.

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 464 559 580
Rank change year-on-year
+95 +21
Contract jobs citing Sass 66 19 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.142% 0.033% 0.013%
As % of the Application Development category 0.519% 0.127% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 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 £215 £250 £294
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 12713 14910 16863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.40% 25.58% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7958 8755 9793
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 374 576
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Sass
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Sass Daily Rate Trend

Sass
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sass within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Sass Daily Rate Histogram

Sass
Top 24 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 UK 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
England +89 60 £350 +4.47%
London +41 35 £350 +2.18%
South East - 13 £388 -
Berkshire - 12 £388 -
Reading - 11 £388 -
North West - 4 £275 -
East Midlands - 4 £215 -
Manchester - 4 £275 -
Nottingham - 3 £215 -
Nottinghamshire - 3 £215 -
City of London +12 2 £363 -34.09%
Yorkshire -3 2 - -
Sheffield - 2 - -
Hemel Hempstead - 2 £85 -
Edinburgh - 2 £258 -
Hertfordshire - 2 £85 -
South Yorkshire - 2 - -
East of England - 2 £85 -
Scotland - 2 £258 -
Docklands, London - 1 - -
Leicestershire - 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 £338 -
Southampton - 1 £338 -
Leicester - 1 - -

Sass
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 118 (93.65%) CSS
2 109 (86.51%) JavaScript
3 96 (76.19%) HTML5
4 91 (72.22%) CSS3
5 75 (59.52%) jQuery
6 71 (56.35%) HTML
7 54 (42.86%) LESS
8 33 (26.19%) TDD
8 33 (26.19%) Ajax
9 29 (23.02%) OO
9 29 (23.02%) MVC
10 28 (22.22%) C#
11 26 (20.63%) Photoshop
12 24 (19.05%) Git (software)
13 22 (17.46%) Android
13 22 (17.46%) Unit Testing
13 22 (17.46%) Apple iOS
13 22 (17.46%) Subversion
14 21 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
15 20 (15.87%) .NET
15 20 (15.87%) Java
15 20 (15.87%) KnockoutJS
16 19 (15.08%) Jasmine
16 19 (15.08%) PHP
16 19 (15.08%) CMS
17 18 (14.29%) Web Development
17 18 (14.29%) Scrum
17 18 (14.29%) E-Commerce
18 17 (13.49%) BDD
19 16 (12.70%) MySQL

Sass
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 118 (93.65%) CSS
2 96 (76.19%) HTML5
3 91 (72.22%) CSS3
4 75 (59.52%) jQuery
5 71 (56.35%) HTML
6 54 (42.86%) LESS
7 33 (26.19%) Ajax
8 20 (15.87%) .NET
8 20 (15.87%) KnockoutJS
9 16 (12.70%) ASP.NET
9 16 (12.70%) JSON
10 13 (10.32%) Ruby on Rails
11 11 (8.730%) DOM
11 11 (8.730%) Ext JS
12 10 (7.937%) XHTML
12 10 (7.937%) Java EE
13 9 (7.143%) JSP
14 8 (6.349%) Web Services
14 8 (6.349%) XML
14 8 (6.349%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 19 (15.08%) CMS
2 9 (7.143%) Apache
3 7 (5.556%) Drupal
4 6 (4.762%) IIS
5 4 (3.175%) WordPress
6 3 (2.381%) nginx
7 1 (0.794%) Google App Engine
7 1 (0.794%) Confluence
7 1 (0.794%) Magento
7 1 (0.794%) Jetty
Applications
1 26 (20.63%) Photoshop
2 5 (3.968%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 4 (3.175%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.175%) SSH
2 2 (1.587%) HTTP
3 1 (0.794%) Internet
3 1 (0.794%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.70%) MySQL
2 7 (5.556%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.968%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.968%) Redis
3 5 (3.968%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.968%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (2.381%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.381%) Neo4j
5 2 (1.587%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.794%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 24 (19.05%) Git (software)
2 22 (17.46%) Subversion
3 19 (15.08%) Jasmine
4 7 (5.556%) Selenium
5 6 (4.762%) RSpec
5 6 (4.762%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.968%) Capistrano
6 5 (3.968%) JIRA
6 5 (3.968%) Maven
6 5 (3.968%) Visual Studio
7 4 (3.175%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 4 (3.175%) Dreamweaver
7 4 (3.175%) JSUnit
8 3 (2.381%) Capybara
9 2 (1.587%) GitHub
9 2 (1.587%) Balsamiq Mockups
10 1 (0.794%) Behat
10 1 (0.794%) QUnit
10 1 (0.794%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.794%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (8.730%) Finance
2 6 (4.762%) Games
3 3 (2.381%) Banking
4 2 (1.587%) Financial Institution
4 2 (1.587%) Advertising
4 2 (1.587%) Publishing
5 1 (0.794%) Front Office
5 1 (0.794%) Automotive
5 1 (0.794%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.794%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (0.794%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 117 (92.86%) Developer
2 55 (43.65%) Front-End Developer
3 20 (15.87%) UI Developer
4 19 (15.08%) JavaScript Developer
5 13 (10.32%) Mobile Developer
6 11 (8.730%) Web Developer
7 10 (7.937%) UI Programmer
8 7 (5.556%) C# Developer
9 6 (4.762%) Senior Developer
9 6 (4.762%) Drupal Developer
9 6 (4.762%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 4 (3.175%) Ruby Developer
10 4 (3.175%) .NET Developer
11 3 (2.381%) Designer
12 2 (1.587%) User Experience Developer
12 2 (1.587%) Senior Front-End Developer
12 2 (1.587%) Software Engineer
12 2 (1.587%) Graphic Designer
12 2 (1.587%) .NET Software Engineer
12 2 (1.587%) Web Designer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.937%) iPhone
2 9 (7.143%) Mobile App
3 8 (6.349%) iPad
4 7 (5.556%) W3C
5 4 (3.175%) Graphic Design
5 4 (3.175%) SaaS
6 3 (2.381%) Digital Media
6 3 (2.381%) Augmented Reality
6 3 (2.381%) Open Source
7 2 (1.587%) Visualisation
7 2 (1.587%) Social Media
7 2 (1.587%) Social Network
7 2 (1.587%) E-Learning
8 1 (0.794%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.794%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.794%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.794%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (0.794%) RIA
8 1 (0.794%) Animation
8 1 (0.794%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 22 (17.46%) Android
1 22 (17.46%) Apple iOS
2 16 (12.70%) Linux
3 8 (6.349%) Windows
4 4 (3.175%) UNIX
5 3 (2.381%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (26.19%) TDD
2 29 (23.02%) OO
2 29 (23.02%) MVC
3 22 (17.46%) Unit Testing
4 21 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
5 18 (14.29%) Web Development
5 18 (14.29%) Scrum
5 18 (14.29%) E-Commerce
6 17 (13.49%) BDD
7 14 (11.11%) Progressive Enhancement
8 8 (6.349%) Analytics
8 8 (6.349%) MVVM
9 6 (4.762%) Web Application Development
9 6 (4.762%) Content Management
10 5 (3.968%) Responsive Web Design
10 5 (3.968%) Web Accessibility
11 4 (3.175%) Information Architecture
11 4 (3.175%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (3.175%) Web Analytics
11 4 (3.175%) Graceful Degradation
Programming Languages
1 109 (86.51%) JavaScript
2 28 (22.22%) C#
3 20 (15.87%) Java
4 19 (15.08%) PHP
5 14 (11.11%) SQL
5 14 (11.11%) Ruby
6 2 (1.587%) XPath
6 2 (1.587%) CoffeeScript
6 2 (1.587%) Python
7 1 (0.794%) C++
7 1 (0.794%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.794%) Groovy
7 1 (0.794%) GLSL
Qualifications
1 2 (1.587%) Degree
1 2 (1.587%) SC Cleared
1 2 (1.587%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.175%) WCAG
Vendors
1 9 (7.143%) Adobe
2 4 (3.175%) Google
3 3 (2.381%) Omniture
4 2 (1.587%) Sencha
4 2 (1.587%) Facebook
4 2 (1.587%) FatWire
4 2 (1.587%) Oracle
4 2 (1.587%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.794%) Twitter
5 1 (0.794%) Atlassian
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