The first table below looks at the demand for Sass skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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 - - -
Contract jobs citing Sass 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
386 538 471
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 23.64% 24.00% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 293 255
Average daily rate £300 £300 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 22
Average hourly rate £28.50 £17.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.85% -4.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £12.50 £11.63
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £40.00 £25.30
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Sass Daily Rate Trend

Sass
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) JSP
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) Web Accessibility
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) CSS3
2 3 (75.00%) Subversion
3 2 (50.00%) W3C

Sass
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) JSP
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) CSS3
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (25.00%) UI Developer
2 1 (25.00%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Web Accessibility
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript