The first table below looks at the demand for LESS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LESS over the 3 months to 23 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LESS (Dynamic Stylesheet Language)
Rank 125 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing LESS 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.056% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.123% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £26,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £30,500 £50,000 -
% change year-on-year
-39.00% -
All Application Development
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
812 1058 861
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 45.52% 52.85% 51.37%
Number of salaries quoted 667 949 786
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £47,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LESS
North West

LESS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire LESS Jobs Demand Trend

LESS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LESS within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Knutsford - 1 £26,000 -
LESS
North West

LESS
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing LESS 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 IT job ads sampled that cited LESS.

1 2 (100.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000
2 1 (50.00%) Apple
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) SEO
2 1 (50.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET 2.0
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (50.00%) Sass
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (50.00%) ASP
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET

LESS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing LESS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited LESS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET 2.0
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (50.00%) Sass
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Apple