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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LESS (Dynamic Stylesheet Language)
Rank 187 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing LESS 7 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.172% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.329% - -
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 0
Average salary £25,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £29,000 £52,500 -
% change year-on-year
-44.76% -
All Application Development
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2127 1734 1719
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 52.41% 47.82% 43.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1947 1588 1604
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
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 Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Manchester LESS Jobs Demand Trend

LESS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing LESS across the Manchester region.

Manchester LESS Salary Trend

LESS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 8 (100.00%) CSS
2 7 (87.50%) Sass
3 6 (75.00%) HTML5
3 6 (75.00%) CSS3
3 6 (75.00%) jQuery
3 6 (75.00%) HTML
4 5 (62.50%) Git (software)
5 4 (50.00%) Subversion
5 4 (50.00%) HTML5 Canvas
5 4 (50.00%) Photoshop
5 4 (50.00%) W3C
5 4 (50.00%) Fireworks
6 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
6 3 (37.50%) MVC
6 3 (37.50%) PHP
6 3 (37.50%) OO
7 2 (25.00%) Finance
7 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
7 2 (25.00%) Web Design
8 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
8 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET 2.0
8 1 (12.50%) Time Management
8 1 (12.50%) Kanban
8 1 (12.50%) WordPress
8 1 (12.50%) Ruby
8 1 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework

LESS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 8 (100.00%) CSS
2 7 (87.50%) Sass
3 6 (75.00%) CSS3
3 6 (75.00%) HTML
3 6 (75.00%) jQuery
3 6 (75.00%) HTML5
4 4 (50.00%) HTML5 Canvas
5 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (12.50%) Modernizr
6 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET 2.0
6 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (12.50%) .NET
6 1 (12.50%) ASP
6 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
6 1 (12.50%) COM+
6 1 (12.50%) Web Services
6 1 (12.50%) XML
6 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
1 1 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Photoshop
1 4 (50.00%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git (software)
2 4 (50.00%) Subversion
3 1 (12.50%) NUnit
3 1 (12.50%) Moq
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Front-End Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Designer
3 2 (25.00%) Web Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Web Designer
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 2000
1 1 (12.50%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) OO
1 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
1 3 (37.50%) MVC
2 2 (25.00%) Web Design
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
3 1 (12.50%) Kanban
3 1 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (12.50%) BDD
3 1 (12.50%) Progressive Enhancement
3 1 (12.50%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (12.50%) Graceful Degradation
3 1 (12.50%) SEO
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) PHP
3 1 (12.50%) VBScript
3 1 (12.50%) VB
3 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) VB6
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Adobe
1 1 (12.50%) Apple
Manchester, Lancashire
Key Words: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, SASS, LESS I am currently working with one of North West's best, most exciting RAR top 100 rated digital agencies to...
Applause IT Innovation
Salary: £20000 - £26000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Manchester, North West
With an already impressive catalogue of clients you'll be working across web, mobile and tablet mediums with the latest technology including HTML5, CSS3, SASS and LESS to...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 5 May 2013
Manchester, North West
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Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £23000 - £27000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 26 April 2013
Manchester, North West
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Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £23000 - £27000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 26 April 2013
Manchester, North West
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Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
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Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013