The first table below looks at the demand for LESS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LESS (Dynamic Stylesheet Language)
Rank 146 153 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Permanent jobs citing LESS 11 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.351% 0.029% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.833% 0.082% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 0
Average salary £31,000 £22,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+40.90% -
UK excluding London average salary £29,000 £52,500 -
% change year-on-year
-44.76% -
All Application Development
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1320 1216 1180
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 42.17% 35.36% 34.32%
Number of salaries quoted 799 987 870
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £29,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LESS
UK

LESS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland LESS Salary 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 Scotland region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Dundee +1 9 £31,000 +40.90%
Edinburgh - 8 £31,000 -
Glasgow - 6 £31,000 -
LESS
UK

LESS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 19 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 19 (100.00%) CSS
1 19 (100.00%) MVC
1 19 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 19 (100.00%) HTML5
1 19 (100.00%) Sass
2 18 (94.74%) jQuery
3 16 (84.21%) TDD
3 16 (84.21%) HTML
4 12 (63.16%) .NET
5 11 (57.89%) Publishing
5 11 (57.89%) Web Services
6 10 (52.63%) Internet
7 9 (47.37%) BDD
7 9 (47.37%) .NET Framework
7 9 (47.37%) C#
7 9 (47.37%) ASP.NET
7 9 (47.37%) AngularJS
7 9 (47.37%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 9 (47.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 9 (47.37%) KnockoutJS
7 9 (47.37%) Twitter
7 9 (47.37%) ASP.NET MVC
8 8 (42.11%) Scrum
9 7 (36.84%) Apple iOS
9 7 (36.84%) PhoneGap
9 7 (36.84%) Appcelerator Titanium
9 7 (36.84%) Git (software)
9 7 (36.84%) Unit Testing
9 7 (36.84%) Android

LESS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 19 (100.00%) CSS
1 19 (100.00%) HTML5
1 19 (100.00%) Sass
2 18 (94.74%) jQuery
3 16 (84.21%) HTML
4 12 (63.16%) .NET
5 11 (57.89%) Web Services
6 9 (47.37%) ASP.NET
6 9 (47.37%) .NET Framework
6 9 (47.37%) ASP.NET MVC
6 9 (47.37%) KnockoutJS
6 9 (47.37%) AngularJS
6 9 (47.37%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 9 (47.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 3 (15.79%) JSON
7 3 (15.79%) XML
7 3 (15.79%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 7 (36.84%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) Internet
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Git (software)
1 7 (36.84%) PhoneGap
1 7 (36.84%) Appcelerator Titanium
2 4 (21.05%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (15.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (57.89%) Publishing
2 7 (36.84%) Games
Job Titles
1 19 (100.00%) Developer
2 10 (52.63%) Front-End Developer
3 9 (47.37%) Web Developer
3 9 (47.37%) .NET Developer
3 9 (47.37%) ASP.NET Developer
3 9 (47.37%) .NET Web Developer
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) UNIX
1 7 (36.84%) Android
1 7 (36.84%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) MVC
1 19 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 16 (84.21%) TDD
3 9 (47.37%) BDD
4 8 (42.11%) Scrum
5 7 (36.84%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (47.37%) C#
3 7 (36.84%) Java
3 7 (36.84%) PHP
3 7 (36.84%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Twitter