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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LESS (Dynamic Stylesheet Language)
Rank 430 418 -
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -
Permanent jobs citing LESS 6 25 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.027% 0.105% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.071% 0.256% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 19 0
Average salary £32,500 £52,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-38.09% -
UK excluding London average salary £29,000 £52,500 -
% change year-on-year
-44.76% -
All Application Development
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
8445 9757 9455
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 38.35% 41.06% 41.58%
Number of salaries quoted 7488 8879 8582
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LESS
England

LESS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East LESS Salary Trend

LESS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LESS across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East LESS Salary Histogram

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 South East 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
Surrey - 5 £32,500 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £37,500 -
LESS
England

LESS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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%) CSS
2 7 (87.50%) HTML
3 6 (75.00%) HTML5
4 5 (62.50%) Sass
4 5 (62.50%) W3C
5 3 (37.50%) Advertising
5 3 (37.50%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (37.50%) Web Development
5 3 (37.50%) Firebug
5 3 (37.50%) Time Management
5 3 (37.50%) Photoshop
5 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
5 3 (37.50%) Information Architecture
5 3 (37.50%) CSS3
6 2 (25.00%) Web Design
6 2 (25.00%) RESTful
6 2 (25.00%) Open Source
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (25.00%) Graceful Degradation
6 2 (25.00%) SQL
6 2 (25.00%) Web Services
6 2 (25.00%) XML
6 2 (25.00%) XSLT
6 2 (25.00%) CODA
6 2 (25.00%) Fireworks
6 2 (25.00%) Intranet
6 2 (25.00%) WordPress
6 2 (25.00%) Drupal
6 2 (25.00%) XPath
6 2 (25.00%) Degree

LESS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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%) HTML
3 6 (75.00%) HTML5
4 5 (62.50%) Sass
5 3 (37.50%) CSS3
6 2 (25.00%) Web Services
6 2 (25.00%) XML
6 2 (25.00%) XSLT
6 2 (25.00%) JSON
6 2 (25.00%) RESTful
7 1 (12.50%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 1 (12.50%) .NET
7 1 (12.50%) jQuery
7 1 (12.50%) Modernizr
7 1 (12.50%) Backbone.js
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Joomla!
1 2 (25.00%) Drupal
1 2 (25.00%) WordPress
2 1 (12.50%) ColdFusion
2 1 (12.50%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Photoshop
1 3 (37.50%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (25.00%) Fireworks
3 1 (12.50%) InDesign
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Firebug
2 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (37.50%) Advertising
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Web Designer
1 5 (62.50%) Designer
2 3 (37.50%) Front-End Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Front-End Web Developer
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Web Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior JavaScript Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Creative Web Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) W3C
2 2 (25.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Web Development
1 3 (37.50%) Time Management
1 3 (37.50%) Information Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Graceful Degradation
2 2 (25.00%) Web Design
2 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (25.00%) Content Management
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) XPath
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) CODA
2 1 (12.50%) Twitter
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe
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Posted: 18 May 2013
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Salary: Competitive + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
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Working for this top E-Commerce consultancy in Newbury, my client is seeking talented Front End developers to come join them due to expanding client demands.The Front...
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Salary: £0 - £45,000 per year
Posted: 19 April 2013