The first table below looks at the demand for LESS skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LESS over the 3 months to 18 June 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 West region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LESS (Dynamic Stylesheet Language)
Rank 214 204 -
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -
Permanent jobs citing LESS 1 13 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.019% 0.232% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.041% 0.505% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 13 0
Average salary £26,000 £35,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.71% -
UK excluding London average salary £31,000 £35,000 -
% change year-on-year
-11.42% -
All Application Development
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2435 2572 2516
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 45.70% 45.81% 40.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2213 2315 2246
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
LESS
England

LESS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Bristol -11 1 £26,000 -23.52%
LESS
England

LESS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) Google
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) CRM
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 3 (75.00%) Google Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Flot
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
3 1 (25.00%) CakePHP
3 1 (25.00%) Grails
3 1 (25.00%) Django
3 1 (25.00%) YUI
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (25.00%) OWASP
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) MVVM
3 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3

LESS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) DOM
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (25.00%) CakePHP
2 1 (25.00%) Grails
2 1 (25.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) YUI
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) CSS3
2 1 (25.00%) Backbone.js
2 1 (25.00%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (25.00%) D3.js
2 1 (25.00%) Highcharts JS
2 1 (25.00%) Sass
2 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (75.00%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) QUnit
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (75.00%) CRM
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) OWASP
2 1 (25.00%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Twitter
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