The first table below looks at the demand for Sass 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 Sass over the 3 months to 21 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 West region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sass (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets)
Rank 208 212 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Permanent jobs citing Sass 8 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.151% 0.054% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.324% 0.118% -
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 0
Average salary £25,000 £25,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £31,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-22.50% +6.66%
All Application Development
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2469 2553 2377
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 46.73% 46.07% 40.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2244 2289 2124
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Sass
England

Sass
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Sass Jobs Demand Trend

Sass
Salary Trend

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

South West Sass Salary Trend

Sass
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Sass within the South West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Bristol -5 7 £25,000 -
Devon - 1 £27,000 -
Sass
England

Sass
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing Sass 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 Sass.

1 12 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 10 (83.33%) CSS
2 10 (83.33%) HTML
2 10 (83.33%) Subversion
2 10 (83.33%) Android
2 10 (83.33%) Git (software)
2 10 (83.33%) HTML5
2 10 (83.33%) Apple iOS
2 10 (83.33%) CSS3
3 9 (75.00%) Backbone.js
3 9 (75.00%) JSON
4 8 (66.67%) QA
4 8 (66.67%) Web Design
4 8 (66.67%) RESTful
4 8 (66.67%) Blackberry
4 8 (66.67%) Windows
4 8 (66.67%) Windows Phone
4 8 (66.67%) CoffeeScript
4 8 (66.67%) Responsive Web Design
5 4 (33.33%) jQuery
6 3 (25.00%) iPhone
6 3 (25.00%) CMS
6 3 (25.00%) iPad
6 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
7 2 (16.67%) Drupal
7 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce
7 2 (16.67%) PHP
7 2 (16.67%) MySQL
8 1 (8.333%) MVC
8 1 (8.333%) Ruby

Sass
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing Sass 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 Sass. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (83.33%) CSS
1 10 (83.33%) HTML
1 10 (83.33%) HTML5
1 10 (83.33%) CSS3
2 9 (75.00%) Backbone.js
2 9 (75.00%) JSON
3 8 (66.67%) RESTful
4 4 (33.33%) jQuery
5 1 (8.333%) Ajax
5 1 (8.333%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (8.333%) DOM
5 1 (8.333%) XHTML
5 1 (8.333%) YUI
5 1 (8.333%) Spring MVC
5 1 (8.333%) CakePHP
5 1 (8.333%) Grails
5 1 (8.333%) Django
5 1 (8.333%) KnockoutJS
5 1 (8.333%) D3.js
5 1 (8.333%) Highcharts JS
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) CMS
2 2 (16.67%) Drupal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Subversion
1 10 (83.33%) Git (software)
2 1 (8.333%) QUnit
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Web Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Website Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 3 (25.00%) iPhone
2 3 (25.00%) iPad
2 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Android
1 10 (83.33%) Apple iOS
2 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Web Design
1 8 (66.67%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (16.67%) E-Commerce
3 1 (8.333%) MVC
3 1 (8.333%) OWASP
3 1 (8.333%) Unit Testing
3 1 (8.333%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (66.67%) CoffeeScript
3 2 (16.67%) PHP
4 1 (8.333%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) QA
Bristol, Avon
Bristol... We are currently looking for an experienced Web Developer (PHP). You MUST be able to demonstrate examples of developing responsive, e-commerce and detailed CMS websites. You...
Edge Specialist Recruitment
Salary: Up to £30,000 per annum DOE
Posted: 17 May 2013
Bristol, South West
The company plans, designs, develops and markets bespoke mobile apps for smartphones and tablets across iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows, Blackberry & HTML5... *You will know how to craft beautiful...
Salary: £18000 - £27000 per annum + Competitive Bonus Package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Exeter, Devon
We are also looking to use the latest technologies including Twitter Bootstrap, LESS, NoSQL databases such as Mongo/Redis/Couchbase and other high availability, scalable solutions... MySQL or...
Blue Glue
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013