LESS Jobs in the UK excluding London

LESS (Dynamic Stylesheet Language, LessCSS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for LESS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited LESS over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 667 548 596
Rank change year-on-year -119 +48 -112
Permanent jobs citing LESS 93 206 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 1.24% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 68 49 184
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 -
25th Percentile £42,219 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% +6.00% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £72,500 £60,313
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% - +9.52%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

LESS is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,341 16,554 23,241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.21% 27.47% 32.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,307 9,129 14,506
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,750
% change year-on-year -11.11% +7.57% +14.09%

LESS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing LESS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for LESS in the UK excluding London

LESS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LESS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for LESS in the UK excluding London

LESS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing LESS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for LESS in the UK excluding London

LESS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LESS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +8 35 £65,000 - 5
Scotland -72 21 £70,000 +7.69%
North of England +17 20 £37,500 +7.14% 1
Midlands +12 11 £47,500 +5.56% 3
West Midlands +21 10 £50,000 +28.21%
North West +11 10 £30,000 -36.84%
South East -69 6 £55,000 -6.38% 4
Yorkshire +46 5 £70,000 +100.00% 1
North East - 5 £40,250 -
East Midlands -14 1 £35,000 -30.00% 3
LESS
UK

LESS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (9.68%) CMS
2 5 (5.38%) nginx
3 3 (3.23%) WordPress
4 2 (2.15%) Confluence
4 2 (2.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (8.60%) Photoshop
2 3 (3.23%) InVision
2 3 (3.23%) Sketch
3 2 (2.15%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Magento
2 2 (2.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 51 (54.84%) Azure
2 41 (44.09%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (9.68%) Cloud Computing
3 9 (9.68%) npm
4 6 (6.45%) AWS
5 4 (4.30%) Azure Storage
6 3 (3.23%) Figma
6 3 (3.23%) GCP
6 3 (3.23%) GitHub
6 3 (3.23%) Google Play
7 2 (2.15%) BigCommerce
7 2 (2.15%) Google Analytics
7 2 (2.15%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (2.15%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.15%) Storyblok
8 1 (1.08%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (58.06%) SQL Server
2 12 (12.90%) MySQL
3 6 (6.45%) Big Data
4 3 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.15%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 65 (69.89%) Git
2 15 (16.13%) Jasmine
2 15 (16.13%) Karma Test Runner
2 15 (16.13%) Visual Studio Code
3 10 (10.75%) JIRA
4 6 (6.45%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.38%) gulp
5 5 (5.38%) webpack
6 4 (4.30%) Visual Studio
7 3 (3.23%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.23%) Grunt
8 2 (2.15%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.15%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (1.08%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 23 (24.73%) Finance
3 18 (19.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (19.35%) Law
4 15 (16.13%) Banking
4 15 (16.13%) Private Banking
5 6 (6.45%) Automotive
6 4 (4.30%) Marketing
7 3 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.23%) Polish Language
7 3 (3.23%) Retail
8 2 (2.15%) Games
8 2 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.08%) Police
Job Titles
1 83 (89.25%) Developer
2 28 (30.11%) Senior
3 27 (29.03%) .NET Developer
4 25 (26.88%) Senior Developer
5 23 (24.73%) C# Developer
5 23 (24.73%) Senior .NET Developer
6 21 (22.58%) C# .NET Developer
7 17 (18.28%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 17 (18.28%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 17 (18.28%) Senior C# Developer
7 17 (18.28%) Software Developer
8 11 (11.83%) Full Stack Developer
9 10 (10.75%) C# Software Developer
10 9 (9.68%) Software Engineer
10 9 (9.68%) UI Developer
11 8 (8.60%) .NET Software Developer
12 7 (7.53%) PHP Developer
13 6 (6.45%) Junior
13 6 (6.45%) Junior Developer
13 6 (6.45%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (97.85%) CSS
2 85 (91.40%) HTML
3 61 (65.59%) .NET
4 54 (58.06%) Sass
5 53 (56.99%) ASP.NET
6 45 (48.39%) jQuery
7 41 (44.09%) AngularJS
8 37 (39.78%) .NET Framework
8 37 (39.78%) Entity Framework
9 34 (36.56%) React
10 32 (34.41%) .NET Core
11 24 (25.81%) Vue
12 22 (23.66%) HTML5
13 20 (21.51%) Ajax
14 19 (20.43%) ASP.NET Web API
14 19 (20.43%) CSS3
15 18 (19.35%) ASP.NET MVC
16 17 (18.28%) RESTful
17 15 (16.13%) ASP.NET MVC 3
17 15 (16.13%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.20%) Virtual Team
2 15 (16.13%) Cloud Native
3 13 (13.98%) Onboarding
4 11 (11.83%) Mobile App
5 6 (6.45%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.30%) iPhone
7 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.23%) Graphic Design
7 3 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (3.23%) Robotics
8 2 (2.15%) NHS
8 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.15%) Social Media
8 2 (2.15%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.38%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Android
3 1 (1.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (55.91%) MVC
2 46 (49.46%) DevOps
3 38 (40.86%) Front End Development
4 37 (39.78%) CI/CD
5 35 (37.63%) Agile
6 28 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (30.11%) User Experience
7 21 (22.58%) Clean Code
8 18 (19.35%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 15 (16.13%) Asset Management
9 15 (16.13%) Investment Management
9 15 (16.13%) Test Automation
9 15 (16.13%) Wealth Management
10 13 (13.98%) Full Stack Development
11 11 (11.83%) Mentoring
11 11 (11.83%) SEO
12 10 (10.75%) Web Development
13 9 (9.68%) Software Architecture
13 9 (9.68%) Software Engineering
13 9 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (94.62%) JavaScript
2 63 (67.74%) C#
3 31 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 17 (18.28%) T-SQL
5 14 (15.05%) PHP
6 6 (6.45%) C++
6 6 (6.45%) Java
7 4 (4.30%) SQL
8 3 (3.23%) C
8 3 (3.23%) Objective-C
8 3 (3.23%) Python
8 3 (3.23%) Ruby
9 2 (2.15%) JSX
Qualifications
1 9 (9.68%) Degree
2 6 (6.45%) HND
3 3 (3.23%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.15%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.43%) Accessibility
2 15 (16.13%) WAI
3 3 (3.23%) GDPR
3 3 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (7.53%) Docker
2 2 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.08%) MIIS
1 1 (1.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (8.60%) Adobe
2 5 (5.38%) Google
2 5 (5.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.23%) Oracle
3 3 (3.23%) WooCommerce
4 2 (2.15%) Apple
4 2 (2.15%) VMware