The first table below looks at the demand for LESS skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LESS over the 3 months to 23 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LESS (Dynamic Stylesheet Language)
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing LESS 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £30,500 £50,000 -
% change year-on-year
-39.00% -
All Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2032 1945 1582
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 40.58% 42.84% 37.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1815 1745 1445
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands LESS Salary Trend

LESS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 10 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 10 (100.00%) CSS
2 9 (90.00%) OOP
2 9 (90.00%) XHTML
2 9 (90.00%) PHP
2 9 (90.00%) WordPress
2 9 (90.00%) Open Source
2 9 (90.00%) HTML5
2 9 (90.00%) CSS3
2 9 (90.00%) Sass
3 7 (70.00%) jQuery
4 6 (60.00%) Subversion
4 6 (60.00%) Ajax
4 6 (60.00%) Photoshop
4 6 (60.00%) New Media
4 6 (60.00%) Facebook
4 6 (60.00%) Semantic HTML
5 4 (40.00%) HTML
6 3 (30.00%) BT
6 3 (30.00%) Social Media Marketing
6 3 (30.00%) Social Media
6 3 (30.00%) Mashup
6 3 (30.00%) Marketing
7 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
7 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (10.00%) MVC
7 1 (10.00%) C#
7 1 (10.00%) .NET
7 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET

LESS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 10 (100.00%) CSS
2 9 (90.00%) XHTML
2 9 (90.00%) HTML5
2 9 (90.00%) CSS3
2 9 (90.00%) Sass
3 7 (70.00%) jQuery
4 6 (60.00%) Ajax
4 6 (60.00%) Semantic HTML
5 4 (40.00%) HTML
6 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
6 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (10.00%) .NET
6 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
6 1 (10.00%) DOM
6 1 (10.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (10.00%) Underscore.js
6 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
Application Platforms
1 9 (90.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (30.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Front-End Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Programmer
3 3 (30.00%) PHP Developer
3 3 (30.00%) PHP Programmer
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Open Source
2 6 (60.00%) New Media
3 3 (30.00%) Social Media
3 3 (30.00%) Mashup
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) OOP
2 3 (30.00%) Social Media Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (10.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (90.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) C#
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Facebook
2 3 (30.00%) BT
3 1 (10.00%) Twitter