LESS Contracts in London

LESS (Dynamic Stylesheet Language, LessCSS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring LESS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LESS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 384 474
Rank change year-on-year +44 +90 -9
Contract jobs citing LESS 13 7 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.039% 0.070%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.40% 0.16% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 15
10th Percentile £650 £705 £350
25th Percentile £675 £788 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £900 £765
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +17.65% +17.69%
75th Percentile £813 £975 £856
90th Percentile £838 £1,000 £875
England median daily rate £763 £900 £500
% change year-on-year -15.28% +80.00% -21.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

LESS falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for LESS in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LESS in London.

Daily rate trend for LESS in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LESS in London.

Hourly rate trend for LESS in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (23.08%) GitHub
1 3 (23.08%) Serverless
2 2 (15.38%) BigCommerce
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) DynamoDB
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) ClickHouse
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) Git
2 8 (61.54%) Bitbucket
2 8 (61.54%) TeamCity
3 3 (23.08%) git-flow
4 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
4 2 (15.38%) Grunt
4 2 (15.38%) webpack
5 1 (7.69%) ESLint
General
1 11 (84.62%) Banking
2 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
3 8 (61.54%) Investment Banking
4 7 (53.85%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (53.85%) Front Office
4 7 (53.85%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Finance
5 2 (15.38%) Marketing
5 2 (15.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (23.08%) C# Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Backend Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (15.38%) React Developer
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
5 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (100.00%) CSS
1 13 (100.00%) HTML
1 13 (100.00%) Node.js
1 13 (100.00%) Sass
2 11 (84.62%) React
3 10 (76.92%) HTML5
4 8 (61.54%) .NET
4 8 (61.54%) ASP.NET
4 8 (61.54%) ASP.NET Web API
4 8 (61.54%) Tailwind CSS
5 6 (46.15%) gRPC
5 6 (46.15%) Kafka
5 6 (46.15%) Protocol Buffers
6 5 (38.46%) Jest
7 3 (23.08%) Apache Cordova
7 3 (23.08%) AWS CDK
7 3 (23.08%) JSON
7 3 (23.08%) Redux
7 3 (23.08%) RESTful
7 3 (23.08%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Clean Code
2 9 (69.23%) Full-Stack Development
3 8 (61.54%) DevOps
3 8 (61.54%) OO
3 8 (61.54%) OOP
3 8 (61.54%) SOA
4 7 (53.85%) Microservices
4 7 (53.85%) Refactoring
4 7 (53.85%) Scrum
5 6 (46.15%) Risk Management
6 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
7 3 (23.08%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (23.08%) Fintech
7 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
8 2 (15.38%) Agile
8 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (15.38%) Rapid Prototyping
8 2 (15.38%) Regression Testing
8 2 (15.38%) Resource Management
8 2 (15.38%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 13 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 10 (76.92%) C#
3 8 (61.54%) Java
4 6 (46.15%) C++
5 5 (38.46%) SQL
6 3 (23.08%) T-SQL
7 2 (15.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Adobe
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
1 2 (15.38%) SAP
1 2 (15.38%) Sitecore