LESS Contracts in the North of England

LESS (Dynamic Stylesheet Language, LessCSS)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for LESS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LESS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 196 245
Rank change year-on-year +15 +49 -59
Contract jobs citing LESS 2 16 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.043% 0.28% 0.042%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.23% 1.46% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 13 2
10th Percentile - £422 £433
25th Percentile - £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £445 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -15.24% +275.00%
75th Percentile - £531 £588
90th Percentile - £664 £618
England median daily rate £900 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +80.00% -20.00% +31.58%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 882 1,096 1,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.86% 19.28% 22.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 853 1,217
10th Percentile £352 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +16.01%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £560 £565
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 26
10th Percentile £14.56 £45.29 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £58.06 £25.69
Median hourly rate £46.18 £66.25 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.29% +55.88% +25.00%
75th Percentile £69.44 £70.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.00 £62.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing LESS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for LESS in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LESS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for LESS in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LESS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +18 2 - - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Figma
General
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Designer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Web Designer
1 2 (100.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) Sass
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript