LESS Contracts with Work from Home Options

LESS (Dynamic Stylesheet Language, LessCSS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 444 534
Rank change year-on-year +109 +90 -106
Contract jobs citing LESS 9 27 89
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.25% 0.42% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 71
10th Percentile £630 £350 £450
25th Percentile £713 £440 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £445 £575
Median % change year-on-year +102.25% -22.61% +27.78%
75th Percentile £963 £545 £647
90th Percentile £1,000 £765 £713
UK median daily rate £900 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +80.00% -20.00% +31.58%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and 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 3,647 6,485 13,225
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.91% 25.27% 29.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,547 4,823 9,761
10th Percentile £331 £394 £398
25th Percentile £428 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +13.54%
75th Percentile £650 £657 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 81 120
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -28.95% +31.31% +10.00%

LESS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing LESS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

LESS trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing LESS.

LESS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing LESS over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

LESS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Figma
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Git
2 7 (77.78%) git-flow
General
1 6 (66.67%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) JavaScript Engineer
1 7 (77.78%) Senior
1 7 (77.78%) UI Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) CSS
1 9 (100.00%) Sass
2 7 (77.78%) Jest
2 7 (77.78%) Material-UI
2 7 (77.78%) OpenFin
2 7 (77.78%) React
2 7 (77.78%) Redux
2 7 (77.78%) Tailwind CSS
2 7 (77.78%) WebSockets
3 2 (22.22%) HTML
3 2 (22.22%) HTML5
4 1 (11.11%) Ajax
4 1 (11.11%) CSS3
4 1 (11.11%) J2EE
4 1 (11.11%) jQuery
4 1 (11.11%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Enterprise Software
1 7 (77.78%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Customer Experience
1 7 (77.78%) Electronic Trading
1 7 (77.78%) Post-Production
1 7 (77.78%) SDLC
1 7 (77.78%) Software Engineering
1 7 (77.78%) User Experience
2 2 (22.22%) Front End Development
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Functional Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Responsive Web Design
3 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Web Development
3 1 (11.11%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (88.89%) Java
2 8 (88.89%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe