LESS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 297 336 450
Rank change year-on-year +39 +114 +95
Contract jobs citing LESS 7 9 27
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.059% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.27% 0.25% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 18
10th Percentile £539 £630 £350
25th Percentile £625 £713 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £900 £445
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +102.25% -22.61%
75th Percentile £750 £963 £545
90th Percentile £770 £1,000 £765
UK median daily rate £750 £900 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% -20.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

LESS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing LESS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

LESS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

LESS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing LESS.

LESS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

LESS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing LESS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

LESS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

LESS
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (71.43%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (71.43%) GitHub
2 5 (71.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) DynamoDB
1 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) ClickHouse
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Git
2 5 (71.43%) git-flow
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (85.71%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (71.43%) Node.js Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Backend Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Developer
4 2 (28.57%) React Developer
5 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
5 1 (14.29%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
5 1 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
1 7 (100.00%) HTML
1 7 (100.00%) React
1 7 (100.00%) Sass
2 6 (85.71%) Jest
2 6 (85.71%) Node.js
2 6 (85.71%) Redux
2 6 (85.71%) RESTful
3 5 (71.43%) Apache Cordova
3 5 (71.43%) AWS CDK
3 5 (71.43%) JSON
3 5 (71.43%) Web Services
3 5 (71.43%) WebSockets
4 2 (28.57%) HTML5
5 1 (14.29%) .NET
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (14.29%) CSS3
5 1 (14.29%) Dapper ORM
5 1 (14.29%) Enzyme
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Clean Code
2 5 (71.43%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (71.43%) Fintech
2 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
2 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) OO
4 1 (14.29%) OOP
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
4 1 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) SOA
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
4 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
3 5 (71.43%) T-SQL
4 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility