LESS Job Trends in Central London

LESS (Dynamic Stylesheet Language, LessCSS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring LESS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing LESS 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.11% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.45% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £106,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 - -
75th Percentile £118,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median annual salary £86,250 £97,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +116.67% -33.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 445 846 1,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 23.95% 26.44% 30.45%
Number of salaries quoted 388 561 954
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £113,750 £95,000 £102,188
90th Percentile £125,375 £115,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% +3.23%

LESS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing LESS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

LESS job vacancy trend in Central London

LESS
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing LESS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing LESS

LESS
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LESS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 24 October 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London - 2 £112,500 - 1
LESS
London

LESS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Ant
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (100.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) Jest
1 2 (100.00%) Material-UI
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Sass
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
1 2 (100.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript