LESS Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of 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 124 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing LESS 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.13% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.51% - -
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 - - -
Central London median annual salary £112,500 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 394 736 981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 25.03% 26.55% 31.13%
Number of salaries quoted 346 495 896
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £113,750 £97,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £128,125 £120,000 £115,625
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -6.25% -

LESS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

LESS job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing LESS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing LESS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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