LESS Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring LESS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank - 205 174
Rank change year-on-year - -31 +123
Permanent jobs citing LESS 0 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West - 0.038% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category - 0.22% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £40,500 £68,750
25th Percentile - £45,000 £73,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £55,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - -31.25% +28.00%
75th Percentile - £65,000 £84,375
90th Percentile - £69,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £63,750 £52,500 £61,250
% change year-on-year +21.43% -14.29% +2.08%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 511 900 977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.29% 17.31% 25.23%
Number of salaries quoted 435 568 776
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,754 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.72% -5.41% +4.35%
75th Percentile £74,162 £72,500 £74,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

LESS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

LESS job vacancy trend in the North West

LESS
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing LESS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing LESS