LESS (Dynamic Stylesheet Language, LessCSS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring LESS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited LESS over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 782 741 754
Rank change year-on-year -41 +13 -162
Permanent jobs citing LESS 60 146 572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.18% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.34% 0.65% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 45 71 241
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £34,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £42,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -26.09% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +62.50% -23.81% +5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 17,601 22,313 69,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.48% 27.65% 39.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12,656 16,103 29,822
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,875 £83,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,289 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

LESS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing LESS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for LESS in the UK

LESS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LESS.

Salary trend for LESS in the UK

LESS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LESS over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for LESS in the UK

LESS
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LESS within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England -45 51 £65,000 +52.94% 11
UK excluding London -85 49 £65,000 +62.50% 9
South West +20 26 £65,000 +52.94% 2
Work from Home +7 13 £62,500 +56.25% 4
North of England -7 9 £30,000 -52.94% 5
North West -6 6 £30,000 -7.69% 1
Midlands -16 6 £35,000 -30.00%
London +47 5 £65,000 - 2
South East -39 5 £57,500 +53.33% 2
West Midlands - 5 - -
Scotland -53 3 - -
North East - 2 £30,000 - 4
Yorkshire +38 1 - -
East Midlands -28 1 £35,000 -30.00%

LESS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (11.67%) CMS
2 5 (8.33%) nginx
3 2 (3.33%) WordPress
4 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Photoshop
2 3 (5.00%) InVision
2 3 (5.00%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 37 (61.67%) Azure
2 35 (58.33%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (10.00%) npm
4 3 (5.00%) Figma
5 2 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.67%) AWS
6 1 (1.67%) GitHub
6 1 (1.67%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.67%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.67%) Storyblok
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.67%) MySQL
3 1 (1.67%) Big Data
3 1 (1.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 48 (80.00%) Git
2 10 (16.67%) webpack
3 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.00%) JIRA
4 5 (8.33%) Mocha
5 4 (6.67%) Grunt
5 4 (6.67%) Jasmine
6 3 (5.00%) gulp
7 2 (3.33%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.67%) Babel
8 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.67%) rollup.js
8 1 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (68.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.67%) Finance
3 7 (11.67%) Automotive
3 7 (11.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.67%) Banking
4 4 (6.67%) Marketing
4 4 (6.67%) Retail Banking
5 3 (5.00%) Law
5 3 (5.00%) Polish Language
6 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (76.67%) Developer
2 31 (51.67%) Senior
3 25 (41.67%) .NET Developer
4 24 (40.00%) Senior Developer
5 22 (36.67%) Senior .NET Developer
6 17 (28.33%) C# .NET Developer
6 17 (28.33%) C# Developer
7 14 (23.33%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 14 (23.33%) Senior C# Developer
8 11 (18.33%) Software Developer
9 10 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
10 9 (15.00%) .NET Software Developer
10 9 (15.00%) C# Software Developer
11 7 (11.67%) Lead
11 7 (11.67%) Senior Software Developer
12 6 (10.00%) Junior
12 6 (10.00%) Junior Developer
12 6 (10.00%) Senior .NET Software Developer
12 6 (10.00%) Senior C# Software Developer
13 5 (8.33%) Full Stack PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (100.00%) CSS
2 55 (91.67%) HTML
3 37 (61.67%) .NET
4 30 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 30 (50.00%) Sass
5 29 (48.33%) React
6 27 (45.00%) .NET Framework
6 27 (45.00%) Entity Framework
7 23 (38.33%) .NET Core
8 16 (26.67%) AngularJS
8 16 (26.67%) Vue
9 12 (20.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 11 (18.33%) jQuery
11 10 (16.67%) Ajax
12 8 (13.33%) HTML5
13 6 (10.00%) LAMP
14 5 (8.33%) Laravel
14 5 (8.33%) LEMP Stack
15 4 (6.67%) Chai
15 4 (6.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Onboarding
2 8 (13.33%) Mobile App
3 6 (10.00%) Virtual Team
4 4 (6.67%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.00%) Graphic Design
5 3 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.67%) Cybercrime
6 1 (1.67%) NHS
6 1 (1.67%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (66.67%) DevOps
2 34 (56.67%) CI/CD
3 28 (46.67%) MVC
4 18 (30.00%) User Experience
5 16 (26.67%) Agile
5 16 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (21.67%) Front End Development
7 12 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
8 11 (18.33%) Clean Code
8 11 (18.33%) Line Management
9 10 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 10 (16.67%) Product Management
10 9 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (15.00%) SEO
10 9 (15.00%) UX Design
11 8 (13.33%) Software Engineering
11 8 (13.33%) Web Development
12 7 (11.67%) Contingency Planning
12 7 (11.67%) Scrum
13 6 (10.00%) Adaptive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 58 (96.67%) JavaScript
2 36 (60.00%) C#
3 9 (15.00%) PHP
4 7 (11.67%) Delphi
5 2 (3.33%) C++
5 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.67%) C
6 1 (1.67%) Java
6 1 (1.67%) JSX
6 1 (1.67%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.67%) SQL
6 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (16.67%) Degree
2 6 (10.00%) HND
3 3 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.67%) CIPD
4 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.00%) WCAG
3 2 (3.33%) QA
4 1 (1.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) MIIS
1 2 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (10.00%) Adobe
2 2 (3.33%) WooCommerce
3 1 (1.67%) Google
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.67%) VMware