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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 690 826 721
Rank change year-on-year +136 -105 -17
Permanent jobs citing LESS 25 103 216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.045% 0.093% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.26% 0.46% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 16 83 69
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £31,450
25th Percentile £38,313 £43,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +38.89% -21.74%
75th Percentile £65,313 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £60,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -29.17% +50.00% -20.00%

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 9,718 22,203 26,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.34% 20.10% 29.10%
Number of salaries quoted 5,835 16,359 17,485
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,834
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,254 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for LESS in the UK

LESS
Top 11 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 15 June 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
England +131 25 £55,000 -15.38% 39
UK excluding London +134 13 £42,500 -29.17% 28
Work from Home +123 12 £55,000 -21.43% 19
London +119 12 £67,500 -3.57% 15
North of England +61 5 £45,000 +20.00% 7
North West +17 4 £50,000 +66.67% 2
South East +88 3 £57,500 - 13
South West +80 3 £37,500 -42.31% 1
Midlands +69 2 £38,750 -18.42% 4
East Midlands +57 2 £38,750 +10.71% 4
Yorkshire +57 1 £32,500 -53.57% 5

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 9 (36.00%) CMS
2 5 (20.00%) WordPress
3 3 (12.00%) Headless CMS
3 3 (12.00%) Strapi
4 2 (8.00%) Drupal
5 1 (4.00%) Apache
5 1 (4.00%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (8.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (8.00%) Elementor
1 2 (8.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (4.00%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) Figma
1 3 (12.00%) OpenShift
1 3 (12.00%) SaaS
2 2 (8.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) Cloudflare
2 2 (8.00%) Contentful
2 2 (8.00%) Vercel
3 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.00%) npm
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) MySQL
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (48.00%) Mocha
2 10 (40.00%) webpack
3 9 (36.00%) Git
3 9 (36.00%) Jasmine
4 7 (28.00%) Grunt
5 4 (16.00%) PHPUnit
6 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
6 3 (12.00%) MSTest
6 3 (12.00%) NUnit
6 3 (12.00%) SpecFlow
6 3 (12.00%) TeamCity
7 2 (8.00%) Babel
7 2 (8.00%) gulp
7 2 (8.00%) rollup.js
8 1 (4.00%) Ant
8 1 (4.00%) JIRA
8 1 (4.00%) PhpStorm
8 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (56.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Banking
2 6 (24.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (24.00%) Retail Banking
3 5 (20.00%) Marketing
4 3 (12.00%) Front Office
4 3 (12.00%) Law
5 2 (8.00%) Retail
5 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (84.00%) Developer
2 15 (60.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 7 (28.00%) Web Developer
4 6 (24.00%) Lead
4 6 (24.00%) Lead Developer
4 6 (24.00%) React Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
5 4 (16.00%) Senior
6 3 (12.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 3 (12.00%) Senior Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Magento Developer
7 2 (8.00%) PHP Developer
7 2 (8.00%) PHP Web Developer
7 2 (8.00%) PHP WordPress Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 2 (8.00%) WordPress Developer
8 1 (4.00%) JavaScript Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Principal Software Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (96.00%) CSS
2 19 (76.00%) HTML
2 19 (76.00%) React
2 19 (76.00%) Sass
3 16 (64.00%) AngularJS
3 16 (64.00%) Vue
4 12 (48.00%) Jest
5 11 (44.00%) Ajax
5 11 (44.00%) HTML5
6 10 (40.00%) CSS3
7 8 (32.00%) Bootstrap
8 7 (28.00%) Chai
8 7 (28.00%) Material-UI
8 7 (28.00%) Next.js
9 6 (24.00%) Enzyme
9 6 (24.00%) JWT
9 6 (24.00%) MobX
9 6 (24.00%) OAuth2
9 6 (24.00%) Redux
9 6 (24.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Virtual Team
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Credit Derivative
2 3 (12.00%) Derivative
2 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (12.00%) Equities
2 3 (12.00%) Fixed Income
2 3 (12.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (8.00%) Cybercrime
4 1 (4.00%) N-Tier
4 1 (4.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (52.00%) Agile
2 12 (48.00%) Front End Development
2 12 (48.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 10 (40.00%) Design Patterns
3 10 (40.00%) Web Development
4 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (24.00%) Asset Management
6 6 (24.00%) Business Case
6 6 (24.00%) Coaching
6 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (24.00%) TDD
6 6 (24.00%) Test Strategy
6 6 (24.00%) Thought Leadership
6 6 (24.00%) Use Case
6 6 (24.00%) User Experience
7 5 (20.00%) Content Management
7 5 (20.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 16 (64.00%) TypeScript
3 7 (28.00%) PHP
4 4 (16.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Adobe
2 2 (8.00%) Netlify
3 1 (4.00%) Atlassian