LESS Contracts with Work from Home Options

LESS (Dynamic Stylesheet Language, LessCSS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring LESS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LESS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 447 543
Rank change year-on-year +120 +96 -95
Contract jobs citing LESS 14 10 80
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.095% 0.042% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.38% 0.17% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 64
10th Percentile £680 £475 £450
25th Percentile £819 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £950 £765 £594
Median % change year-on-year +24.18% +28.84% +31.94%
75th Percentile £1,000 - £650
90th Percentile £1,045 - £785
UK median daily rate £900 £765 £625
% change year-on-year +17.65% +22.40% +31.58%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

LESS falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,723 5,975 13,044
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.23% 25.03% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,616 4,481 9,688
10th Percentile £350 £388 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 79 111
10th Percentile £23.88 £25.10 £22.50
25th Percentile - £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +21.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 £67.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.05 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

LESS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing LESS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

LESS trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing LESS.

LESS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing LESS over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

LESS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (7.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Figma
Development Applications
1 12 (85.71%) Git
2 11 (78.57%) git-flow
General
1 10 (71.43%) Marketing
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) JavaScript Engineer
1 11 (78.57%) Senior
1 11 (78.57%) UI Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Designer
3 2 (14.29%) Web Designer
3 2 (14.29%) Web Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (100.00%) CSS
1 14 (100.00%) Sass
2 11 (78.57%) Jest
2 11 (78.57%) Material-UI
2 11 (78.57%) OpenFin
2 11 (78.57%) React
2 11 (78.57%) Redux
2 11 (78.57%) Tailwind CSS
2 11 (78.57%) WebSockets
3 3 (21.43%) HTML
3 3 (21.43%) HTML5
4 2 (14.29%) Ajax
4 2 (14.29%) CSS3
5 1 (7.14%) J2EE
5 1 (7.14%) jQuery
5 1 (7.14%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (78.57%) Enterprise Software
1 11 (78.57%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Customer Experience
1 11 (78.57%) Electronic Trading
1 11 (78.57%) Post-Production
1 11 (78.57%) SDLC
1 11 (78.57%) Software Engineering
1 11 (78.57%) User Experience
2 3 (21.43%) Front End Development
3 2 (14.29%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
3 2 (14.29%) Web Development
3 2 (14.29%) Wireframes
4 1 (7.14%) Agile
4 1 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Functional Testing
4 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.14%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (7.14%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (85.71%) Java
2 12 (85.71%) TypeScript
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe