VSS/SourceSafe Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VSS/SourceSafe skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VSS/SourceSafe over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Rank 111 135 121
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -14
Contract jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 8 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.329% 0.065% 0.240%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.996% 1.143% 2.258%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
Average daily rate £450 £338 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +28.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £338 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £338 £335
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £310
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.73 £41.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-6.10% -2.94%
All Development Applications
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 267 175 310
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 10.97% 5.710% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 62 99
Average daily rate £375 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £206
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £395 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 18
Average hourly rate £15.00 £28.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.42% -37.77%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
VSS/SourceSafe
South East

VSS/SourceSafe
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Berkshire VSS/SourceSafe Jobs Demand Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire VSS/SourceSafe Daily Rate Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire VSS/SourceSafe Hourly Rate Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bracknell - 4 - -
Reading +9 2 £450 +33.33%
VSS/SourceSafe
South East

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing VSS/SourceSafe also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VSS/SourceSafe.

1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 8 (61.54%) Oracle
3 6 (46.15%) C
3 6 (46.15%) UNIX
3 6 (46.15%) Shell Script
3 6 (46.15%) ProC
3 6 (46.15%) Oracle 11g
3 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
4 5 (38.46%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
5 4 (30.77%) Oracle 10g
5 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
5 4 (30.77%) PL/SQL
5 4 (30.77%) .NET
5 4 (30.77%) Windows
5 4 (30.77%) Solaris
5 4 (30.77%) Linux
5 4 (30.77%) C#
5 4 (30.77%) Migration
5 4 (30.77%) Oracle Applications
5 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
6 3 (23.08%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
6 3 (23.08%) VB.NET
6 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
6 3 (23.08%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (15.38%) MS Office
7 2 (15.38%) HTML
7 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
7 2 (15.38%) CSS

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing VSS/SourceSafe also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VSS/SourceSafe. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
2 2 (15.38%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) WinForms
2 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 1 (7.692%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.692%) OpenGL
3 1 (7.692%) DirectX
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) SharePoint
1 1 (7.692%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Office
2 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (7.692%) GIS
4 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) ProC
2 3 (23.08%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (7.692%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.692%) Subversion
3 1 (7.692%) Visual Studio
3 1 (7.692%) PVCS
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 4 (30.77%) DBA
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Architect
5 1 (7.692%) Configuration Management Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Release Management Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.692%) SQL Developer
5 1 (7.692%) PL/SQL Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Management Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Applications Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Report Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) UNIX
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Solaris
2 4 (30.77%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (15.38%) Validation
3 2 (15.38%) Release Management
4 1 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (7.692%) Data Analysis
4 1 (7.692%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.692%) ITIL
4 1 (7.692%) CRM
4 1 (7.692%) CAD
4 1 (7.692%) Configuration Management
4 1 (7.692%) Project Management
4 1 (7.692%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) C
2 6 (46.15%) Shell Script
3 4 (30.77%) C#
3 4 (30.77%) PL/SQL
4 3 (23.08%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Citrix
3 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco
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