VSS/SourceSafe Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VSS/SourceSafe skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VSS/SourceSafe over the 3 months to 24 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 City of London 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Rank 191 196 231
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +35
Contract jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 12 22 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.188% 0.280% 0.143%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.529% 3.374% 1.393%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 10
Average daily rate £415 £338 £369
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.96% -8.47%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £349 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.81% +16.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 £37.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+26.66% -11.76%
All Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 785 652 1005
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.31% 8.290% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 489 757
Average daily rate £405 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.42% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 7
Average hourly rate £42.00 £37.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.51% +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £16.20 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £39.70 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
VSS/SourceSafe
London

VSS/SourceSafe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London VSS/SourceSafe Hourly Rate Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 14 (87.50%) .NET
1 14 (87.50%) Subversion
2 13 (81.25%) SQL Server
3 11 (68.75%) Oracle
3 11 (68.75%) CruiseControl
4 10 (62.50%) NUnit
4 10 (62.50%) C#
4 10 (62.50%) Release Management
5 9 (56.25%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (56.25%) Windows
5 9 (56.25%) Banking
5 9 (56.25%) Finance
6 8 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
6 8 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
7 6 (37.50%) IIS
8 5 (31.25%) Migration
8 5 (31.25%) Linux
8 5 (31.25%) SQL
8 5 (31.25%) ISO 9001
9 4 (25.00%) MQSeries
9 4 (25.00%) MSI
9 4 (25.00%) WebSphere
9 4 (25.00%) Software Deployment
10 3 (18.75%) Change Control
10 3 (18.75%) MSBuild
10 3 (18.75%) Oracle 11g
10 3 (18.75%) Oracle 8/8i
10 3 (18.75%) C++
10 3 (18.75%) Java

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 14 (87.50%) .NET
2 4 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 3 (18.75%) XML
4 2 (12.50%) WSH
4 2 (12.50%) Middleware
5 1 (6.250%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.250%) Velocity
5 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) IIS
2 4 (25.00%) MQSeries
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) LongView
1 2 (12.50%) HFM
1 2 (12.50%) Khalix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (81.25%) SQL Server
2 8 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 8 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (12.50%) OLAP
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle 9i
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (12.50%) Essbase
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (6.250%) DB2
Development Applications
1 14 (87.50%) Subversion
2 11 (68.75%) CruiseControl
3 10 (62.50%) NUnit
4 4 (25.00%) MSI
5 3 (18.75%) MSBuild
6 2 (12.50%) WiX
7 1 (6.250%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (6.250%) CppUnit
7 1 (6.250%) ClearCase
7 1 (6.250%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (56.25%) Banking
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Financial Institution
2 1 (6.250%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Systems Integration Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Integration Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Systems Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Build Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Developer
5 1 (6.250%) ScrumMaster
5 1 (6.250%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Client/Server
2 1 (6.250%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Linux
3 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Release Management
2 9 (56.25%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (31.25%) Migration
4 4 (25.00%) Software Deployment
5 3 (18.75%) Change Control
6 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
6 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Web Development
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (6.250%) Multithreading
7 1 (6.250%) System Testing
7 1 (6.250%) Time Management
7 1 (6.250%) Scrum
7 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (6.250%) Project Management
7 1 (6.250%) Project Planning
7 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) C#
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) C++
3 3 (18.75%) Java
4 2 (12.50%) Perl
4 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) LPIC
1 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (6.250%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Oracle
2 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) IBM
3 2 (12.50%) Hyperion
4 1 (6.250%) Sybase
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