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The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VSS/SourceSafe over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkMicrosoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank198184
Rank change on same period last yearDown-14
Matching contract IT job ads89
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.011 %0.009 %
As % of the category below1.084 %1.657 %
Daily rates quoted55
Average minimum daily rate£366£360
Average daily rate£400£375
% change on same period last year+6.60 %
Average maximum daily rate£434£390
UK excluding London average daily rate£331£312
% change on same period last year+5.93 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£34.67£34.69
% change on same period last year-0.07 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads738543
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled1.039 %0.549 %
Daily rates quoted363208
Average minimum daily rate£360£409
Average daily rate£397£436
% change on same period last year-8.76 %
Average maximum daily rate£435£462
UK excluding London average daily rate£324£328
% change on same period last year-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted84
Average minimum hourly rate£19.13£32.00
Average hourly rate£21.13£33.00
% change on same period last year-35.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate£23.13£34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.49£31.36
% change on same period last year+3.60 %
VSS/SourceSafe LondonVSS/SourceSafe
London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

VSS/SourceSafe
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 Demand Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Daily Rate Trend

The 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
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe across the City of London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

City of London VSS/SourceSafe Daily Rate Histogram

VSS/SourceSafe
Hourly Rate Trend

The 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 10 October 2008, 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.

111 (68.75 %)Windows
29 (56.25 %)VB
38 (50.00 %)C#
38 (50.00 %)C++
47 (43.75 %)Windows Server 2003
56 (37.50 %)Microsoft
56 (37.50 %)MS Excel
56 (37.50 %).NET
65 (31.25 %)SQL Server
65 (31.25 %)Java
65 (31.25 %)SQL
65 (31.25 %)Visual Studio
74 (25.00 %)Active Directory
74 (25.00 %)Finance
74 (25.00 %)Banking
74 (25.00 %)Subversion
83 (18.75 %)Investment Banking
83 (18.75 %)JIRA
83 (18.75 %)WinForms
83 (18.75 %)Windows 2000 Server
83 (18.75 %)Migration
83 (18.75 %)VBA
83 (18.75 %)ASP
83 (18.75 %)CSS
83 (18.75 %)XML
83 (18.75 %)UML
83 (18.75 %)OO
83 (18.75 %)Perl
83 (18.75 %)VBScript
83 (18.75 %)Sybase

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
16 (37.50 %).NET
23 (18.75 %)ASP
23 (18.75 %)CSS
23 (18.75 %)XML
23 (18.75 %)WinForms
32 (12.50 %)Spring
32 (12.50 %)JMS
32 (12.50 %)HTML
32 (12.50 %)Hibernate
32 (12.50 %)STL
32 (12.50 %)ASP.NET
41 (6.250 %)JSP
41 (6.250 %)WebServices
41 (6.250 %)XHTML
41 (6.250 %)WSH
41 (6.250 %)Fusebox
41 (6.250 %)ASP.NET 2.0
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
12 (12.50 %)Lotus Notes
12 (12.50 %)Tomcat
12 (12.50 %)Mule
21 (6.250 %)IIS
21 (6.250 %)SharePoint
21 (6.250 %)ColdFusion
21 (6.250 %)BizTalk Server
21 (6.250 %)CMS
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
16 (37.50 %)MS Excel
21 (6.250 %)Photoshop
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (6.250 %)Intranet
11 (6.250 %)Internet
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
15 (31.25 %)SQL Server
22 (12.50 %)Datawarehouse
22 (12.50 %)SQL Server 2000
22 (12.50 %)Sybase IQ
22 (12.50 %)Sybase ASE
22 (12.50 %)SQL Server 2005
31 (6.250 %)DTS
31 (6.250 %)MS Access
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
15 (31.25 %)Visual Studio
24 (25.00 %)Subversion
33 (18.75 %)JIRA
33 (18.75 %)JUnit
42 (12.50 %)CruiseControl
42 (12.50 %)Flash
51 (6.250 %)MSI
51 (6.250 %)InstallShield
51 (6.250 %)NUnit
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
14 (25.00 %)Finance
14 (25.00 %)Banking
23 (18.75 %)Investment Banking
31 (6.250 %)Marketing
31 (6.250 %)Retail
31 (6.250 %)Financial Institution
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
110 (62.50 %)Developer
23 (18.75 %)Infrastructure Engineer
32 (12.50 %)C++ Developer
41 (6.250 %)C# Developer
41 (6.250 %)Systems Developer
41 (6.250 %)ASP.NET Developer
41 (6.250 %)Team Leader
41 (6.250 %)SQL Developer
41 (6.250 %)ColdFusion Developer
41 (6.250 %)Access Developer
41 (6.250 %)Flash Developer
41 (6.250 %)Java Analyst Programmer
41 (6.250 %)Java Programmer
41 (6.250 %)Flash Designer
41 (6.250 %)C#/ASP.NET Developer
41 (6.250 %)Java Developer
41 (6.250 %).NET Developer
41 (6.250 %)Analyst
41 (6.250 %)Web Developer
41 (6.250 %)Analyst Programmer
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
12 (12.50 %)Computer Science
12 (12.50 %)Market Risk
21 (6.250 %)Derivative
21 (6.250 %)Credit Risk
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
111 (68.75 %)Windows
27 (43.75 %)Windows Server 2003
33 (18.75 %)Windows 2000 Server
42 (12.50 %)AIX
42 (12.50 %)Linux
42 (12.50 %)Windows XP
42 (12.50 %)VMS
51 (6.250 %)UNIX
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
13 (18.75 %)UML
13 (18.75 %)OO
13 (18.75 %)Migration
22 (12.50 %)User Acceptance Testing
22 (12.50 %)OOD
22 (12.50 %)Configuration Management
22 (12.50 %)Process Management
22 (12.50 %)Risk Management
31 (6.250 %)Service Management
31 (6.250 %)E-Commerce
31 (6.250 %)OOP
31 (6.250 %)Stress Testing
31 (6.250 %)Unit Testing
31 (6.250 %)Web Design
31 (6.250 %)Release Management
31 (6.250 %)ITIL
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
19 (56.25 %)VB
28 (50.00 %)C#
28 (50.00 %)C++
35 (31.25 %)Java
35 (31.25 %)SQL
43 (18.75 %)Perl
43 (18.75 %)VBScript
43 (18.75 %)VBA
52 (12.50 %)Pascal
52 (12.50 %)Jython
61 (6.250 %)VB6
61 (6.250 %)ActionScript
61 (6.250 %)Transact-SQL
61 (6.250 %)JavaScript
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
12 (12.50 %)Degree
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (6.250 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
14 (25.00 %)Active Directory
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
16 (37.50 %)Microsoft
23 (18.75 %)Sybase
32 (12.50 %)Lotus
41 (6.250 %)VMware
41 (6.250 %)Oracle