The first table below looks at the demand for VSS/SourceSafe skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 East of England 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 111 117 119
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +2
Contract jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 3 15 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.140% 0.508% 0.303%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.240% 4.348% 2.222%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 4
Average daily rate - £225 £206
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £349 £300
% change year-on-year
-6.81% +16.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £42.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 £37.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+26.66% -11.76%
All Development Applications
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
242 345 360
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 11.31% 11.68% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 153 135
Average daily rate £325 £345 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.79% +15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 55 63
Average hourly rate £33.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £27.25 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.50 £39.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
VSS/SourceSafe
England

VSS/SourceSafe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 24 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
Hertfordshire - 2 - -
Bedfordshire - 1 - -
VSS/SourceSafe
England

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (50.00%) UAG
2 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (50.00%) MPLS
2 3 (50.00%) BGP
2 3 (50.00%) Wireless
2 3 (50.00%) CCNP
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) Siemens
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) IIS
3 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 2 (33.33%) Internet
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix
3 2 (33.33%) WiX
3 2 (33.33%) MSBuild
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
3 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (33.33%) PowerShell

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (50.00%) MPLS
1 3 (50.00%) BGP
1 3 (50.00%) Wireless
2 2 (33.33%) Internet
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2012
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) WiX
1 2 (33.33%) MSBuild
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
1 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) Hudson
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Release Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Build Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Environment Manager
2 1 (16.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Manager
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Data Security
2 1 (16.67%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CCNP
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) UAG
2 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (33.33%) Xen
4 1 (16.67%) XenServer
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Siemens
3 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix
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