The first table below looks at the demand for VSS/SourceSafe skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VSS/SourceSafe over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Hertfordshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.313% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.961% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £344 £300
% change year-on-year
-5.45% +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £42.50 £42.50
All Development Applications
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
102 111 125
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 15.96% 11.14% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 55 38
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £456 £432
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 30
Average hourly rate £33.00 £36.00 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -2.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.00 £33.90 £35.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £37.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
VSS/SourceSafe
East of England

VSS/SourceSafe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Welwyn Garden City - - - -
VSS/SourceSafe
East of England

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Xen
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) WiX
1 2 (100.00%) MSBuild
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) XenServer
2 1 (50.00%) Hudson

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco PIX
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) WiX
1 2 (100.00%) MSBuild
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Hudson
General
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Release Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Build Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Environment Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Xen
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) XenServer
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) VMware