The first table below looks at the demand for VSS/SourceSafe skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire 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 27 27 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 6 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 2.804% 0.866% -
As % of the Development Applications category 17.65% 8.000% -
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
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
34 25 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 15.89% 10.82% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 13
Average daily rate £325 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £270 £249
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £413 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
VSS/SourceSafe
East Midlands

VSS/SourceSafe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire VSS/SourceSafe Hourly Rate Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 (90.00%) SQL
2 8 (80.00%) UNIX
2 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (70.00%) Windows
3 7 (70.00%) ISO 9001
4 6 (60.00%) ISEB
4 6 (60.00%) TickIT
4 6 (60.00%) Logistics
5 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (20.00%) Oracle
6 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
6 2 (20.00%) MS Office
6 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
6 2 (20.00%) MS PowerPoint
6 2 (20.00%) Degree
6 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 1 (10.00%) WCF
7 1 (10.00%) LINQ
7 1 (10.00%) jQuery
7 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (10.00%) Ajax
7 1 (10.00%) OO
7 1 (10.00%) XHTML
7 1 (10.00%) Firewall
7 1 (10.00%) MVC
7 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 1 (10.00%) WCF
1 1 (10.00%) LINQ
1 1 (10.00%) jQuery
1 1 (10.00%) Ajax
1 1 (10.00%) XHTML
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (10.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
1 1 (10.00%) XML
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (20.00%) MS Office
1 2 (20.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) DMVPN
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Software Test Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (10.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) UNIX
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (60.00%) Logistics
3 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (10.00%) OO
5 1 (10.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) ISEB
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) CCNA
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) ISO 9001
2 6 (60.00%) TickIT
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Nortel
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) Nokia
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