The first table below looks at the demand for VSS/SourceSafe skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 71 80 75
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -5
Contract jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.227% 0.087% 0.296%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.439% 1.370% 2.970%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
Average daily rate £450 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £338 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £338 £345
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
82 73 101
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 9.318% 6.342% 9.980%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 18 36
Average daily rate £375 £350 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +12.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £288 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
Average hourly rate £15.00 £18.00 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -4.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
VSS/SourceSafe
Berkshire

VSS/SourceSafe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading VSS/SourceSafe Hourly Rate Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (100.00%) WinForms
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) WinForms
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Architect
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix