VSS/SourceSafe Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VSS/SourceSafe skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VSS/SourceSafe over the 3 months to 17 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 South West 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Rank 110 124 101
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -23
Contract jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 5 15 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.244% 0.453% 0.571%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.358% 4.167% 5.316%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 4
Average daily rate £315 £378 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.55% -0.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £247 £270 £336
10% offered a daily rate of more than £331 £406 £418
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £305 £310
% change year-on-year
+6.55% -1.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Average hourly rate - £23.88 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -43.82%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.73 £37.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+3.28% -11.76%
All Development Applications
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 212 360 301
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 10.35% 10.86% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 220 127
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £288 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 27 48
Average hourly rate £40.00 £35.00 £35.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -1.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £23.88 £32.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £40.00 £40.35
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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Somerset - 3 £320 -
Wiltshire +4 1 £220 -31.25%
Dorset 0 1 - -
VSS/SourceSafe
England

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 18 (94.74%) .NET
1 18 (94.74%) Team Foundation Server
2 17 (89.47%) Subversion
3 15 (78.95%) C#
3 15 (78.95%) SQL
4 14 (73.68%) JavaScript
4 14 (73.68%) C++
4 14 (73.68%) HTML
4 14 (73.68%) VB
4 14 (73.68%) ASP.NET
4 14 (73.68%) XML
4 14 (73.68%) SharePoint
4 14 (73.68%) NUnit
4 14 (73.68%) CruiseControl
4 14 (73.68%) TeamCity
4 14 (73.68%) MSTest
4 14 (73.68%) Jenkins
5 13 (68.42%) SQL Server
5 13 (68.42%) IIS
5 13 (68.42%) VB.NET
5 13 (68.42%) Java
6 12 (63.16%) Oracle
6 12 (63.16%) UML
6 12 (63.16%) ASP
6 12 (63.16%) UNIX
6 12 (63.16%) Ingres
6 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
6 12 (63.16%) Unit Testing
6 12 (63.16%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (52.63%) .NET Framework

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 18 (94.74%) .NET
2 14 (73.68%) ASP.NET
2 14 (73.68%) HTML
2 14 (73.68%) XML
3 12 (63.16%) ASP
4 10 (52.63%) .NET Framework
5 2 (10.53%) Web Services
5 2 (10.53%) CSS
5 2 (10.53%) WCF
5 2 (10.53%) jQuery
6 1 (5.263%) Google Maps API
6 1 (5.263%) REST
6 1 (5.263%) XSLT
6 1 (5.263%) EDI
6 1 (5.263%) WSDL
6 1 (5.263%) Ajax
6 1 (5.263%) SOAP
6 1 (5.263%) COM+
6 1 (5.263%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 14 (73.68%) SharePoint
2 13 (68.42%) IIS
3 8 (42.11%) OpenROAD
4 1 (5.263%) Apache
4 1 (5.263%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
1 1 (5.263%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (68.42%) SQL Server
2 12 (63.16%) Ingres
3 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (15.79%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (5.263%) DTS
6 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (5.263%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
Development Applications
1 18 (94.74%) Team Foundation Server
2 17 (89.47%) Subversion
3 14 (73.68%) TeamCity
3 14 (73.68%) NUnit
3 14 (73.68%) CruiseControl
3 14 (73.68%) MSTest
3 14 (73.68%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.263%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.263%) WiX
4 1 (5.263%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (5.263%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) Developer
2 14 (73.68%) .NET Developer
2 14 (73.68%) C# Developer
2 14 (73.68%) C# .NET Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Analyst Developer
3 6 (31.58%) Analyst
4 5 (26.32%) Senior Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Senior C# Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Senior .NET Developer
4 5 (26.32%) Senior Analyst Developer
4 5 (26.32%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Support Analyst
5 3 (15.79%) Support Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Consultant
6 1 (5.263%) Development Manager
6 1 (5.263%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (63.16%) UNIX
2 1 (5.263%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) UML
1 12 (63.16%) Unit Testing
1 12 (63.16%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (47.37%) ITIL
2 9 (47.37%) Service Delivery
3 7 (36.84%) ITSM
3 7 (36.84%) Service Management
4 1 (5.263%) Web Design
4 1 (5.263%) TDD
4 1 (5.263%) Data Management
4 1 (5.263%) Web Development
4 1 (5.263%) Performance Testing
4 1 (5.263%) ERP
4 1 (5.263%) Data Modelling
4 1 (5.263%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (5.263%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) C#
1 15 (78.95%) SQL
2 14 (73.68%) C++
2 14 (73.68%) JavaScript
2 14 (73.68%) VB
3 13 (68.42%) VB.NET
3 13 (68.42%) Java
4 3 (15.79%) T-SQL
5 2 (10.53%) VB6
6 1 (5.263%) XPath
6 1 (5.263%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) MCP
1 7 (36.84%) ISEB
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Certification
1 7 (36.84%) MCTS
1 7 (36.84%) MCPD
2 1 (5.263%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
1 12 (63.16%) Oracle
2 1 (5.263%) JBoss
2 1 (5.263%) VMware
2 1 (5.263%) Google
2 1 (5.263%) Sitecore
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