VSS/SourceSafe Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for VSS/SourceSafe skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VSS/SourceSafe over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 467 611
Rank change year-on-year +129 +144 -135
Contract jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.004% 0.009%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.17% 0.026% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £571
25th Percentile £613 - £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £613
Median % change year-on-year - - +49.39%
75th Percentile £638 - £619
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £575
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% +40.24%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

VSS/SourceSafe is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,795 3,827 8,162
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.91% 15.25% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,284 2,742 5,889
10th Percentile £360 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +3.38% +8.81%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 108 100
10th Percentile £26.24 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £52.38 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.32 £60.54
90th Percentile - £83.19 £67.05
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +18.27% +15.56%

VSS/SourceSafe
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VSS/SourceSafe as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VSS/SourceSafe trend for jobs with a WFH option

VSS/SourceSafe
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VSS/SourceSafe.

VSS/SourceSafe daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

VSS/SourceSafe
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL