The first table below looks at the demand for VSS/SourceSafe skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VSS/SourceSafe over the 3 months to 20 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 Yorkshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Rank 112 115 91
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -24
Contract jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.159% 0.044% 0.169%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.786% 0.518% 1.571%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £313 - £225
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 - £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £323 - £229
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £310
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.73 £41.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-6.10% -2.94%
All Development Applications
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
168 193 191
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 8.908% 8.399% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 116 83
Average daily rate £300 £325 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £238 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 11
Average hourly rate £38.00 £25.00 £40.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.00% -37.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.20 £25.00 £21.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £25.00 £42.50
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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
West Yorkshire -1 2 £325 -
East Yorkshire - 1 £300 -
VSS/SourceSafe
England

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 15 (83.33%) SQL
2 14 (77.78%) JIRA
3 12 (66.67%) SQL Server
4 11 (61.11%) Agile Software Development
5 10 (55.56%) VB6
5 10 (55.56%) VB
6 9 (50.00%) Subversion
7 7 (38.89%) SQL Server 2000
7 7 (38.89%) ASP
7 7 (38.89%) COM+
7 7 (38.89%) MTS
7 7 (38.89%) MSMQ
7 7 (38.89%) SQL Server 2008
8 6 (33.33%) VB.NET
8 6 (33.33%) .NET
8 6 (33.33%) C#
9 5 (27.78%) PVCS
9 5 (27.78%) Progress
9 5 (27.78%) SOA
9 5 (27.78%) WebSpeed
9 5 (27.78%) Scrum
9 5 (27.78%) Sculptor
10 3 (16.67%) WinForms
10 3 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
10 3 (16.67%) Web Development
10 3 (16.67%) Legal
10 3 (16.67%) Windows
10 3 (16.67%) Delphi
10 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
10 3 (16.67%) Oracle

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 7 (38.89%) ASP
1 7 (38.89%) COM+
2 6 (33.33%) .NET
3 3 (16.67%) WinForms
4 2 (11.11%) WCF
4 2 (11.11%) XSLT
5 1 (5.556%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 7 (38.89%) MTS
1 7 (38.89%) MSMQ
2 2 (11.11%) OpenEdge
2 2 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Office
1 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) LAN
1 1 (5.556%) WAN
1 1 (5.556%) VPN
1 1 (5.556%) MPLS
1 1 (5.556%) OSPF
1 1 (5.556%) BGP
1 1 (5.556%) EIGRP
1 1 (5.556%) Firewall
1 1 (5.556%) Network Security
1 1 (5.556%) FWSM
1 1 (5.556%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 7 (38.89%) SQL Server 2000
2 7 (38.89%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 14 (77.78%) JIRA
2 9 (50.00%) Subversion
3 5 (27.78%) PVCS
3 5 (27.78%) WebSpeed
4 2 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (16.67%) Legal
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Progress Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Technical Leader
3 3 (16.67%) VB Developer
4 2 (11.11%) ASP Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
4 2 (11.11%) BizTalk Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Developer
5 1 (5.556%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.556%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.556%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.556%) VB6 Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Programmer
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (27.78%) SOA
2 5 (27.78%) Scrum
3 3 (16.67%) Web Development
4 2 (11.11%) UML
4 2 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 1 (5.556%) ITIL
5 1 (5.556%) CRM
5 1 (5.556%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.556%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) SQL
2 10 (55.56%) VB
2 10 (55.56%) VB6
3 6 (33.33%) C#
3 6 (33.33%) VB.NET
4 3 (16.67%) Delphi
4 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 2 (11.11%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) CCNP
1 1 (5.556%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.556%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (5.556%) CCSA
1 1 (5.556%) CCSE
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Progress
1 5 (27.78%) Sculptor
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.556%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.556%) Cisco
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