The first table below looks at the demand for VSS/SourceSafe skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VSS/SourceSafe over the 3 months to 23 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Rank 111 110 112
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +2
Permanent jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 11 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 0.634% 0.231% 0.214%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.044% 1.294% 1.639%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 4
Average salary £42,500 £31,250 £36,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+36.00% -13.79%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
All Development Applications
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
272 309 244
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 15.69% 17.86% 13.06%
Number of salaries quoted 239 276 214
Average salary £40,000 £34,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.94% -1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £26,500 £26,900
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £43,397
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
VSS/SourceSafe
South West

VSS/SourceSafe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol VSS/SourceSafe Jobs Demand Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe across the Bristol region.

Bristol VSS/SourceSafe Salary Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 IT job ads sampled that cited VSS/SourceSafe.

1 18 (66.67%) SQL
1 18 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 17 (62.96%) .NET
3 15 (55.56%) C#
4 13 (48.15%) Subversion
5 12 (44.44%) ASP.NET
5 12 (44.44%) XML
5 12 (44.44%) Windows
5 12 (44.44%) Finance
6 11 (40.74%) JavaScript
7 10 (37.04%) Degree
8 9 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
8 9 (33.33%) T-SQL
8 9 (33.33%) Web Services
9 8 (29.63%) Visual Studio
9 8 (29.63%) OO
10 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
10 7 (25.93%) XSLT
10 7 (25.93%) CSS
10 7 (25.93%) HTML
10 7 (25.93%) jQuery
11 6 (22.22%) .NET Framework
11 6 (22.22%) Test Scripting
11 6 (22.22%) Retail
11 6 (22.22%) Java
11 6 (22.22%) Oracle
12 5 (18.52%) C
12 5 (18.52%) SharePoint

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 IT job ads sampled that cited VSS/SourceSafe. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (62.96%) .NET
2 12 (44.44%) ASP.NET
2 12 (44.44%) XML
3 9 (33.33%) Web Services
4 7 (25.93%) XSLT
4 7 (25.93%) CSS
4 7 (25.93%) HTML
4 7 (25.93%) jQuery
5 6 (22.22%) .NET Framework
6 5 (18.52%) WPF
6 5 (18.52%) Silverlight
7 4 (14.81%) Struts2
7 4 (14.81%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (14.81%) ASP.NET MVC 2
7 4 (14.81%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 4 (14.81%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (14.81%) LINQ
7 4 (14.81%) Java EE
7 4 (14.81%) ASP.NET 2.0
7 4 (14.81%) Ext JS
Application Platforms
1 5 (18.52%) SharePoint
1 5 (18.52%) SharePoint Server
2 4 (14.81%) Apache
2 4 (14.81%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) HTTP
1 4 (14.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 9 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 9 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 9 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 5 (18.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (14.81%) Pentaho
4 4 (14.81%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (14.81%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (14.81%) OLTP
4 4 (14.81%) RDBMS
4 4 (14.81%) DataStage
5 3 (11.11%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 13 (48.15%) Subversion
2 8 (29.63%) Visual Studio
3 5 (18.52%) NUnit
3 5 (18.52%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (18.52%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
4 4 (14.81%) HttpUnit
4 4 (14.81%) NetBeans
4 4 (14.81%) Eclipse
4 4 (14.81%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (14.81%) Ant
4 4 (14.81%) JUnit
General
1 12 (44.44%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Retail
3 5 (18.52%) Front Office
3 5 (18.52%) Back Office
3 5 (18.52%) Law
3 5 (18.52%) Legal
3 5 (18.52%) Banking
4 4 (14.81%) Military
4 4 (14.81%) Aerospace
5 3 (11.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 17 (62.96%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Software Developer
3 5 (18.52%) .NET Developer
4 4 (14.81%) Teradata DBA
4 4 (14.81%) Junior SQL Server DBA
4 4 (14.81%) Technical Leader
4 4 (14.81%) SQL Server DBA
4 4 (14.81%) SQL DBA
4 4 (14.81%) Junior DBA
4 4 (14.81%) Server Administrator
4 4 (14.81%) Junior
4 4 (14.81%) DBA
4 4 (14.81%) Administrator
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (7.407%) Senior QA Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) QA Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Applications Developer
6 2 (7.407%) Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) RIA
1 4 (14.81%) Data Integration
1 4 (14.81%) Web 2.0
1 4 (14.81%) N-Tier
2 3 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.407%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Windows CE
2 3 (11.11%) Windows Mobile
2 3 (11.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) OO
2 6 (22.22%) Test Scripting
3 5 (18.52%) Data Modelling
3 5 (18.52%) Scrum
3 5 (18.52%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (18.52%) TDD
3 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (14.81%) Dependency Injection
4 4 (14.81%) Web Application Development
4 4 (14.81%) Unit Testing
4 4 (14.81%) Web Development
4 4 (14.81%) Logistics
4 4 (14.81%) Business Analysis
4 4 (14.81%) BPEL
4 4 (14.81%) SOA
5 3 (11.11%) Integration Testing
6 2 (7.407%) ERD
6 2 (7.407%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (7.407%) Scalability Testing
6 2 (7.407%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (66.67%) SQL
2 15 (55.56%) C#
3 11 (40.74%) JavaScript
4 9 (33.33%) T-SQL
5 6 (22.22%) Java
6 5 (18.52%) C
7 4 (14.81%) XPath
7 4 (14.81%) PL/SQL
7 4 (14.81%) VB.NET
8 3 (11.11%) VBA
8 3 (11.11%) VBScript
8 3 (11.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (7.407%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) Oracle
3 4 (14.81%) JBoss
4 3 (11.11%) Apple
Bristol, Avon
Tech skills required to get and do this role are; C#, .Net 3.5 or later, ASP, SQL Server 2008, Subversion / SourceSafe and Agile methodologies. It would greatly...
ISL
Salary: £30000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013