The first table below looks at the demand for VSS/SourceSafe skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VSS/SourceSafe over the 3 months to 21 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 Cardiff region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Rank 64 50 70
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +20
Permanent jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 0.350% 0.233% 0.176%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.399% 1.389% 0.741%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 1
Average salary £30,000 £34,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.04% -23.33%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
All Development Applications
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
143 72 135
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 25.00% 16.78% 23.77%
Number of salaries quoted 127 71 124
Average salary £37,500 £31,250 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -18.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £52,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
VSS/SourceSafe
South Wales

VSS/SourceSafe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff VSS/SourceSafe Salary Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) SEO
1 3 (100.00%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) SEO
1 3 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft