The first table below looks at the demand for VSS/SourceSafe skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Rank 309 289 301
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +12
Permanent jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 11 39 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.095% 0.298% 0.166%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.671% 2.843% 1.577%
Number of salaries quoted 10 38 24
Average salary £46,250 £52,500 £61,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.90% -14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,400 £41,750 £38,600
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £82,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
All Development Applications
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
1640 1372 1649
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 14.14% 10.50% 10.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1405 1291 1522
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £35,450 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
VSS/SourceSafe
London

VSS/SourceSafe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London VSS/SourceSafe Salary Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London VSS/SourceSafe Salary Histogram

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 (85.71%) SQL
2 14 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 13 (61.90%) Windows
3 13 (61.90%) Oracle
4 12 (57.14%) Linux
4 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
4 12 (57.14%) Subversion
5 11 (52.38%) Red Hat
5 11 (52.38%) SharePoint
5 11 (52.38%) IIS
5 11 (52.38%) MS Office
6 10 (47.62%) ITIL
6 10 (47.62%) InfoPath
6 10 (47.62%) Release Management
6 10 (47.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
7 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
8 8 (38.10%) Configuration Management
9 7 (33.33%) Change Management
10 6 (28.57%) Degree
10 6 (28.57%) LANDesk
10 6 (28.57%) TCP/IP
10 6 (28.57%) Tivoli
10 6 (28.57%) Tivoli Monitoring
10 6 (28.57%) DNS
10 6 (28.57%) DHCP
11 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
11 5 (23.81%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (23.81%) ITIL V3
11 5 (23.81%) Banking

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 (14.29%) .NET
1 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 3 (14.29%) HTML5
2 2 (9.524%) CSS
2 2 (9.524%) XML
2 2 (9.524%) HTML
3 1 (4.762%) ASP
3 1 (4.762%) XSL
3 1 (4.762%) Web Services
3 1 (4.762%) RSS
3 1 (4.762%) XML Schema
3 1 (4.762%) Ajax
3 1 (4.762%) jQuery
3 1 (4.762%) WCF
3 1 (4.762%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 11 (52.38%) SharePoint
1 11 (52.38%) IIS
2 1 (4.762%) Apache
2 1 (4.762%) Drupal
Applications
1 11 (52.38%) MS Office
2 10 (47.62%) InfoPath
3 3 (14.29%) MS Excel
4 1 (4.762%) Photoshop
4 1 (4.762%) Acrobat
4 1 (4.762%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 6 (28.57%) DNS
1 6 (28.57%) DHCP
2 1 (4.762%) HTTP
2 1 (4.762%) VPN
2 1 (4.762%) SSL
2 1 (4.762%) OSPF
2 1 (4.762%) Firewall
2 1 (4.762%) Wireless
2 1 (4.762%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (4.762%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (4.762%) MySQL
3 1 (4.762%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Subversion
2 5 (23.81%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (14.29%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.762%) MSBuild
4 1 (4.762%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.762%) Hudson
General
1 5 (23.81%) Banking
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Back Office
2 3 (14.29%) Retail
2 3 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 2 (9.524%) Advertising
3 2 (9.524%) Publishing
4 1 (4.762%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Analyst
1 5 (23.81%) Service Manager
2 4 (19.05%) Change Manager
2 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 3 (14.29%) Applications Support Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Team Leader
3 3 (14.29%) Release Management Team Leader
4 2 (9.524%) Release Manager
4 2 (9.524%) Transition Manager
4 2 (9.524%) Web Developer
4 2 (9.524%) Applications Developer
5 1 (4.762%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.762%) Analyst Programmer
5 1 (4.762%) Programmer
5 1 (4.762%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Configuration Manager
5 1 (4.762%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) W3C
1 1 (4.762%) Taxonomies
1 1 (4.762%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Windows
2 12 (57.14%) Linux
3 10 (47.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) ITIL
1 10 (47.62%) Release Management
2 8 (38.10%) Configuration Management
3 7 (33.33%) Change Management
4 5 (23.81%) ITIL V3
5 4 (19.05%) Workflow
6 3 (14.29%) E-Commerce
7 2 (9.524%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (9.524%) Content Management
8 1 (4.762%) ERP
8 1 (4.762%) Migration
8 1 (4.762%) Scrum
8 1 (4.762%) MVC
8 1 (4.762%) Web Development
8 1 (4.762%) Automated Testing
8 1 (4.762%) Business Transformation
8 1 (4.762%) Analytics
8 1 (4.762%) Network Management
8 1 (4.762%) Progressive Enhancement
Programming Languages
1 18 (85.71%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
3 4 (19.05%) C#
4 3 (14.29%) VB
4 3 (14.29%) VB6
5 2 (9.524%) VBA
6 1 (4.762%) PHP
6 1 (4.762%) VB.NET
6 1 (4.762%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.762%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (4.762%) CCNP
2 1 (4.762%) CCNA
2 1 (4.762%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.762%) CCVP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.524%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Tivoli
1 6 (28.57%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 1 (4.762%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (4.762%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (4.762%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Oracle
2 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 11 (52.38%) Red Hat
4 6 (28.57%) LANDesk
5 3 (14.29%) Remedy
5 3 (14.29%) RedPrairie
6 2 (9.524%) Telerik
7 1 (4.762%) Cisco
7 1 (4.762%) Adobe
7 1 (4.762%) CheckPoint
7 1 (4.762%) SolarWinds
7 1 (4.762%) IPFX
City of London
My client is a major Microsoft Gold Partner... * Experience in Enterprise Portal, SSRS reports, AIF and Web services development. * Experience with Version Control systems (Visual SourceSafe or TFS) *...
Nigel Frank International Ltd
Salary: £46000 - £52000 per annum + AX2012 Training
Posted: 23 May 2013