The first table below looks at the demand for VSS/SourceSafe skills in IT jobs advertised for the Durham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VSS/SourceSafe over the 3 months to 17 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 Durham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Rank 15 22 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Permanent jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 6 7 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Durham 8.451% 4.762% -
As % of the Development Applications category 46.15% 53.85% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 0
Average salary £33,000 £34,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% -
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +7.14%
All Development Applications
Durham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
13 13 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Durham 18.31% 8.844% 22.00%
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 9
Average salary £33,000 £36,250 £30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.96% +18.85%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
VSS/SourceSafe
North East

VSS/SourceSafe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Durham 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 Durham region.

Durham VSS/SourceSafe Salary Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Durham 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 9 (100.00%) C++
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) C
1 9 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 9 (100.00%) Subversion
2 6 (66.67%) Internet
2 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (66.67%) Marketing
2 6 (66.67%) Refactoring
2 6 (66.67%) Multithreading
2 6 (66.67%) Qt
2 6 (66.67%) Scrum
2 6 (66.67%) CSS
2 6 (66.67%) SOAP
2 6 (66.67%) OOP
2 6 (66.67%) VC++
2 6 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) ECMAScript
2 6 (66.67%) Ethernet
2 6 (66.67%) HTML
2 6 (66.67%) Perl
2 6 (66.67%) PHP
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) .NET
2 6 (66.67%) MFC
3 4 (44.44%) C#
4 3 (33.33%) Electronics
4 3 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
4 3 (33.33%) Embedded Linux

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Durham 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 6 (66.67%) HTML
1 6 (66.67%) .NET
1 6 (66.67%) MFC
1 6 (66.67%) CSS
1 6 (66.67%) SOAP
1 6 (66.67%) Qt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Ethernet
1 6 (66.67%) Internet
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Subversion
2 3 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (66.67%) Marketing
2 3 (33.33%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Firmware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Firmware
1 3 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 6 (66.67%) Scrum
2 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (66.67%) Refactoring
2 6 (66.67%) Multithreading
2 6 (66.67%) OOP
3 3 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C++
1 9 (100.00%) C
2 6 (66.67%) Perl
2 6 (66.67%) PHP
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) VC++
2 6 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) ECMAScript
3 4 (44.44%) C#
4 3 (33.33%) Embedded C
4 3 (33.33%) Embedded C++
4 3 (33.33%) Assembly Language