The first table below looks at the demand for VSS/SourceSafe skills in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VSS/SourceSafe over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Rank 86 87 99
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +12
Permanent jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 4 20 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 0.372% 1.569% 0.234%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.484% 6.944% 1.435%
Number of salaries quoted 4 18 3
Average salary £39,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.00% -6.25%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Development Applications
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
161 288 209
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 14.99% 22.59% 16.32%
Number of salaries quoted 146 266 180
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
VSS/SourceSafe
East of England

VSS/SourceSafe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex VSS/SourceSafe Salary Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe within the Essex region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Southend-on-Sea +7 4 £39,000 +4.00%
VSS/SourceSafe
East of England

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 17 (100.00%) .NET
1 17 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 17 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 13 (76.47%) VB.NET
2 13 (76.47%) Windows
3 11 (64.71%) SQL Server
4 10 (58.82%) Finance
5 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
5 9 (52.94%) Web Services
5 9 (52.94%) SQL Server 2005
6 8 (47.06%) C#
7 7 (41.18%) N-Tier
7 7 (41.18%) WinForms
7 7 (41.18%) Web Development
7 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2008
8 5 (29.41%) Blog
8 5 (29.41%) Project Management
9 4 (23.53%) MVC
9 4 (23.53%) HTML
9 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
9 4 (23.53%) CSS
9 4 (23.53%) XML
9 4 (23.53%) XSD
9 4 (23.53%) XSL
9 4 (23.53%) XHTML
9 4 (23.53%) Change Control
9 4 (23.53%) JIRA
9 4 (23.53%) WPF
10 2 (11.76%) WCF
10 2 (11.76%) Agile Project Management

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 (100.00%) .NET
1 17 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 9 (52.94%) Web Services
3 7 (41.18%) WinForms
4 4 (23.53%) WPF
4 4 (23.53%) XML
4 4 (23.53%) XSD
4 4 (23.53%) XSL
4 4 (23.53%) XHTML
4 4 (23.53%) CSS
4 4 (23.53%) HTML
5 2 (11.76%) DHTML
5 2 (11.76%) WCF
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (64.71%) SQL Server
2 9 (52.94%) SQL Server 2005
3 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 17 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (23.53%) JIRA
General
1 10 (58.82%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Developer
2 13 (76.47%) .NET Developer
3 11 (64.71%) VB.NET Developer
4 7 (41.18%) Applications Developer
5 6 (35.29%) .NET Applications Developer
6 5 (29.41%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
6 5 (29.41%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (29.41%) C# Developer
7 1 (5.882%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) N-Tier
2 5 (29.41%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Web Development
2 5 (29.41%) Project Management
3 4 (23.53%) MVC
3 4 (23.53%) Change Control
4 2 (11.76%) Agile Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (11.76%) TDD
5 1 (5.882%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) VB.NET
2 8 (47.06%) C#
3 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.882%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft