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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Rank - 135 151
Permanent jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 0 15 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - 0.599% 0.487%
As % of the Development Applications category - 2.964% 2.952%
Number of salaries quoted 0 14 14
Average salary - £48,250 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.52%
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +7.14%
All Development Applications
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
372 506 542
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 15.16% 20.21% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 303 384 478
Average salary £37,500 £47,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.05% +18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £34,550 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £56,500 £54,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
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 Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire VSS/SourceSafe Salary Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) MS Excel
2 5 (71.43%) C++
3 4 (57.14%) C
3 4 (57.14%) VB
3 4 (57.14%) HP
3 4 (57.14%) Electronics
3 4 (57.14%) Manufacturing
3 4 (57.14%) Agilent
3 4 (57.14%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 4 (57.14%) VC++
3 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
4 3 (42.86%) MS PowerPoint
4 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
4 3 (42.86%) Java
4 3 (42.86%) SQL
5 2 (28.57%) C#
5 2 (28.57%) IIS
5 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
5 2 (28.57%) .NET
5 2 (28.57%) XML
5 2 (28.57%) Subversion
6 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (14.29%) TDD
6 1 (14.29%) NUnit
6 1 (14.29%) Banking
6 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
6 1 (14.29%) Automotive
6 1 (14.29%) LabVIEW
6 1 (14.29%) WinForms

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (28.57%) XML
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) XSD
2 1 (14.29%) XSLT
2 1 (14.29%) WinForms
2 1 (14.29%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) MS Excel
2 3 (42.86%) MS PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Subversion
2 1 (14.29%) WATIR
2 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 1 (14.29%) LabVIEW
2 1 (14.29%) NUnit
General
1 4 (57.14%) Electronics
1 4 (57.14%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Report Writer
2 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Junior
2 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Team Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Principle Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
2 1 (14.29%) Test Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) ETL
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) CAE
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) MVC
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (14.29%) TDD
2 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C++
2 4 (57.14%) C
2 4 (57.14%) VB
2 4 (57.14%) VC++
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) C#
5 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
5 1 (14.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) HP
2 4 (57.14%) Agilent
3 1 (14.29%) Typemock
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
Hertfordshire
You will be required to deliver a continuously improving configuration management service to the IT Development & Delivery organisation, whilst maintaining the Configuration Management teams role in the Software...
Parallel Consulting
Salary: £42000 - £45000 per annum + Pension, Healthcare
Posted: 17 May 2013