The first table below looks at the demand for VSS/SourceSafe skills in IT jobs advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VSS/SourceSafe over the 3 months to 24 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 Liverpool region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Rank 51 66 55
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -11
Permanent jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 2 5 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 0.546% 0.988% 0.633%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.167% 5.263% 3.077%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 0
Average salary £38,750 £37,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.33% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
All Development Applications
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
48 95 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 13.11% 18.77% 20.57%
Number of salaries quoted 44 74 51
Average salary £30,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
VSS/SourceSafe
Merseyside

VSS/SourceSafe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool VSS/SourceSafe Salary Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
1 2 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) Logistics
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) MSTest
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Compact Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) DSDM
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Compact Framework
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
1 2 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) MSTest
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Logistics
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) DSDM
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft