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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Rank 58 63 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Permanent jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 6 7 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 0.873% 0.799% -
As % of the Development Applications category 6.818% 6.542% -
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
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
88 107 99
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 12.81% 12.21% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 83 72 80
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £31,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,200 £72,500 £68,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
VSS/SourceSafe
England

VSS/SourceSafe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Durham +7 6 £33,000 -4.34%
VSS/SourceSafe
England

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 (90.00%) C
1 9 (90.00%) C++
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
1 9 (90.00%) Configuration Management
1 9 (90.00%) Subversion
2 7 (70.00%) CSS
2 7 (70.00%) .NET
3 6 (60.00%) MFC
3 6 (60.00%) Perl
3 6 (60.00%) PHP
3 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 6 (60.00%) HTML
3 6 (60.00%) OOP
3 6 (60.00%) VC++
3 6 (60.00%) Python
3 6 (60.00%) ECMAScript
3 6 (60.00%) Ethernet
3 6 (60.00%) SOAP
3 6 (60.00%) Internet
3 6 (60.00%) Scrum
3 6 (60.00%) Multithreading
3 6 (60.00%) Qt
3 6 (60.00%) Marketing
3 6 (60.00%) Refactoring
3 6 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (40.00%) C#
5 3 (30.00%) Embedded C
5 3 (30.00%) Embedded C++
5 3 (30.00%) Assembly Language
5 3 (30.00%) Firmware

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 7 (70.00%) .NET
1 7 (70.00%) CSS
2 6 (60.00%) SOAP
2 6 (60.00%) Qt
2 6 (60.00%) MFC
2 6 (60.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Ethernet
1 6 (60.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Subversion
2 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (60.00%) Marketing
2 3 (30.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Firmware
1 3 (30.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Configuration Management
2 6 (60.00%) Scrum
2 6 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (60.00%) Refactoring
2 6 (60.00%) Multithreading
2 6 (60.00%) OOP
3 3 (30.00%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) C
1 9 (90.00%) C++
2 6 (60.00%) Perl
2 6 (60.00%) PHP
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) VC++
2 6 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) ECMAScript
3 4 (40.00%) C#
4 3 (30.00%) Embedded C
4 3 (30.00%) Embedded C++
4 3 (30.00%) Assembly Language
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA