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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Rank 211 228 219
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -9
Permanent jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 32 19 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.445% 0.268% 0.218%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.855% 1.713% 1.608%
Number of salaries quoted 29 19 11
Average salary £28,000 £37,500 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.33% +13.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £43,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
All Development Applications
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
1121 1109 933
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 15.60% 15.62% 13.59%
Number of salaries quoted 972 978 861
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

North West 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 West region.

North West VSS/SourceSafe Salary Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West VSS/SourceSafe Salary Histogram

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 West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Manchester -5 16 £28,000 +1.81%
Cheshire +12 12 £25,000 -
Merseyside +13 4 £38,250 +2.00%
VSS/SourceSafe
England

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 55 (68.75%) .NET
2 53 (66.25%) SQL Server
3 51 (63.75%) SQL
3 51 (63.75%) ASP.NET
4 48 (60.00%) VB.NET
5 47 (58.75%) HTML
6 42 (52.50%) XML
7 38 (47.50%) JavaScript
8 36 (45.00%) C#
9 33 (41.25%) T-SQL
10 30 (37.50%) Web Development
11 28 (35.00%) Degree
11 28 (35.00%) Visual Studio
11 28 (35.00%) Web Services
12 26 (32.50%) Microsoft
13 25 (31.25%) CSS
13 25 (31.25%) OO
14 24 (30.00%) Subversion
15 21 (26.25%) Computer Science
16 20 (25.00%) Finance
16 20 (25.00%) WinForms
16 20 (25.00%) Web Application Development
17 18 (22.50%) Web Design
17 18 (22.50%) Content Management
17 18 (22.50%) Retail
17 18 (22.50%) Linux
17 18 (22.50%) DHTML
18 16 (20.00%) Windows
19 15 (18.75%) Scrum
19 15 (18.75%) MVC

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 55 (68.75%) .NET
2 51 (63.75%) ASP.NET
3 47 (58.75%) HTML
4 42 (52.50%) XML
5 28 (35.00%) Web Services
6 25 (31.25%) CSS
7 20 (25.00%) WinForms
8 18 (22.50%) DHTML
9 13 (16.25%) jQuery
9 13 (16.25%) Zend Framework
10 10 (12.50%) Ajax
11 6 (7.500%) .NET Framework
12 4 (5.000%) Stripes Framework
12 4 (5.000%) JDBC
12 4 (5.000%) JSP
12 4 (5.000%) Servlets
12 4 (5.000%) Struts
12 4 (5.000%) COM
12 4 (5.000%) WCF
12 4 (5.000%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 13 (16.25%) Apache
1 13 (16.25%) Magento
2 4 (5.000%) Tomcat
3 3 (3.750%) IIS
4 1 (1.250%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.250%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 11 (13.75%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.250%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.750%) Firewall
1 3 (3.750%) Wireless
1 3 (3.750%) VLAN
1 3 (3.750%) LAN
1 3 (3.750%) WLAN
1 3 (3.750%) Ethernet
1 3 (3.750%) TCP/IP
1 3 (3.750%) VPN
1 3 (3.750%) EIGRP
1 3 (3.750%) Cisco PIX
1 3 (3.750%) Network Security
1 3 (3.750%) Cisco ASA
1 3 (3.750%) HSRP
2 2 (2.500%) Extranet
3 1 (1.250%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (66.25%) SQL Server
2 13 (16.25%) MySQL
3 9 (11.25%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (11.25%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (5.000%) Oracle 9i
4 4 (5.000%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (1.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.250%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (35.00%) Visual Studio
2 24 (30.00%) Subversion
3 13 (16.25%) Git (software)
4 10 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (5.000%) NetBeans IDE
5 4 (5.000%) TortoiseSVN
5 4 (5.000%) Eclipse
5 4 (5.000%) NetBeans
6 2 (2.500%) MSTest
6 2 (2.500%) CruiseControl
6 2 (2.500%) NUnit
General
1 20 (25.00%) Finance
2 18 (22.50%) Retail
3 4 (5.000%) Banking
3 4 (5.000%) Law
3 4 (5.000%) Military
4 2 (2.500%) Financial Institution
4 2 (2.500%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.250%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (81.25%) Developer
2 30 (37.50%) .NET Developer
2 30 (37.50%) VB.NET Developer
3 24 (30.00%) C# Developer
4 22 (27.50%) Software Developer
4 22 (27.50%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
5 21 (26.25%) ASP.NET Developer
6 18 (22.50%) C# .NET Developer
6 18 (22.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 18 (22.50%) .NET Web Developer
6 18 (22.50%) C# Web Developer
6 18 (22.50%) Web Developer
7 13 (16.25%) PHP Developer
8 8 (10.00%) .NET Software Developer
9 7 (8.750%) Software Engineer
10 6 (7.500%) Analyst
10 6 (7.500%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (6.250%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 4 (5.000%) C# Software Developer
12 4 (5.000%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.25%) Computer Science
2 5 (6.250%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 5 (6.250%) SCADA
2 5 (6.250%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.500%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (22.50%) Linux
2 16 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (2.500%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (37.50%) Web Development
2 25 (31.25%) OO
3 20 (25.00%) Web Application Development
4 18 (22.50%) Web Design
4 18 (22.50%) Content Management
5 15 (18.75%) Scrum
5 15 (18.75%) MVC
6 13 (16.25%) OOP
6 13 (16.25%) Kanban
7 12 (15.00%) Business Analysis
8 11 (13.75%) E-Commerce
9 9 (11.25%) Requirements Analysis
9 9 (11.25%) Project Management
10 4 (5.000%) Performance Management
10 4 (5.000%) Change Management
10 4 (5.000%) Problem Management
10 4 (5.000%) Incident Management
10 4 (5.000%) Risk Management
11 3 (3.750%) Software Engineering
11 3 (3.750%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 51 (63.75%) SQL
2 48 (60.00%) VB.NET
3 38 (47.50%) JavaScript
4 36 (45.00%) C#
5 33 (41.25%) T-SQL
6 13 (16.25%) PHP
7 9 (11.25%) VB
8 6 (7.500%) PL/SQL
8 6 (7.500%) VB6
9 5 (6.250%) C
10 4 (5.000%) Java
11 3 (3.750%) Embedded C
11 3 (3.750%) VBA
12 2 (2.500%) XPath
Qualifications
1 28 (35.00%) Degree
2 5 (6.250%) HND
3 3 (3.750%) CCNP
3 3 (3.750%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.750%) BC Cleared
3 3 (3.750%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.500%) CCNA
5 1 (1.250%) CCIE
Vendors
1 26 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.25%) Zend
3 8 (10.00%) Oracle
4 3 (3.750%) Cisco
Manchester, Lancashire
The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the following: Object orientated programming Microsoft .Net framework C# or VB.NET SQL Server Visual Studio/Visual SourceSafe/SVN Desirable...
Pertemps IT
Salary: £0 to £45000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013