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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Rank 362 345 270
Rank change year-on-year
-17 -75
Permanent jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 71 94 161
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.321% 0.395% 0.702%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.411% 2.840% 4.901%
Number of salaries quoted 59 85 150
Average salary £41,000 £47,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.68% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £31,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £43,200
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
All Development Applications
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
2945 3310 3285
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 13.31% 13.92% 14.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2551 2954 2947
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £31,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

South 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 South East region.

South East VSS/SourceSafe Salary Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Salary Histogram

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

South East 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 South East 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
Surrey +3 28 £55,000 +7.84%
Hampshire +19 27 £37,500 -11.76%
Berkshire -14 13 £42,500 -15.00%
Middlesex +2 1 £40,000 -
Buckinghamshire -18 1 £45,000 +12.50%
VSS/SourceSafe
England

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South 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.

1 117 (82.39%) .NET
2 93 (65.49%) C#
3 89 (62.68%) SQL Server
4 83 (58.45%) ASP.NET
5 71 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 71 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 67 (47.18%) Web Services
7 63 (44.37%) JavaScript
8 60 (42.25%) HTML
9 58 (40.85%) Windows
9 58 (40.85%) Agile Software Development
10 55 (38.73%) Visual Studio
11 54 (38.03%) SQL
12 51 (35.92%) .NET Framework
13 50 (35.21%) VB.NET
14 46 (32.39%) SQL Server 2008
15 41 (28.87%) XML
16 37 (26.06%) WCF
17 36 (25.35%) Ajax
18 35 (24.65%) Microsoft Certification
19 33 (23.24%) Finance
19 33 (23.24%) CSS
20 32 (22.54%) MVC
20 32 (22.54%) Subversion
21 31 (21.83%) IIS
22 30 (21.13%) jQuery
23 28 (19.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
24 27 (19.01%) Unit Testing
25 26 (18.31%) LINQ
26 25 (17.61%) ADO.NET

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South 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
1 117 (82.39%) .NET
2 83 (58.45%) ASP.NET
3 67 (47.18%) Web Services
4 60 (42.25%) HTML
5 51 (35.92%) .NET Framework
6 41 (28.87%) XML
7 37 (26.06%) WCF
8 36 (25.35%) Ajax
9 33 (23.24%) CSS
10 30 (21.13%) jQuery
11 26 (18.31%) LINQ
12 25 (17.61%) ADO.NET
13 21 (14.79%) ASP.NET MVC
13 21 (14.79%) HTML5
14 15 (10.56%) WF
15 14 (9.859%) WPF
15 14 (9.859%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
16 12 (8.451%) WinForms
17 11 (7.746%) MFC
17 11 (7.746%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 31 (21.83%) IIS
2 15 (10.56%) SharePoint
3 12 (8.451%) Windows Azure
4 11 (7.746%) MSMQ
4 11 (7.746%) WordPress
4 11 (7.746%) Amazon EC2
5 8 (5.634%) Apache
6 7 (4.930%) MS Exchange
6 7 (4.930%) Exchange Server 2007
6 7 (4.930%) Exchange Server 2003
6 7 (4.930%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.704%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.704%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (7.746%) MS Excel
1 11 (7.746%) MS Office
2 8 (5.634%) Photoshop
3 5 (3.521%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.930%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.113%) GPRS
1 3 (2.113%) GSM
2 2 (1.408%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.408%) FTP
2 2 (1.408%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (62.68%) SQL Server
2 46 (32.39%) SQL Server 2008
3 28 (19.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 21 (14.79%) SQL Server 2000
5 15 (10.56%) SQL Server 2005
6 12 (8.451%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (7.746%) MySQL
8 7 (4.930%) GIS
9 6 (4.225%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (2.817%) SQL Server 2012
10 4 (2.817%) Oracle 9i
11 3 (2.113%) MS Access
11 3 (2.113%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (1.408%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.408%) OLAP
13 1 (0.704%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.704%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 71 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 55 (38.73%) Visual Studio
3 32 (22.54%) Subversion
4 16 (11.27%) Git (software)
5 11 (7.746%) NUnit
6 5 (3.521%) Visual Studio Team System
7 3 (2.113%) ClearCase
7 3 (2.113%) FitNesse
7 3 (2.113%) CruiseControl
8 2 (1.408%) Hudson
8 2 (1.408%) TestComplete
8 2 (1.408%) SilkTest
8 2 (1.408%) Bugzilla
8 2 (1.408%) QuickTest Pro
9 1 (0.704%) Expression Blend
9 1 (0.704%) Jenkins
General
1 33 (23.24%) Finance
2 7 (4.930%) Retail
3 6 (4.225%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.113%) Front Office
4 3 (2.113%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 103 (72.54%) Developer
2 45 (31.69%) Software Developer
3 39 (27.46%) .NET Developer
4 25 (17.61%) C# Developer
5 21 (14.79%) C# .NET Developer
6 15 (10.56%) Senior Developer
7 14 (9.859%) Software Engineer
8 13 (9.155%) .NET Software Developer
9 11 (7.746%) Web Developer
10 9 (6.338%) .NET Team Leader
10 9 (6.338%) Team Leader
10 9 (6.338%) Web Team Leader
10 9 (6.338%) C# Software Developer
11 8 (5.634%) VB.NET Developer
12 7 (4.930%) ASP.NET Developer
12 7 (4.930%) Senior Software Developer
12 7 (4.930%) Integration Engineer
12 7 (4.930%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
13 5 (3.521%) Applications Developer
13 5 (3.521%) UI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.746%) Blog
2 8 (5.634%) Mathematics
2 8 (5.634%) Client/Server
3 7 (4.930%) Clustering
4 6 (4.225%) N-Tier
5 3 (2.113%) W3C
6 2 (1.408%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.408%) iPhone
6 2 (1.408%) Computer Science
6 2 (1.408%) NHS
7 1 (0.704%) Smartcard
7 1 (0.704%) EPoS
7 1 (0.704%) EFT
7 1 (0.704%) EFTPOS
7 1 (0.704%) Statistics
7 1 (0.704%) Physics
7 1 (0.704%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.704%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 58 (40.85%) Windows
2 16 (11.27%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (8.451%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (5.634%) Linux
5 7 (4.930%) Windows 2000
5 7 (4.930%) Windows XP
6 4 (2.817%) Windows 7
7 3 (2.113%) Windows CE
8 2 (1.408%) Android
9 1 (0.704%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (40.85%) Agile Software Development
2 32 (22.54%) MVC
3 27 (19.01%) Unit Testing
4 18 (12.68%) OO
4 18 (12.68%) TDD
5 16 (11.27%) Workflow
6 14 (9.859%) Project Management
7 12 (8.451%) Continuous Integration
7 12 (8.451%) UML
8 11 (7.746%) Migration
8 11 (7.746%) Agile Project Management
9 10 (7.042%) E-Commerce
9 10 (7.042%) Data Modelling
10 9 (6.338%) Configuration Management
10 9 (6.338%) Knowledge Management
10 9 (6.338%) Web Development
11 8 (5.634%) Infrastructure Management
11 8 (5.634%) Progressive Enhancement
11 8 (5.634%) Software Engineering
12 7 (4.930%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 93 (65.49%) C#
2 63 (44.37%) JavaScript
3 54 (38.03%) SQL
4 50 (35.21%) VB.NET
5 19 (13.38%) T-SQL
5 19 (13.38%) C++
6 17 (11.97%) VB
7 11 (7.746%) PHP
8 10 (7.042%) VB6
9 8 (5.634%) PL/SQL
10 7 (4.930%) PowerShell
11 6 (4.225%) XAML
12 5 (3.521%) Java
13 4 (2.817%) C
14 3 (2.113%) Python
14 3 (2.113%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.704%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (24.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 23 (16.20%) MCP
3 22 (15.49%) Degree
4 7 (4.930%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.930%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.408%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.408%) ISEB
6 1 (0.704%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.746%) ISO 9001
2 4 (2.817%) QA
System Software
1 11 (7.746%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (6.338%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (4.930%) Backup Exec
1 7 (4.930%) OpenView Configuration Management
1 7 (4.930%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (1.408%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 71 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.746%) VMware
3 8 (5.634%) Adobe
4 7 (4.930%) TIBCO
4 7 (4.930%) McAfee
4 7 (4.930%) Veritas
5 6 (4.225%) Fujitsu
5 6 (4.225%) Telerik
6 4 (2.817%) Oracle
7 3 (2.113%) Zend
8 2 (1.408%) SunGard
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