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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Rank 86 88 82
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -6
Permanent jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 2 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 0.191% 0.210% 0.334%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.117% 1.852% 1.875%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 3
Average salary £30,000 £20,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -38.46%
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +7.14%
All Development Applications
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
179 108 160
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 17.06% 11.33% 17.84%
Number of salaries quoted 159 105 142
Average salary £37,500 £31,000 £37,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.96% -17.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £52,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
VSS/SourceSafe
Wales

VSS/SourceSafe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 Wales region.

South Wales 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 South Wales 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
Cardiff - 2 £30,000 -
VSS/SourceSafe
Wales

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (75.00%) SEO
2 3 (75.00%) Web Development
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (75.00%) VB.NET
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
4 1 (25.00%) W3C
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) PHP
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) XSLT
4 1 (25.00%) UML
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) XHTML
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (25.00%) XPath

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (25.00%) JSON
4 1 (25.00%) WCF
4 1 (25.00%) Silverlight
4 1 (25.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) MooTools
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) XSLT
4 1 (25.00%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) CMS
2 1 (25.00%) Joomla!
2 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (25.00%) WordPress
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (25.00%) W3C
1 1 (25.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) SEO
1 3 (75.00%) Web Development
2 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (75.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (25.00%) XPath
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft