The first table below looks at the demand for VSS/SourceSafe skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VSS/SourceSafe over the 3 months to 21 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Rank 81 84 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Permanent jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 5 5 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 0.592% 0.541% -
As % of the Development Applications category 4.167% 5.376% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 0
Average salary £39,250 £42,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.64% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
All Development Applications
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
120 93 59
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 14.20% 10.05% 9.609%
Number of salaries quoted 105 89 55
Average salary £32,500 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.75% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £38,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
VSS/SourceSafe
Hampshire

VSS/SourceSafe
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton VSS/SourceSafe Salary Trend

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 7 (87.50%) Subversion
2 5 (62.50%) C#
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 4 (50.00%) Client/Server
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) CSS
3 4 (50.00%) STL
3 4 (50.00%) XML
3 4 (50.00%) C++
3 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (50.00%) MFC
3 4 (50.00%) Windows CE
3 4 (50.00%) Bugzilla
3 4 (50.00%) jQuery
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (50.00%) Multithreading
3 4 (50.00%) CruiseControl
3 4 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (50.00%) Hudson
4 3 (37.50%) BDD
4 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
4 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
4 3 (37.50%) TDD
4 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (37.50%) Symfony
4 3 (37.50%) Zend
4 3 (37.50%) CodeIgniter
4 3 (37.50%) MySQL
4 3 (37.50%) PHP
4 3 (37.50%) HTML

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) STL
1 4 (50.00%) XML
1 4 (50.00%) MFC
1 4 (50.00%) jQuery
2 3 (37.50%) Symfony
2 3 (37.50%) CodeIgniter
2 3 (37.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) LINQ
3 1 (12.50%) Ajax
3 1 (12.50%) CSS3
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Subversion
2 4 (50.00%) Bugzilla
2 4 (50.00%) CruiseControl
2 4 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (50.00%) Hudson
3 3 (37.50%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) PHP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 3 (37.50%) BDD
2 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
2 3 (37.50%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) Web Development
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) C++
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) PHP
3 3 (37.50%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Zend
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft