West Yorkshire VSS/SourceSafe Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) skills within the West Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VSS/SourceSafe over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
Location Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birkenhead Blackpool Brackley Bracknell Bradford Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Channel Islands Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edenbridge Edgware Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Preston Reading Scotland Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South West St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley UK Wales Waltham Abbey Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	168	197
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching permanent IT job ads	15	1
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.773 %	0.177 %
Salaries quoted	13	0
Average minimum salary	£26,615	-
Average salary	£27,746	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£28,877	-
UK excluding London average salary	£34,963	£35,709
% change on same period last year	-2.08 %
Development Applications West Yorkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	541	565
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.286 %	0.231 %
Salaries quoted	457	476
Average minimum salary	£28,598	£29,904
Average salary	£30,606	£32,119
% change on same period last year	-4.71 %
Average maximum salary	£32,613	£34,335
UK excluding London average salary	£34,829	£35,862
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
VSS/SourceSafe Yorkshire

VSS/SourceSafe
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

VSS/SourceSafe
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe across the West Yorkshire region.

VSS/SourceSafe
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

VSS/SourceSafe
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bradford	-	3	£24,750	-
Halifax	+5	2	£24,100	-
Leeds	-	1	£33,000	-

VSS/SourceSafe Yorkshire

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 40 (90.91 %) .NET 2 31 (70.45 %) SQL 3 28 (63.64 %) VB.NET 4 26 (59.09 %) VBScript 5 22 (50.00 %) SQL Server 6 21 (47.73 %) MS Excel 7 20 (45.45 %) MS Access 7 20 (45.45 %) ActiveX 7 20 (45.45 %) VB 7 20 (45.45 %) C 7 20 (45.45 %) C++ 7 20 (45.45 %) Manufacturing 8 17 (38.64 %) C# 9 16 (36.36 %) WebServices 10 15 (34.09 %) ASP.NET

10 15 (34.09 %) IIS 11 13 (29.55 %) HTML 12 12 (27.27 %) Visual Studio 12 12 (27.27 %) ASP 13 11 (25.00 %) XML 14 10 (22.73 %) JavaScript 15 9 (20.45 %) LabVIEW 16 8 (18.18 %) Microsoft 16 8 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification 17 7 (15.91 %) E-Commerce 18 6 (13.64 %) Client/Server 18 6 (13.64 %) Windows 18 6 (13.64 %) XSLT 18 6 (13.64 %) SQL Server 2005 19 5 (11.36 %) Asset Management

VSS/SourceSafe
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 40 (90.91 %) .NET 2 20 (45.45 %) ActiveX 3 16 (36.36 %) WebServices 4 15 (34.09 %) ASP.NET 5 13 (29.55 %) HTML 6 12 (27.27 %) ASP 7 11 (25.00 %) XML 8 6 (13.64 %) XSLT 9 5 (11.36 %) XHTML 10 2 (4.545 %) .NET Framework 10 2 (4.545 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 2 (4.545 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 15 (34.09 %) IIS
Applications 1 21 (47.73 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (6.818 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 20 (45.45 %) MS Access 3 6 (13.64 %) SQL Server 2005 4 5 (11.36 %) MySQL 4 5 (11.36 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (2.273 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 12 (27.27 %) Visual Studio 2 9 (20.45 %) LabVIEW 3 5 (11.36 %) Subversion 4 2 (4.545 %) NUnit
General 1 20 (45.45 %) Manufacturing 2 4 (9.091 %) Billing 3 3 (6.818 %) Marketing 4 2 (4.545 %) Insurance 4 2 (4.545 %) Banking 4 2 (4.545 %) Finance 4 2 (4.545 %) Health 5 1 (2.273 %) Pensions 5 1 (2.273 %) Electronics	Job Titles 1 23 (52.27 %) Developer 2 20 (45.45 %) Software Engineer 3 12 (27.27 %) C# Developer 4 11 (25.00 %) .NET Developer 5 8 (18.18 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 7 (15.91 %) Software Developer 7 4 (9.091 %) Web Developer 8 2 (4.545 %) SQL Developer 8 2 (4.545 %) SQL Server Developer 8 2 (4.545 %) VB.NET Developer 8 2 (4.545 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 2 (4.545 %) CSharp Software Developer 9 1 (2.273 %) Software Test Engineer 9 1 (2.273 %) .NET Web Developer 9 1 (2.273 %) Service Management Analyst 9 1 (2.273 %) C# Web Developer 9 1 (2.273 %) Service Analyst 9 1 (2.273 %) Test Engineer 9 1 (2.273 %) Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 6 (13.64 %) Client/Server 2 1 (2.273 %) Management Information System 2 1 (2.273 %) German Language 2 1 (2.273 %) Japanese Language 2 1 (2.273 %) CMDB	Operating Systems 1 6 (13.64 %) Windows 2 1 (2.273 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (15.91 %) E-Commerce 2 5 (11.36 %) Asset Management 3 4 (9.091 %) OO 3 4 (9.091 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 3 (6.818 %) Unit Testing 4 3 (6.818 %) TDD 4 3 (6.818 %) OOD 5 2 (4.545 %) Test Scripting 6 1 (2.273 %) Time Management 6 1 (2.273 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (2.273 %) Service Management 6 1 (2.273 %) Change Management 6 1 (2.273 %) E-business 6 1 (2.273 %) Workflow 6 1 (2.273 %) ITIL 6 1 (2.273 %) Release Management	Programming Languages 1 31 (70.45 %) SQL 2 28 (63.64 %) VB.NET 3 26 (59.09 %) VBScript 4 20 (45.45 %) VB 4 20 (45.45 %) C 4 20 (45.45 %) C++ 5 17 (38.64 %) C# 6 10 (22.73 %) JavaScript 7 5 (11.36 %) PHP 7 5 (11.36 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (2.273 %) Java
Qualifications 1 8 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (11.36 %) MCTS 2 5 (11.36 %) MCAD 2 5 (11.36 %) MCSD 3 2 (4.545 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.273 %) QA
Vendors 1 8 (18.18 %) Microsoft 2 1 (2.273 %) Redback