VSS/SourceSafe Job Trends

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring VSS/SourceSafe skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 674 757 743
Rank change year-on-year +83 -14 +408
Permanent jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe 2 2 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.003% 0.007%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.053% 0.033% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £43,750
Median % change year-on-year - - -41.67%
75th Percentile - - £62,500
90th Percentile - - £80,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £43,750
% change year-on-year - - -41.67%

All Development Application Skills
UK

VSS/SourceSafe falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,739 6,028 7,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.65% 8.63% 13.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,208 3,392 5,951
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,025 £42,399
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,306 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - -5.17% +5.45%

VSS/SourceSafe
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VSS/SourceSafe relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

VSS/SourceSafe job vacancy trend in the UK

VSS/SourceSafe
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VSS/SourceSafe.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VSS/SourceSafe

VSS/SourceSafe
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VSS/SourceSafe within the UK over the 6 months to 17 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +94 2 - -
London - 2 - -

VSS/SourceSafe
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Duck Creek
1 2 (100.00%) Google