The first table below looks at the demand for Team Foundation Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Team Foundation Server over the 3 months to 22 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 Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Rank 93 119 103
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -16
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 29 17 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.182% 0.530% 0.923%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.94% 9.091% 8.654%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 17
Average daily rate £345 £325 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.15% +13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £232 £261 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £365 £313
% change year-on-year
-8.21% +16.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £30.75 £127.50
% change year-on-year
+4.87% -75.88%
All Development Applications
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
265 187 312
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 10.80% 5.829% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 65 102
Average daily rate £375 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £228 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 18
Average hourly rate £15.00 £28.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.42% -37.77%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Team Foundation Server
South East

Team Foundation Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Team Foundation Server across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Berkshire Team Foundation Server Jobs Demand Trend

Team Foundation Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Team Foundation Server Daily Rate Trend

Team Foundation Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Team Foundation Server across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Berkshire Team Foundation Server Daily Rate Histogram

Team Foundation Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Team Foundation Server across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Team Foundation Server Hourly Rate Trend

Team Foundation Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Team Foundation Server within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +11 12 £350 +24.44%
Bracknell - 4 - -
Maidenhead - 1 - -
Team Foundation Server
South East

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Team Foundation Server 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Team Foundation Server.

1 39 (75.00%) C#
2 38 (73.08%) .NET
3 22 (42.31%) Visual Studio
3 22 (42.31%) ASP.NET
4 21 (40.38%) Windows
5 20 (38.46%) SQL Server
6 19 (36.54%) Microsoft
6 19 (36.54%) Agile Software Development
7 16 (30.77%) WCF
7 16 (30.77%) MVC
7 16 (30.77%) Scrum
8 15 (28.85%) jQuery
8 15 (28.85%) TDD
9 14 (26.92%) ASP.NET MVC
9 14 (26.92%) BDD
10 12 (23.08%) SpecFlow
10 12 (23.08%) Banking
10 12 (23.08%) Telecoms
10 12 (23.08%) SOA
10 12 (23.08%) SQL
11 11 (21.15%) Web Services
12 10 (19.23%) UML
12 10 (19.23%) CSS
13 9 (17.31%) JavaScript
13 9 (17.31%) Finance
13 9 (17.31%) .NET Framework
14 8 (15.38%) XML
14 8 (15.38%) Automation Testing
15 7 (13.46%) SharePoint
15 7 (13.46%) HTML

Team Foundation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Team Foundation Server also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Team Foundation Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 38 (73.08%) .NET
2 22 (42.31%) ASP.NET
3 16 (30.77%) WCF
4 15 (28.85%) jQuery
5 14 (26.92%) ASP.NET MVC
6 11 (21.15%) Web Services
7 10 (19.23%) CSS
8 9 (17.31%) .NET Framework
9 8 (15.38%) XML
10 7 (13.46%) HTML
11 6 (11.54%) HTML5
12 5 (9.615%) LINQ
13 4 (7.692%) Ajax
13 4 (7.692%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 4 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 3 (5.769%) ASP.NET MVC 4
14 3 (5.769%) KnockoutJS
14 3 (5.769%) ADO.NET
14 3 (5.769%) Silverlight
15 2 (3.846%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 7 (13.46%) SharePoint
2 6 (11.54%) ESB
3 4 (7.692%) MSMQ
3 4 (7.692%) Windows Azure
4 2 (3.846%) CMS
5 1 (1.923%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 5 (9.615%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.923%) MS Project
2 1 (1.923%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.615%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.46%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (5.769%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (3.846%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.923%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (1.923%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.923%) GIS
Development Applications
1 22 (42.31%) Visual Studio
2 12 (23.08%) SpecFlow
3 6 (11.54%) Selenium
3 6 (11.54%) Jenkins
4 3 (5.769%) MSTest
4 3 (5.769%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 3 (5.769%) Visual Studio Team System
4 3 (5.769%) JIRA
5 2 (3.846%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.846%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.923%) WiX
6 1 (1.923%) Rhino Mocks
6 1 (1.923%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.923%) InstallShield
6 1 (1.923%) Subversion
General
1 12 (23.08%) Banking
1 12 (23.08%) Telecoms
2 9 (17.31%) Finance
3 1 (1.923%) Automotive
3 1 (1.923%) Billing
Job Titles
1 31 (59.62%) Developer
2 18 (34.62%) .NET Developer
3 11 (21.15%) C# Developer
3 11 (21.15%) C# .NET Developer
4 7 (13.46%) Architect
5 6 (11.54%) Tester
6 5 (9.615%) C# Programmer
6 5 (9.615%) Analyst
6 5 (9.615%) Test Analyst
6 5 (9.615%) Programmer
6 5 (9.615%) .NET Programmer
7 3 (5.769%) Automation Analyst
7 3 (5.769%) Technical Architect
7 3 (5.769%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.769%) Automation Test Analyst
7 3 (5.769%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (3.846%) Applications Architect
8 2 (3.846%) Senior Tester
8 2 (3.846%) Chief Technology Officer
8 2 (3.846%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.615%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (9.615%) Blackberry
2 4 (7.692%) N-Tier
3 3 (5.769%) Open Source
3 3 (5.769%) Computer Science
4 2 (3.846%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.923%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 21 (40.38%) Windows
2 6 (11.54%) Windows Phone
3 4 (7.692%) Windows Phone 8
4 2 (3.846%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (3.846%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.923%) Windows Phone 7
5 1 (1.923%) Linux
5 1 (1.923%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (36.54%) Agile Software Development
2 16 (30.77%) MVC
2 16 (30.77%) Scrum
3 15 (28.85%) TDD
4 14 (26.92%) BDD
5 12 (23.08%) SOA
6 10 (19.23%) UML
7 8 (15.38%) Automation Testing
8 6 (11.54%) Test Automation
8 6 (11.54%) Automated Testing
9 5 (9.615%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (9.615%) Manual Testing
9 5 (9.615%) Kanban
9 5 (9.615%) Web Testing
10 3 (5.769%) Dependency Injection
10 3 (5.769%) MVVM
10 3 (5.769%) Migration
11 2 (3.846%) Data Migration
11 2 (3.846%) Content Management
11 2 (3.846%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 39 (75.00%) C#
2 12 (23.08%) SQL
3 9 (17.31%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.769%) VB.NET
4 3 (5.769%) XAML
5 2 (3.846%) C++
6 1 (1.923%) Java
6 1 (1.923%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.923%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.923%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.54%) Security Cleared
1 6 (11.54%) Degree
2 1 (1.923%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.692%) SLA
2 1 (1.923%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.615%) XenApp
2 2 (3.846%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (3.846%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.846%) vCloud
Vendors
1 19 (36.54%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.46%) Citrix
3 3 (5.769%) Oracle
4 1 (1.923%) Twitter
4 1 (1.923%) Red Hat
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