The first table below looks at the demand for Team Foundation Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham 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 24 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 Birmingham 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Rank 38 55 44
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -11
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 5 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.139% 0.161% 0.975%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.24% 2.128% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £525 £400 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.25% +15.94%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £365 £325
% change year-on-year
-8.21% +12.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £30.75 £127.50
% change year-on-year
+4.87% -75.88%
All Development Applications
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
29 47 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 6.606% 7.568% 9.552%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 33
Average daily rate £438 £325 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.61% +16.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £265 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £388 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
Average hourly rate £37.00 £40.00 £65.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.50% -38.46%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Team Foundation Server
West Midlands

Team Foundation Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Team Foundation Server Daily Rate Trend

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 15 (100.00%) C#
2 14 (93.33%) .NET
3 10 (66.67%) SQL Server
4 7 (46.67%) WCF
5 6 (40.00%) MVC
5 6 (40.00%) Visual Studio
6 5 (33.33%) Web Services
6 5 (33.33%) SharePoint
6 5 (33.33%) .NET Framework
6 5 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
6 5 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
7 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (26.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 4 (26.67%) jQuery
7 4 (26.67%) Windows
7 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET
8 3 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (20.00%) TDD
8 3 (20.00%) SOAP
8 3 (20.00%) SQL
8 3 (20.00%) OO
8 3 (20.00%) WSDL
8 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
8 3 (20.00%) Moq
8 3 (20.00%) BDD
8 3 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
9 2 (13.33%) RIA
9 2 (13.33%) Windows 7
9 2 (13.33%) MSTest
9 2 (13.33%) Managed Extensibility Framework

Team Foundation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 14 (93.33%) .NET
2 7 (46.67%) WCF
3 5 (33.33%) Web Services
3 5 (33.33%) .NET Framework
4 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET MVC
4 4 (26.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 4 (26.67%) jQuery
4 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET
5 3 (20.00%) SOAP
5 3 (20.00%) WSDL
6 2 (13.33%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 2 (13.33%) Silverlight
7 1 (6.667%) HTML
7 1 (6.667%) LINQ
7 1 (6.667%) WPF
7 1 (6.667%) Ajax
7 1 (6.667%) Razor View Engine
7 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 5 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (13.33%) ArcGIS
2 2 (13.33%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (20.00%) Moq
3 2 (13.33%) MSTest
General
1 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.667%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (86.67%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) .NET Developer
3 4 (26.67%) SharePoint Developer
3 4 (26.67%) C# Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Programmer
4 3 (20.00%) .NET Software Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) .NET Programmer
4 3 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (13.33%) C# Programmer
5 2 (13.33%) .NET Software Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Programmer
5 2 (13.33%) C# Software Developer
5 2 (13.33%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Consultant
6 1 (6.667%) Analyst Programmer
6 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) RIA
1 2 (13.33%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) MVC
2 3 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (20.00%) TDD
2 3 (20.00%) OO
2 3 (20.00%) BDD
3 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (13.33%) UML
3 2 (13.33%) Workflow
4 1 (6.667%) Content Management
4 1 (6.667%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) ESRI