The first table below looks at the demand for Team Foundation Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge 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 17 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 Cambridge 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Rank 40 48 30
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -18
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 1 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.292% 0.239% 0.800%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.704% 1.408% 7.143%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £365 £314
% change year-on-year
-8.21% +16.33%
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
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
27 71 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 7.895% 16.99% 11.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 30 13
Average daily rate £315 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.54% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £360 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 10
Average hourly rate £36.75 £37.50 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% +20.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £35.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.65 £47.50 £40.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Team Foundation Server
Cambridgeshire

Team Foundation Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Team Foundation Server Daily Rate Trend

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) W3C
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Telerik
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) NHibernate
2 1 (50.00%) WCAG
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) LINQ
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Social Media
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) QUnit

Team Foundation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSL
2 1 (50.00%) XHTML
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) NHibernate
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) LINQ
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) QUnit
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) W3C
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Telerik