The first table below looks at the demand for Team Foundation Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf 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 18 June 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 Canary Wharf 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Rank 39 42 53
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +11
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 7 11 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 2.047% 2.835% 1.530%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.44% 18.33% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 8
Average daily rate £608 £520 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.82% +15.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £429 £275 £437
10% offered a daily rate of more than £631 £619 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £365 £325
% change year-on-year
-8.21% +12.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £25.00 £190.00
% change year-on-year
+29.00% -86.84%
All Development Applications
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
36 60 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 10.53% 15.46% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 39 38
Average daily rate £600 £575 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% +4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £451 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £640 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
- +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
Team Foundation Server
London

Team Foundation Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Canary Wharf Team Foundation Server Daily Rate Histogram

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 11 (84.62%) C#
2 10 (76.92%) .NET
3 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
4 8 (61.54%) Java
4 8 (61.54%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (53.85%) Degree
5 7 (53.85%) WPF
5 7 (53.85%) Multithreading
6 6 (46.15%) Scrum
6 6 (46.15%) Front Office
7 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
7 5 (38.46%) TDD
7 5 (38.46%) .NET Framework
7 5 (38.46%) Silverlight
7 5 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (30.77%) Mathematics
8 4 (30.77%) Physics
8 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
8 4 (30.77%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
8 4 (30.77%) Windows
9 3 (23.08%) Linux
9 3 (23.08%) OO
9 3 (23.08%) RAD
9 3 (23.08%) Python
9 3 (23.08%) N-Tier
9 3 (23.08%) IIS
9 3 (23.08%) Web Services
9 3 (23.08%) C++
9 3 (23.08%) WinForms
9 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management

Team Foundation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 10 (76.92%) .NET
2 7 (53.85%) WPF
3 5 (38.46%) Silverlight
3 5 (38.46%) .NET Framework
4 3 (23.08%) Web Services
4 3 (23.08%) WinForms
4 3 (23.08%) WCF
5 2 (15.38%) WSH
5 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
5 2 (15.38%) Struts
6 1 (7.692%) HTML
6 1 (7.692%) JSP
6 1 (7.692%) Rendezvous
6 1 (7.692%) JSON
6 1 (7.692%) REST
Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) IIS
2 2 (15.38%) TIBCO EMS
2 2 (15.38%) Confluence
3 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.692%) RMDS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 3 (23.08%) KDB
3 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (7.692%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.692%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
2 3 (23.08%) TeamCity
3 2 (15.38%) JIRA
4 1 (7.692%) Hudson
4 1 (7.692%) Ant
4 1 (7.692%) JUnit
4 1 (7.692%) Eclipse
4 1 (7.692%) Maven
General
1 6 (46.15%) Front Office
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Investment Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Front Office Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Real Time Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Real Time Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) WPF Developer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
3 2 (15.38%) C# Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Web Applications Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Developer Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Analyst Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Java Web Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Web Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Mathematics
1 4 (30.77%) Physics
1 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
2 3 (23.08%) N-Tier
2 3 (23.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (7.692%) Visualisation
3 1 (7.692%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (7.692%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (15.38%) Solaris
3 2 (15.38%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (53.85%) Multithreading
3 6 (46.15%) Scrum
4 5 (38.46%) TDD
4 5 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (23.08%) OO
5 3 (23.08%) RAD
5 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
5 3 (23.08%) Use Case
5 3 (23.08%) System Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
7 1 (7.692%) MVC
7 1 (7.692%) Migration
7 1 (7.692%) Data Modelling
7 1 (7.692%) Reverse Engineering
7 1 (7.692%) Parallel Computing
7 1 (7.692%) Dependency Injection
7 1 (7.692%) MVVM
7 1 (7.692%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) C#
2 8 (61.54%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) C++
3 3 (23.08%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) Haskell
3 3 (23.08%) F#
4 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.692%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.692%) VB6
5 1 (7.692%) SQL
5 1 (7.692%) VBScript
5 1 (7.692%) VB
5 1 (7.692%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (15.38%) BladeLogic
2 2 (15.38%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 2 (15.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) HP
2 2 (15.38%) BMC
2 2 (15.38%) TIBCO
2 2 (15.38%) NetIQ
2 2 (15.38%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) Atlassian
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.692%) Sybase
3 1 (7.692%) JBoss
3 1 (7.692%) 29West
3 1 (7.692%) Reuters
3 1 (7.692%) Bloomberg