The first table below looks at the demand for Team Foundation Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 City of London 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 148 178 208
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +30
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 55 40 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.862% 0.509% 0.378%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.006% 6.135% 3.682%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 26 27
Average daily rate £400 £389 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.89% -8.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £213 £296
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £493 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £365 £325
% change year-on-year
-8.21% +12.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £43.00 - £112.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £30.75 £127.50
% change year-on-year
+4.87% -75.88%
All Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
785 652 1005
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.31% 8.290% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 489 757
Average daily rate £405 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.42% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 7
Average hourly rate £42.00 £37.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.51% +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £16.20 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £39.70 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
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 City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Team Foundation Server Hourly Rate Trend

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 61 (53.04%) .NET
2 58 (50.43%) C#
3 49 (42.61%) SQL
4 47 (40.87%) Microsoft
5 39 (33.91%) SQL Server
6 33 (28.70%) Agile Software Development
7 29 (25.22%) Finance
8 28 (24.35%) Visual Studio
9 27 (23.48%) TDD
10 25 (21.74%) Oracle
11 24 (20.87%) ASP.NET
11 24 (20.87%) Windows
12 22 (19.13%) Java
13 21 (18.26%) .NET Framework
14 20 (17.39%) WCF
14 20 (17.39%) Banking
15 19 (16.52%) SQL Server 2008
16 18 (15.65%) Scrum
17 16 (13.91%) Eclipse
18 15 (13.04%) MVC
19 13 (11.30%) QA
19 13 (11.30%) C
19 13 (11.30%) Linux
19 13 (11.30%) OO
19 13 (11.30%) ASP.NET MVC
20 12 (10.43%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
20 12 (10.43%) IIS
20 12 (10.43%) Computer Science
20 12 (10.43%) Continuous Integration
20 12 (10.43%) Degree

Team Foundation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 61 (53.04%) .NET
2 24 (20.87%) ASP.NET
3 21 (18.26%) .NET Framework
4 20 (17.39%) WCF
5 13 (11.30%) ASP.NET MVC
6 12 (10.43%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 11 (9.565%) CSS
8 10 (8.696%) XML
8 10 (8.696%) WF
9 9 (7.826%) Web Services
10 8 (6.957%) HTML5
11 7 (6.087%) XSLT
11 7 (6.087%) HTML
12 6 (5.217%) REST
13 5 (4.348%) WPF
14 4 (3.478%) STL
14 4 (3.478%) COM
14 4 (3.478%) LINQ
14 4 (3.478%) jQuery
14 4 (3.478%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 12 (10.43%) IIS
2 9 (7.826%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.348%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (4.348%) Windows Azure
4 4 (3.478%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (2.609%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.609%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (2.609%) SharePoint 2013
5 3 (2.609%) Tomcat
5 3 (2.609%) Apache
5 3 (2.609%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.609%) Rendezvous
6 2 (1.739%) MSMQ
6 2 (1.739%) Google App Engine
7 1 (0.870%) LiveCycle
7 1 (0.870%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.870%) Confluence
7 1 (0.870%) ESB
7 1 (0.870%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.870%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (6.957%) MS Excel
2 5 (4.348%) MS Office
3 2 (1.739%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.870%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.348%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.870%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.478%) HTTP
2 2 (1.739%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.739%) Firewall
3 1 (0.870%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.870%) VPN
3 1 (0.870%) LAN
3 1 (0.870%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (33.91%) SQL Server
2 19 (16.52%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (6.087%) RDBMS
4 6 (5.217%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (4.348%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (4.348%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (4.348%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 5 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.609%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.609%) MySQL
6 3 (2.609%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.739%) Oracle 10g
7 2 (1.739%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (1.739%) MS Access
8 1 (0.870%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (0.870%) InterSystems Cache
8 1 (0.870%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 28 (24.35%) Visual Studio
2 16 (13.91%) Eclipse
3 11 (9.565%) CruiseControl
4 10 (8.696%) NUnit
5 8 (6.957%) Subversion
5 8 (6.957%) Selenium
6 7 (6.087%) MSBuild
7 6 (5.217%) JIRA
7 6 (5.217%) Git (software)
8 5 (4.348%) Hudson
8 5 (4.348%) Jenkins
8 5 (4.348%) Ant
9 4 (3.478%) MSI
9 4 (3.478%) Maven
9 4 (3.478%) WiX
9 4 (3.478%) TeamCity
10 3 (2.609%) Mercurial
10 3 (2.609%) AnthillPro
10 3 (2.609%) Visual Studio Team System
10 3 (2.609%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 29 (25.22%) Finance
2 20 (17.39%) Banking
3 9 (7.826%) Investment Banking
4 3 (2.609%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.609%) Front Office
4 3 (2.609%) Back Office
5 2 (1.739%) Billing
5 2 (1.739%) Games
6 1 (0.870%) Marketing
6 1 (0.870%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 56 (48.70%) Developer
2 25 (21.74%) Analyst
3 22 (19.13%) .NET Developer
4 15 (13.04%) C# Developer
5 13 (11.30%) Senior Developer
6 11 (9.565%) Test Analyst
7 10 (8.696%) Android Developer
8 7 (6.087%) Build Engineer
8 7 (6.087%) Senior .NET Developer
9 6 (5.217%) Tester
9 6 (5.217%) Release Engineer
9 6 (5.217%) Release Analyst
10 5 (4.348%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (4.348%) ASP.NET Developer
11 4 (3.478%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.478%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (3.478%) Release Manager
11 4 (3.478%) Software Build Engineer
12 3 (2.609%) Agile .NET Developer
12 3 (2.609%) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.43%) Computer Science
2 10 (8.696%) Social Media
3 6 (5.217%) iPad
3 6 (5.217%) iPhone
4 5 (4.348%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (3.478%) Derivative
6 3 (2.609%) Visualisation
6 3 (2.609%) Open Source
6 3 (2.609%) Fixed Income
6 3 (2.609%) N-Tier
6 3 (2.609%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.739%) Equities
7 2 (1.739%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.870%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.870%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.870%) Mathematics
8 1 (0.870%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.870%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 24 (20.87%) Windows
2 13 (11.30%) Linux
3 10 (8.696%) Android
4 9 (7.826%) Windows Server 2012
4 9 (7.826%) UNIX
5 3 (2.609%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (2.609%) Debian
5 3 (2.609%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.739%) Windows 2000
6 2 (1.739%) Windows XP
6 2 (1.739%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.870%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.870%) SUSE
7 1 (0.870%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (28.70%) Agile Software Development
2 27 (23.48%) TDD
3 18 (15.65%) Scrum
4 15 (13.04%) MVC
5 13 (11.30%) OO
6 12 (10.43%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (8.696%) Workflow
7 10 (8.696%) User Acceptance Testing
7 10 (8.696%) Release Management
8 9 (7.826%) BDD
9 7 (6.087%) Waterfall
9 7 (6.087%) Asset Management
9 7 (6.087%) CRM
9 7 (6.087%) Change Management
10 6 (5.217%) Project Management
10 6 (5.217%) ITIL
10 6 (5.217%) RUP
10 6 (5.217%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (3.478%) SOA
11 4 (3.478%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 58 (50.43%) C#
2 49 (42.61%) SQL
3 22 (19.13%) Java
4 13 (11.30%) C
5 10 (8.696%) PL/SQL
5 10 (8.696%) C++
6 7 (6.087%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.217%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.348%) VB
9 4 (3.478%) VBA
9 4 (3.478%) T-SQL
9 4 (3.478%) Python
10 3 (2.609%) Bash shell
10 3 (2.609%) VB6
10 3 (2.609%) Perl
10 3 (2.609%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.739%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.739%) VBScript
11 2 (1.739%) Lua
12 1 (0.870%) C++/CLI
Qualifications
1 12 (10.43%) Degree
2 6 (5.217%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (5.217%) MCP
2 6 (5.217%) MCAD
2 6 (5.217%) MCSD
2 6 (5.217%) MCTS
3 5 (4.348%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.348%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.739%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.739%) ISEB
5 1 (0.870%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.870%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.30%) QA
2 3 (2.609%) Dublin Core
3 2 (1.739%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.870%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (3.478%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.609%) vCloud
2 3 (2.609%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.739%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (4.348%) Puppet
2 4 (3.478%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (2.609%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.870%) Splunk
4 1 (0.870%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 47 (40.87%) Microsoft
2 25 (21.74%) Oracle
3 8 (6.957%) VMware
3 8 (6.957%) Serena
4 5 (4.348%) HP
5 4 (3.478%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.609%) FFastFill
6 3 (2.609%) EasyScreen
6 3 (2.609%) Remedy
6 3 (2.609%) CQG
6 3 (2.609%) Reuters
6 3 (2.609%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.739%) SunGard
7 2 (1.739%) Citrix
7 2 (1.739%) IBM
7 2 (1.739%) JBoss
7 2 (1.739%) Google
8 1 (0.870%) UC4
8 1 (0.870%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.870%) Tableau
City of London
Data Analysis & Database Design4... Ability to work on several development and support tasks at any one time Formal Qualifications Required ESSENTIAL Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2010-...
Capita Resourcing
Rate: £200.00 - £330 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013
City of London
Knowledge of MSBuild, WebDeploy,Desirable Knowledge & Experience:*Knowledge of Microsoft technical implementation toolsets (Visual Studio, C# / ASP.NET 1.1 - 4.5)*Knowledge of IIS6 - 8*Knowledge of...
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
My Client is currently seeking an experienced Build Engineer who has expert knowledge of TFS - Team Foundation Server administration and configuration. You will be working with TFS AND...
Rate: £270 - £375 per day
Posted: 30 April 2013