The first table below looks at the demand for Team Foundation Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 77 63 77
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +14
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 6 17 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.478% 1.240% 0.502%
As % of the Development Applications category 5.310% 14.29% 5.426%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 6
Average daily rate £300 £375 £258
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +45.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £274 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £398 £410
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 £30.75 £127.50
% change year-on-year
+4.87% -75.88%
All Development Applications
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
113 119 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 9.011% 8.680% 9.254%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 59 40
Average daily rate £311 £343 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.12% +5.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £249 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £475 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 25
Average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -15.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Team Foundation Server
England

Team Foundation Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands Team Foundation Server Daily Rate Trend

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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Lincolnshire - 5 £300 -
Leicestershire - 1 - -
Team Foundation Server
England

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 13 (86.67%) C#
1 13 (86.67%) .NET
2 9 (60.00%) ASP.NET
3 8 (53.33%) WCF
3 8 (53.33%) jQuery
4 7 (46.67%) ASP.NET MVC
4 7 (46.67%) MVC
5 6 (40.00%) CSS
5 6 (40.00%) .NET Framework
6 5 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
6 5 (33.33%) Unit Testing
6 5 (33.33%) IIS
6 5 (33.33%) Visual Studio
6 5 (33.33%) HTML
6 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
7 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
7 4 (26.67%) SOAP
7 4 (26.67%) SOA
7 4 (26.67%) OO
7 4 (26.67%) Scrum
7 4 (26.67%) TDD
8 3 (20.00%) NUnit
8 3 (20.00%) Ajax
8 3 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
8 3 (20.00%) MSTest
8 3 (20.00%) MSMQ
8 3 (20.00%) Windows
8 3 (20.00%) Finance
8 3 (20.00%) SQL

Team Foundation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 13 (86.67%) .NET
2 9 (60.00%) ASP.NET
3 8 (53.33%) WCF
3 8 (53.33%) jQuery
4 7 (46.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 6 (40.00%) CSS
5 6 (40.00%) .NET Framework
6 5 (33.33%) HTML
6 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 4 (26.67%) SOAP
8 3 (20.00%) Ajax
9 2 (13.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 2 (13.33%) Razor View Engine
9 2 (13.33%) Unity DI Container
9 2 (13.33%) Web Services
9 2 (13.33%) XHTML
9 2 (13.33%) WPF
10 1 (6.667%) Spring
10 1 (6.667%) Silverlight
10 1 (6.667%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) IIS
2 3 (20.00%) MSMQ
3 1 (6.667%) GlassFish
3 1 (6.667%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (6.667%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (6.667%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 3 (20.00%) NUnit
2 3 (20.00%) MSTest
3 1 (6.667%) Eclipse
3 1 (6.667%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (6.667%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Retail
2 1 (6.667%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) C# Developer
3 3 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Designer
4 2 (13.33%) WPF Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Web Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Silverlight Developer
5 1 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) N-Tier
2 1 (6.667%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) MVC
2 5 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
2 5 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 4 (26.67%) SOA
3 4 (26.67%) OO
3 4 (26.67%) Scrum
3 4 (26.67%) TDD
4 3 (20.00%) MVVM
5 2 (13.33%) OOD
5 2 (13.33%) Web Development
5 2 (13.33%) OOP
6 1 (6.667%) Software Architecture
6 1 (6.667%) CRM
6 1 (6.667%) UML
6 1 (6.667%) Project Management
6 1 (6.667%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) C#
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (20.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.667%) Sitecore
2 1 (6.667%) Microsoft