The first table below looks at the demand for Team Foundation Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex 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 20 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 Sussex 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Rank 26 35 28
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -7
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 5 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 2.193% 0.923% 1.596%
As % of the Development Applications category 23.81% 8.571% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
Average daily rate £363 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.53% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £325 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £325 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £366 £314
% change year-on-year
-8.53% +16.73%
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 Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
21 35 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 9.211% 10.77% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 17
Average daily rate £350 £300 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £213 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £343 £379
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Team Foundation Server
South East

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 Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

East Sussex 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 Sussex region.

East Sussex 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 East Sussex region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

East Sussex 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 East Sussex region.

East Sussex 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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 20 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
Brighton +8 3 £315 -3.07%
Team Foundation Server
South East

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) MSTest
3 3 (60.00%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (40.00%) C#
4 2 (40.00%) HTML
4 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (40.00%) .NET
4 2 (40.00%) Ajax
4 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (40.00%) NUnit
4 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (40.00%) CSS
4 2 (40.00%) XML
4 2 (40.00%) XSLT
4 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (40.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 2 (40.00%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (40.00%) HTML5
4 2 (40.00%) Rhino Mocks

Team Foundation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) XML
1 2 (40.00%) XSLT
1 2 (40.00%) Ajax
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (40.00%) LINQ
1 2 (40.00%) jQuery
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (40.00%) HTML5
1 2 (40.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 2 (40.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (20.00%) Data Mart
4 1 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MSTest
2 2 (40.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (40.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) Informatics
1 1 (20.00%) Health Informatics
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Test Management
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) DevExpress
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle