The first table below looks at the demand for Team Foundation Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 - - 67
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh - - 0.149%
As % of the Development Applications category - - 2.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
67 60 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 8.272% 5.425% 5.975%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 27 45
Average daily rate £350 £325 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -10.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £250 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £420 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Average hourly rate - £27.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +30.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Team Foundation Server
Scotland

Team Foundation Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) MS Project
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (50.00%) MSTest
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Cadis
2 1 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse

Team Foundation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Project
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) TestDirector
1 1 (50.00%) RequisitePro
1 1 (50.00%) XDE
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) MSTest
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Banking Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Cadis