The first table below looks at the demand for Team Foundation Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 21 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 England 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Rank 192 264 260
Rank change year-on-year
+72 -4
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 430 349 373
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 1.016% 0.652% 0.673%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.180% 6.934% 6.327%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 184 214
Average daily rate £369 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.60% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £263 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £473 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £365 £314
% change year-on-year
-8.21% +16.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 3
Average hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £65.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -61.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.60 £18.60 £41.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.40 £50.50 £103.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £30.75 £127.50
% change year-on-year
+4.87% -75.88%
All Development Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
4684 5033 5895
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 11.07% 9.407% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2996 3048 3394
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 204 313
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £23.88 £24.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Team Foundation Server
UK

Team Foundation Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England 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 England region.

England Team Foundation Server Hourly Rate Trend

Team Foundation Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Team Foundation Server across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England Team Foundation Server Hourly Rate Histogram

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 England region over the 3 months to 21 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
London +78 217 £400 +6.66%
South East +21 89 £338 -10.00%
South West +19 30 £325 -18.75%
North West +26 28 £338 +21.07%
East of England +25 25 £375 +15.38%
West Midlands +15 17 £325 -1.51%
Yorkshire -5 10 £325 -7.14%
East Midlands -7 8 £315 -16.00%
North East +15 7 £236 -35.27%
Team Foundation Server
UK

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 556 (66.59%) .NET
2 555 (66.47%) C#
3 362 (43.35%) SQL Server
4 320 (38.32%) Microsoft
5 290 (34.73%) SQL
6 276 (33.05%) ASP.NET
7 271 (32.46%) Visual Studio
8 224 (26.83%) Agile Software Development
9 211 (25.27%) WCF
10 181 (21.68%) MVC
11 179 (21.44%) JavaScript
12 178 (21.32%) Scrum
13 172 (20.60%) TDD
14 167 (20.00%) .NET Framework
15 166 (19.88%) XML
16 165 (19.76%) Windows
17 157 (18.80%) SharePoint
18 156 (18.68%) CSS
19 153 (18.32%) Web Services
20 149 (17.84%) jQuery
21 144 (17.25%) SQL Server 2008
22 141 (16.89%) HTML
23 138 (16.53%) Oracle
24 124 (14.85%) Finance
25 111 (13.29%) ASP.NET MVC
26 88 (10.54%) Continuous Integration
27 86 (10.30%) Java
28 85 (10.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
29 83 (9.940%) BDD
30 81 (9.701%) Banking

Team Foundation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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
1 556 (66.59%) .NET
2 276 (33.05%) ASP.NET
3 211 (25.27%) WCF
4 167 (20.00%) .NET Framework
5 166 (19.88%) XML
6 156 (18.68%) CSS
7 153 (18.32%) Web Services
8 149 (17.84%) jQuery
9 141 (16.89%) HTML
10 111 (13.29%) ASP.NET MVC
11 85 (10.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 75 (8.982%) Ajax
13 59 (7.066%) HTML5
14 58 (6.946%) WPF
15 51 (6.108%) XSLT
15 51 (6.108%) SOAP
16 49 (5.868%) LINQ
17 36 (4.311%) JSON
18 33 (3.952%) Silverlight
19 30 (3.593%) REST
Application Platforms
1 157 (18.80%) SharePoint
2 80 (9.581%) IIS
3 66 (7.904%) SharePoint 2010
4 32 (3.832%) Windows Azure
4 32 (3.832%) BizTalk Server
5 24 (2.874%) ESB
6 20 (2.395%) CMS
7 15 (1.796%) Google App Engine
8 13 (1.557%) MSMQ
9 12 (1.437%) Confluence
10 10 (1.198%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.958%) SharePoint 2013
11 8 (0.958%) OpenROAD
11 8 (0.958%) Apache
12 7 (0.838%) TIBCO EMS
13 6 (0.719%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (0.719%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.719%) Tomcat
13 6 (0.719%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.599%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 69 (8.263%) MS Excel
2 20 (2.395%) MS Office
3 9 (1.078%) InfoPath
4 5 (0.599%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.359%) MS Project
5 3 (0.359%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.120%) Fireworks
6 1 (0.120%) DOC1
6 1 (0.120%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 18 (2.156%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.599%) RMDS
3 2 (0.240%) SiteCatalyst
4 1 (0.120%) Tridion
4 1 (0.120%) Sage 1000
4 1 (0.120%) assyst
4 1 (0.120%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.120%) Exstream
4 1 (0.120%) Summit
4 1 (0.120%) Google Analytics
4 1 (0.120%) TradeThru
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.796%) HTTP
2 12 (1.437%) Internet
3 9 (1.078%) HTTPS
4 8 (0.958%) Firewall
5 5 (0.599%) SAN
6 3 (0.359%) Intranet
7 2 (0.240%) Cisco PIX
7 2 (0.240%) WAN
7 2 (0.240%) LAN
8 1 (0.120%) LDAP
8 1 (0.120%) DNS
8 1 (0.120%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.120%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.120%) VPN
8 1 (0.120%) CTI
8 1 (0.120%) Extranet
8 1 (0.120%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 362 (43.35%) SQL Server
2 144 (17.25%) SQL Server 2008
3 52 (6.228%) SQL Server 2005
4 44 (5.269%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 40 (4.790%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 24 (2.874%) Oracle 11g
7 23 (2.754%) SQL Server 2012
8 22 (2.635%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 21 (2.515%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (2.275%) Oracle 8/8i
11 14 (1.677%) Oracle 10g
12 13 (1.557%) Crystal Reports
13 12 (1.437%) Ingres
13 12 (1.437%) MySQL
14 10 (1.198%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.078%) NoSQL
16 7 (0.838%) TOAD
17 5 (0.599%) Oracle Reports
18 4 (0.479%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 4 (0.479%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 271 (32.46%) Visual Studio
2 70 (8.383%) Subversion
3 68 (8.144%) MSBuild
4 57 (6.826%) Selenium
5 51 (6.108%) JIRA
5 51 (6.108%) Jenkins
6 47 (5.629%) MSTest
7 41 (4.910%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 38 (4.551%) NUnit
9 36 (4.311%) CruiseControl
10 31 (3.713%) TeamCity
11 30 (3.593%) Eclipse
12 23 (2.754%) SpecFlow
13 20 (2.395%) WebDriver
13 20 (2.395%) Rhino Mocks
14 16 (1.916%) Hudson
14 16 (1.916%) Git (software)
15 15 (1.796%) Ant
16 13 (1.557%) Visual Studio Team System
17 12 (1.437%) Moq
General
1 124 (14.85%) Finance
2 81 (9.701%) Banking
3 49 (5.868%) Retail
4 34 (4.072%) Investment Banking
5 24 (2.874%) Telecoms
6 14 (1.677%) Games
6 14 (1.677%) Front Office
7 12 (1.437%) Marketing
7 12 (1.437%) Back Office
8 9 (1.078%) Financial Institution
9 6 (0.719%) Billing
10 5 (0.599%) Advertising
11 3 (0.359%) Publishing
11 3 (0.359%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.240%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.240%) Automotive
12 2 (0.240%) Law
13 1 (0.120%) Legal
13 1 (0.120%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.120%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 467 (55.93%) Developer
2 225 (26.95%) .NET Developer
3 125 (14.97%) C# Developer
4 111 (13.29%) Analyst
5 82 (9.820%) C# .NET Developer
6 60 (7.186%) Senior Developer
7 56 (6.707%) ASP.NET Developer
8 52 (6.228%) Test Analyst
9 40 (4.790%) Tester
10 39 (4.671%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 38 (4.551%) Senior .NET Developer
11 38 (4.551%) Build Engineer
12 37 (4.431%) SharePoint Developer
13 35 (4.192%) Software Developer
14 33 (3.952%) Programmer
15 32 (3.832%) Web Developer
16 26 (3.114%) Software Engineer
17 22 (2.635%) Lead Developer
17 22 (2.635%) Architect
18 19 (2.275%) .NET Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.269%) N-Tier
2 28 (3.353%) Computer Science
3 24 (2.874%) Cloud Computing
4 20 (2.395%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (1.796%) Social Media
6 14 (1.677%) Client/Server
7 11 (1.317%) Open Source
8 9 (1.078%) Inversion of Control
9 8 (0.958%) Mathematics
10 7 (0.838%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (0.838%) Data Integration
10 7 (0.838%) RIA
10 7 (0.838%) Mobile App
11 6 (0.719%) iPad
11 6 (0.719%) iPhone
11 6 (0.719%) Derivative
11 6 (0.719%) Blackberry
11 6 (0.719%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.599%) Physics
12 5 (0.599%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 165 (19.76%) Windows
2 46 (5.509%) Linux
3 35 (4.192%) UNIX
4 21 (2.515%) Windows Server 2008
5 19 (2.275%) Windows Server 2012
6 15 (1.796%) Windows 7
7 14 (1.677%) Android
7 14 (1.677%) AIX
8 13 (1.557%) SUSE
9 11 (1.317%) Windows Server 2003
9 11 (1.317%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.838%) Solaris
10 7 (0.838%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.719%) Windows Phone
11 6 (0.719%) Debian
11 6 (0.719%) Windows XP
12 5 (0.599%) Windows 2000
13 4 (0.479%) Windows Phone 8
14 3 (0.359%) bada
15 2 (0.240%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (26.83%) Agile Software Development
2 181 (21.68%) MVC
3 178 (21.32%) Scrum
4 172 (20.60%) TDD
5 88 (10.54%) Continuous Integration
6 83 (9.940%) BDD
7 69 (8.263%) Unit Testing
8 65 (7.784%) OO
9 57 (6.826%) Workflow
10 55 (6.587%) UML
11 53 (6.347%) SOA
12 45 (5.389%) ITIL
13 38 (4.551%) E-Commerce
14 36 (4.311%) Configuration Management
15 35 (4.192%) Automated Testing
16 34 (4.072%) CRM
17 33 (3.952%) MVVM
18 30 (3.593%) Web Development
19 26 (3.114%) User Acceptance Testing
19 26 (3.114%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 555 (66.47%) C#
2 290 (34.73%) SQL
3 179 (21.44%) JavaScript
4 86 (10.30%) Java
5 64 (7.665%) T-SQL
6 57 (6.826%) C++
7 44 (5.269%) VB.NET
7 44 (5.269%) PowerShell
8 43 (5.150%) PL/SQL
9 37 (4.431%) VB
10 22 (2.635%) C
11 18 (2.156%) Lua
12 14 (1.677%) Python
13 11 (1.317%) XPath
14 10 (1.198%) VB6
15 6 (0.719%) Bash shell
15 6 (0.719%) VBA
16 5 (0.599%) VBScript
16 5 (0.599%) Perl
16 5 (0.599%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 52 (6.228%) Degree
2 38 (4.551%) Security Cleared
3 29 (3.473%) SC Cleared
4 25 (2.994%) ISEB
5 23 (2.754%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.515%) MCP
7 18 (2.156%) MCTS
8 11 (1.317%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.958%) MCPD
9 8 (0.958%) MCSD
10 7 (0.838%) MCAD
10 7 (0.838%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (0.838%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.359%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.240%) ISEB Practitioner
13 1 (0.120%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.120%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.120%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.707%) QA
2 6 (0.719%) SLA
3 5 (0.599%) ISO 9001
4 4 (0.479%) TickIT
5 3 (0.359%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.359%) Dublin Core
6 2 (0.240%) HL7
7 1 (0.120%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.120%) WCAG
7 1 (0.120%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.120%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (2.275%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (1.677%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.198%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (1.078%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.838%) vCloud
6 5 (0.599%) XenApp
7 2 (0.240%) Forefront TMG
7 2 (0.240%) UAG
7 2 (0.240%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.240%) Xen
8 1 (0.120%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.120%) XenServer
8 1 (0.120%) OpenSSO
Systems Management
1 25 (2.994%) Puppet
2 22 (2.635%) HP Quality Center
3 9 (1.078%) BladeLogic
4 7 (0.838%) DameWare
4 7 (0.838%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 7 (0.838%) WSUS
4 7 (0.838%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 4 (0.479%) Splunk
6 1 (0.120%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.120%) Dollar Universe
Vendors
1 320 (38.32%) Microsoft
2 138 (16.53%) Oracle
3 37 (4.431%) VMware
4 26 (3.114%) HP
5 20 (2.395%) IBM
6 18 (2.156%) Google
7 17 (2.036%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.677%) Bloomberg
8 14 (1.677%) webMethods
8 14 (1.677%) Software AG
8 14 (1.677%) ATG
8 14 (1.677%) Business Objects
9 13 (1.557%) Serena
10 12 (1.437%) Citrix
11 10 (1.198%) Reuters
11 10 (1.198%) TIBCO
12 8 (0.958%) Sitecore
13 7 (0.838%) JBoss
13 7 (0.838%) BMC
13 7 (0.838%) Salesforce.com
London
Net Developer skilled in C# .NET 4, Parallel Tasks library in .NET 4 (multithreading), WPF (must be using MVVM - model view, view model), WCF, Microsoft Entity Framework, SQL...
Logic Engagements Ltd
Rate: £400 - £600 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
Selby, North Yorkshire
Technical Requirements: - C#/ VB.NET Frameworks (3.5, 4.0), Web Services - Good understanding of XML - SSRS Reporting - Visual Studio 2010 - Experience with Microsoft Team Foundation Server - Good...
Inter-vention UK
Rate: From £260 to £280 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Cheshire
Essential Skills & Experience: *C# *.NET Runtime *ASP.NET *SQL Server *T-SQL *Ability to communicate clearly with employees of all levels.
Rullion IT Plus
Rate: £280 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Due to a bottleneck of work and a looming deadline my client are in need of a Senior .NET developer to hit the floor running in this busy...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £400.00 - £500.00 per day
Posted: 9 May 2013
Essex, South East
C# .NET Developer (C#/.NET/MVC)- Essex - £220p.d. C# .NET Developer (C#/.NET/MVC) Essex £220p.d.4-6 Months, chance for extension My client, a leading...
Annapurna HR
Rate: £200.00 - £220 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
Banbury, South East
My prestigious Banking client is seeking an expert Consultant who can administer and configure Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS). This role will assist the project team helping facilitate...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £349 - £350 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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
London
With expertise designing and modelling n-tier developments?... Create functional and technical specification and documentation of these requirementsBe the conduit between the development team and the presales teamGet...
OCC Computing
Rate: £350 - 400 per day
Posted: 26 April 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, London
You will develop and rollout software build and deployment processes and standards based around Microsoft Team Foundation Server... The successful candidate will have Technical experience of Microsoft Team...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
You will develop and rollout software build and deployment processes and standards based around Microsoft Team Foundation Server... The successful candidate will have Technical experience of Microsoft Team...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Taunton, South West
Skills/ Experience Required Essential Skills The post-holder must have: *Have demonstrable working knowledge of the following programming languages:- oC# oASP.net oSQL *Have demonstrable working knowledge of...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 14 May 2013
City, London
Release Manager, Release and Deployment Automation, Devops Engineer, Orchestration, Microsoft, Unix, TFS, Puppet, Agile... The Release Manager, Automation Engineer or Devops engineer must have a good understanding of...
Aston Carter
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
As the DevOps Engineer, you will deliver full lifecycle project solutions on a scalable platform, whilst providing a knowledge transfer to employees.As the DevOps Engineer, you will...
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
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