The first table below looks at the demand for Team Foundation Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex 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 Essex 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 42 42 36
Rank change year-on-year
0 -6
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 5 3 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 1.244% 0.723% 3.571%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.20% 7.317% 22.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 5
Average daily rate £275 £270 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.85% -35.71%
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
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
41 41 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 10.20% 9.880% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 18 25
Average daily rate £325 £325 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -22.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £173 £318
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £453 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 5
Average hourly rate £27.63 £27.63 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.90%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £26.28 £28.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £40.00 £32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Team Foundation Server
East of 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 Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Essex Team Foundation Server Daily 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 Essex 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
Chelmsford - 1 £400 -
Team Foundation Server
East of England

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (80.00%) XML
2 4 (80.00%) C#
3 3 (60.00%) HTML
3 3 (60.00%) CSS
3 3 (60.00%) XHTML
3 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (60.00%) WCF
4 2 (40.00%) LINQ
4 2 (40.00%) NHibernate
4 2 (40.00%) XPath
4 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (40.00%) XQuery
4 2 (40.00%) B2B
4 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 2 (40.00%) XSLT
4 2 (40.00%) Flash
4 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
5 1 (20.00%) IIS
5 1 (20.00%) Oracle
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (20.00%) Python
5 1 (20.00%) Windows
5 1 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (20.00%) XSL
5 1 (20.00%) cXML

Team Foundation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (80.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) HTML
3 3 (60.00%) CSS
3 3 (60.00%) XHTML
3 3 (60.00%) WCF
4 2 (40.00%) LINQ
4 2 (40.00%) NHibernate
4 2 (40.00%) XSLT
4 2 (40.00%) Flash
5 1 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (20.00%) XSL
5 1 (20.00%) cXML
5 1 (20.00%) Ajax
5 1 (20.00%) SCSS
5 1 (20.00%) JSON
5 1 (20.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) CTI
1 1 (20.00%) Intranet
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Front-End Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Front-End Web Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) IVR
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (40.00%) B2B
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) XPath
2 2 (40.00%) XQuery
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
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