The first table below looks at the demand for Team Foundation Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford 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 Guildford 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 31 17 19
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +2
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 1 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 0.459% 4.132% 1.504%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.571% 45.45% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £425 -
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
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
28 11 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 12.84% 9.091% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 8
Average daily rate £285 £425 £284
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.94% +49.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £375 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £393 £425 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Team Foundation Server
Surrey

Team Foundation Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Team Foundation Server Daily Rate Trend

Team Foundation Server
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Perforce
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) MSBuild

Team Foundation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) MSBuild
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Perforce