The first table below looks at the demand for Team Foundation Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 23 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 Leeds 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Rank 72 65 46
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -19
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 2 3 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.272% 0.341% 1.402%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.381% 3.571% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
Average daily rate £315 - £275
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 - £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £347 - £345
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
84 84 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 11.44% 9.535% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 52 34
Average daily rate £280 £325 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.84% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £252 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
Average hourly rate £38.00 - £36.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Team Foundation Server
West Yorkshire

Team Foundation Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Team Foundation Server Daily Rate Trend

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) .NET
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) WinForms
4 2 (40.00%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (40.00%) Web Development
4 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (40.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
4 2 (40.00%) Oracle
4 2 (40.00%) XSLT
4 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 2 (40.00%) WCF
4 2 (40.00%) JIRA
4 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (20.00%) QA
5 1 (20.00%) Selenium
5 1 (20.00%) jQuery
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (20.00%) Confluence
5 1 (20.00%) HTML5
5 1 (20.00%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (20.00%) BDD

Team Foundation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) WinForms
2 2 (40.00%) XSLT
2 2 (40.00%) WCF
3 1 (20.00%) jQuery
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) CSS
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (40.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) BizTalk Developer
3 1 (20.00%) ScrumMaster
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (40.00%) Web Development
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) BDD
2 1 (20.00%) User Stories
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle