The first table below looks at the demand for Team Foundation Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes 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 22 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 Milton Keynes 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Rank 47 - 53
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 7 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.333% - 0.335%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.92% - 5.556%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £365 £313
% change year-on-year
-8.21% +16.80%
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
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
37 40 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 7.048% 5.594% 6.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 24 16
Average daily rate £400 £300 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £234 £225 £110
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £375 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Team Foundation Server
Buckinghamshire

Team Foundation Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Milton Keynes Team Foundation Server Daily Rate Histogram

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 11 (84.62%) .NET
2 10 (76.92%) C#
2 10 (76.92%) MVC
2 10 (76.92%) Scrum
2 10 (76.92%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (53.85%) Web Services
3 7 (53.85%) XML
4 6 (46.15%) SOAP
4 6 (46.15%) WCF
5 5 (38.46%) XPath
5 5 (38.46%) BPEL
5 5 (38.46%) Web 2.0
5 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (38.46%) Workflow
5 5 (38.46%) Middleware
5 5 (38.46%) UML
5 5 (38.46%) SOA
5 5 (38.46%) Eclipse
5 5 (38.46%) WSDL
5 5 (38.46%) JDeveloper
5 5 (38.46%) XQuery
5 5 (38.46%) Oracle 8/8i
5 5 (38.46%) XSD
5 5 (38.46%) Oracle
5 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET
5 5 (38.46%) Ant
5 5 (38.46%) Unit Testing
5 5 (38.46%) Oracle 11g
5 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (38.46%) Oracle Service Bus

Team Foundation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 11 (84.62%) .NET
2 7 (53.85%) Web Services
2 7 (53.85%) XML
3 6 (46.15%) SOAP
3 6 (46.15%) WCF
4 5 (38.46%) Middleware
4 5 (38.46%) WSDL
4 5 (38.46%) XSD
4 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET
4 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (38.46%) REST
5 2 (15.38%) jQuery
5 2 (15.38%) ASP
6 1 (7.692%) XHTML
6 1 (7.692%) CSS
6 1 (7.692%) ADO.NET
6 1 (7.692%) Ajax
6 1 (7.692%) WPF
6 1 (7.692%) LINQ
6 1 (7.692%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle Service Bus
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle Workflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle 8/8i
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Eclipse
1 5 (38.46%) JDeveloper
1 5 (38.46%) Ant
2 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
2 2 (15.38%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (7.692%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (7.692%) Selenium
3 1 (7.692%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Banking
2 1 (7.692%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Oracle SOA Developer
3 4 (30.77%) SOA Developer
3 4 (30.77%) .NET Developer
3 4 (30.77%) Lead Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior .NET Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Web Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Web Developer
5 2 (15.38%) .NET Web Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior .NET Web Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Test Manager
6 1 (7.692%) Test Analyst
6 1 (7.692%) Analyst
6 1 (7.692%) Senior QA Manager
6 1 (7.692%) Senior Test Manager
6 1 (7.692%) QA Manager
6 1 (7.692%) Senior Manager
6 1 (7.692%) Testing Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Web 2.0
2 1 (7.692%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) MVS
2 1 (7.692%) Windows
2 1 (7.692%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) MVC
1 10 (76.92%) Scrum
1 10 (76.92%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (38.46%) BPEL
2 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (38.46%) Workflow
2 5 (38.46%) UML
2 5 (38.46%) SOA
2 5 (38.46%) Unit Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Web Development
4 3 (23.08%) Web Application Development
5 1 (7.692%) OO
5 1 (7.692%) Resource Management
5 1 (7.692%) Waterfall
5 1 (7.692%) Web Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Test Management
5 1 (7.692%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) C#
2 5 (38.46%) XPath
2 5 (38.46%) XQuery
3 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.692%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 1 (7.692%) HP