The first table below looks at the demand for Team Foundation Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 17 June 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 Reading 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Rank 61 69 66
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -3
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 8 15 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.912% 1.301% 1.102%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.524% 19.48% 10.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 5
Average daily rate £350 £300 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £278 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £400 £450
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 £25.00 £190.00
% change year-on-year
+29.00% -86.84%
All Development Applications
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
84 77 102
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 9.578% 6.678% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 22 36
Average daily rate £363 £344 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.45% +10.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £280 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
Average hourly rate £15.00 £18.00 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -4.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
Team Foundation Server
Berkshire

Team Foundation Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Reading Team Foundation Server Daily Rate Histogram

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 21 (84.00%) C#
1 21 (84.00%) .NET
2 15 (60.00%) Windows
3 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
4 11 (44.00%) Visual Studio
4 11 (44.00%) ASP.NET
4 11 (44.00%) jQuery
5 9 (36.00%) CSS
5 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (32.00%) Agile Software Development
7 7 (28.00%) MVC
7 7 (28.00%) Scrum
7 7 (28.00%) .NET Framework
7 7 (28.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 6 (24.00%) HTML5
8 6 (24.00%) Windows Phone
8 6 (24.00%) Degree
8 6 (24.00%) WCF
8 6 (24.00%) HTML
8 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
8 6 (24.00%) SOA
9 5 (20.00%) SQL
9 5 (20.00%) XML
9 5 (20.00%) TDD
10 4 (16.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 4 (16.00%) BDD
10 4 (16.00%) Automation Testing
10 4 (16.00%) Windows Phone 8
10 4 (16.00%) UML
10 4 (16.00%) Web Services

Team Foundation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 21 (84.00%) .NET
2 11 (44.00%) ASP.NET
2 11 (44.00%) jQuery
3 9 (36.00%) CSS
4 7 (28.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 7 (28.00%) .NET Framework
5 6 (24.00%) WCF
5 6 (24.00%) HTML
5 6 (24.00%) HTML5
6 5 (20.00%) XML
7 4 (16.00%) Web Services
7 4 (16.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 3 (12.00%) Ajax
8 3 (12.00%) ADO.NET
8 3 (12.00%) Silverlight
8 3 (12.00%) LINQ
8 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 3 (12.00%) KnockoutJS
9 2 (8.000%) MSMQ
9 2 (8.000%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) CMS
1 2 (8.000%) ESB
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (8.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (12.00%) Selenium
2 3 (12.00%) MSTest
3 2 (8.000%) TeamCity
3 2 (8.000%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (8.000%) SpecFlow
4 1 (4.000%) Subversion
4 1 (4.000%) JIRA
4 1 (4.000%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.000%) Finance
2 2 (8.000%) Banking
3 1 (4.000%) Billing
3 1 (4.000%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 16 (64.00%) Developer
2 9 (36.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 5 (20.00%) Tester
3 5 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (8.000%) Architect
4 2 (8.000%) Senior Tester
4 2 (8.000%) Applications Architect
4 2 (8.000%) Analyst
4 2 (8.000%) Test Analyst
4 2 (8.000%) Technical Architect
4 2 (8.000%) Web Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Software Tester
5 1 (4.000%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (4.000%) UI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (8.000%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.000%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 15 (60.00%) Windows
2 6 (24.00%) Windows Phone
3 4 (16.00%) Windows Phone 8
4 2 (8.000%) Apple iOS
4 2 (8.000%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.000%) Windows Phone 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (28.00%) Scrum
2 7 (28.00%) MVC
3 6 (24.00%) SOA
4 5 (20.00%) TDD
5 4 (16.00%) UML
5 4 (16.00%) BDD
5 4 (16.00%) Automation Testing
6 3 (12.00%) Dependency Injection
6 3 (12.00%) MVVM
7 2 (8.000%) Content Management
7 2 (8.000%) Web Testing
7 2 (8.000%) Manual Testing
7 2 (8.000%) Kanban
7 2 (8.000%) Data Migration
7 2 (8.000%) Test Automation
7 2 (8.000%) Migration
7 2 (8.000%) Test Strategy
8 1 (4.000%) CQRS
8 1 (4.000%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 21 (84.00%) C#
2 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (12.00%) XAML
5 2 (8.000%) VB.NET
5 2 (8.000%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.000%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.000%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.000%) ISEB
System Software
1 2 (8.000%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.000%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (8.000%) vCloud
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.000%) Citrix
4 1 (4.000%) Twitter