The first table below looks at the demand for Team Foundation Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset 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 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 Somerset 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Rank 27 35 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 5 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 2.732% 1.170% -
As % of the Development Applications category 18.52% 11.76% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £315 £389 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.97% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £365 £314
% change year-on-year
-8.21% +16.33%
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
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
27 17 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 14.75% 9.942% 7.595%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 6
Average daily rate £320 £365 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.32% +40.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £300 £166
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £381 £331
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Team Foundation Server
South West

Team Foundation Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Team Foundation Server Daily Rate Trend

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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 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
Taunton - 4 £320 -
Team Foundation Server
South West

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 20 (95.24%) .NET
2 17 (80.95%) C#
3 16 (76.19%) SQL
3 16 (76.19%) ASP.NET
3 16 (76.19%) SharePoint
3 16 (76.19%) NUnit
3 16 (76.19%) Subversion
3 16 (76.19%) MSTest
3 16 (76.19%) Jenkins
4 15 (71.43%) TeamCity
5 14 (66.67%) CruiseControl
5 14 (66.67%) XML
5 14 (66.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 13 (61.90%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (61.90%) Unit Testing
6 13 (61.90%) Oracle
6 13 (61.90%) VB
6 13 (61.90%) JavaScript
6 13 (61.90%) HTML
6 13 (61.90%) ASP
6 13 (61.90%) UML
7 12 (57.14%) UNIX
7 12 (57.14%) Ingres
7 12 (57.14%) Java
7 12 (57.14%) C++
7 12 (57.14%) VB.NET
7 12 (57.14%) IIS
7 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
8 11 (52.38%) ITIL
9 10 (47.62%) .NET Framework

Team Foundation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 20 (95.24%) .NET
2 16 (76.19%) ASP.NET
3 14 (66.67%) XML
4 13 (61.90%) ASP
4 13 (61.90%) HTML
5 10 (47.62%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.762%) WCF
6 1 (4.762%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (4.762%) XSL
6 1 (4.762%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 16 (76.19%) SharePoint
2 12 (57.14%) IIS
3 8 (38.10%) OpenROAD
4 1 (4.762%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 1 (4.762%) assyst
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) Ingres
2 9 (42.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (76.19%) NUnit
1 16 (76.19%) Subversion
1 16 (76.19%) MSTest
1 16 (76.19%) Jenkins
2 15 (71.43%) TeamCity
3 14 (66.67%) CruiseControl
3 14 (66.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (9.524%) Visual Studio
5 1 (4.762%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (4.762%) MSBuild
5 1 (4.762%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (4.762%) WebDriver
5 1 (4.762%) Selenium
General
1 1 (4.762%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (76.19%) Developer
2 15 (71.43%) .NET Developer
3 14 (66.67%) C# Developer
3 14 (66.67%) C# .NET Developer
4 8 (38.10%) Analyst
5 6 (28.57%) Senior Developer
5 6 (28.57%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (23.81%) Senior C# Developer
6 5 (23.81%) Senior .NET Developer
6 5 (23.81%) Senior Analyst Developer
6 5 (23.81%) Analyst Developer
6 5 (23.81%) ASP.NET Developer
6 5 (23.81%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (14.29%) Senior Support Analyst
7 3 (14.29%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (14.29%) Support Analyst
7 3 (14.29%) Test Analyst
8 1 (4.762%) Software Tester
8 1 (4.762%) Senior Test Analyst
8 1 (4.762%) Automation Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.762%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) UNIX
2 2 (9.524%) Windows
2 2 (9.524%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (4.762%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) UML
1 13 (61.90%) Unit Testing
1 13 (61.90%) Continuous Integration
2 11 (52.38%) ITIL
3 9 (42.86%) Service Delivery
4 8 (38.10%) ITSM
4 8 (38.10%) Service Management
5 2 (9.524%) Release Management
5 2 (9.524%) PRINCE2
5 2 (9.524%) Software Testing
5 2 (9.524%) Test Scripting
6 1 (4.762%) Performance Management
6 1 (4.762%) Waterfall
6 1 (4.762%) Test Strategy
6 1 (4.762%) Automation Testing
6 1 (4.762%) Incident Management
6 1 (4.762%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (4.762%) Integration Testing
6 1 (4.762%) Web Testing
6 1 (4.762%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) C#
2 16 (76.19%) SQL
3 13 (61.90%) VB
3 13 (61.90%) JavaScript
4 12 (57.14%) C++
4 12 (57.14%) Java
4 12 (57.14%) VB.NET
5 1 (4.762%) VB6
5 1 (4.762%) VBScript
5 1 (4.762%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) ISEB
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (38.10%) MCP
2 8 (38.10%) MCTS
2 8 (38.10%) MCPD
3 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 2 (9.524%) BC Cleared
4 2 (9.524%) ISEB Practitioner
5 1 (4.762%) MCSD
5 1 (4.762%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (4.762%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.762%) ISO 9000
1 1 (4.762%) TickIT
1 1 (4.762%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Oracle
2 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.762%) HP
3 1 (4.762%) SAP
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