The first table below looks at the demand for Team Foundation Server skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Team Foundation Server over the 3 months to 19 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.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Rank 191 244 248
Rank change year-on-year
+53 +4
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 499 411 442
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 1.037% 0.708% 0.710%
As % of the Development Applications category 9.438% 7.461% 6.616%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 228 248
Average daily rate £365 £365 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £262 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £358 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.29% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 4
Average hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £151.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -83.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.60 £19.20 £79.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.40 £46.25 £190.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £25.00 £190.00
% change year-on-year
+29.00% -86.84%
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5287 5509 6681
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.99% 9.493% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3305 3239 3901
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 213 289
Average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.75 £22.50 £26.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.80 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%

Team Foundation Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Team Foundation Server Daily Rate Histogram

Team Foundation Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Team Foundation Server within the UK.

Team Foundation Server Hourly Rate Trend

Team Foundation Server
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Team Foundation Server within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Team Foundation Server Hourly Rate Histogram

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +41 464 £370 +1.36% 183
London +51 211 £400 +9.58% 61
South East +31 114 £350 -6.66% 24
City of London +12 55 £400 +4.91% 17
East of England +56 50 £350 -12.43% 29
North West +30 28 £300 +30.43% 26
South West +26 27 £525 +31.25% 8
Buckinghamshire +16 23 £355 +18.15% 1
Berkshire +19 22 £345 +15.00% 3
Milton Keynes +25 21 £355 -
Wales +22 21 £313 +13.81% 2
Hertfordshire +38 19 £400 - 16
Cheshire +18 19 £290 +28.88% 10
Surrey +3 19 £325 -18.75% 6
West Midlands 0 18 £525 +59.09% 12
Yorkshire +5 16 £300 -11.76% 7
Hampshire -8 16 £350 -3.44% 3
Oxfordshire +14 14 £335 +24.65% 4
South Wales +13 14 £325 +23.80% 2
Wiltshire +13 14 £525 +16.66% 3
Essex +9 13 £285 +5.55%
East Sussex +13 12 £363 +11.53% 5
West Yorkshire +9 12 £300 - 4
Swindon +3 12 £563 -
Norfolk - 11 £350 - 4
Woking +2 9 £325 - 3
Birmingham +12 8 £600 +50.00% 7
Brighton +11 8 £340 +4.61% 5
Reading +1 8 £350 +16.66% 2
West Sussex +14 7 £340 -2.85%

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 616 (65.95%) .NET
2 599 (64.13%) C#
3 416 (44.54%) SQL Server
4 344 (36.83%) Microsoft
5 322 (34.48%) Visual Studio
6 319 (34.15%) SQL
7 314 (33.62%) ASP.NET
8 233 (24.95%) Agile Software Development
9 231 (24.73%) WCF
10 218 (23.34%) Windows
11 206 (22.06%) MVC
11 206 (22.06%) Scrum
12 198 (21.20%) JavaScript
13 196 (20.99%) .NET Framework
14 192 (20.56%) XML
15 185 (19.81%) TDD
16 172 (18.42%) Web Services
17 169 (18.09%) CSS
18 168 (17.99%) SharePoint
19 166 (17.77%) SQL Server 2008
20 158 (16.92%) jQuery
21 157 (16.81%) HTML
22 153 (16.38%) Finance
23 125 (13.38%) Oracle
24 115 (12.31%) ASP.NET MVC
25 97 (10.39%) IIS
26 94 (10.06%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
27 91 (9.743%) Continuous Integration
27 91 (9.743%) Java
28 84 (8.994%) BDD

Team Foundation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 616 (65.95%) .NET
2 314 (33.62%) ASP.NET
3 231 (24.73%) WCF
4 196 (20.99%) .NET Framework
5 192 (20.56%) XML
6 172 (18.42%) Web Services
7 169 (18.09%) CSS
8 158 (16.92%) jQuery
9 157 (16.81%) HTML
10 115 (12.31%) ASP.NET MVC
11 94 (10.06%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 82 (8.779%) Ajax
13 71 (7.602%) WPF
14 70 (7.495%) SOAP
15 59 (6.317%) HTML5
16 57 (6.103%) XSLT
17 52 (5.567%) LINQ
18 44 (4.711%) JSON
19 40 (4.283%) Silverlight
20 38 (4.069%) WF
Application Platforms
1 168 (17.99%) SharePoint
2 97 (10.39%) IIS
3 68 (7.281%) SharePoint 2010
4 37 (3.961%) Windows Azure
5 31 (3.319%) BizTalk Server
6 25 (2.677%) CMS
7 16 (1.713%) ESB
8 15 (1.606%) Google App Engine
9 11 (1.178%) Tomcat
9 11 (1.178%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 10 (1.071%) Confluence
11 9 (0.964%) Apache
12 8 (0.857%) SharePoint 2013
12 8 (0.857%) OpenROAD
12 8 (0.857%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.749%) TIBCO EMS
13 7 (0.749%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.749%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (0.642%) WebLogic
15 5 (0.535%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 78 (8.351%) MS Excel
2 30 (3.212%) MS Office
3 11 (1.178%) InfoPath
4 9 (0.964%) MS Project
5 7 (0.749%) Photoshop
6 4 (0.428%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.214%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.107%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 36 (3.854%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.535%) RMDS
3 3 (0.321%) TradeThru
4 2 (0.214%) SiteCatalyst
4 2 (0.214%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.107%) Tridion
5 1 (0.107%) assyst
5 1 (0.107%) Summit
5 1 (0.107%) Sage 1000
5 1 (0.107%) Google Analytics
5 1 (0.107%) Eikon
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.034%) HTTP
2 13 (1.392%) Firewall
2 13 (1.392%) Internet
3 12 (1.285%) HTTPS
4 8 (0.857%) SAN
5 3 (0.321%) LDAP
5 3 (0.321%) LAN
5 3 (0.321%) WAN
5 3 (0.321%) DNS
5 3 (0.321%) Intranet
6 2 (0.214%) Cisco PIX
6 2 (0.214%) DHCP
6 2 (0.214%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.214%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.107%) VPN
7 1 (0.107%) SSL
7 1 (0.107%) CTI
7 1 (0.107%) Extranet
7 1 (0.107%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 416 (44.54%) SQL Server
2 166 (17.77%) SQL Server 2008
3 66 (7.066%) SQL Server 2005
4 56 (5.996%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 51 (5.460%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 30 (3.212%) Data Warehouse
7 27 (2.891%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 25 (2.677%) SQL Server 2012
9 16 (1.713%) Oracle 11g
10 15 (1.606%) Oracle 10g
11 14 (1.499%) Crystal Reports
12 13 (1.392%) MySQL
12 13 (1.392%) Oracle 8/8i
13 12 (1.285%) Ingres
13 12 (1.285%) RDBMS
14 7 (0.749%) TOAD
15 6 (0.642%) NoSQL
16 5 (0.535%) Oracle Reports
16 5 (0.535%) InterSystems Cache
17 4 (0.428%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 322 (34.48%) Visual Studio
2 74 (7.923%) MSBuild
3 64 (6.852%) MSTest
4 58 (6.210%) Selenium
4 58 (6.210%) Subversion
5 54 (5.782%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 45 (4.818%) Jenkins
7 42 (4.497%) JIRA
8 41 (4.390%) NUnit
8 41 (4.390%) TeamCity
9 34 (3.640%) CruiseControl
10 30 (3.212%) SpecFlow
11 27 (2.891%) Eclipse
12 26 (2.784%) WebDriver
13 24 (2.570%) Rhino Mocks
14 17 (1.820%) Ant
14 17 (1.820%) Hudson
14 17 (1.820%) Git (software)
15 16 (1.713%) Visual Studio Team System
16 14 (1.499%) Moq
General
1 153 (16.38%) Finance
2 77 (8.244%) Banking
3 55 (5.889%) Retail
4 30 (3.212%) Investment Banking
5 22 (2.355%) Telecoms
6 18 (1.927%) Front Office
7 15 (1.606%) Marketing
7 15 (1.606%) Games
8 12 (1.285%) Back Office
9 10 (1.071%) Financial Institution
10 7 (0.749%) Advertising
11 5 (0.535%) Billing
12 4 (0.428%) Dutch Language
12 4 (0.428%) French Language
12 4 (0.428%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.321%) Publishing
14 2 (0.214%) Automotive
14 2 (0.214%) Law
14 2 (0.214%) Legal
14 2 (0.214%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 507 (54.28%) Developer
2 234 (25.05%) .NET Developer
3 153 (16.38%) Analyst
4 128 (13.70%) C# Developer
5 89 (9.529%) Test Analyst
6 87 (9.315%) C# .NET Developer
7 70 (7.495%) Senior Developer
8 59 (6.317%) Tester
9 58 (6.210%) ASP.NET Developer
10 49 (5.246%) Programmer
11 47 (5.032%) Software Developer
12 41 (4.390%) C# ASP.NET Developer
13 40 (4.283%) Build Engineer
13 40 (4.283%) Senior .NET Developer
14 39 (4.176%) SharePoint Developer
15 32 (3.426%) Software Engineer
15 32 (3.426%) Web Developer
16 22 (2.355%) Architect
17 20 (2.141%) .NET Programmer
18 19 (2.034%) Senior C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 42 (4.497%) N-Tier
2 29 (3.105%) Computer Science
3 27 (2.891%) Cloud Computing
4 26 (2.784%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (1.820%) NHS
6 15 (1.606%) Client/Server
6 15 (1.606%) Open Source
7 14 (1.499%) Social Media
8 10 (1.071%) Inversion of Control
8 10 (1.071%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (0.964%) RIA
10 8 (0.857%) Mathematics
11 7 (0.749%) Derivative
11 7 (0.749%) Data Integration
12 6 (0.642%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.642%) Physics
12 6 (0.642%) Blackberry
12 6 (0.642%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.535%) W3C
13 5 (0.535%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 218 (23.34%) Windows
2 54 (5.782%) Linux
3 47 (5.032%) UNIX
4 40 (4.283%) Windows Server 2008
5 33 (3.533%) Windows Server 2012
6 26 (2.784%) Windows 7
7 19 (2.034%) Android
8 17 (1.820%) Windows Server 2003
9 10 (1.071%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.964%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.749%) Solaris
12 6 (0.642%) Windows Phone
12 6 (0.642%) Debian
12 6 (0.642%) Windows XP
13 5 (0.535%) AIX
13 5 (0.535%) SUSE
14 4 (0.428%) Windows Phone 8
14 4 (0.428%) Windows 2000
15 3 (0.321%) bada
16 2 (0.214%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (24.95%) Agile Software Development
2 206 (22.06%) MVC
2 206 (22.06%) Scrum
3 185 (19.81%) TDD
4 91 (9.743%) Continuous Integration
5 84 (8.994%) BDD
5 84 (8.994%) Unit Testing
6 66 (7.066%) Workflow
7 63 (6.745%) OO
8 61 (6.531%) SOA
9 57 (6.103%) UML
10 54 (5.782%) CRM
11 53 (5.675%) Automated Testing
12 46 (4.925%) Test Automation
13 43 (4.604%) ITIL
14 40 (4.283%) MVVM
15 38 (4.069%) Software Testing
15 38 (4.069%) User Acceptance Testing
16 37 (3.961%) Configuration Management
17 36 (3.854%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 599 (64.13%) C#
2 319 (34.15%) SQL
3 198 (21.20%) JavaScript
4 91 (9.743%) Java
5 80 (8.565%) T-SQL
6 56 (5.996%) VB.NET
6 56 (5.996%) C++
7 54 (5.782%) VB
7 54 (5.782%) PowerShell
8 37 (3.961%) PL/SQL
9 30 (3.212%) C
10 21 (2.248%) VB6
11 20 (2.141%) Python
12 18 (1.927%) Lua
13 11 (1.178%) VBScript
14 9 (0.964%) XPath
15 8 (0.857%) VBA
15 8 (0.857%) Perl
16 7 (0.749%) XQuery
17 6 (0.642%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 64 (6.852%) Degree
2 46 (4.925%) Security Cleared
3 37 (3.961%) SC Cleared
4 35 (3.747%) ISEB
5 23 (2.463%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (1.927%) MCP
7 15 (1.606%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.178%) ISTQB
8 11 (1.178%) MCPD
8 11 (1.178%) MCTS
9 5 (0.535%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.428%) MCAD
11 3 (0.321%) MCSD
11 3 (0.321%) BC Cleared
12 2 (0.214%) MCITP
12 2 (0.214%) ISEB Practitioner
12 2 (0.214%) HNC
13 1 (0.107%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.107%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.107%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.281%) QA
2 7 (0.749%) ISO 9001
3 6 (0.642%) SLA
4 5 (0.535%) TickIT
4 5 (0.535%) HL7
5 4 (0.428%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.214%) Dublin Core
6 2 (0.214%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.107%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.107%) WCAG
7 1 (0.107%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (1.820%) Active Directory
1 17 (1.820%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (1.606%) Hyper-V
3 11 (1.178%) XenApp
4 7 (0.749%) vCloud
5 5 (0.535%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.214%) Forefront TMG
6 2 (0.214%) UAG
6 2 (0.214%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.214%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.214%) Xen
6 2 (0.214%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.107%) XenServer
7 1 (0.107%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 36 (3.854%) HP Quality Center
2 24 (2.570%) Puppet
3 9 (0.964%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 9 (0.964%) BladeLogic
4 7 (0.749%) DameWare
4 7 (0.749%) WSUS
4 7 (0.749%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 6 (0.642%) SCCM
6 4 (0.428%) Splunk
6 4 (0.428%) WMI
7 2 (0.214%) Tivoli
7 2 (0.214%) Foglight
Vendors
1 344 (36.83%) Microsoft
2 125 (13.38%) Oracle
3 39 (4.176%) VMware
4 34 (3.640%) HP
5 19 (2.034%) Citrix
6 17 (1.820%) Business Objects
6 17 (1.820%) Google
7 16 (1.713%) Bloomberg
8 15 (1.606%) IBM
9 13 (1.392%) Serena
10 11 (1.178%) TIBCO
11 10 (1.071%) Reuters
12 8 (0.857%) Twitter
12 8 (0.857%) ESRI
12 8 (0.857%) SunGard
13 7 (0.749%) JBoss
13 7 (0.749%) Salesforce.com
13 7 (0.749%) BMC
13 7 (0.749%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.749%) Remedy
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Rate: £200 - £350 per day
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Woking, Surrey
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City, London
Sanderson
Rate: £350 - £425 per day
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Oxfordshire, South East
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Manchester, North West
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Central London / West End
Initi8 Recruitment
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Newport, Gwent
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London
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West Malling, Kent
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London
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Brighton, South East
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City of London
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Brighton, East Sussex
Vivid Resourcing Ltd
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Brighton, South East
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City of London
Sand Resources
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London
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London
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London
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