The first table below looks at the demand for Team Foundation Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire 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 21 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 Wiltshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Rank 37 49 39
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -10
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 13 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 2.857% 0.644% 1.289%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.95% 6.667% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 5
Average daily rate £525 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.25% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £365 £314
% change year-on-year
-8.21% +16.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £30.75 £127.50
% change year-on-year
+4.87% -75.88%
All Development Applications
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
42 60 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 9.231% 9.662% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 41 32
Average daily rate £425 £330 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.78% -22.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £266 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £700 £450 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
Average hourly rate - £23.88 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -40.31%
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 Wiltshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Wiltshire Team Foundation Server Daily Rate Histogram

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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Swindon +8 11 £525 -
Corsham - 3 £600 -
Chippenham - 1 £220 -
Team Foundation Server
South West

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 17 (94.44%) C#
2 15 (83.33%) .NET
2 15 (83.33%) Web Services
2 15 (83.33%) WCF
3 14 (77.78%) Unit Testing
3 14 (77.78%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 13 (72.22%) Visual Studio
5 12 (66.67%) SQL Server
5 12 (66.67%) .NET Framework
6 10 (55.56%) jQuery
6 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
7 8 (44.44%) XML
7 8 (44.44%) XSLT
7 8 (44.44%) Silverlight
8 7 (38.89%) JSON
8 7 (38.89%) Agile Software Development
8 7 (38.89%) Scrum
8 7 (38.89%) Client/Server
9 6 (33.33%) ESRI
9 6 (33.33%) ArcGIS
9 6 (33.33%) ASP.NET
9 6 (33.33%) Windows
9 6 (33.33%) UML
9 6 (33.33%) IIS
9 6 (33.33%) Ajax
9 6 (33.33%) RIA
9 6 (33.33%) DV Cleared
9 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
9 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
9 6 (33.33%) Windows 7

Team Foundation Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 15 (83.33%) .NET
1 15 (83.33%) Web Services
1 15 (83.33%) WCF
2 14 (77.78%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 12 (66.67%) .NET Framework
4 10 (55.56%) jQuery
5 8 (44.44%) XML
5 8 (44.44%) XSLT
5 8 (44.44%) Silverlight
6 7 (38.89%) JSON
7 6 (33.33%) ASP.NET
7 6 (33.33%) Ajax
7 6 (33.33%) Managed Extensibility Framework
8 5 (27.78%) HTML
9 4 (22.22%) CSS
10 1 (5.556%) ADO.NET
10 1 (5.556%) HTML5
10 1 (5.556%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) ArcGIS
1 6 (33.33%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) Visual Studio
2 6 (33.33%) MSTest
2 6 (33.33%) Moq
3 1 (5.556%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (5.556%) Subversion
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Developer
2 12 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 7 (38.89%) C# Developer
3 7 (38.89%) Software Developer
4 6 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 6 (33.33%) Programmer
4 6 (33.33%) Software Programmer
4 6 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (27.78%) C# Programmer
5 5 (27.78%) .NET Programmer
6 2 (11.11%) .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) .NET Software Developer
6 2 (11.11%) C# Software Developer
6 2 (11.11%) C# Software Engineer
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Client/Server
2 6 (33.33%) RIA
3 1 (5.556%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
1 6 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Unit Testing
2 7 (38.89%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (38.89%) Scrum
3 6 (33.33%) UML
4 1 (5.556%) Migration
4 1 (5.556%) Configuration Management
4 1 (5.556%) MVC
4 1 (5.556%) Integration Testing
4 1 (5.556%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) C#
2 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 1 (5.556%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) ISO 9001
2 1 (5.556%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) ESRI
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.556%) VMware