Team Foundation Server Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Team Foundation Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Team Foundation Server over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) UK / England
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	182	193	198
Rank change year-on-year	+11	+5
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server	615	662	628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.42%	1.33%	1.25%
As % of the Development Applications category	8.04%	8.51%	9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted	439	457	430
Median daily rate	£400	£400	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£313	£305
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£500	£477
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	-	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	7	7	0
Median hourly rate	£43.50	£42.50	-
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+2.35%	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£43.50	£42.50	£42.50
% change year-on-year	+2.35%	-

Team Foundation Server is in the development application skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract Development Application Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills	7654	7779	6772
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	17.70%	15.69%	13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted	5234	5421	4527
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£315	£293
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£550	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£413	£400	£363
% change year-on-year	+3.12%	+10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted	139	125	102
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£42.35	£37.45
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+0.35%	+13.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£32.50	£26.00	£22.18
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£61.69	£50.00	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£43.25	£42.00	£37.04
% change year-on-year	+2.97%	+13.39%

Team Foundation Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Team Foundation Server as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Development Applications category.

Job vacancy trend for Team Foundation Server in England

Team Foundation Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Team Foundation Server in England

Team Foundation Server
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Team Foundation Server in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Team Foundation Server in England

Team Foundation Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for Team Foundation Server in England

Team Foundation Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Team Foundation Server in England over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Team Foundation Server in England

Team Foundation Server
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Team Foundation Server within the England region over the 3 months to 27 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	+44	272	£450	+1.12%	51
South East	-3	150	£386	-3.43%	58
South West	+24	76	£385	+10.00%	19
East of England	+13	44	£375	-14.28%	13
Yorkshire	+19	22	£320	-24.70%	12
East Midlands	-21	18	£338	-3.57%	10
North West	-15	17	£363	-9.37%	27
West Midlands	-20	12	£334	-4.64%	18
North East	+61	2	£500	+52.67%	1
Team Foundation Server UK

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Team Foundation Server also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Team Foundation Server.

1	788 (58.20%)	.NET
2	681 (50.30%)	C#
3	644 (47.56%)	Agile Software Development
4	615 (45.42%)	SQL Server
5	550 (40.62%)	SQL
6	545 (40.25%)	Microsoft
7	357 (26.37%)	MVC
8	338 (24.96%)	JavaScript
8	338 (24.96%)	ASP.NET
9	313 (23.12%)	Visual Studio
10	290 (21.42%)	Scrum
11	270 (19.94%)	Test Automation
12	265 (19.57%)	TDD
13	263 (19.42%)	CSS
13	263 (19.42%)	Microsoft Azure

14	260 (19.20%)	Web Services
15	255 (18.83%)	Finance
16	249 (18.39%)	Windows
17	247 (18.24%)	.NET Framework
18	242 (17.87%)	HTML
19	229 (16.91%)	Continuous Integration
20	220 (16.25%)	Git (software)
21	208 (15.36%)	jQuery
22	203 (14.99%)	DevOps
23	187 (13.81%)	WCF
24	178 (13.15%)	XML
25	170 (12.56%)	SQL Server Integration Services
25	170 (12.56%)	PowerShell
26	168 (12.41%)	T-SQL
27	164 (12.11%)	Entity Framework

Team Foundation Server
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	141 (10.41%)	SharePoint
2	129 (9.53%)	IIS
3	81 (5.98%)	CMS
4	40 (2.95%)	BizTalk Server
5	36 (2.66%)	Confluence
6	29 (2.14%)	Sitecore CMS
7	27 (1.99%)	Umbraco
8	25 (1.85%)	SharePoint 2013
9	21 (1.55%)	SharePoint 2010
10	18 (1.33%)	Tomcat
11	16 (1.18%)	WebSphere
12	14 (1.03%)	nginx
13	13 (0.96%)	ColdFusion
14	12 (0.89%)	Elasticsearch
15	11 (0.81%)	Apache
15	11 (0.81%)	EPiServer
15	11 (0.81%)	OpenStack
16	9 (0.66%)	NServiceBus
16	9 (0.66%)	Railo
17	8 (0.59%)	MS Project Server

Applications
1	33 (2.44%)	Microsoft Excel
2	32 (2.36%)	Microsoft Office
3	18 (1.33%)	MS Visio
4	10 (0.74%)	Spreadsheet
5	8 (0.59%)	Microsoft Project
6	3 (0.22%)	Adobe Illustrator
6	3 (0.22%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	3 (0.22%)	Photoshop
7	2 (0.15%)	Adobe Creative Suite
8	1 (0.074%)	Acrobat
8	1 (0.074%)	InfoPath
8	1 (0.074%)	Mingle

Business Applications
1	71 (5.24%)	Dynamics CRM
2	28 (2.07%)	Dynamics AX
3	16 (1.18%)	Oracle Applications
4	9 (0.66%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	6 (0.44%)	Endur
6	5 (0.37%)	SimCorp Dimension
7	4 (0.30%)	Cognos TM1
7	4 (0.30%)	Eloqua
7	4 (0.30%)	SystmOne
8	3 (0.22%)	Dynamics NAV
9	2 (0.15%)	FastStats
9	2 (0.15%)	Kondor
9	2 (0.15%)	Remedy ITSM
9	2 (0.15%)	SAP CRM
10	1 (0.074%)	BPCS
10	1 (0.074%)	Maximo
10	1 (0.074%)	Primavera

Cloud Services
1	263 (19.42%)	Microsoft Azure
2	79 (5.83%)	Amazon AWS
3	44 (3.25%)	PaaS
4	34 (2.51%)	IaaS
5	21 (1.55%)	Office 365
6	20 (1.48%)	OpenShift
7	14 (1.03%)	GitHub
8	10 (0.74%)	Cloud Computing
8	10 (0.74%)	SaaS
9	9 (0.66%)	Dynamics 365
10	7 (0.52%)	Akamai
11	4 (0.30%)	Amazon CloudWatch
11	4 (0.30%)	AWS CloudFormation
11	4 (0.30%)	Azure Active Directory
12	3 (0.22%)	Amazon EC2
12	3 (0.22%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
12	3 (0.22%)	Datadog
12	3 (0.22%)	Google Cloud Platform
12	3 (0.22%)	Slack
12	3 (0.22%)	Virtual Private Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	26 (1.92%)	HTTP
1	26 (1.92%)	Internet
2	23 (1.70%)	PuTTY
2	23 (1.70%)	WinSCP
3	17 (1.26%)	Extranet
4	14 (1.03%)	SAN
5	12 (0.89%)	DNS
5	12 (0.89%)	NAS
5	12 (0.89%)	TCP/IP
6	9 (0.66%)	LAN
6	9 (0.66%)	VPN
7	8 (0.59%)	Firewall
8	7 (0.52%)	LDAP
9	6 (0.44%)	Network Security
10	5 (0.37%)	WAN
11	4 (0.30%)	HTTPS
11	4 (0.30%)	Intranet
11	4 (0.30%)	Kerberos
11	4 (0.30%)	SMTP
11	4 (0.30%)	SNMP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	615 (45.42%)	SQL Server
2	170 (12.56%)	SQL Server Integration Services
3	136 (10.04%)	SQL Server 2008
4	131 (9.68%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
5	117 (8.64%)	Data Warehouse
6	97 (7.16%)	SQL Server 2012
7	77 (5.69%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
8	71 (5.24%)	SQL Server 2014
9	55 (4.06%)	Relational Database
10	53 (3.91%)	Oracle Database
11	47 (3.47%)	SQL Server 2016
12	40 (2.95%)	NoSQL
13	36 (2.66%)	MongoDB
14	35 (2.58%)	SQL Server 2005
15	33 (2.44%)	MySQL
16	32 (2.36%)	Oracle Database 11g
17	29 (2.14%)	Power BI
18	27 (1.99%)	Big Data
18	27 (1.99%)	Oracle Database 10g
19	24 (1.77%)	Redis

Development Applications
1	313 (23.12%)	Visual Studio
2	220 (16.25%)	Git (software)
3	141 (10.41%)	Jenkins
4	130 (9.60%)	JIRA
5	102 (7.53%)	TeamCity
6	93 (6.87%)	Selenium
7	72 (5.32%)	MSBuild
8	66 (4.87%)	SpecFlow
9	59 (4.36%)	Octopus Deploy
10	57 (4.21%)	Subversion
11	54 (3.99%)	NUnit
12	52 (3.84%)	Maven
13	45 (3.32%)	HP UFT
14	41 (3.03%)	Atlassian Bamboo
14	41 (3.03%)	Visual Studio Team System
15	38 (2.81%)	Hudson
16	36 (2.66%)	MSTest
17	34 (2.51%)	Cucumber
18	33 (2.44%)	Moq
19	29 (2.14%)	Ant

General
1	255 (18.83%)	Finance
2	65 (4.80%)	Banking
3	25 (1.85%)	Legal
4	24 (1.77%)	Front Office
4	24 (1.77%)	Retail
5	23 (1.70%)	Publishing
6	21 (1.55%)	Marketing
7	18 (1.33%)	Financial Institution
8	16 (1.18%)	Back Office
9	14 (1.03%)	Telecoms
10	13 (0.96%)	Advertising
11	12 (0.89%)	Investment Banking
12	10 (0.74%)	Manufacturing
13	9 (0.66%)	Electronics
13	9 (0.66%)	Law
14	4 (0.30%)	Games
14	4 (0.30%)	Military
15	3 (0.22%)	Billing
15	3 (0.22%)	Corporate Banking
16	2 (0.15%)	Private Banking

Job Titles
1	773 (57.09%)	Developer
2	351 (25.92%)	.NET Developer
3	219 (16.17%)	C# Developer
4	157 (11.60%)	Analyst
5	147 (10.86%)	C# .NET Developer
6	114 (8.42%)	SQL Developer
7	81 (5.98%)	DevOps Engineer
8	72 (5.32%)	Tester
9	69 (5.10%)	Test Analyst
10	65 (4.80%)	Consultant
11	63 (4.65%)	ASP.NET Developer
12	60 (4.43%)	Software Developer
13	45 (3.32%)	Senior Developer
14	44 (3.25%)	ASP.NET MVC Developer
14	44 (3.25%)	Full Stack Developer
15	39 (2.88%)	Java Developer
16	38 (2.81%)	Business Intelligence Developer
16	38 (2.81%)	WPF Developer
17	35 (2.58%)	C# ASP.NET Developer
17	35 (2.58%)	Microsoft Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	788 (58.20%)	.NET
2	338 (24.96%)	ASP.NET
3	263 (19.42%)	CSS
4	260 (19.20%)	Web Services
5	247 (18.24%)	.NET Framework
6	242 (17.87%)	HTML
7	208 (15.36%)	jQuery
8	187 (13.81%)	WCF
9	178 (13.15%)	XML
10	164 (12.11%)	Entity Framework
11	154 (11.37%)	ASP.NET MVC
12	148 (10.93%)	ASP.NET Web API
13	131 (9.68%)	AngularJS
14	118 (8.71%)	HTML5
15	98 (7.24%)	WPF
16	94 (6.94%)	LINQ
17	91 (6.72%)	RESTful
18	78 (5.76%)	REST
19	74 (5.47%)	JSON
20	61 (4.51%)	Ajax

Miscellaneous
1	110 (8.12%)	Analytical Skills
2	73 (5.39%)	Greenfield Project
3	58 (4.28%)	Algorithms
4	46 (3.40%)	User Experience
5	38 (2.81%)	Management Information System
6	27 (1.99%)	Client/Server
7	25 (1.85%)	Enterprise Software
8	24 (1.77%)	Computer Science
8	24 (1.77%)	Mobile App
8	24 (1.77%)	W3C
9	21 (1.55%)	N-Tier
10	20 (1.48%)	Credit Risk
11	18 (1.33%)	Clustering
11	18 (1.33%)	Replication
12	14 (1.03%)	Derivative
12	14 (1.03%)	Online Banking
13	13 (0.96%)	Market Risk
13	13 (0.96%)	NHS
14	12 (0.89%)	Data Structures
14	12 (0.89%)	Enterprise Storage

Operating Systems
1	249 (18.39%)	Windows
2	119 (8.79%)	Linux
3	92 (6.79%)	Windows Server
4	44 (3.25%)	Windows Server 2012
5	39 (2.88%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	33 (2.44%)	Unix
7	22 (1.62%)	CentOS
8	20 (1.48%)	Solaris
8	20 (1.48%)	Ubuntu
9	17 (1.26%)	Windows Server 2008
10	14 (1.03%)	Android
11	13 (0.96%)	Apple iOS
11	13 (0.96%)	Windows Server 2003
12	6 (0.44%)	Windows 10
13	5 (0.37%)	Debian
14	4 (0.30%)	Oracle Linux
15	3 (0.22%)	Windows 7
16	1 (0.074%)	Windows 8
16	1 (0.074%)	Windows Mobile

Processes & Methodologies
1	644 (47.56%)	Agile Software Development
2	357 (26.37%)	MVC
3	290 (21.42%)	Scrum
4	270 (19.94%)	Test Automation
5	265 (19.57%)	TDD
6	229 (16.91%)	Continuous Integration
7	203 (14.99%)	DevOps
8	150 (11.08%)	Business Intelligence
9	143 (10.56%)	BDD
10	119 (8.79%)	Web Development
11	117 (8.64%)	SDLC
12	114 (8.42%)	Unit Testing
13	99 (7.31%)	Migration
14	96 (7.09%)	ETL
15	89 (6.57%)	CRM
16	88 (6.50%)	Release Management
17	86 (6.35%)	Software Engineering
18	84 (6.20%)	Data Modelling
19	74 (5.47%)	Data Management
20	71 (5.24%)	SOLID

Programming Languages
1	681 (50.30%)	C#
2	550 (40.62%)	SQL
3	338 (24.96%)	JavaScript
4	170 (12.56%)	PowerShell
5	168 (12.41%)	T-SQL
6	152 (11.23%)	Java
7	52 (3.84%)	VB.NET
8	51 (3.77%)	Python
9	49 (3.62%)	TypeScript
10	35 (2.58%)	F#
10	35 (2.58%)	VB
11	24 (1.77%)	C
11	24 (1.77%)	Perl
12	22 (1.62%)	Ruby
13	20 (1.48%)	C++
14	16 (1.18%)	Bash Shell
15	13 (0.96%)	PL/SQL
16	12 (0.89%)	VBA
16	12 (0.89%)	VBScript
17	11 (0.81%)	VB6

Qualifications
1	125 (9.23%)	Security Cleared
2	88 (6.50%)	SC Cleared
3	62 (4.58%)	Degree
4	55 (4.06%)	ISTQB
5	49 (3.62%)	ISEB
6	27 (1.99%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
7	15 (1.11%)	ISEB Practitioner
7	15 (1.11%)	Microsoft Certification
8	13 (0.96%)	Computer Science Degree
9	10 (0.74%)	MCITP
9	10 (0.74%)	MCSE
10	8 (0.59%)	ITIL Certification
11	7 (0.52%)	BPSS Clearance
11	7 (0.52%)	CESG Certified Professional
11	7 (0.52%)	CLAS
12	5 (0.37%)	CFA
12	5 (0.37%)	CISSP
12	5 (0.37%)	CTC Cleared
12	5 (0.37%)	DV Cleared
12	5 (0.37%)	HNC

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	83 (6.13%)	QA
2	19 (1.40%)	Data Quality
3	12 (0.89%)	Dodd-Frank
3	12 (0.89%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	8 (0.59%)	WCAG
5	6 (0.44%)	ISO 9001
5	6 (0.44%)	JSP 440
6	4 (0.30%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	3 (0.22%)	SLA
8	2 (0.15%)	ISO 8583
8	2 (0.15%)	PCI DSS
8	2 (0.15%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
9	1 (0.074%)	GCP
9	1 (0.074%)	IFRS
9	1 (0.074%)	MiFID
9	1 (0.074%)	PMO

System Software
1	56 (4.14%)	Docker
2	36 (2.66%)	Active Directory
3	19 (1.40%)	Virtual Machines
3	19 (1.40%)	vSphere
4	16 (1.18%)	VMware Infrastructure
5	11 (0.81%)	Veritas Cluster Server
5	11 (0.81%)	Veritas File System
6	10 (0.74%)	Hyper-V
7	7 (0.52%)	Gluster
8	6 (0.44%)	Oracle RAC
9	5 (0.37%)	Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10	4 (0.30%)	Terminal Services
11	3 (0.22%)	Apache Flume
11	3 (0.22%)	KVM
12	2 (0.15%)	GridGain
12	2 (0.15%)	HDFS
12	2 (0.15%)	LXC
12	2 (0.15%)	XenServer
13	1 (0.074%)	Shibboleth
13	1 (0.074%)	XenApp

Systems Management
1	57 (4.21%)	Opscode Chef
2	47 (3.47%)	Puppet
3	46 (3.40%)	Ansible
4	19 (1.40%)	vRealize
5	18 (1.33%)	HP Quality Center
6	13 (0.96%)	Kubernetes
7	11 (0.81%)	NetBackup
8	9 (0.66%)	Terraform
9	8 (0.59%)	Microsoft Clustering
9	8 (0.59%)	Nagios
10	6 (0.44%)	Tivoli
11	5 (0.37%)	Dollar Universe
11	5 (0.37%)	Graphite
12	4 (0.30%)	Salt
12	4 (0.30%)	SCCM
13	3 (0.22%)	Rundeck
13	3 (0.22%)	WSUS
13	3 (0.22%)	ZABBIX
14	2 (0.15%)	Forefront Identity Manager
14	2 (0.15%)	SCOrch

Vendors
1	545 (40.25%)	Microsoft
2	142 (10.49%)	Oracle
3	59 (4.36%)	HP
4	56 (4.14%)	Red Hat
5	41 (3.03%)	Sitecore
6	37 (2.73%)	VMware
7	27 (1.99%)	SAP
8	25 (1.85%)	Atlassian
9	24 (1.77%)	Telerik
10	18 (1.33%)	IBM
11	16 (1.18%)	Serena
12	15 (1.11%)	Apple
12	15 (1.11%)	Splunk
13	14 (1.03%)	Remedy
14	13 (0.96%)	Salesforce.com
15	12 (0.89%)	Xamarin
16	11 (0.81%)	Infragistics
16	11 (0.81%)	Sun
16	11 (0.81%)	Symantec
16	11 (0.81%)	Veritas