Team Foundation Server Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 24 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) England / London
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	184	230	184
Rank change year-on-year	+46	-46
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server	276	207	281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	1.35%	0.95%	1.20%
As % of the Development Applications category	7.20%	5.51%	8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted	199	145	190
Median daily rate	£450	£430	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+4.65%	+1.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£348	£350	£315
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£563	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	-	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Median hourly rate	-	-	-
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 London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract Development Application Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills	3831	3757	3282
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	18.74%	17.33%	14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted	2800	2818	2356
Median daily rate	£488	£450	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+8.33%	+5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£338	£313
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£413	£400	£363
% change year-on-year	+3.12%	+10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted	20	7	17
Median hourly rate	£40.00	£43.75	£30.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-8.57%	+45.83%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£31.50	£42.10	£22.18
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£53.88	£104.35	£45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£43.25	£42.13	£37.00
% change year-on-year	+2.67%	+13.85%

Team Foundation Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London 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 London

Team Foundation Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate trend for Team Foundation Server in London

Team Foundation Server
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Team Foundation Server in London over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Team Foundation Server in London

Team Foundation Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for Team Foundation Server in London

Team Foundation Server
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London	+34	66	£413	-12.00%	13
Kingston Upon Thames	-5	10	£370	-17.77%	1
Brentford	-	3	£425	-
Harrow	-	1	£425	-	1
Uxbridge	-	1	£425	-	1
Greenwich	-	1	£410	-
Team Foundation Server England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 London region with a requirement for Team Foundation Server.

1	284 (50.71%)	Agile Software Development
2	277 (49.46%)	.NET
3	238 (42.50%)	Microsoft
4	237 (42.32%)	SQL Server
5	229 (40.89%)	SQL
5	229 (40.89%)	C#
6	165 (29.46%)	Microsoft Azure
7	159 (28.39%)	Finance
8	130 (23.21%)	TDD
8	130 (23.21%)	Continuous Integration
9	127 (22.68%)	Visual Studio
10	126 (22.50%)	DevOps
11	123 (21.96%)	Scrum
12	120 (21.43%)	MVC
13	115 (20.54%)	Windows

14	114 (20.36%)	PowerShell
15	106 (18.93%)	JavaScript
16	103 (18.39%)	ASP.NET
17	99 (17.68%)	CSS
18	97 (17.32%)	Git (software)
19	95 (16.96%)	HTML
20	94 (16.79%)	Test Automation
21	93 (16.61%)	SQL Server Integration Services
22	85 (15.18%)	Web Services
23	82 (14.64%)	Jenkins
24	81 (14.46%)	T-SQL
25	80 (14.29%)	Business Intelligence
25	80 (14.29%)	JIRA
26	79 (14.11%)	WCF
26	79 (14.11%)	jQuery

Team Foundation Server
Co-occurring IT Skills in London 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	66 (11.79%)	SharePoint
2	63 (11.25%)	IIS
3	25 (4.46%)	BizTalk Server
4	21 (3.75%)	CMS
5	16 (2.86%)	Confluence
6	12 (2.14%)	Tomcat
7	11 (1.96%)	Sitecore CMS
7	11 (1.96%)	WebSphere
8	9 (1.61%)	Apache
9	7 (1.25%)	nginx
10	6 (1.07%)	EPiServer
10	6 (1.07%)	MS Project Server
10	6 (1.07%)	OpenStack
10	6 (1.07%)	Umbraco
11	5 (0.89%)	SharePoint 2010
12	4 (0.71%)	SharePoint 2013
12	4 (0.71%)	Skype for Business
13	2 (0.36%)	Apache Pig
13	2 (0.36%)	Apache Solr
13	2 (0.36%)	Apache Spark

Applications
1	24 (4.29%)	Microsoft Office
2	20 (3.57%)	Microsoft Excel
3	14 (2.50%)	MS Visio
4	7 (1.25%)	Spreadsheet
5	6 (1.07%)	Microsoft Project
6	3 (0.54%)	Adobe Illustrator
6	3 (0.54%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	3 (0.54%)	Photoshop
7	1 (0.18%)	Acrobat
7	1 (0.18%)	InfoPath
7	1 (0.18%)	Mingle

Business Applications
1	53 (9.46%)	Dynamics CRM
2	27 (4.82%)	Dynamics AX
3	6 (1.07%)	Endur
4	5 (0.89%)	SimCorp Dimension
5	4 (0.71%)	Eloqua
5	4 (0.71%)	SystmOne
6	3 (0.54%)	Cognos TM1
7	2 (0.36%)	FastStats
7	2 (0.36%)	Kondor
7	2 (0.36%)	SAP CRM
7	2 (0.36%)	SAP Oil and Gas
8	1 (0.18%)	Oracle Applications
8	1 (0.18%)	Remedy ITSM

Cloud Services
1	165 (29.46%)	Microsoft Azure
2	55 (9.82%)	Amazon AWS
3	34 (6.07%)	PaaS
4	26 (4.64%)	IaaS
5	16 (2.86%)	OpenShift
6	12 (2.14%)	GitHub
7	9 (1.61%)	Office 365
8	6 (1.07%)	Akamai
8	6 (1.07%)	Dynamics 365
8	6 (1.07%)	SaaS
9	4 (0.71%)	Amazon CloudWatch
9	4 (0.71%)	AWS CloudFormation
9	4 (0.71%)	Cloud Computing
10	3 (0.54%)	Amazon EC2
10	3 (0.54%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
10	3 (0.54%)	Datadog
10	3 (0.54%)	Virtual Private Cloud
11	2 (0.36%)	Azure Active Directory
11	2 (0.36%)	Loggly
11	2 (0.36%)	Slack

Communications & Networking
1	19 (3.39%)	HTTP
2	17 (3.04%)	Extranet
3	8 (1.43%)	TCP/IP
4	5 (0.89%)	DNS
4	5 (0.89%)	Firewall
4	5 (0.89%)	Internet
4	5 (0.89%)	LAN
4	5 (0.89%)	WAN
5	4 (0.71%)	HTTPS
5	4 (0.71%)	Intranet
5	4 (0.71%)	LDAP
5	4 (0.71%)	Multicast
5	4 (0.71%)	VPN
5	4 (0.71%)	Wireshark
5	4 (0.71%)	X.509
6	3 (0.54%)	DHCP
6	3 (0.54%)	NetScaler
6	3 (0.54%)	Network Security
6	3 (0.54%)	VoIP
6	3 (0.54%)	Wireless

Database & Business Intelligence
1	237 (42.32%)	SQL Server
2	93 (16.61%)	SQL Server Integration Services
3	63 (11.25%)	SQL Server 2008
3	63 (11.25%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
4	48 (8.57%)	Data Warehouse
5	43 (7.68%)	SQL Server 2012
6	42 (7.50%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
7	36 (6.43%)	Relational Database
8	24 (4.29%)	MongoDB
9	22 (3.93%)	NoSQL
9	22 (3.93%)	Redis
9	22 (3.93%)	SQL Server 2014
10	17 (3.04%)	MySQL
11	14 (2.50%)	Big Data
11	14 (2.50%)	Oracle Database
11	14 (2.50%)	Power BI
12	13 (2.32%)	SQL Server 2005
12	13 (2.32%)	SQL Server 2016
13	11 (1.96%)	Enterprise Data Warehouse
13	11 (1.96%)	Microsoft Analysis Services

Development Applications
1	127 (22.68%)	Visual Studio
2	97 (17.32%)	Git (software)
3	82 (14.64%)	Jenkins
4	80 (14.29%)	JIRA
5	58 (10.36%)	TeamCity
6	42 (7.50%)	Octopus Deploy
7	38 (6.79%)	Subversion
8	36 (6.43%)	MSBuild
9	35 (6.25%)	Atlassian Bamboo
10	31 (5.54%)	Selenium
11	29 (5.18%)	Maven
12	26 (4.64%)	Visual Studio Team System
13	22 (3.93%)	Cucumber
13	22 (3.93%)	Hudson
14	18 (3.21%)	Sonatype Nexus
14	18 (3.21%)	VSS/SourceSafe
15	17 (3.04%)	Artifactory
15	17 (3.04%)	NUnit
16	15 (2.68%)	JUnit
17	13 (2.32%)	gulp

General
1	159 (28.39%)	Finance
2	50 (8.93%)	Banking
3	25 (4.46%)	Front Office
4	16 (2.86%)	Retail
5	14 (2.50%)	Publishing
6	13 (2.32%)	Financial Institution
7	11 (1.96%)	Back Office
8	10 (1.79%)	Investment Banking
9	9 (1.61%)	Law
9	9 (1.61%)	Legal
9	9 (1.61%)	Marketing
10	6 (1.07%)	Advertising
11	3 (0.54%)	Corporate Banking
12	2 (0.36%)	Electronics
12	2 (0.36%)	Manufacturing
12	2 (0.36%)	Private Banking
12	2 (0.36%)	Retail Banking
12	2 (0.36%)	Telecoms
13	1 (0.18%)	Local Government

Job Titles
1	318 (56.79%)	Developer
2	111 (19.82%)	.NET Developer
3	85 (15.18%)	C# Developer
4	77 (13.75%)	Analyst
5	55 (9.82%)	DevOps Engineer
6	47 (8.39%)	C# .NET Developer
7	30 (5.36%)	SQL Developer
8	28 (5.00%)	Full Stack Developer
9	26 (4.64%)	Business Analyst
10	25 (4.46%)	Consultant
10	25 (4.46%)	Java Developer
10	25 (4.46%)	Microsoft Developer
11	22 (3.93%)	Dynamics AX Developer
11	22 (3.93%)	Software Developer
12	21 (3.75%)	Azure Engineer
12	21 (3.75%)	SharePoint Developer
13	20 (3.57%)	Azure DevOps
14	19 (3.39%)	Azure DevOps Engineer
15	18 (3.21%)	C# Software Developer
15	18 (3.21%)	Software Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	277 (49.46%)	.NET
2	103 (18.39%)	ASP.NET
3	99 (17.68%)	CSS
4	95 (16.96%)	HTML
5	85 (15.18%)	Web Services
6	79 (14.11%)	jQuery
6	79 (14.11%)	WCF
7	69 (12.32%)	.NET Framework
7	69 (12.32%)	XML
8	63 (11.25%)	AngularJS
9	49 (8.75%)	ASP.NET MVC
10	48 (8.57%)	ASP.NET Web API
10	48 (8.57%)	HTML5
11	42 (7.50%)	RESTful
12	32 (5.71%)	CSS3
13	29 (5.18%)	Entity Framework
14	26 (4.64%)	WPF
15	24 (4.29%)	REST
16	23 (4.11%)	Elastic Stack
17	21 (3.75%)	Spring

Miscellaneous
1	67 (11.96%)	Analytical Skills
2	32 (5.71%)	Greenfield Project
3	20 (3.57%)	User Experience
4	19 (3.39%)	Credit Risk
5	17 (3.04%)	Management Information System
6	15 (2.68%)	Computer Science
7	13 (2.32%)	Derivative
7	13 (2.32%)	Market Risk
7	13 (2.32%)	Online Banking
8	12 (2.14%)	Enterprise Software
9	11 (1.96%)	Clustering
10	10 (1.79%)	N-Tier
11	9 (1.61%)	Client/Server
11	9 (1.61%)	Fixed Income
12	8 (1.43%)	Data Structures
12	8 (1.43%)	e-Learning
12	8 (1.43%)	Learning Management System
12	8 (1.43%)	Replication
13	7 (1.25%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
13	7 (1.25%)	W3C

Operating Systems
1	115 (20.54%)	Windows
2	51 (9.11%)	Linux
3	31 (5.54%)	Windows Server
4	15 (2.68%)	Ubuntu
5	14 (2.50%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	12 (2.14%)	Windows Server 2012
7	10 (1.79%)	Windows Server 2008
8	9 (1.61%)	CentOS
9	8 (1.43%)	Unix
10	7 (1.25%)	Windows Server 2003
11	5 (0.89%)	Solaris
11	5 (0.89%)	Windows 10
12	2 (0.36%)	Windows 7
13	1 (0.18%)	Android
13	1 (0.18%)	CoreOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	284 (50.71%)	Agile Software Development
2	130 (23.21%)	Continuous Integration
2	130 (23.21%)	TDD
3	126 (22.50%)	DevOps
4	123 (21.96%)	Scrum
5	120 (21.43%)	MVC
6	94 (16.79%)	Test Automation
7	80 (14.29%)	Business Intelligence
8	63 (11.25%)	BDD
9	62 (11.07%)	SDLC
10	57 (10.18%)	CRM
11	55 (9.82%)	Configuration Management
12	54 (9.64%)	Release Management
13	52 (9.29%)	Web Development
14	51 (9.11%)	Unit Testing
15	47 (8.39%)	ETL
16	42 (7.50%)	Data Modelling
17	40 (7.14%)	Microservices
17	40 (7.14%)	Software Engineering
18	38 (6.79%)	SOLID

Programming Languages
1	229 (40.89%)	C#
1	229 (40.89%)	SQL
2	114 (20.36%)	PowerShell
3	106 (18.93%)	JavaScript
4	81 (14.46%)	T-SQL
5	73 (13.04%)	Java
6	27 (4.82%)	Python
7	23 (4.11%)	Perl
8	20 (3.57%)	TypeScript
9	15 (2.68%)	VB.NET
10	14 (2.50%)	VB
11	11 (1.96%)	C
11	11 (1.96%)	C++
12	10 (1.79%)	VBA
13	8 (1.43%)	Ruby
14	7 (1.25%)	VB6
15	6 (1.07%)	Bash Shell
16	4 (0.71%)	PHP
16	4 (0.71%)	Shell Script
17	3 (0.54%)	PL/SQL

Qualifications
1	40 (7.14%)	Degree
2	14 (2.50%)	Security Cleared
3	9 (1.61%)	Microsoft Certification
4	8 (1.43%)	MCITP
5	7 (1.25%)	Computer Science Degree
5	7 (1.25%)	ISEB
5	7 (1.25%)	ITIL Certification
6	5 (0.89%)	CFA
6	5 (0.89%)	CTC Cleared
6	5 (0.89%)	ISTQB
7	4 (0.71%)	MCSE
7	4 (0.71%)	Numerate Degree
7	4 (0.71%)	PMI Certification
7	4 (0.71%)	SC Cleared
8	3 (0.54%)	AWS Certification
8	3 (0.54%)	IIBA
8	3 (0.54%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
8	3 (0.54%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
9	2 (0.36%)	MCDBA
9	2 (0.36%)	MCSA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	34 (6.07%)	QA
2	12 (2.14%)	Dodd-Frank
3	9 (1.61%)	Data Quality
4	8 (1.43%)	WCAG
5	6 (1.07%)	ISO/IEC 27001
6	2 (0.36%)	PCI DSS
6	2 (0.36%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
7	1 (0.18%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	1 (0.18%)	GCP
7	1 (0.18%)	IFRS
7	1 (0.18%)	MiFID
7	1 (0.18%)	SLA

System Software
1	42 (7.50%)	Docker
2	19 (3.39%)	Active Directory
3	7 (1.25%)	Gluster
4	5 (0.89%)	Hyper-V
4	5 (0.89%)	Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5	4 (0.71%)	VMware Infrastructure
6	2 (0.36%)	Apache Flume
6	2 (0.36%)	GridGain
6	2 (0.36%)	KVM
6	2 (0.36%)	LXC
6	2 (0.36%)	Virtual Machines
7	1 (0.18%)	HDFS
7	1 (0.18%)	Postfix
7	1 (0.18%)	vCloud
7	1 (0.18%)	vSphere

Systems Management
1	40 (7.14%)	Opscode Chef
2	33 (5.89%)	Ansible
3	30 (5.36%)	Puppet
4	12 (2.14%)	Kubernetes
5	8 (1.43%)	Nagios
6	6 (1.07%)	Microsoft Clustering
7	5 (0.89%)	Dollar Universe
7	5 (0.89%)	Graphite
7	5 (0.89%)	Tivoli
8	4 (0.71%)	Terraform
9	3 (0.54%)	HP Quality Center
9	3 (0.54%)	Rundeck
9	3 (0.54%)	Salt
9	3 (0.54%)	ZABBIX
10	2 (0.36%)	CA Service Virtualization
10	2 (0.36%)	Forefront Identity Manager
10	2 (0.36%)	Kibana
10	2 (0.36%)	Opsview
10	2 (0.36%)	SCOrch
11	1 (0.18%)	Icinga

Vendors
1	238 (42.50%)	Microsoft
2	29 (5.18%)	Oracle
3	15 (2.68%)	SAP
3	15 (2.68%)	Splunk
4	14 (2.50%)	Atlassian
5	13 (2.32%)	IBM
5	13 (2.32%)	Sitecore
6	10 (1.79%)	Serena
7	9 (1.61%)	Salesforce.com
8	8 (1.43%)	Red Hat
9	7 (1.25%)	Perforce
10	6 (1.07%)	AppDynamics
10	6 (1.07%)	OpenLink
10	6 (1.07%)	Remedy
11	5 (0.89%)	Dynatrace
11	5 (0.89%)	HP
11	5 (0.89%)	Kofax
11	5 (0.89%)	SimCorp
11	5 (0.89%)	Telerik
11	5 (0.89%)	VMware