Team Foundation Server Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 May 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
Location	3 months to 28 May 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	152	203	206
Rank change year-on-year	+51	+3
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server	728	695	643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.63%	1.27%	1.16%
As % of the Development Applications category	9.47%	8.34%	8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted	526	472	436
Median daily rate	£400	£395	£363
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+1.26%	+8.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£315	£300	£288
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£500	£475
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£368	£350
% change year-on-year	+2.04%	+5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	7	2
Median hourly rate	£44.25	£42.50	£35.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+4.11%	+19.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£43.15	£23.31	£29.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.00	£44.10	£41.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£44.25	£42.50	£35.50
% change year-on-year	+4.11%	+19.71%

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract Development Application Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills	7685	8330	7207
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	17.16%	15.27%	13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted	5223	5721	4697
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	£322	£315	£290
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£550	£540
UK excluding London median daily rate	£405	£400	£368
% change year-on-year	+1.25%	+8.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted	143	131	131
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£42.25	£37.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+0.59%	+14.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£32.50	£25.00	£22.18
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£54.25	£47.10	£45.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£42.00	£37.04
% change year-on-year	+1.19%	+13.39%

Team Foundation Server
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised 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 the UK

Team Foundation Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate trend for Team Foundation Server in the UK

Team Foundation Server
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Team Foundation Server over the 3 months to 28 May 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Team Foundation Server in the UK

Team Foundation Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for Team Foundation Server in the UK

Team Foundation Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Team Foundation Server over the 3 months to 28 May 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Team Foundation Server in the UK

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 3 months to 28 May 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
England	+32	646	£400	-	229
London	+56	273	£435	+2.35%	63
South East	+17	154	£369	-1.66%	55
South West	+39	87	£388	+10.71%	21
City of London	+23	57	£400	-10.11%	11
Scotland	+68	54	£400	+22.13%	12
Kent	+25	44	£340	-27.46%	6
East of England	+6	40	£375	-14.28%	24
Hampshire	+16	37	£375	+11.94%	16
Surrey	-7	33	£400	+3.22%	15
Edinburgh	+37	29	£450	+31.38%	6
Somerset	+13	27	£385	-14.44%	6
Yorkshire	+10	24	£315	-21.25%	13
Wiltshire	+7	21	£400	+18.51%	2
North West	-7	21	£350	-17.64%	22
Taunton	+4	20	£385	-27.35%	4
West Yorkshire	+31	19	£315	-3.81%	8
East Midlands	-24	19	£344	-1.78%	11
South Wales	+24	18	£370	+13.84%	7
Cardiff	+18	18	£370	+13.84%	4
Wales	+15	18	£370	+13.84%	7
Berkshire	+7	17	£409	-2.38%	5
Renfrewshire	+47	15	£412	+30.79%
Leeds	+21	15	£315	-3.81%	4
West Midlands	-5	15	£350	+3.70%	16
Erskine	+46	14	£416	+32.06%
Reading	+6	14	£450	+22.44%	3
Maidstone	-	13	£343	-
North East	+42	12	£375	+16.27%	3
Hertfordshire	+14	12	£348	-15.75%	11

Team Foundation Server
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 with a requirement for Team Foundation Server.

1	896 (61.12%)	.NET
2	783 (53.41%)	C#
3	690 (47.07%)	Agile Software Development
4	651 (44.41%)	SQL Server
5	611 (41.68%)	Microsoft
6	575 (39.22%)	SQL
7	418 (28.51%)	MVC
8	392 (26.74%)	ASP.NET
9	361 (24.62%)	JavaScript
10	332 (22.65%)	Scrum
11	322 (21.96%)	Visual Studio
12	310 (21.15%)	.NET Framework
13	300 (20.46%)	Windows
14	296 (20.19%)	Test Automation
15	293 (19.99%)	Microsoft Azure

15	293 (19.99%)	Web Services
15	293 (19.99%)	TDD
16	284 (19.37%)	CSS
17	271 (18.49%)	Git (software)
18	265 (18.08%)	Finance
19	261 (17.80%)	HTML
20	249 (16.98%)	jQuery
21	246 (16.78%)	Continuous Integration
22	227 (15.48%)	Entity Framework
23	215 (14.67%)	WCF
24	208 (14.19%)	PowerShell
25	193 (13.17%)	SQL Server Integration Services
26	190 (12.96%)	XML
27	189 (12.89%)	DevOps
28	174 (11.87%)	ASP.NET Web API

Team Foundation Server
Co-occurring IT Skills 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	173 (11.80%)	IIS
2	147 (10.03%)	SharePoint
3	95 (6.48%)	CMS
4	51 (3.48%)	BizTalk Server
5	41 (2.80%)	Umbraco
6	35 (2.39%)	Confluence
7	31 (2.11%)	Sitecore CMS
8	23 (1.57%)	SharePoint 2013
9	22 (1.50%)	EPiServer
10	16 (1.09%)	SharePoint 2010
10	16 (1.09%)	WebSphere
11	14 (0.95%)	Tomcat
12	13 (0.89%)	ColdFusion
12	13 (0.89%)	OpenStack
13	12 (0.82%)	Elasticsearch
13	12 (0.82%)	nginx
14	10 (0.68%)	NServiceBus
15	9 (0.61%)	Apache
15	9 (0.61%)	Railo
15	9 (0.61%)	WebLogic

Applications
1	34 (2.32%)	Microsoft Excel
2	30 (2.05%)	Microsoft Office
3	16 (1.09%)	MS Visio
4	10 (0.68%)	Spreadsheet
5	6 (0.41%)	Microsoft Project
6	4 (0.27%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
7	3 (0.20%)	Adobe Illustrator
7	3 (0.20%)	Photoshop
8	2 (0.14%)	Adobe Creative Suite
9	1 (0.068%)	Acrobat
9	1 (0.068%)	InfoPath
9	1 (0.068%)	Mingle

Business Applications
1	91 (6.21%)	Dynamics CRM
2	34 (2.32%)	Dynamics AX
3	19 (1.30%)	Oracle Applications
4	14 (0.95%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	6 (0.41%)	Endur
6	4 (0.27%)	Adobe Campaign
6	4 (0.27%)	SystmOne
7	3 (0.20%)	Cognos TM1
7	3 (0.20%)	Dynamics NAV
7	3 (0.20%)	SimCorp Dimension
8	2 (0.14%)	Eloqua
8	2 (0.14%)	FastStats
8	2 (0.14%)	Remedy ITSM
8	2 (0.14%)	SAP CRM
9	1 (0.068%)	BPCS
9	1 (0.068%)	Kondor
9	1 (0.068%)	Maximo
9	1 (0.068%)	Primavera

Cloud Services
1	293 (19.99%)	Microsoft Azure
2	72 (4.91%)	Amazon AWS
3	55 (3.75%)	PaaS
4	44 (3.00%)	IaaS
5	28 (1.91%)	Office 365
6	14 (0.95%)	OpenShift
7	10 (0.68%)	Azure Active Directory
7	10 (0.68%)	GitHub
8	7 (0.48%)	Akamai
8	7 (0.48%)	Cloud Computing
8	7 (0.48%)	Dynamics 365
9	6 (0.41%)	SaaS
10	4 (0.27%)	Adobe Analytics
11	3 (0.20%)	AWS CloudFormation
11	3 (0.20%)	Datadog
11	3 (0.20%)	Slack
11	3 (0.20%)	Sumo Logic
12	2 (0.14%)	Google Cloud Platform
12	2 (0.14%)	Virtual Private Cloud
12	2 (0.14%)	Yammer

Communications & Networking
1	28 (1.91%)	Internet
2	26 (1.77%)	HTTP
3	23 (1.57%)	PuTTY
3	23 (1.57%)	WinSCP
4	17 (1.16%)	Extranet
4	17 (1.16%)	SAN
5	16 (1.09%)	DNS
6	15 (1.02%)	NAS
7	11 (0.75%)	TCP/IP
8	9 (0.61%)	Network Security
9	8 (0.55%)	Firewall
9	8 (0.55%)	VPN
10	6 (0.41%)	LDAP
11	5 (0.34%)	LAN
12	4 (0.27%)	DHCP
12	4 (0.27%)	HTTPS
12	4 (0.27%)	Intranet
12	4 (0.27%)	SNMP
12	4 (0.27%)	Wireshark
12	4 (0.27%)	X.509

Database & Business Intelligence
1	651 (44.41%)	SQL Server
2	193 (13.17%)	SQL Server Integration Services
3	138 (9.41%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
4	136 (9.28%)	SQL Server 2008
5	111 (7.57%)	Data Warehouse
6	96 (6.55%)	SQL Server 2012
7	82 (5.59%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
8	77 (5.25%)	Relational Database
9	71 (4.84%)	SQL Server 2014
10	67 (4.57%)	Oracle Database
11	44 (3.00%)	Oracle Database 11g
12	39 (2.66%)	NoSQL
13	34 (2.32%)	RDBMS
14	33 (2.25%)	MongoDB
15	31 (2.11%)	MySQL
16	30 (2.05%)	SQL Server 2005
16	30 (2.05%)	SQL Server 2016
17	28 (1.91%)	Big Data
17	28 (1.91%)	Oracle Database 10g
17	28 (1.91%)	Power BI

Development Applications
1	322 (21.96%)	Visual Studio
2	271 (18.49%)	Git (software)
3	146 (9.96%)	JIRA
4	133 (9.07%)	Jenkins
5	104 (7.09%)	TeamCity
6	96 (6.55%)	Selenium
7	84 (5.73%)	MSBuild
8	78 (5.32%)	Octopus Deploy
9	73 (4.98%)	SpecFlow
10	65 (4.43%)	NUnit
11	60 (4.09%)	Subversion
12	55 (3.75%)	MSTest
13	50 (3.41%)	HP UFT
14	45 (3.07%)	Moq
15	44 (3.00%)	Maven
15	44 (3.00%)	Visual Studio Team System
16	43 (2.93%)	Atlassian Bamboo
17	37 (2.52%)	Hudson
18	33 (2.25%)	Cucumber
19	28 (1.91%)	SoapUI

General
1	265 (18.08%)	Finance
2	51 (3.48%)	Banking
3	28 (1.91%)	Marketing
4	25 (1.71%)	Legal
5	24 (1.64%)	Retail
6	22 (1.50%)	Financial Institution
6	22 (1.50%)	Publishing
7	19 (1.30%)	Front Office
8	17 (1.16%)	Telecoms
9	16 (1.09%)	Manufacturing
10	14 (0.95%)	Electronics
11	13 (0.89%)	Back Office
12	10 (0.68%)	Advertising
13	7 (0.48%)	Investment Banking
14	5 (0.34%)	Military
15	3 (0.20%)	Billing
15	3 (0.20%)	Corporate Banking
15	3 (0.20%)	Games
16	2 (0.14%)	Law
16	2 (0.14%)	Local Government

Job Titles
1	819 (55.87%)	Developer
2	386 (26.33%)	.NET Developer
3	225 (15.35%)	C# Developer
4	157 (10.71%)	C# .NET Developer
5	156 (10.64%)	Analyst
6	118 (8.05%)	SQL Developer
7	84 (5.73%)	DevOps Engineer
8	81 (5.53%)	Tester
9	77 (5.25%)	Test Analyst
10	75 (5.12%)	Software Developer
11	71 (4.84%)	ASP.NET Developer
12	58 (3.96%)	Consultant
12	58 (3.96%)	Senior Developer
13	48 (3.27%)	ASP.NET MVC Developer
14	47 (3.21%)	Full Stack Developer
15	46 (3.14%)	Automation Engineer
15	46 (3.14%)	Business Intelligence Developer
16	45 (3.07%)	Microsoft Developer
17	41 (2.80%)	C# ASP.NET Developer
18	37 (2.52%)	WPF Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	896 (61.12%)	.NET
2	392 (26.74%)	ASP.NET
3	310 (21.15%)	.NET Framework
4	293 (19.99%)	Web Services
5	284 (19.37%)	CSS
6	261 (17.80%)	HTML
7	249 (16.98%)	jQuery
8	227 (15.48%)	Entity Framework
9	215 (14.67%)	WCF
10	190 (12.96%)	XML
11	174 (11.87%)	ASP.NET MVC
11	174 (11.87%)	ASP.NET Web API
12	168 (11.46%)	AngularJS
13	132 (9.00%)	LINQ
14	122 (8.32%)	HTML5
15	99 (6.75%)	RESTful
16	91 (6.21%)	WPF
17	79 (5.39%)	Twitter Bootstrap
18	78 (5.32%)	REST
19	77 (5.25%)	JSON

Miscellaneous
1	97 (6.62%)	Analytical Skills
2	75 (5.12%)	Greenfield Project
3	56 (3.82%)	Algorithms
4	49 (3.34%)	User Experience
5	39 (2.66%)	Management Information System
6	28 (1.91%)	NHS
7	27 (1.84%)	Computer Science
7	27 (1.84%)	Enterprise Software
7	27 (1.84%)	Mobile App
8	25 (1.71%)	Client/Server
8	25 (1.71%)	W3C
9	22 (1.50%)	N-Tier
10	20 (1.36%)	Clustering
11	13 (0.89%)	Credit Risk
11	13 (0.89%)	Replication
12	12 (0.82%)	Data Structures
12	12 (0.82%)	Enterprise Storage
12	12 (0.82%)	Virtual Team
13	10 (0.68%)	Market Risk
14	9 (0.61%)	Online Banking

Operating Systems
1	300 (20.46%)	Windows
2	130 (8.87%)	Windows Server
3	109 (7.44%)	Linux
4	79 (5.39%)	Windows Server 2012
5	40 (2.73%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	29 (1.98%)	Unix
7	23 (1.57%)	CentOS
8	22 (1.50%)	Ubuntu
9	17 (1.16%)	Windows Server 2008
10	14 (0.95%)	Solaris
11	12 (0.82%)	Windows Server 2003
12	11 (0.75%)	Android
13	10 (0.68%)	Apple iOS
14	5 (0.34%)	Oracle Linux
15	4 (0.27%)	Debian
16	3 (0.20%)	Fedora
17	2 (0.14%)	Windows 10
17	2 (0.14%)	Windows 7
17	2 (0.14%)	Windows 8
18	1 (0.068%)	CoreOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	690 (47.07%)	Agile Software Development
2	418 (28.51%)	MVC
3	332 (22.65%)	Scrum
4	296 (20.19%)	Test Automation
5	293 (19.99%)	TDD
6	246 (16.78%)	Continuous Integration
7	189 (12.89%)	DevOps
8	165 (11.26%)	Business Intelligence
9	146 (9.96%)	Unit Testing
10	144 (9.82%)	BDD
11	123 (8.39%)	Web Development
12	116 (7.91%)	Migration
13	107 (7.30%)	CRM
14	101 (6.89%)	SDLC
15	95 (6.48%)	ETL
16	89 (6.07%)	Continuous Delivery
17	86 (5.87%)	Data Modelling
18	84 (5.73%)	Test Scripting
19	83 (5.66%)	Software Engineering
20	79 (5.39%)	Release Management

Programming Languages
1	783 (53.41%)	C#
2	575 (39.22%)	SQL
3	361 (24.62%)	JavaScript
4	208 (14.19%)	PowerShell
5	167 (11.39%)	T-SQL
6	145 (9.89%)	Java
7	54 (3.68%)	TypeScript
8	47 (3.21%)	VB.NET
9	46 (3.14%)	XAML
10	38 (2.59%)	Python
11	36 (2.46%)	F#
12	30 (2.05%)	PL/SQL
12	30 (2.05%)	VB
13	26 (1.77%)	Ruby
14	25 (1.71%)	Perl
15	24 (1.64%)	C++
16	20 (1.36%)	C
17	15 (1.02%)	Bash Shell
18	13 (0.89%)	VBScript
19	12 (0.82%)	ActionScript

Qualifications
1	139 (9.48%)	Security Cleared
2	101 (6.89%)	SC Cleared
3	65 (4.43%)	Degree
4	59 (4.02%)	ISEB
4	59 (4.02%)	ISTQB
5	31 (2.11%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
6	20 (1.36%)	Microsoft Certification
7	15 (1.02%)	ISEB Practitioner
8	12 (0.82%)	Computer Science Degree
9	10 (0.68%)	MCITP
9	10 (0.68%)	MCSE
10	9 (0.61%)	BPSS Clearance
11	8 (0.55%)	ITIL Certification
12	7 (0.48%)	CESG Certified Professional
12	7 (0.48%)	CLAS
12	7 (0.48%)	HNC
12	7 (0.48%)	MCTS
12	7 (0.48%)	Numerate Degree
13	6 (0.41%)	CTC Cleared
14	5 (0.34%)	CISSP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	91 (6.21%)	QA
2	20 (1.36%)	Data Quality
3	10 (0.68%)	Dodd-Frank
4	9 (0.61%)	Disclosure Scotland
5	8 (0.55%)	WCAG
6	6 (0.41%)	ISO 9001
6	6 (0.41%)	ISO/IEC 27001
6	6 (0.41%)	JSP 440
7	3 (0.20%)	SLA
8	2 (0.14%)	ISO 8583
9	1 (0.068%)	IFRS
9	1 (0.068%)	MiFID
9	1 (0.068%)	PCI DSS
9	1 (0.068%)	PMO

System Software
1	52 (3.55%)	Docker
2	41 (2.80%)	Active Directory
3	20 (1.36%)	vSphere
4	19 (1.30%)	Virtual Machines
5	18 (1.23%)	VMware Infrastructure
6	12 (0.82%)	Hyper-V
7	11 (0.75%)	Veritas Cluster Server
7	11 (0.75%)	Veritas File System
8	7 (0.48%)	Gluster
9	6 (0.41%)	Oracle RAC
10	5 (0.34%)	Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11	4 (0.27%)	Terminal Services
12	3 (0.20%)	KVM
13	2 (0.14%)	Apache Flume
13	2 (0.14%)	LXC
13	2 (0.14%)	VMware ESXi
13	2 (0.14%)	XenServer
14	1 (0.068%)	Shibboleth
14	1 (0.068%)	vCloud
14	1 (0.068%)	XenApp

Systems Management
1	68 (4.64%)	Puppet
2	51 (3.48%)	Opscode Chef
3	39 (2.66%)	Ansible
4	19 (1.30%)	vRealize
5	18 (1.23%)	HP Quality Center
6	12 (0.82%)	Kubernetes
7	11 (0.75%)	NetBackup
8	9 (0.61%)	Terraform
9	7 (0.48%)	Microsoft Clustering
10	6 (0.41%)	Tivoli
11	5 (0.34%)	Dollar Universe
11	5 (0.34%)	Nagios
11	5 (0.34%)	Salt
12	4 (0.27%)	SCCM
13	3 (0.20%)	Graphite
13	3 (0.20%)	WMI
13	3 (0.20%)	WSUS
14	2 (0.14%)	CA Service Virtualization
14	2 (0.14%)	Forefront Identity Manager
14	2 (0.14%)	SCOrch

Vendors
1	611 (41.68%)	Microsoft
2	162 (11.05%)	Oracle
3	65 (4.43%)	HP
4	54 (3.68%)	Red Hat
5	41 (2.80%)	Sitecore
5	41 (2.80%)	VMware
6	35 (2.39%)	SAP
7	24 (1.64%)	Atlassian
8	20 (1.36%)	IBM
9	16 (1.09%)	Apple
9	16 (1.09%)	Telerik
10	15 (1.02%)	Salesforce.com
11	14 (0.95%)	Remedy
12	13 (0.89%)	Serena
13	11 (0.75%)	Infragistics
13	11 (0.75%)	Sun
13	11 (0.75%)	Symantec
13	11 (0.75%)	Veritas
14	10 (0.68%)	Adobe
15	9 (0.61%)	Splunk