Team Foundation Server Contracts

Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Team Foundation Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Team Foundation Server over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 534 578
Rank change year-on-year +22 +44 -35
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 22 51 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.12% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.49% 0.96% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 36 82
10th Percentile £299 £347 £400
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £607 £619
90th Percentile £564 £744 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £509 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +19.65% -8.11% +2.78%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Team Foundation Server falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,468 5,305 7,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.58% 12.29% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,983 3,521 5,507
10th Percentile £331 £353 £363
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £594 £625 £650
90th Percentile £699 £725 £757
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 251 233
10th Percentile £20.86 £31.25 £45.24
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £80.59 £75.00 £86.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

Team Foundation Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Team Foundation Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Team Foundation Server in the UK

Team Foundation Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Team Foundation Server.

Daily rate trend for Team Foundation Server in the UK

Team Foundation Server
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Team Foundation Server over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Team Foundation Server in the UK

Team Foundation Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Team Foundation Server.

Hourly rate trend for Team Foundation Server in the UK

Team Foundation Server
Top 9 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 6 months to 30 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +36 15 £500 +11.11% 53
England +24 11 £521 +15.78% 99
London +37 7 £400 -33.39% 42
UK excluding London +21 5 £509 +19.65% 66
South East +51 2 £552 +29.76% 15
Wales +9 1 £183 -13.10% 3
Scotland +4 1 £500 +76.99% 6
North of England -2 1 - - 20
Yorkshire -7 1 - - 7

Team Foundation Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (4.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) dbt
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (13.64%) Power BI
4 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (9.09%) MySQL
5 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.55%) Power Query
5 1 (4.55%) PowerPivot
5 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Git
2 5 (22.73%) JIRA
2 5 (22.73%) Visual Studio
3 4 (18.18%) MSTest
3 4 (18.18%) NUnit
4 3 (13.64%) GitLab
4 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
4 3 (13.64%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (13.64%) Spinnaker
5 2 (9.09%) Subversion
6 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.55%) Eclipse
6 1 (4.55%) Postman
6 1 (4.55%) SoapUI
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.55%) Back Office
3 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Developer
2 8 (36.36%) Senior
3 6 (27.27%) .NET Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Senior Developer
5 4 (18.18%) Azure Developer
5 4 (18.18%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Release Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Tester
8 1 (4.55%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
8 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Power BI Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) .NET
2 5 (22.73%) ADO
2 5 (22.73%) Web Services
3 4 (18.18%) REST
3 4 (18.18%) WCF
4 3 (13.64%) CSS
4 3 (13.64%) HTML
5 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET
5 2 (9.09%) Node.js
5 2 (9.09%) React
6 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
6 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
6 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (4.55%) Blazor
6 1 (4.55%) Entity Framework
6 1 (4.55%) FHIR
6 1 (4.55%) MDX
6 1 (4.55%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.55%) Clustering
2 1 (4.55%) CMDB
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) N-Tier
2 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Agile
2 10 (45.45%) DevOps
3 8 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (36.36%) SDLC
4 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
4 7 (31.82%) High Availability
5 5 (22.73%) Code Quality
5 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
5 5 (22.73%) OO
5 5 (22.73%) Scrum
5 5 (22.73%) User Experience
6 4 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (18.18%) Migration
6 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (18.18%) Software Architecture
7 3 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (13.64%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) SQL
2 7 (31.82%) C#
3 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 6 (27.27%) Python
4 5 (22.73%) Bash
5 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
5 3 (13.64%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (4.55%) Java
6 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) HL7
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) BMC
3 1 (4.55%) Charles River
3 1 (4.55%) Guidewire
3 1 (4.55%) RedGate
3 1 (4.55%) Remedy
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow