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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 549 587
Rank change year-on-year +54 +38 -56
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 24 51 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.59% 0.99% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 41 89
10th Percentile £290 £325 £395
25th Percentile £366 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £594 £650
90th Percentile £557 £738 £764
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +8.82% -8.11% +0.27%

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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

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 April 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 10 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 April 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 +41 14 £475 +5.56% 21
England +32 13 £438 -20.45% 33
London +14 8 £400 -30.43% 11
UK excluding London +45 6 £463 +8.82% 22
South East +42 2 £552 +26.06% 9
North of England +20 1 £300 -33.33% 8
Yorkshire +7 1 £300 -33.33%
Wales +5 1 £167 -20.44%
Scotland - 1 £500 - 2
East of England - 1 £425 -

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 10 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) dbt
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (12.50%) Big Data
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (8.33%) MySQL
4 2 (8.33%) Power BI
5 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.17%) Power Query
5 1 (4.17%) PowerPivot
5 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Git
2 7 (29.17%) JIRA
3 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (12.50%) GitLab
4 3 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (12.50%) Spinnaker
4 3 (12.50%) Visual Studio
5 2 (8.33%) MSTest
5 2 (8.33%) NUnit
5 2 (8.33%) Subversion
6 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.17%) Bugzilla
6 1 (4.17%) Eclipse
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (4.17%) Selenium
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (4.17%) tSQLt
6 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Retail
4 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Law
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) .NET Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Product Owner
4 2 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Release Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.17%) C# Web Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Data Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) PMO Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Test Automation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (12.50%) ADO
2 3 (12.50%) CSS
2 3 (12.50%) HTML
2 3 (12.50%) Web Services
3 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
3 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (8.33%) Node.js
3 2 (8.33%) React
3 2 (8.33%) REST
3 2 (8.33%) WCF
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.17%) Blazor
4 1 (4.17%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.17%) FHIR
4 1 (4.17%) MDX
4 1 (4.17%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (4.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (12.50%) Freedom of Information
3 3 (12.50%) Freedom of Information Act
3 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Clustering
4 1 (4.17%) CMDB
4 1 (4.17%) N-Tier
4 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Agile
2 13 (54.17%) DevOps
3 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (33.33%) Scrum
5 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
5 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (29.17%) SDLC
6 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
6 5 (20.83%) High Availability
6 5 (20.83%) Migration
7 4 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 4 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
7 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 4 (16.67%) Validation
8 3 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (12.50%) Release Automation
8 3 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (25.00%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) Bash
3 5 (20.83%) C#
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL
5 2 (8.33%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (4.17%) Java
6 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) APMP
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) HL7
1 1 (4.17%) P3O
1 1 (4.17%) PMO
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) BMC
3 1 (4.17%) Charles River
3 1 (4.17%) Guidewire
3 1 (4.17%) RedGate
3 1 (4.17%) Remedy
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow