Team Foundation Server Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Team Foundation Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 605 499 527
Rank change year-on-year -106 +28 +82
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 35 26 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.076% 0.089% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.60% 0.64% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 53
10th Percentile £338 £306 £328
25th Percentile £381 £367 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.81% -2.53%
75th Percentile £588 £531 £594
90th Percentile £638 £550 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £434 £450
% change year-on-year +8.23% -3.50% -

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 5,840 4,085 5,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.76% 13.98% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,885 2,743 3,495
10th Percentile £343 £340 £358
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £584 £606 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 71 176
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.25 £32.36
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.16 £45.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +6.67% -2.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.25 £81.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.84% +0.81%

Team Foundation Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Team Foundation Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Team Foundation Server job vacancy trend in the UK

Team Foundation Server
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Team Foundation Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Team Foundation Server

Team Foundation Server
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Team Foundation Server over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Team Foundation Server in the UK

Team Foundation Server
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Team Foundation Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Team Foundation Server

Team Foundation Server
Top 9 Contract Job 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 9 April 2026. 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
England -106 34 £525 +20.90% 9
London -38 27 £525 +31.25% 3
Work from Home -34 15 £575 +28.71% 4
UK excluding London -99 7 £470 +8.23% 8
West Midlands - 3 £470 -
Midlands - 3 £470 -
East of England -34 2 - - 1
Scotland +10 1 - -
South East -57 1 - - 3

Team Foundation Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.86%) Apache Solr
1 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (57.14%) Azure
2 13 (37.14%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (28.57%) GitHub
4 4 (11.43%) GCP
4 4 (11.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) SQL Server
2 7 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 7 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.57%) Ingres
4 2 (5.71%) Big Data
4 2 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.71%) Power BI
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (5.71%) Tableau
5 1 (2.86%) Metadata
5 1 (2.86%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 11 (31.43%) Git
2 10 (28.57%) JIRA
3 4 (11.43%) IBM UrbanCode
3 4 (11.43%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (11.43%) TeamCity
4 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.71%) MSBuild
5 2 (5.71%) MSTest
5 2 (5.71%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (5.71%) Selenium
5 2 (5.71%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.86%) FitNesse
6 1 (2.86%) Maven
6 1 (2.86%) NUnit
6 1 (2.86%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.86%) Subversion
6 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.86%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Finance
3 4 (11.43%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Manufacturing
4 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) Database Developer
3 6 (17.14%) Azure Developer
3 6 (17.14%) SQL Database Developer
3 6 (17.14%) SQL Developer
3 6 (17.14%) T-SQL Developer
4 5 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Delphi Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.71%) GCP DevOps
6 2 (5.71%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Software Test Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Test Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Test Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) .NET
2 5 (14.29%) Spring
3 4 (11.43%) Node.js
4 2 (5.71%) ActiveX
4 2 (5.71%) ADO
4 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET
4 2 (5.71%) COM
4 2 (5.71%) ODBC
4 2 (5.71%) Playwright
4 2 (5.71%) pytest
5 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.86%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.86%) HTML
5 1 (2.86%) JDBC
5 1 (2.86%) JSP
5 1 (2.86%) React
5 1 (2.86%) RESTful
5 1 (2.86%) Servlets
5 1 (2.86%) SOAP
5 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Replication
2 3 (8.57%) Reinsurance
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.86%) CCTV
4 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.86%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.86%) NHS
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
1 4 (11.43%) VMS
2 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) DevOps
2 19 (54.29%) Agile
3 17 (48.57%) Migration
4 11 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 10 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (22.86%) Front End Development
6 8 (22.86%) Scrum
6 8 (22.86%) System Testing
6 8 (22.86%) TDD
7 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 7 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (17.14%) BDD
8 6 (17.14%) Performance Analysis
8 6 (17.14%) Regulatory Change
8 6 (17.14%) Technology Transformation
9 5 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
9 5 (14.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) SQL
2 10 (28.57%) C#
3 7 (20.00%) Java
3 7 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 5 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 5 (14.29%) Python
5 4 (11.43%) Delphi
6 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.71%) VB
6 2 (5.71%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) ISTQB
2 3 (8.57%) Degree
3 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) HP APS
4 1 (2.86%) ISEB
4 1 (2.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Terraform
2 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.43%) Rancher
4 3 (8.57%) HP ALM
5 2 (5.71%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Oracle
2 7 (20.00%) VMware
3 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.43%) DevExpress
5 3 (8.57%) HP
6 2 (5.71%) Actian
6 2 (5.71%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (5.71%) Siemens
7 1 (2.86%) Perforce