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 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 496 535
Rank change year-on-year -99 +39 +40
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 32 23 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.067% 0.079% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.55% 0.56% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 40
10th Percentile £338 £290 £324
25th Percentile £366 £366 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.67% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £594
90th Percentile £638 £557 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £463 £425
% change year-on-year +1.84% +8.82% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.80 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.80 - -

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 5,826 4,141 5,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.21% 14.20% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,828 2,767 3,440
10th Percentile £349 £340 £353
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £704 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 71 204
10th Percentile £36.45 £27.50 £33.60
25th Percentile £59.63 £49.00 £46.63
Median hourly rate £67.00 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.38 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 May 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 11 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 May 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 -89 31 £471 +7.66% 7
London -54 21 £525 +31.25% 1
Work from Home -29 15 £575 +21.05% 4
UK excluding London -98 10 £471 +1.84% 6
South East -64 3 £471 -14.60% 2
Midlands - 3 £470 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £470 - 1
East of England -37 2 - - 1
Scotland +1 1 - -
North of England -62 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - - 1

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 2 (6.25%) CMS
1 2 (6.25%) Umbraco
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Solr
2 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Mingle
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) Azure
2 14 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (34.38%) GitHub
4 2 (6.25%) GCP
4 2 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (40.63%) SQL Server
2 5 (15.63%) RDBMS
2 5 (15.63%) Relational Database
3 3 (9.38%) Ingres
4 2 (6.25%) Big Data
4 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.25%) Power BI
4 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (6.25%) Tableau
5 1 (3.13%) Metadata
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.13%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Git
2 8 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (9.38%) Selenium
3 3 (9.38%) SpecFlow
4 2 (6.25%) Artifactory
4 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.25%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.25%) MSTest
4 2 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (6.25%) TeamCity
4 2 (6.25%) Visual Studio
4 2 (6.25%) Visual Studio Coded UI
5 1 (3.13%) ClearCase
5 1 (3.13%) HP UFT
5 1 (3.13%) Maven
5 1 (3.13%) NUnit
5 1 (3.13%) Rational Robot
5 1 (3.13%) Subversion
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Developer
2 7 (21.88%) Database Developer
3 6 (18.75%) Azure Developer
3 6 (18.75%) SQL Database Developer
3 6 (18.75%) SQL Developer
3 6 (18.75%) T-SQL Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Test Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Delphi Developer
6 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Software Test Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Configuration Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Product Owner
7 1 (3.13%) QA Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) .NET
2 3 (9.38%) COM
2 3 (9.38%) Spring
3 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
3 2 (6.25%) ActiveX
3 2 (6.25%) ADO
3 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET
3 2 (6.25%) Node.js
3 2 (6.25%) ODBC
3 2 (6.25%) Playwright
3 2 (6.25%) pytest
4 1 (3.13%) HTML
4 1 (3.13%) JDBC
4 1 (3.13%) JSP
4 1 (3.13%) React
4 1 (3.13%) Servlets
4 1 (3.13%) SOAP
4 1 (3.13%) XML
4 1 (3.13%) XSD
4 1 (3.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Replication
2 3 (9.38%) Reinsurance
3 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) CCTV
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) NHS
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
1 2 (6.25%) VMS
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) DevOps
2 16 (50.00%) Agile
3 15 (46.88%) Migration
4 10 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (28.13%) Front End Development
5 9 (28.13%) Test Automation
6 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (25.00%) System Testing
7 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
7 7 (21.88%) TDD
7 7 (21.88%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (18.75%) Performance Analysis
8 6 (18.75%) Regulatory Change
8 6 (18.75%) Scrum
8 6 (18.75%) Technology Transformation
9 5 (15.63%) Data Protection
9 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (12.50%) Code Quality
10 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) SQL
2 9 (28.13%) C#
3 7 (21.88%) T-SQL
4 6 (18.75%) Java
5 4 (12.50%) Python
6 3 (9.38%) PL/SQL
6 3 (9.38%) VB
6 3 (9.38%) VB6
7 2 (6.25%) Delphi
7 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.13%) COBOL
8 1 (3.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.13%) HP APS
5 1 (3.13%) ISEB
5 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) QA
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Firmware
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Terraform
2 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.38%) HP ALM
4 2 (6.25%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (6.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle
1 7 (21.88%) VMware
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.38%) HP
4 2 (6.25%) Actian
4 2 (6.25%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (6.25%) DevExpress
4 2 (6.25%) Siemens
5 1 (3.13%) IBM
5 1 (3.13%) Pega
5 1 (3.13%) Perforce
5 1 (3.13%) UiPath