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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 532 513 558
Rank change year-on-year -19 +45 +12
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 15 56 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.30% 1.11% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 39 82
10th Percentile £205 £162 £351
25th Percentile £223 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £450 £568
Median % change year-on-year +14.89% -20.70% +14.94%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £642
90th Percentile £557 £750 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate £517 £440 £513
% change year-on-year +17.50% -14.29% +11.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £64.79
25th Percentile - - £64.79
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £78.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +56.00%

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 4,965 5,050 6,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.20% 13.28% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,342 3,225 4,687
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 175 246
10th Percentile £30.75 £28.09 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.50 £51.13 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £76.88
90th Percentile £87.50 £73.00 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +5.69%

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
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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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 +20 8 £223 -50.44% 18
England -27 7 £525 +5.00% 16
UK excluding London -19 6 £517 +17.50% 15
London +9 3 £373 -42.69% 2
South East +15 2 £552 +27.51% 9
Scotland -2 2 - -
Wales +2 1 £183 +12.34%
Yorkshire -19 1 - - 1
North of England -19 1 - - 2

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 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy AR System
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) dbt
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (73.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (13.33%) MySQL
3 2 (13.33%) Power BI
3 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 4 (26.67%) JIRA
2 4 (26.67%) MSTest
2 4 (26.67%) NUnit
2 4 (26.67%) Subversion
3 3 (20.00%) Git
4 1 (6.67%) Postman
4 1 (6.67%) SoapUI
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (6.67%) Back Office
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Health
5 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Senior
3 6 (40.00%) Senior Developer
4 5 (33.33%) .NET Developer
5 4 (26.67%) Azure Developer
5 4 (26.67%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (13.33%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (13.33%) Lead
6 2 (13.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 2 (13.33%) Technical Leader
6 2 (13.33%) Technical Manager
7 1 (6.67%) .NET Web Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Analyst
7 1 (6.67%) Applications Support
7 1 (6.67%) C# Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
7 1 (6.67%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (6.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) .NET
2 7 (46.67%) Web Services
3 5 (33.33%) ADO
4 4 (26.67%) REST
4 4 (26.67%) WCF
5 3 (20.00%) XML
6 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
6 2 (13.33%) CSS
6 2 (13.33%) HTML
6 2 (13.33%) jQuery
6 2 (13.33%) Unity DI Container
7 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
7 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (6.67%) Blazor
7 1 (6.67%) FHIR
7 1 (6.67%) Node.js
7 1 (6.67%) React
7 1 (6.67%) SOAP
7 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.67%) Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) CMDB
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) NHS
3 1 (6.67%) N-Tier
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) Scrum
3 7 (46.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (46.67%) SDLC
4 6 (40.00%) High Availability
4 6 (40.00%) OO
5 5 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 5 (33.33%) DevOps
5 5 (33.33%) User Experience
6 4 (26.67%) Software Architecture
7 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) SOA
7 3 (20.00%) Software Delivery
8 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (13.33%) Change Management
8 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
8 2 (13.33%) ETL
8 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
8 2 (13.33%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) C#
2 7 (46.67%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) T-SQL
4 2 (13.33%) C++
4 2 (13.33%) Python
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) CBAP
3 1 (6.67%) CISSP
3 1 (6.67%) ISEB
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) HL7
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) BMC
3 1 (6.67%) RedGate
3 1 (6.67%) Remedy
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow