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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 492 534
Rank change year-on-year -79 +42 +73
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 31 35 73
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.079% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.57% 0.83% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 65
10th Percentile £350 £180 £325
25th Percentile £445 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £442 £568
Median % change year-on-year +18.96% -22.16% +16.41%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £625
90th Percentile £675 £550 £686
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £433 £425
% change year-on-year +8.67% +1.76% -5.56%

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 5,471 4,232 5,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.99% 13.61% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,753 2,670 3,808
10th Percentile £343 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £409 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £630
90th Percentile £692 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 63 212
10th Percentile £34.85 £26.30 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.50 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.25
90th Percentile £83.40 £77.25 £88.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -64 30 £526 +21.50% 9
London -17 23 £550 +37.50% 2
Work from Home -26 10 £575 +29.65% 4
UK excluding London -75 7 £470 +8.67% 8
West Midlands -42 3 £470 - 1
Midlands -46 3 £470 +6.82% 1
East of England -18 2 - -
Scotland +6 1 - -
South East -35 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) Azure
2 15 (48.39%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (22.58%) GitHub
4 2 (6.45%) Azure AKS
4 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (6.45%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) SQL Server
2 7 (22.58%) RDBMS
2 7 (22.58%) Relational Database
3 3 (9.68%) Ingres
4 2 (6.45%) Big Data
4 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.45%) Power BI
4 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (6.45%) Tableau
5 1 (3.23%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) JIRA
2 10 (32.26%) Git
3 4 (12.90%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (12.90%) TeamCity
4 2 (6.45%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (6.45%) MSBuild
4 2 (6.45%) MSTest
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (6.45%) Selenium
5 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.23%) NUnit
5 1 (3.23%) Postman
5 1 (3.23%) SoapUI
5 1 (3.23%) SpecFlow
5 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio
5 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio Coded UI
5 1 (3.23%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
2 5 (16.13%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.23%) Military
6 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Developer
2 5 (16.13%) Analyst
2 5 (16.13%) Database Developer
3 4 (12.90%) Azure Developer
3 4 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) SQL Database Developer
3 4 (12.90%) SQL Developer
3 4 (12.90%) T-SQL Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Delphi Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Systems Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.45%) GCP DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Software Test Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Finance Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Lead
6 1 (3.23%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (35.48%) .NET
2 3 (9.68%) Spring
3 2 (6.45%) ActiveX
3 2 (6.45%) ADO
3 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET
3 2 (6.45%) COM
3 2 (6.45%) Node.js
3 2 (6.45%) ODBC
3 2 (6.45%) Playwright
3 2 (6.45%) pytest
3 2 (6.45%) YAML
4 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.23%) HTML
4 1 (3.23%) JDBC
4 1 (3.23%) JSP
4 1 (3.23%) React
4 1 (3.23%) Servlets
4 1 (3.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Replication
2 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) CCTV
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.23%) NHS
4 1 (3.23%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
1 2 (6.45%) VMS
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) DevOps
2 18 (58.06%) Agile
3 10 (32.26%) Migration
4 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (29.03%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (25.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (25.81%) Scrum
6 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
6 7 (22.58%) SDLC
7 6 (19.35%) Front End Development
7 6 (19.35%) Kanban
7 6 (19.35%) System Testing
7 6 (19.35%) TDD
7 6 (19.35%) Test Automation
8 5 (16.13%) Data Protection
8 5 (16.13%) Regulatory Change
9 4 (12.90%) Code Quality
9 4 (12.90%) Performance Analysis
9 4 (12.90%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) SQL
2 10 (32.26%) C#
3 7 (22.58%) Java
4 5 (16.13%) PL/SQL
4 5 (16.13%) Python
4 5 (16.13%) T-SQL
5 4 (12.90%) Delphi
6 2 (6.45%) VB
6 2 (6.45%) VB6
7 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) ISEB
2 4 (12.90%) ISTQB
3 3 (9.68%) CBAP
3 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.23%) CISSP
5 1 (3.23%) HP APS
5 1 (3.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
1 2 (6.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) HP ALM
2 2 (6.45%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Rancher
2 2 (6.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Oracle
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.90%) DevExpress
3 4 (12.90%) VMware
4 3 (9.68%) HP
5 2 (6.45%) Actian
5 2 (6.45%) Siemens