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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 533 511
Rank change year-on-year -95 -22 +41
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 55 16 59
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.049% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.89% 0.32% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 8 40
10th Percentile £398 £208 £162
25th Percentile £425 £225 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £484 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +7.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £494 £538 £691
90th Percentile £529 £552 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £517 £433
% change year-on-year -17.79% +19.54% -15.75%
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 6,183 4,945 5,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.46% 15.20% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,984 3,329 3,246
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 110 179
10th Percentile £35.00 £29.00 £27.60
25th Percentile £53.00 £50.25 £50.88
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £87.50 £71.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - -

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 5 September 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 12 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 5 September 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 -87 49 £437 -16.76% 19
UK excluding London -65 35 £425 -17.79% 16
Work from Home -46 22 £459 +102.88% 3
Midlands - 21 £425 - 6
West Midlands - 21 £425 - 4
London -72 13 £447 +20.00% 6
North of England -61 7 £438 -
Yorkshire -39 6 £438 -
East of England - 3 - - 2
South East -69 2 £471 -14.60% 3
South West - 2 - - 3
North West - 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 7 (12.73%) IIS
1 7 (12.73%) SharePoint
2 6 (10.91%) Tuxedo
3 3 (5.45%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (3.64%) CMS
4 2 (3.64%) Umbraco
5 1 (1.82%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.82%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.82%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (43.64%) Azure
2 16 (29.09%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (23.64%) AWS
4 7 (12.73%) GitHub
4 7 (12.73%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.45%) Serverless
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.64%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (3.64%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) RS-232
1 3 (5.45%) RS-485
2 2 (3.64%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (38.18%) SQL Server
2 14 (25.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (12.73%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (12.73%) MS Access
3 7 (12.73%) Relational Database
3 7 (12.73%) Tableau
4 6 (10.91%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (10.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 6 (10.91%) Ingres
4 6 (10.91%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.64%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.64%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.64%) Power BI
6 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 24 (43.64%) Git
2 21 (38.18%) Visual Studio
3 8 (14.55%) Jenkins
4 5 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (9.09%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (3.64%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.64%) JIRA
5 2 (3.64%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.82%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.82%) FitNesse
6 1 (1.82%) HP UFT
6 1 (1.82%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.82%) Liquibase
6 1 (1.82%) Rational Robot
6 1 (1.82%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.82%) Selenium
6 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.82%) VersionOne
6 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 13 (23.64%) Public Sector
2 10 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.27%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.45%) Electronics
5 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Finance
6 1 (1.82%) Banking
6 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Games
6 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (69.09%) Developer
2 14 (25.45%) Software Developer
3 9 (16.36%) Senior
4 8 (14.55%) SQL Developer
5 7 (12.73%) Lead
6 6 (10.91%) .NET Developer
7 5 (9.09%) Lead Developer
7 5 (9.09%) Lead Software Developer
7 5 (9.09%) VB Developer
7 5 (9.09%) VB6 Developer
8 3 (5.45%) .NET Software Developer
8 3 (5.45%) C# Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Embedded Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Embedded Software Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Firmware Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Python Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Senior Python Developer
9 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Developer
9 2 (3.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (40.00%) XML
2 14 (25.45%) ActiveX
2 14 (25.45%) SOAP
3 12 (21.82%) JSON
4 11 (20.00%) .NET
5 9 (16.36%) WinForms
6 8 (14.55%) ASP.NET
6 8 (14.55%) HTML
7 7 (12.73%) ASP.NET Web API
7 7 (12.73%) WCF
7 7 (12.73%) XSLT
8 6 (10.91%) ADO
8 6 (10.91%) COM
8 6 (10.91%) REST
9 5 (9.09%) AngularJS
9 5 (9.09%) Apache FOP
9 5 (9.09%) ODBC
10 2 (3.64%) .NET Framework
10 2 (3.64%) RESTful
10 2 (3.64%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Data Structures
1 6 (10.91%) Product Ownership
1 6 (10.91%) Replication
2 5 (9.09%) Low-Code
3 3 (5.45%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.82%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.73%) Windows
2 1 (1.82%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Unix
2 1 (1.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (36.36%) Agile
2 17 (30.91%) DevOps
3 11 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 10 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (18.18%) SDLC
5 9 (16.36%) Migration
5 9 (16.36%) Software Engineering
5 9 (16.36%) System Integration Testing
5 9 (16.36%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (14.55%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (14.55%) Data Modelling
6 8 (14.55%) Scrum
7 7 (12.73%) Analytics
7 7 (12.73%) ETL
7 7 (12.73%) Microservices
7 7 (12.73%) User Stories
7 7 (12.73%) Workflow
8 6 (10.91%) ETL Development
8 6 (10.91%) Master Data Management
8 6 (10.91%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (52.73%) SQL
2 22 (40.00%) VBA
3 21 (38.18%) VB
3 21 (38.18%) VB6
4 17 (30.91%) Java
5 12 (21.82%) C#
6 8 (14.55%) T-SQL
6 8 (14.55%) VB.NET
7 7 (12.73%) C
7 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
7 7 (12.73%) PL/SQL
8 6 (10.91%) XPath
9 5 (9.09%) Python
9 5 (9.09%) VBScript
10 3 (5.45%) C++
11 1 (1.82%) Bicep
11 1 (1.82%) COBOL
11 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.82%) XAML
Qualifications
1 18 (32.73%) Security Cleared
2 14 (25.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (21.82%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.91%) Degree
5 4 (7.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) QA
2 6 (10.91%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.82%) Solvency II
System Software
1 7 (12.73%) Docker
2 3 (5.45%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (5.45%) Firmware
3 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (16.36%) Single Sign-On
2 7 (12.73%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.82%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 14 (25.45%) Oracle
3 6 (10.91%) Alteryx
3 6 (10.91%) SAP
4 5 (9.09%) Actian
5 2 (3.64%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.82%) IBM
6 1 (1.82%) Pega
6 1 (1.82%) UiPath
6 1 (1.82%) VMware