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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 528 507
Rank change year-on-year -95 -21 +15
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 62 17 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.051% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.98% 0.33% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 8 30
10th Percentile £363 £208 £161
25th Percentile £425 £225 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £521 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.20% +15.78% -21.74%
75th Percentile £500 £675 £579
90th Percentile £529 £724 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +21.52% -17.71% -20.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 6,335 5,095 5,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.59% 15.35% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,053 3,446 3,176
10th Percentile £351 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
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 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 109 173
10th Percentile £22.68 £21.80 £31.61
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.50 £73.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -77 56 £434 -26.21% 49
UK excluding London -72 37 £425 +21.52% 46
Work from Home -59 25 £431 +95.91% 28
West Midlands - 22 £425 - 9
Midlands - 22 £425 - 12
London -74 17 £442 -32.00% 11
North of England -59 8 £438 - 16
Yorkshire -35 6 £438 - 7
East of England - 3 - - 3
South East -58 2 £471 -8.90% 4
South West - 2 - - 2
North West - 2 - - 7

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 (11.29%) IIS
1 7 (11.29%) SharePoint
2 6 (9.68%) Tuxedo
3 3 (4.84%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (3.23%) CMS
4 2 (3.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (48.39%) Azure
2 20 (32.26%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (25.81%) AWS
4 10 (16.13%) GitHub
5 7 (11.29%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (8.06%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.84%) Serverless
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (3.23%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.61%) IaaS
9 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) RS-232
1 3 (4.84%) RS-485
2 2 (3.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (38.71%) SQL Server
2 14 (22.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (16.13%) Relational Database
4 7 (11.29%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (11.29%) MS Access
4 7 (11.29%) Tableau
5 6 (9.68%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (9.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 6 (9.68%) Ingres
5 6 (9.68%) RDBMS
6 3 (4.84%) MySQL
6 3 (4.84%) Oracle Database
6 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.23%) DynamoDB
7 2 (3.23%) Power BI
8 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 30 (48.39%) Git
2 23 (37.10%) Visual Studio
3 7 (11.29%) Jenkins
4 5 (8.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (8.06%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (4.84%) Subversion
6 2 (3.23%) ClearCase
6 2 (3.23%) Rational Robot
6 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.61%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.61%) HP UFT
7 1 (1.61%) Liquibase
7 1 (1.61%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.61%) Selenium
7 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.61%) SpecFlow
General
1 12 (19.35%) Public Sector
2 11 (17.74%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.06%) Finance
4 4 (6.45%) Banking
5 3 (4.84%) Electronics
5 3 (4.84%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Front Office
7 1 (1.61%) Games
7 1 (1.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 43 (69.35%) Developer
2 15 (24.19%) Software Developer
3 11 (17.74%) Senior
4 8 (12.90%) SQL Developer
5 7 (11.29%) .NET Developer
5 7 (11.29%) Lead
6 6 (9.68%) Python Developer
7 5 (8.06%) Lead Developer
7 5 (8.06%) Lead Software Developer
7 5 (8.06%) VB Developer
7 5 (8.06%) VB6 Developer
8 4 (6.45%) .NET Software Developer
8 4 (6.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Embedded Software Developer
9 3 (4.84%) Firmware Developer
9 3 (4.84%) Junior Python Developer
9 3 (4.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.84%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (43.55%) XML
2 18 (29.03%) SOAP
3 15 (24.19%) ActiveX
3 15 (24.19%) JSON
4 12 (19.35%) .NET
5 11 (17.74%) HTML
6 10 (16.13%) WinForms
7 8 (12.90%) AngularJS
7 8 (12.90%) ASP.NET
7 8 (12.90%) XSLT
8 7 (11.29%) ASP.NET Web API
8 7 (11.29%) COM
8 7 (11.29%) WCF
9 6 (9.68%) ADO
9 6 (9.68%) REST
10 5 (8.06%) Apache FOP
10 5 (8.06%) ODBC
11 4 (6.45%) CSS
11 4 (6.45%) React
11 4 (6.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) Data Structures
1 6 (9.68%) Product Ownership
1 6 (9.68%) Replication
2 5 (8.06%) Low-Code
3 3 (4.84%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.61%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.61%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.52%) Windows
2 3 (4.84%) Linux
3 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.87%) Agile
2 20 (32.26%) DevOps
3 13 (20.97%) CI/CD
3 13 (20.97%) SDLC
4 12 (19.35%) Migration
5 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (16.13%) Software Engineering
6 9 (14.52%) Microservices
6 9 (14.52%) Scrum
6 9 (14.52%) System Integration Testing
6 9 (14.52%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (12.90%) Knowledge Transfer
7 8 (12.90%) Unit Testing
8 7 (11.29%) Analytics
8 7 (11.29%) Data Modelling
8 7 (11.29%) ETL
8 7 (11.29%) Workflow
9 6 (9.68%) Dimensional Modelling
9 6 (9.68%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 31 (50.00%) SQL
2 23 (37.10%) VB
2 23 (37.10%) VB6
2 23 (37.10%) VBA
3 16 (25.81%) Java
4 12 (19.35%) C#
5 11 (17.74%) T-SQL
6 9 (14.52%) JavaScript
7 8 (12.90%) VB.NET
8 7 (11.29%) C
8 7 (11.29%) PL/SQL
8 7 (11.29%) Python
9 6 (9.68%) Bash
9 6 (9.68%) XPath
10 5 (8.06%) VBScript
11 4 (6.45%) Bicep
11 4 (6.45%) TypeScript
12 3 (4.84%) C++
12 3 (4.84%) PowerShell
12 3 (4.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 14 (22.58%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (20.97%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.06%) Degree
5 3 (4.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.06%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.61%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (19.35%) Docker
2 3 (4.84%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (4.84%) Firmware
3 2 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (16.13%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (14.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 14 (22.58%) Oracle
3 6 (9.68%) Alteryx
3 6 (9.68%) SAP
4 5 (8.06%) Actian
5 2 (3.23%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.23%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.61%) IBM
6 1 (1.61%) Pega
6 1 (1.61%) UiPath