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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 609 530 541
Rank change year-on-year -79 +11 +32
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 48 22 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.093% 0.070% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.79% 0.48% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 17 39
10th Percentile £353 £299 £364
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £650
90th Percentile £608 £564 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £509 £425
% change year-on-year -7.47% +19.65% -8.11%
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 6,094 4,601 5,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.81% 14.58% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,918 3,085 3,567
10th Percentile £350 £331 £355
25th Percentile £413 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £694 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 92 248
10th Percentile £26.10 £20.98 £30.28
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.36 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
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 4 July 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 13 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 July 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 -81 45 £447 -14.20% 7
UK excluding London -74 25 £471 -7.47% 6
Work from Home -46 23 £470 -6.00% 3
London -54 20 £442 +10.50% 2
Midlands - 16 £470 -
West Midlands - 16 £470 -
South East -56 2 £471 -14.60% 3
North of England -73 2 £425 - 2
East of England - 2 - - 1
South West - 2 - -
Scotland -11 1 - -
Yorkshire -54 1 £425 - 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 6 (12.50%) Tuxedo
2 3 (6.25%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (4.17%) CMS
3 2 (4.17%) IIS
3 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.17%) Umbraco
4 1 (2.08%) Apache Solr
4 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.08%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (56.25%) Azure
2 16 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (29.17%) GitHub
4 12 (25.00%) AWS
5 8 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (10.42%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (6.25%) Serverless
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (4.17%) GCP
8 2 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (4.17%) Power Automate
8 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (39.58%) SQL Server
2 10 (20.83%) Relational Database
3 9 (18.75%) Ingres
3 9 (18.75%) RDBMS
3 9 (18.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.17%) MS Access
5 2 (4.17%) Power BI
5 2 (4.17%) Tableau
6 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.08%) Metadata
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (43.75%) Git
2 8 (16.67%) Visual Studio
3 7 (14.58%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (10.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (10.42%) JIRA
5 4 (8.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.17%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.17%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (4.17%) MSTest
6 2 (4.17%) SpecFlow
7 1 (2.08%) ClearCase
7 1 (2.08%) FitNesse
7 1 (2.08%) HP UFT
7 1 (2.08%) Liquibase
7 1 (2.08%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.08%) Selenium
7 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.08%) VersionOne
7 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Finance
4 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Games
5 1 (2.08%) Marketing
5 1 (2.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (43.75%) Developer
2 9 (18.75%) Senior
3 7 (14.58%) SQL Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Azure Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Database Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Software Developer
4 5 (10.42%) SQL Database Developer
4 5 (10.42%) T-SQL Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Lead
6 3 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Python Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) .NET Developer
7 2 (4.17%) C# Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Digital Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) XML
2 8 (16.67%) ActiveX
2 8 (16.67%) ADO
2 8 (16.67%) COM
3 7 (14.58%) JSON
3 7 (14.58%) ODBC
4 6 (12.50%) SOAP
5 5 (10.42%) .NET
5 5 (10.42%) AngularJS
5 5 (10.42%) REST
6 3 (6.25%) HTML
6 3 (6.25%) Spring
6 3 (6.25%) WinForms
6 3 (6.25%) XSLT
7 2 (4.17%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (4.17%) OpenAPI
7 2 (4.17%) RESTful
7 2 (4.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Low-Code
1 6 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 6 (12.50%) Replication
2 4 (8.33%) Reinsurance
3 3 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.08%) CCTV
5 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) VMS
3 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (52.08%) Agile
2 19 (39.58%) DevOps
2 19 (39.58%) Migration
3 15 (31.25%) User Acceptance Testing
4 12 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
5 10 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (18.75%) Data Protection
6 9 (18.75%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (18.75%) Runbook
6 9 (18.75%) Scrum
7 8 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (16.67%) Data Migration
7 8 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
7 8 (16.67%) Validation
7 8 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 7 (14.58%) System Testing
8 7 (14.58%) TDD
8 7 (14.58%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 26 (54.17%) SQL
2 15 (31.25%) VB
2 15 (31.25%) VB6
3 14 (29.17%) Java
4 9 (18.75%) VBA
5 8 (16.67%) C#
5 8 (16.67%) T-SQL
6 7 (14.58%) JavaScript
6 7 (14.58%) Python
7 4 (8.33%) C
8 3 (6.25%) VB.NET
9 2 (4.17%) PL/SQL
9 2 (4.17%) XPath
10 1 (2.08%) Bicep
10 1 (2.08%) COBOL
10 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
10 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
10 1 (2.08%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) Degree
3 3 (6.25%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.08%) ISEB
4 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.08%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Firmware
2 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 5 (10.42%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (10.42%) Terraform
3 2 (4.17%) HP ALM
3 2 (4.17%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (4.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (25.00%) Oracle
2 7 (14.58%) Actian
3 6 (12.50%) VMware
4 2 (4.17%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (4.17%) HP
4 2 (4.17%) Siemens
5 1 (2.08%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.08%) IBM
5 1 (2.08%) Pega
5 1 (2.08%) Perforce
5 1 (2.08%) SAP
5 1 (2.08%) UiPath