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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 533 530
Rank change year-on-year -74 -3 +35
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 55 20 60
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.062% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.88% 0.42% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 15 45
10th Percentile £367 £283 £236
25th Percentile £425 £366 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £529 £538 £625
90th Percentile £588 £550 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £509 £425
% change year-on-year -7.57% +19.65% -13.97%
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 6,266 4,715 5,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.85% 14.53% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,037 3,171 3,549
10th Percentile £350 £326 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £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 £690 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 101 250
10th Percentile £26.15 £22.05 £30.93
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.30% -2.31% +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 11 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 11 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 -66 48 £447 -13.54% 9
Work from Home -39 27 £486 +2.32% 2
UK excluding London -79 27 £470 -7.57% 8
London -38 21 £447 +21.22% 2
Midlands - 16 £470 - 1
West Midlands - 16 £470 - 1
North of England -71 3 £425 - 1
East of England - 3 - - 1
Yorkshire -49 2 £425 -
South East -62 2 £471 -14.60% 5
South West - 2 - -
Scotland -7 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 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 33 (60.00%) Azure
2 22 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (25.45%) GitHub
4 12 (21.82%) AWS
5 8 (14.55%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.45%) Serverless
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (3.64%) GCP
8 2 (3.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.64%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.82%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) Firewall
2 1 (1.82%) RS-232
2 1 (1.82%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 14 (25.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 9 (16.36%) Ingres
4 9 (16.36%) RDBMS
5 7 (12.73%) MS Access
6 6 (10.91%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.45%) Tableau
8 2 (3.64%) DynamoDB
8 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.64%) Oracle Database
8 2 (3.64%) Power BI
9 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 26 (47.27%) Git
2 13 (23.64%) Visual Studio
3 9 (16.36%) Jenkins
4 7 (12.73%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (9.09%) JIRA
6 2 (3.64%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.64%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (3.64%) MSTest
6 2 (3.64%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.82%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.82%) HP UFT
7 1 (1.82%) Liquibase
7 1 (1.82%) Maven
7 1 (1.82%) Rational Robot
7 1 (1.82%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.82%) Subversion
7 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 11 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 10 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.73%) Finance
4 3 (5.45%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Electronics
6 1 (1.82%) Games
6 1 (1.82%) Marketing
6 1 (1.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 28 (50.91%) Developer
2 10 (18.18%) Software Developer
3 9 (16.36%) Senior
3 9 (16.36%) SQL Developer
4 7 (12.73%) Lead
5 5 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Azure Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Database Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Lead Developer
5 5 (9.09%) Lead Software Developer
5 5 (9.09%) SQL Database Developer
5 5 (9.09%) T-SQL Developer
6 4 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) .NET Software Developer
7 3 (5.45%) C# Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Python Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Senior Python Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.45%) XML
2 12 (21.82%) JSON
3 10 (18.18%) .NET
4 8 (14.55%) ActiveX
4 8 (14.55%) ADO
4 8 (14.55%) COM
4 8 (14.55%) HTML
4 8 (14.55%) WinForms
5 7 (12.73%) ASP.NET
5 7 (12.73%) ASP.NET Web API
5 7 (12.73%) ODBC
5 7 (12.73%) WCF
5 7 (12.73%) XSLT
6 6 (10.91%) SOAP
7 5 (9.09%) AngularJS
7 5 (9.09%) Apache FOP
7 5 (9.09%) REST
8 3 (5.45%) Spring
9 2 (3.64%) .NET Framework
9 2 (3.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Replication
2 6 (10.91%) Low-Code
2 6 (10.91%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.27%) Reinsurance
4 3 (5.45%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.64%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.82%) CCTV
6 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.82%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.36%) Windows
2 2 (3.64%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) VMS
3 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (45.45%) Agile
1 25 (45.45%) DevOps
2 20 (36.36%) Migration
3 15 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
4 12 (21.82%) CI/CD
4 12 (21.82%) System Integration Testing
5 10 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (16.36%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (16.36%) Data Protection
6 9 (16.36%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (16.36%) Runbook
6 9 (16.36%) Scrum
7 8 (14.55%) Data Migration
7 8 (14.55%) Knowledge Transfer
7 8 (14.55%) Validation
7 8 (14.55%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 7 (12.73%) Microservices
8 7 (12.73%) TDD
8 7 (12.73%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 32 (58.18%) SQL
2 15 (27.27%) VB
2 15 (27.27%) VB6
3 14 (25.45%) Java
3 14 (25.45%) VBA
4 13 (23.64%) C#
4 13 (23.64%) T-SQL
5 8 (14.55%) VB.NET
6 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
6 7 (12.73%) PL/SQL
6 7 (12.73%) Python
7 6 (10.91%) XPath
8 5 (9.09%) C
8 5 (9.09%) VBScript
9 1 (1.82%) Bicep
9 1 (1.82%) C++
9 1 (1.82%) COBOL
9 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (34.55%) Security Cleared
2 12 (21.82%) BPSS Clearance
2 12 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) Degree
4 3 (5.45%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.64%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.82%) ISEB
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.82%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.82%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (14.55%) Docker
2 3 (5.45%) Firmware
3 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.82%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (16.36%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (3.64%) HP ALM
3 2 (3.64%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (3.64%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (30.91%) Oracle
2 13 (23.64%) Microsoft
3 7 (12.73%) Actian
4 6 (10.91%) VMware
5 2 (3.64%) Alteryx
5 2 (3.64%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (3.64%) HP
5 2 (3.64%) SAP
5 2 (3.64%) Siemens
6 1 (1.82%) IBM
6 1 (1.82%) Pega
6 1 (1.82%) Perforce
6 1 (1.82%) UiPath