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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 502 535
Rank change year-on-year -106 +33 +59
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 40 22 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.081% 0.076% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.68% 0.52% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 19 39
10th Percentile £338 £236 £394
25th Percentile £414 £366 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £530 £538 £597
90th Percentile £638 £557 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -8.11% +8.82% -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 5,905 4,222 5,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.02% 14.62% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,847 2,835 3,454
10th Percentile £350 £340 £351
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 73 222
10th Percentile £35.00 £21.69 £28.33
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.20% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -100 38 £437 -15.47% 9
London -52 21 £447 +11.75% 1
Work from Home -57 20 £437 -2.89% 2
UK excluding London -85 16 £425 -8.11% 8
West Midlands - 9 £425 - 3
Midlands - 9 £425 - 3
East of England -30 2 - -
South East -64 2 £471 -14.60% 3
Scotland -2 1 - -
North of England -77 1 - - 1
South West - 1 - - 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 3 (7.50%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (5.00%) CMS
2 2 (5.00%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.50%) Apache Solr
3 1 (2.50%) IIS
3 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.50%) Mingle
Cloud Services
1 25 (62.50%) Azure
2 14 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (27.50%) GitHub
4 6 (15.00%) AWS
5 5 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (5.00%) GCP
7 2 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (5.00%) Serverless
8 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (7.50%) Ingres
5 3 (7.50%) Power BI
5 3 (7.50%) RDBMS
5 3 (7.50%) Tableau
6 2 (5.00%) DynamoDB
6 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.50%) Metadata
7 1 (2.50%) MS Access
7 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (37.50%) Git
2 8 (20.00%) Visual Studio
3 5 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (12.50%) JIRA
4 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.00%) Artifactory
5 2 (5.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.00%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (5.00%) MSTest
5 2 (5.00%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (5.00%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.50%) ClearCase
6 1 (2.50%) HP UFT
6 1 (2.50%) Liquibase
6 1 (2.50%) Maven
6 1 (2.50%) Rational Robot
6 1 (2.50%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.50%) Subversion
6 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Games
5 1 (2.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (52.50%) Developer
2 7 (17.50%) SQL Developer
3 6 (15.00%) Azure Developer
3 6 (15.00%) Database Developer
3 6 (15.00%) SQL Database Developer
3 6 (15.00%) T-SQL Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Migration Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Python Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Python Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Software Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) .NET Developer
6 2 (5.00%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 2 (5.00%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) ActiveX
1 8 (20.00%) XML
2 6 (15.00%) JSON
2 6 (15.00%) SOAP
3 5 (12.50%) .NET
3 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 5 (12.50%) REST
4 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
4 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET
4 3 (7.50%) COM
4 3 (7.50%) Spring
5 2 (5.00%) Node.js
5 2 (5.00%) ODBC
5 2 (5.00%) OpenAPI
5 2 (5.00%) Playwright
5 2 (5.00%) pytest
5 2 (5.00%) React
5 2 (5.00%) Swagger
5 2 (5.00%) WinForms
5 2 (5.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Replication
2 5 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 4 (10.00%) Reinsurance
4 2 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.50%) CCTV
5 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.50%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.50%) NHS
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Windows
2 2 (5.00%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) VMS
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) Agile
2 19 (47.50%) DevOps
3 15 (37.50%) Migration
4 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (22.50%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (22.50%) Front End Development
5 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (22.50%) TDD
5 9 (22.50%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (20.00%) Scrum
6 8 (20.00%) System Testing
6 8 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 7 (17.50%) Microservices
7 7 (17.50%) User Stories
8 6 (15.00%) Performance Analysis
8 6 (15.00%) Regulatory Change
8 6 (15.00%) System Integration Testing
8 6 (15.00%) Technology Transformation
9 5 (12.50%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 22 (55.00%) SQL
2 14 (35.00%) Java
3 9 (22.50%) VB
3 9 (22.50%) VB6
4 8 (20.00%) C#
4 8 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 8 (20.00%) VBA
5 7 (17.50%) Python
6 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.00%) VB.NET
8 1 (2.50%) COBOL
8 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.50%) VBScript
8 1 (2.50%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (17.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.50%) Degree
4 3 (7.50%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) ISEB
5 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Firmware
2 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (22.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (5.00%) HP ALM
3 2 (5.00%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (5.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) VMware
3 6 (15.00%) Oracle
4 2 (5.00%) Actian
4 2 (5.00%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (5.00%) HP
4 2 (5.00%) Siemens
5 1 (2.50%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) Pega
5 1 (2.50%) Perforce
5 1 (2.50%) UiPath