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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 541 506
Rank change year-on-year -67 -35 +69
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 60 18 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.055% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.96% 0.37% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 11 42
10th Percentile £363 £220 £216
25th Percentile £425 £238 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £494 £538 £675
90th Percentile £529 - £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £517 £425
% change year-on-year -17.79% +21.65% -20.04%
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 6,258 4,869 5,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.74% 14.80% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,012 3,297 3,304
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 108 222
10th Percentile £26.25 £24.84 £28.33
25th Percentile £55.31 £50.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.58 £84.20 £73.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.84%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -69 54 £437 -16.76% 12
UK excluding London -64 35 £425 -17.79% 11
Work from Home -38 28 £454 +0.78% 6
West Midlands - 21 £425 - 4
Midlands - 21 £425 - 4
London -57 18 £437 +12.77% 1
North of England -64 7 £438 -
Yorkshire -33 6 £438 -
East of England - 3 - -
South East -64 2 £471 -14.60% 7
South West - 2 - -
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 (11.67%) IIS
1 7 (11.67%) SharePoint
2 6 (10.00%) Tuxedo
3 3 (5.00%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (3.33%) CMS
4 2 (3.33%) Umbraco
5 1 (1.67%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.67%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.00%) Azure
2 18 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (21.67%) AWS
4 11 (18.33%) GitHub
5 8 (13.33%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.00%) Serverless
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (3.33%) GCP
8 2 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.33%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) RS-232
1 3 (5.00%) RS-485
2 2 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 14 (23.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 7 (11.67%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (11.67%) Ingres
4 7 (11.67%) MS Access
4 7 (11.67%) RDBMS
4 7 (11.67%) Tableau
5 6 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.33%) Power BI
7 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 24 (40.00%) Git
2 20 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 9 (15.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (10.00%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (3.33%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.33%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.33%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (3.33%) JIRA
6 2 (3.33%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.67%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.67%) FitNesse
7 1 (1.67%) HP UFT
7 1 (1.67%) Liquibase
7 1 (1.67%) Rational Robot
7 1 (1.67%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.67%) Selenium
7 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.67%) VersionOne
7 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 12 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 4 (6.67%) Finance
4 3 (5.00%) Electronics
5 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Games
6 1 (1.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (63.33%) Developer
2 13 (21.67%) Software Developer
3 10 (16.67%) SQL Developer
4 9 (15.00%) Senior
5 7 (11.67%) Lead
6 5 (8.33%) .NET Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Lead Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Lead Software Developer
6 5 (8.33%) VB Developer
6 5 (8.33%) VB6 Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) .NET Software Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Embedded Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Embedded Software Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Firmware Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Python Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (35.00%) XML
2 14 (23.33%) ActiveX
3 13 (21.67%) SOAP
4 12 (20.00%) JSON
5 10 (16.67%) .NET
6 8 (13.33%) HTML
6 8 (13.33%) WinForms
7 7 (11.67%) ADO
7 7 (11.67%) ASP.NET
7 7 (11.67%) ASP.NET Web API
7 7 (11.67%) COM
7 7 (11.67%) WCF
7 7 (11.67%) XSLT
8 6 (10.00%) ODBC
9 5 (8.33%) AngularJS
9 5 (8.33%) Apache FOP
9 5 (8.33%) REST
10 2 (3.33%) .NET Framework
10 2 (3.33%) RESTful
10 2 (3.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Replication
2 6 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 6 (10.00%) Low-Code
2 6 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (5.00%) Reinsurance
4 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.67%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Windows
2 2 (3.33%) Linux
2 2 (3.33%) VMS
3 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.67%) Agile
2 21 (35.00%) DevOps
3 16 (26.67%) Migration
4 12 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 10 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
5 10 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 9 (15.00%) SDLC
6 9 (15.00%) Software Engineering
7 8 (13.33%) Data Modelling
7 8 (13.33%) Microservices
7 8 (13.33%) Scrum
7 8 (13.33%) User Stories
8 7 (11.67%) Analytics
8 7 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (11.67%) Data Protection
8 7 (11.67%) ETL
8 7 (11.67%) Validation
8 7 (11.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 32 (53.33%) SQL
2 21 (35.00%) VB
2 21 (35.00%) VB6
2 21 (35.00%) VBA
3 18 (30.00%) Java
4 11 (18.33%) C#
5 10 (16.67%) T-SQL
6 8 (13.33%) VB.NET
7 7 (11.67%) C
7 7 (11.67%) JavaScript
7 7 (11.67%) PL/SQL
7 7 (11.67%) Python
8 6 (10.00%) XPath
9 5 (8.33%) VBScript
10 3 (5.00%) C++
11 1 (1.67%) Bicep
11 1 (1.67%) COBOL
11 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 12 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.00%) Degree
5 4 (6.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) QA
2 6 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.67%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (13.33%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 3 (5.00%) Firmware
3 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (15.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (15.00%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 16 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (25.00%) Oracle
3 6 (10.00%) Actian
3 6 (10.00%) Alteryx
3 6 (10.00%) SAP
4 3 (5.00%) VMware
5 2 (3.33%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.67%) IBM
6 1 (1.67%) Pega
6 1 (1.67%) Perforce
6 1 (1.67%) UiPath