Team Foundation Server Contracts

Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Team Foundation Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Team Foundation Server over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 578 531
Rank change year-on-year +55 -47 -4
Contract jobs citing Team Foundation Server 52 104 334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.19% 0.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.01% 1.29% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 80 226
10th Percentile £394 £395 £350
25th Percentile £419 £417 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +12.82% +14.71%
75th Percentile £597 £656 £588
90th Percentile £740 £738 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £461
% change year-on-year -5.56% -2.44% +11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £46.72
25th Percentile - - £49.29
Median hourly rate - - £53.58
75th Percentile - - £57.86
90th Percentile - - £60.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £53.58
% change year-on-year - - +19.06%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Team Foundation Server is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,155 8,073 15,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.40% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,455 5,696 11,047
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 226 201
10th Percentile £26.77 £44.82 £38.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +8.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

Team Foundation Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Team Foundation Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Team Foundation Server in the UK

Team Foundation Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Team Foundation Server.

Daily rate trend for Team Foundation Server in the UK

Team Foundation Server
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Team Foundation Server over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Team Foundation Server in the UK

Team Foundation Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Team Foundation Server.

Hourly rate trend for Team Foundation Server in the UK

Team Foundation Server
Top 13 Contract 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 June 2024. 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 +34 45 £550 - 40
London +58 27 £588 +4.44% 15
Work from Home +82 22 £450 -12.20% 27
UK excluding London +22 19 £425 -5.56% 33
North of England +26 9 £450 -2.70% 5
Yorkshire +23 9 £450 -12.20% 1
South East +5 3 £438 +1.45% 5
Midlands +21 2 £425 -19.05% 12
East Midlands +12 2 £425 +17.24% 5
South West -3 2 £319 -52.78% 1
Wales +15 1 £210 -47.50% 4
East of England +5 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £283 - 4

Team Foundation Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Mingle
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Endur
2 2 (3.85%) Shopify
3 1 (1.92%) Cloudability
3 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (46.15%) Azure
2 19 (36.54%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (9.62%) AWS
4 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.85%) Azure AKS
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.85%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.85%) Serverless
5 2 (3.85%) Sumo Logic
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.92%) GitHub
6 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (44.23%) SQL Server
2 8 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (9.62%) Crystal Reports
4 4 (7.69%) Big Data
4 4 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.77%) MySQL
5 3 (5.77%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.85%) GIS
6 2 (3.85%) MariaDB
6 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.85%) Redis
6 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.92%) Power BI
7 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (25.00%) JIRA
2 12 (23.08%) Git
3 10 (19.23%) Visual Studio
4 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 4 (7.69%) TeamCity
5 3 (5.77%) SpecFlow
6 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.85%) FitNesse
6 2 (3.85%) GitLab
6 2 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.92%) GoCD
7 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 15 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Finance
3 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.62%) Back Office
5 3 (5.77%) Banking
6 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Billing
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) German Language
7 1 (1.92%) Law
7 1 (1.92%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 29 (55.77%) Developer
2 9 (17.31%) .NET Developer
3 6 (11.54%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 6 (11.54%) C# Developer
3 6 (11.54%) SQL Developer
4 5 (9.62%) QA Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) SQL BI Developer
5 4 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Product Owner
6 3 (5.77%) Endur Developer
6 3 (5.77%) OpenLink Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.77%) QA Tester
6 3 (5.77%) Senior
6 3 (5.77%) Senior Product Owner
6 3 (5.77%) Tester
7 2 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Software QA Specialist
7 2 (3.85%) Software Quality Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (38.46%) .NET
2 8 (15.38%) .NET Framework
3 7 (13.46%) Blazor
3 7 (13.46%) Entity Framework
3 7 (13.46%) RabbitMQ
4 6 (11.54%) ASP.NET
4 6 (11.54%) HTML
4 6 (11.54%) jQuery
5 5 (9.62%) CSS
5 5 (9.62%) WCF
5 5 (9.62%) XML
6 4 (7.69%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 3 (5.77%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (5.77%) JSON
7 3 (5.77%) React
7 3 (5.77%) RESTful
7 3 (5.77%) Web Services
8 2 (3.85%) HTML5
8 2 (3.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.77%) Freedom of Information
3 3 (5.77%) Freedom of Information Act
3 3 (5.77%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.85%) Derivative
4 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.85%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.92%) NHS
5 1 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.92%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) Linux
2 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) DevOps
2 21 (40.38%) Agile
3 12 (23.08%) MVC
3 12 (23.08%) SDLC
4 11 (21.15%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (17.31%) Unit Testing
6 7 (13.46%) Data Protection
6 7 (13.46%) Performance Testing
6 7 (13.46%) Scrum
7 6 (11.54%) Analytics
7 6 (11.54%) Software Testing
8 5 (9.62%) Data Modelling
8 5 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (9.62%) Release Management
8 5 (9.62%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (7.69%) Computer Science
9 4 (7.69%) Design Patterns
9 4 (7.69%) End-to-End Testing
9 4 (7.69%) Functional Testing
9 4 (7.69%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (44.23%) SQL
2 22 (42.31%) C#
3 8 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 8 (15.38%) T-SQL
4 5 (9.62%) PL/SQL
4 5 (9.62%) PowerShell
4 5 (9.62%) VB.NET
5 2 (3.85%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.92%) PHP
6 1 (1.92%) XAML
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Degree
2 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
2 6 (11.54%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) CEH
3 1 (1.92%) CISSP
3 1 (1.92%) GCIH
3 1 (1.92%) GIAC
3 1 (1.92%) GPEN
3 1 (1.92%) GWAPT
3 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (1.92%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Ansible
1 2 (3.85%) Grafana
1 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.85%) Prometheus
1 2 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) OpenLink
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle
3 2 (3.85%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (3.85%) New Relic