Team Foundation Server Job Trends

Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Team Foundation Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 710 619 662
Rank change year-on-year -91 +43 -107
Permanent jobs citing Team Foundation Server 26 52 225
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.62% 1.26% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 22 49 195
10th Percentile £31,250 £47,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £66,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,250 £82,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -58.48% +43.48% -
75th Percentile £42,750 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £48,250 £92,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £82,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -57.58% +50.00% +4.76%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,200 4,128 9,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.54% 9.32% 8.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,771 2,660 6,516
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

Team Foundation Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Team Foundation Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Team Foundation Server job vacancy trend in the UK

Team Foundation Server
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Team Foundation Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Team Foundation Server

Team Foundation Server
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Team Foundation Server over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Team Foundation Server in the UK

Team Foundation Server
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Team Foundation Server within the UK over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -83 25 £34,250 -58.48% 12
UK excluding London -87 21 £35,000 -57.58% 10
Work from Home -8 20 £35,000 -57.58% 4
South East -39 16 £33,500 -59.39% 2
London -19 5 £32,500 -66.67% 2
South West -53 3 £35,000 -10.83%
East Midlands -31 1 £55,000 +46.67%
Midlands -36 1 £55,000 -6.78% 7
Northern Ireland - 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 1 (3.85%) Cloud Foundry
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
2 2 (7.69%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
3 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.85%) SaaS
3 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle Database
3 2 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (69.23%) JIRA
1 18 (69.23%) Postman
1 18 (69.23%) SoapUI
2 13 (50.00%) Selenium
2 13 (50.00%) WebDriver
3 5 (19.23%) Git
4 3 (11.54%) Ranorex
5 1 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 11 (42.31%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Analyst
1 11 (42.31%) Test Analyst
2 7 (26.92%) Tester
3 4 (15.38%) Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Software Tester
5 2 (7.69%) Angular Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Test Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Tester
6 1 (3.85%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (76.92%) .NET
2 19 (73.08%) HTML
3 18 (69.23%) SOAP
4 3 (11.54%) XML
4 3 (11.54%) XSL
5 2 (7.69%) .NET Framework
5 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.69%) Entity Framework
5 2 (7.69%) JSON
5 2 (7.69%) REST
5 2 (7.69%) RESTful
6 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
6 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (3.85%) CSS
6 1 (3.85%) jQuery
6 1 (3.85%) React
6 1 (3.85%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Client/Server
2 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) Agile
2 21 (80.77%) Software Testing
3 20 (76.92%) Scrum
4 18 (69.23%) API Testing
4 18 (69.23%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 18 (69.23%) Test Management
5 15 (57.69%) Non-Functional Testing
6 13 (50.00%) Test Scripting
7 12 (46.15%) Mentoring
8 11 (42.31%) Logistics
9 5 (19.23%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (15.38%) DevOps
11 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (11.54%) Document Management
11 3 (11.54%) Microservices
11 3 (11.54%) OCR
11 3 (11.54%) OO
11 3 (11.54%) OOP
11 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
11 3 (11.54%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 24 (92.31%) SQL
2 23 (88.46%) C#
3 20 (76.92%) Java
4 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.69%) Python
6 1 (3.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (61.54%) ISTQB
2 15 (57.69%) Degree
3 13 (50.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft