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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 627 624 532
Rank change year-on-year -3 -92 -145
Permanent jobs citing Team Foundation Server 41 132 220
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.084% 0.19% 0.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.10% 2.17% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 39 87 188
10th Percentile £38,550 £42,500 £38,375
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £80,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +28.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile - £87,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,500 £80,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -24.38% +48.15% +8.00%

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 3,739 6,079 7,315
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 7.65% 8.62% 13.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,206 3,427 5,909
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,900 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,615 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,250 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - -5.17% +5.45%

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 16 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Team Foundation Server in the UK

Team Foundation Server
Top 10 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 16 October 2025. 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 +23 41 £62,500 -21.88% 14
Work from Home +19 34 £58,000 -27.50% 8
UK excluding London +14 29 £60,500 -24.38% 13
South East +6 26 £55,000 -31.25% 7
London +27 12 £80,000 +60.00% 7
West Midlands +24 1 £67,500 +35.00%
Midlands +20 1 £67,500 +35.00%
North of England +7 1 £60,500 +26.04% 3
East of England +7 1 £40,000 -
North West +1 1 £60,500 +18.63% 3

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 4 (9.76%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 17 (41.46%) Azure
1 17 (41.46%) Azure DevOps
2 14 (34.15%) Azure Service Bus
3 10 (24.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 10 (24.39%) SonarCloud
4 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
4 2 (4.88%) GCP
4 2 (4.88%) GitHub
4 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (4.88%) IaaS
4 2 (4.88%) PaaS
4 2 (4.88%) SaaS
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (24.39%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (19.51%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (56.10%) JIRA
2 18 (43.90%) Git
3 16 (39.02%) Postman
3 16 (39.02%) Selenium
3 16 (39.02%) SoapUI
3 16 (39.02%) WebDriver
4 11 (26.83%) Visual Studio
5 10 (24.39%) MSBuild
5 10 (24.39%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
6 4 (9.76%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.88%) Subversion
7 2 (4.88%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 1 (2.44%) Balsamiq
8 1 (2.44%) CMake
8 1 (2.44%) TestRail
General
1 20 (48.78%) Finance
2 10 (24.39%) Retail
3 8 (19.51%) Social Skills
4 7 (17.07%) Legal
5 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (9.76%) Law
7 2 (4.88%) Billing
7 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Banking
8 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Analyst
1 14 (34.15%) Test Analyst
2 10 (24.39%) Architect
2 10 (24.39%) Technical Architect
3 9 (21.95%) Senior
3 9 (21.95%) Senior Analyst
3 9 (21.95%) Senior Test Analyst
4 6 (14.63%) Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (9.76%) .NET Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 4 (9.76%) IT Analyst
7 3 (7.32%) Lead
7 3 (7.32%) Test Leader
7 3 (7.32%) Tester
8 2 (4.88%) Applications Specialist
8 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.44%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (82.93%) .NET
1 34 (82.93%) HTML
2 16 (39.02%) SOAP
3 15 (36.59%) CSS
4 13 (31.71%) ASP.NET
4 13 (31.71%) XML
5 11 (26.83%) JSON
6 10 (24.39%) Bootstrap
6 10 (24.39%) gRPC
6 10 (24.39%) REST
7 6 (14.63%) Web Services
8 5 (12.20%) .NET Core
8 5 (12.20%) AngularJS
9 4 (9.76%) .NET Framework
9 4 (9.76%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (9.76%) Entity Framework
9 4 (9.76%) GraphQL
9 4 (9.76%) RESTful
10 2 (4.88%) HTML5
10 2 (4.88%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.88%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.44%) CUDA
3 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.44%) Derivative
3 1 (2.44%) NHS
3 1 (2.44%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (65.85%) Agile
2 23 (56.10%) Scrum
3 20 (48.78%) Test Management
4 18 (43.90%) Mentoring
5 17 (41.46%) DevOps
5 17 (41.46%) Software Testing
6 16 (39.02%) API Testing
6 16 (39.02%) Cross-Browser Testing
6 16 (39.02%) Non-Functional Testing
6 16 (39.02%) Test Scripting
7 14 (34.15%) Microservices
8 13 (31.71%) Code Quality
8 13 (31.71%) Performance Testing
9 11 (26.83%) Design Patterns
9 11 (26.83%) MVC
9 11 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (24.39%) API Integration
10 10 (24.39%) Data Encryption
10 10 (24.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 10 (24.39%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (85.37%) C#
2 26 (63.41%) SQL
3 17 (41.46%) JavaScript
4 16 (39.02%) Java
5 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.44%) Bash
6 1 (2.44%) C
6 1 (2.44%) C++
6 1 (2.44%) C-shell
6 1 (2.44%) Fortran
6 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (48.78%) ISTQB
2 17 (41.46%) Degree
2 17 (41.46%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (24.39%) GDPR
2 5 (12.20%) QA
System Software
1 16 (39.02%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Ansible
1 2 (4.88%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.88%) Progress Chef
1 2 (4.88%) Puppet
2 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) iManage
3 2 (4.88%) Duck Creek
3 2 (4.88%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) Telerik