Azure DevOps Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure DevOps
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Azure DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 75 87
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 +37
Permanent jobs citing Azure DevOps 115 121 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.88% 3.42% 2.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.40% 10.45% 9.53%
Number of salaries quoted 40 78 80
10th Percentile £30,500 £44,100 £51,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £53,688 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,875 - £95,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% -7.69%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

Azure DevOps falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,223 1,158 1,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 30.61% 32.74% 31.41%
Number of salaries quoted 619 604 844
10th Percentile £30,750 £31,650 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,840 £77,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,675 £83,200
South East median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%

Azure DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Azure DevOps job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Azure DevOps
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Azure DevOps

Azure DevOps
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure DevOps in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure DevOps in the Thames Valley

Azure DevOps
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure DevOps within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 December 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
Berkshire +8 85 £50,000 -38.46% 49
Buckinghamshire -8 23 £35,000 -41.67% 19
Oxfordshire +18 7 £68,750 +19.57% 9
Azure DevOps
South East

Azure DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 12 (10.43%) IIS
2 3 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.87%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 69 (60.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (40.00%) Azure
2 10 (8.70%) GitHub
2 10 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
2 10 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 8 (6.96%) GCP
4 7 (6.09%) AWS
5 6 (5.22%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (5.22%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.22%) SaaS
6 5 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.61%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.74%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.74%) dbt
8 2 (1.74%) Fivetran
8 2 (1.74%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (0.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.87%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 8 (6.96%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (1.74%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.74%) Data Hub
3 2 (1.74%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.74%) Looker
3 2 (1.74%) Power BI
3 2 (1.74%) Tableau
4 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.87%) Metadata
4 1 (0.87%) MySQL
4 1 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (61.74%) JIRA
2 69 (60.00%) eCATT
3 38 (33.04%) NeoLoad
4 15 (13.04%) Git
5 8 (6.96%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.61%) MLflow
7 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.87%) GitLab
7 1 (0.87%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio
General
1 78 (67.83%) Finance
2 71 (61.74%) Marketing
3 69 (60.00%) Manufacturing
4 50 (43.48%) Presentation Skills
5 40 (34.78%) Influencing Skills
6 15 (13.04%) Social Skills
7 5 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.61%) Retail
9 1 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.87%) Law
9 1 (0.87%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 43 (37.39%) Analyst
2 40 (34.78%) Lead
3 37 (32.17%) Senior
4 26 (22.61%) Test Leader
5 21 (18.26%) Test Analyst
6 16 (13.91%) Automation Test Lead
7 12 (10.43%) IT Engineer
7 12 (10.43%) IT Support
7 12 (10.43%) IT Support Engineer
7 12 (10.43%) Performance Analyst
7 12 (10.43%) Performance Test Analyst
7 12 (10.43%) Software Engineer
7 12 (10.43%) Software Support Engineer
7 12 (10.43%) Support Engineer
7 12 (10.43%) Testing Analyst
8 10 (8.70%) Performance Test Leader
9 9 (7.83%) Automation Test Analyst
10 8 (6.96%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (5.22%) Developer
12 5 (4.35%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.04%) .NET
2 13 (11.30%) .NET Framework
3 12 (10.43%) Entity Framework
3 12 (10.43%) WinForms
4 9 (7.83%) ASP.NET
5 6 (5.22%) ARM Templates
6 5 (4.35%) scikit-learn
7 3 (2.61%) Keras
7 3 (2.61%) TensorFlow
8 2 (1.74%) CSS
8 2 (1.74%) HTML
8 2 (1.74%) Hugging Face
8 2 (1.74%) NumPy
8 2 (1.74%) Pandas
8 2 (1.74%) REST
9 1 (0.87%) CSS3
9 1 (0.87%) HTML5
9 1 (0.87%) Lightning Web Components
9 1 (0.87%) RESTful
9 1 (0.87%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.09%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.22%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.35%) Low-Code
4 3 (2.61%) Life Science
5 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.43%) Windows
2 6 (5.22%) VMS
3 4 (3.48%) Linux
4 3 (2.61%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (60.00%) Source to Pay
1 69 (60.00%) Test Management
2 56 (48.70%) ERP
3 54 (46.96%) Roadmaps
4 50 (43.48%) Product Roadmap
4 50 (43.48%) Visualisation
5 46 (40.00%) DevOps
6 43 (37.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (37.39%) Risk Management
7 39 (33.91%) Performance Testing
8 38 (33.04%) Requirements Gathering
8 38 (33.04%) Test Strategy
9 35 (30.43%) Continuous Delivery
10 26 (22.61%) Test Automation
11 23 (20.00%) CI/CD
11 23 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 22 (19.13%) Defect Management
13 21 (18.26%) Programme Management
14 16 (13.91%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.39%) C#
1 20 (17.39%) SQL
2 18 (15.65%) Python
3 12 (10.43%) T-SQL
4 11 (9.57%) Bash
5 9 (7.83%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.09%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.87%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.87%) Bicep
8 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (13.91%) Degree
2 13 (11.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.61%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.74%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (20.00%) QA
2 3 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.87%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (10.43%) Docker
2 6 (5.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 69 (60.00%) HP ALM
2 17 (14.78%) Terraform
3 9 (7.83%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.48%) Ansible
5 2 (1.74%) Grafana
5 2 (1.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 69 (60.00%) HP
1 69 (60.00%) SAP
2 20 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.43%) Sage
3 12 (10.43%) Xamarin
4 7 (6.09%) Google
4 7 (6.09%) Zoho
5 5 (4.35%) Databricks
6 4 (3.48%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.61%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.74%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.74%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.74%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.74%) Talend